GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 34 - February 2016

#7 Casino Strategy Public Member For me, it’s a question of competence and ambition/ goals. Can someone create a high-quality website with a great design, useful content and manage all of it at once? I don’t know a person like this; everyone outsources at least some areas. And if you really want to grow, you will ultimately only have time to manage the business, so giving out areas straight away is better. If you start as a hobby and don’t want to invest, you have to learn many things and will need way more time. “ Reply With Quote #8 Landofbetting New Member You mirror some of my thinking. If I outsource the building of the website (an area where I’m weak), imagine how much quality content I can write for the site in the 3-4 months that it’s being built. “ Reply With Quote #6 Landofbetting New Member Let’s just say for example that I want to spend £10,000 and that I don’t have a timescale on getting that cost back as I see it as a long-term project. Timescale I’ve been quoted is around three months to get it done. I completely agree about the whole “cutting-edge design” and have made it clear when getting quotes that I’m looking for something clean and user-friendly that’s extremely easy to update and maintain. I have also explained that the site will be growing in terms of content very quickly. Also, I’m an expat living in a country where my budget of £10,000 is going to go a lot further than it would in the U.K. When having meetings with design agencies, what kind of questions should I be asking? The reason I’m thinking about having it built for me is because after trying to do it myself I feel like I’m out of my depth and as I see this as a long-term project I would rather have it done right from the start and if that means investing heavily in it, then so be it. “ Reply With Quote #5 TheGooner Private Member Originally Posted by Landofbetting Surely if you have the money to spend then it’s better to pay a professional or am I missing something? But how much money do you want to spend? And how long are you going to wait to get it back (if ever)? If you can find a professional gambling site design company with pre-existing knowledge and advice — then you are correct. If you can’t, then you are more than likely going to get a pretty site that may be what you asked for — but may not meet your needs within a couple of months — and may not be easily adaptable in future. Some of the prettiest sites on the net are actually locked into the “strait-jacket” of their “cutting edge” design — and end up being expensive lemons. I don’t think that ANYONE who is moderately successful in this area knew where their site was going to grow ahead of time. So a big argument for “building it yourself” is that you have a good understanding of the structure of the layout and code to make the modifications. I think that an experienced affiliate group COULD provide a detailed specification to a professional design group and get a good site, but there would be significant time and expense in the initial build and ongoing maintenance and enhancement. People outside the IT area sometimes don’t realize the amount of time and effort that goes into a detailed specification and third-party build. “ Reply With Quote 17 From the GPWA Forums