chances are you probably spent about a hundred hours on your phone already
looking for the perfect website building app today we're going to compare three of
the leading website platforms and hopefully find the best one for you
what's going on guys my name is David Tomic and welcome back to the channel
today we're gonna be talking about three website building platforms Wix
Squarespace and Shopify each one of these platforms has its pros and cons at
the end of the day it really depends what you're going to be using your
website for chances are you're an econ intrapreneur because you're on my
channel and that's what we talk about every Monday but if you've stumbled upon
my video for different purposes and you're a creative or a blogger or
something along those lines we can help you here too so I'm going to move to the
side a little bit and use this free space here to throw up a whole bunch of
different graphics along the way so that we can really make it easy for you to
decide which website builder is best for you the first thing most people think
about whether launching your new website is how much is this gonna cost me every
month well all three of these charge different rates and they have their own
pros and cons starting in no particular order which charges you about $26 a
month and if you're running an e-commerce store has the benefit of no
Commission per transaction Squarespace comes in about $25 a month
but it has a con over weeks on top of the $25 a month it also charges you
three percent commission on every transaction made if you're running a
blog however disregard that because it really doesn't matter to you and finally
Shopify comes in at the bottom place because Shopify charges about $41 per
month and on top of the $41 a month it also charges you an additional 2.5
percent on average per transaction and 30 cents on top of that as well if your
products coming in at sub $5 boo you probably don't need to watch the rest of
this video and you need to jump straight to it because it has no Commission on
all of its transactions if you start using Shopify which is built for
e-commerce then you're gonna be losing quite a lot of money per se order might
not warrant that additional service if you still here with me now
probably thinking well I don't really know how to design a website and that's
okay because each one of these makes it easy for you to design website which is
the easiest platform all three to design anything it really lets you move all the
little pictures around and the text to perfectly position at how you want
however that does mean you have to build every single page individually because
all it does is give you a blank page now having said that obviously all three of
these have template files that you can use and quickly put together website in
under half an hour but if you do that you're gonna have a website that looks
the same as everybody else on the market and people are going to click on and
click off and you're going to be wasting your time and money in my personal
opinion Squarespace is a little bit more restricted and you need a little bit
more knowledge of coding when it comes down to problem solving on this platform
if you're a creative or a photographer or a blogger Squarespace is the perfect
website for you it really makes their themes easy and
inviting for people to come and view your gallery or read your blog's now if
you sway to the side of Shopify and are willing to pay 40 something dollars a
month then you're gonna find out that you can only really edit the homepage
unless you have a very strong understanding of hard-coding even still
the homepage is only editable to the certain extent that Shopify lets you you
can only drag and drop a few different templates and a few different bits and
pieces to make it your own now it's basically a given if you're building a
website you want people to come and visit your website and check out what
you have to offer the easiest way and the most cost-effective way to get
people to check out what you have is by SEO s if you don't know what an SEO is
it stands for search engine optimization and basically all it does is let Google
know what your website's about and when somebody types in watches or marketing
or photography your website pops up first if you have no idea what an SEO is
but really want to use Shopify I do highly suggest you go out and do a
little bit of research of how you can boost your rankings in Google which I'll
play however if you are brand new to the website boom in game and you are looking
to start from scratch but don't care about your flight weeks and Squarespace
have two amazing helper tools weeks for example guides you through step by step
to really help you now every single image put alt text to every
image and really boost your rankings as high as possible now this is where
Shopify stands out in the crowd when you're building your website it has a
whole market platform of apps and different tools that you can integrate
into a website to help with the process and the flow of running your business
for example if you want to add a Facebook message a little bubble in the
bottom corner or a shipping service in the background that helps you print out
labels and make your process in the warehouse a lot quicker this is all
inbuilt into their marketplace and you can literally click get app and it will
download straight to your website without you having to do anything
including any hard-coded now most of these apps are free however there are a
lot of paid versions of the apps which do perform a lot better if you don't
want to spend more than 41 dollars a month by all means use the free apps
because they will work fantastically well however if your story is growing
and becoming a platform where thousands and thousands of users are using it
every day then chances are you're gonna need to invest that a little bit more in
order to keep your store running optimally Wix and square space both
offer apps in their stores as well however in
my personal opinion Shopify really gives you the diversity to run any e-commerce
store in 2019 so for all intensive purposes based on apps alone Shopify is
the clear winner in this situation what about if you get stuck and need some
help and support along the way Wix has a great help and support and premium email
service and they generally get back to you in about 24 hours in the beginning
of my econ career I use weeks to build my first web site and I contacted these
guys very frequently because I had no idea what I was doing generally they got
back to me pretty quickly sometimes in 10-15 minutes which was
fantastic however this only comes with a premium plan from weeks and they don't
really make the premium email address very accessible and user-friendly to
find they want you to go through their guides and look at other frequently
asked questions before you contact them Squarespace is a very similar system but
I know they're trying to steer clear of the emails and use a frequently asked
page a lot more often having said that I never really encountered any problems
when building a Squarespace website everything seemed to be pretty well
coded behind the scenes and it was very user friendly to really get things to
work perfectly how you want to out of these 3
website building platforms shock fire is honestly the worst in getting back to
you but having said that shop fire has millions of different questions asked by
millions of different users and chances are you're going to be able to find what
you're looking for pretty quickly I know every question I've had so far I just
typed into their health bar and somebody had already asked it and somebody had
gotten back to them with the answer so even though that isn't really a direct
line that you can contact shop fire and ask your questions and your concerns you
really can find pretty much all the information out there already so what's
the verdict should you a go in Wix B go to Squarespace or C go with Shopify
before I give you my opinion I want you to comment down below and let me know
what your plans are for the future ok so my personal opinion if you're building a
blog or piggybacking your Instagram account to become an influencer in 2019
chances are Squarespace is the perfect website for you if you're a photographer
or videographer a dancer a choreographer or anything along those lines just the
general creative Squarespace is still the best platform out there now if
you're an e-commerce entrepreneur and subscribe to my channel
chances are you're looking to build an econ website well there's only two real
options out there for you at the moment that are cost-effective and easy to use
without any background knowledge of coding and website building and in the 3
websites we've talked about today Wix and Shopify are the two best bets for
you right now Wix is going to make it really easy for
you to design a website and get it up and running quickly
however the almost double that you're gonna have to spend for Shopify in my
personal opinion is 100% worth it shop fires back up house and app
marketplace really help you integrate all these little features into your
store to increase your conversion rates and really get people to trust your
website and to trust your brand and there you have it guys in my personal
opinion if you're running an e-commerce store 100% check out shop fire today if
you're running a blog or any other photography creative marketplace then
you should definitely check out Squarespace if you're running any other
website in the world and are looking just to build your first website weeks
perfect platform it makes everything so user friendly and it really gets you
motivated to sit there and really play around with the different backgrounds
the tools and the themes and do the perfect website for you if you enjoyed
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20-19 style and I'll see you next Monday