Livehacking features or how to save your money at site creation

Those who consider Internet as bottomless box from which you can consume information of any type endlessly do not think over naturally how to decrease their expenses at net working. Nevertheless there is a big segment of world net users for whom Internet activity ties up with expenses. As a rule we have to take up virtual money each time when we want to pay for one or another service or project creation working. It is unimportant whether you do your 10th site or calculate your first project budget; in any event all of us wish to have as less expenses as possible. From here begins to be born so-called livehacking in Internet or skills to save powers and money at getting of results on which a considerable amount of money is usually spent.

As saving subject in Internet is rather spacious we will consider this time an aspect of economy at your own site creation. So let’s think that you have outlined a rough plan of your site creation. Let’s agree at once that any site creation consists of four parts: design, software, content and site promotion.
There is one more work direction – management but if at this time you make a decision to save on it you will have to manage works yourself.

How to save on site design?

The first way is template. In Internet there is a great deal of sites with templates – ready site designs which have already used by somebody or waits for its first owner. Templates may be bought for e-money such as Webmoney, PayPal or Perfect Money. They usually cost as a rule $25 - $100. This variant is good because for little amount you purchase really attractive site design. Minus of this variant is you have to treat your ambitions as sites with similar design are already in Internet though in little amount.

The second way is to take a free pattern and complete it yourself. Such patterns are presented on sites with ready CMS (site engines). This variant is good when you have to create site with any information very fast and to present it in Internet not drawing special attention to site design. Minus of this variant is the fact that your site will be considered as serious one with low probability. More exactly it will be accepted as “slapdash” made web site.

The third way is to find a designer in Internet who agrees to design your site freely for portfolio’s sake. Do you think it is unreal? To no purpose, try to do it and in few days you will find a talented beginner who design your site may be not very fast but with high quality.

And finally you may proceed as follows: find designer-freelancer and select template which you like most of all. Moreover you may add your own elements to it. After that ask a designer to redraw a template in accordance with your requirements. Such activity type is not high-qualified and therefore costs cheaply. The only question is to find a freelancer having free time. But if you introduce a big amount of modifications into the template and the designer embodies your fantasies successfully you have a chance to get an unique, attractive design of your site at cost less than $100 though the lower limit of site design cost begins from $400 today.

How to save on site software?

You have two ways here: either to find an inexpensive programmer or to take a free CMS. Today there is a great deal of free CMS in Internet. You may try to begin from Joomla or Drupal. State-of-art CMS allows creating your own site in visual format. Also there is an interesting site design service in Google. Your task is only to look into work details with each ‘engine’”.

As for a programmer you may try to find a freelancer again who needs job for portfolio. Of course such variants take a lot of time and prolong your project fulfillment significantly but with a view to saving money they are optimal ones.

One more way to find cheap programmer is long and persistent searches. Believe me that labor market is very big and you will find cheap professional labor mandatory but you will have to spend on it too much time.

How to save at site creation?

Here everything depends on what content you need. If it is content describing your company’s activities then in Internet there is countless numbers of copywriters who will help you in your initiative at rate1$\page. If it concerns big volume of subject content try to find similar content and then retell it with your own words i.e. rewrite it. If site content seems to you insufficient you may use free informers which will deliver to your site fresh news concerning your project subject online.

Use livehacking at your site promoting!

There are a lot of means to advertise your site but all of them are based on the following principles:
- There should be as much links as possible to your site in Internet;
- Your site should be mentioned in such places where as many people as possible inhabit in Internet.
- There should be real responses about your project on Internet sites where people whose interests are similar with your resource subject usually communicate.

To achieve links’ amount increasing without investments is possibly be means of different ways. You may register your site manually in various subject catalogs; mention it in articles you have to write. Also it is available for you to use blog sphere where you can open not only your own blog but even leave comments with the link to your site. As for links exchange the situation is more difficult but it is not worth despairing. Though it is very difficult to find site owner who agrees to exchange links you can look for someone like you i.e. people with limited means (finances). It will be they who assist you to increase links’ amount. Certainly their site will have low PR and TIC, but with your sites’ development progress PR will grow as well and therefore friendship at the beginning may become very profitable in future.

Besides it remember that the best advertisement in terms of return is word-of-mouth advertisement. Try to do thus your site will be told as much as possible. Find professional communities and during discussions mention your site there. Create «sticks» on forums, groups in social nets; try to find a path to the professional social nets. Remember that sometimes one permanent client is better than ten passing by. And as a rule permanent clients inhabit exactly on forums where though moderators do not like advertisement in the form of links but sometimes turn a blind eye to it in case it is presented politely and unobtrusive.

In fine we can say that live hacking in Internet is dangerous and awfully infectious business! Why? Try it yourself and you understand because once spending peanut to fulfill the specified aim or even spending nothing, in future you most probably will search a way to save again instead of spending money on the things which can be done without investments. In addition live hacking in the net is a very interesting business, possibility to prove yourself and your neighborhood that you are capable of doing a lot. Dare, try your power and, may be, in the nearest future earning enough on your projects you will cease to be live hacker practically but remain to be him inside your soul knowing that you will never fail even if the worldwide crisis break out.

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