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So you want to build a website? Is there any legal advice required?




Hello again. We have been away for some time now at work bringing a better solution for entrepreneurs to get legal advice the right way. Not just legal advice but the most efficient way to get your company to where you want it to be. In today's post we go over some of the ways in which legal practices can be involved in creating a website and what that means for you. In today's world a website is second nature to people looking into what a company is and does. It provides a point of reference for someone to see if they want to invest in what you provide. When setting up a site you may be able to do it yourself but in looking at the data we are seeing that people are using other services like Wix or Squarespace to help them build their site. Wix currently has 1.23 million subscribers. Squarespace has a smaller number but still in the hundreds of thousands. If you choose this route you will be attached to monthly fees and bombarded with continuous sales pitches from these sites telling you to upgrade. Having said that, these sites give you the tools to build the site. After this takes place there is another large portion of marketing and maintenance that takes place for people who want to scale the product or service they are developing. This can involve bringing some other entity or consultant to help with that process. This is where legal oversight can be super important. According to a pretty recent article from smallbusiness.com it looked at the numbers of small businesses with websites and what that means. The article states that 40% of small businesses use an outside freelancer or consultant.



Another way to get a site produced is if you choose to hire a company to do your website you will then be looking at a website contract first. A website contract is where a legal advisor comes in to help you get the most out of the contract and to see if the details are specific to your company and your goals. This simple oversight can make a huge difference and prevent headaches down the road if something were to happen with the company you choose. It is important to see that from our experience the first contract with a company is just the beginning. This is the learning we took part in. After the site is complete the maintenance aspect and marketing comes next. Those can be individual contracts in themselves and it is important to have a basis of information on what that can look like. Again legal oversight becomes critical in order to make sure you can maintain or progress to scale.

Overall we see that legal oversight on these particular small contracts can be critical for financial management and getting your company to where you want it to be quickly. If there was a service to provide detailed information and contract templates specific to the details of knowing the cycle of development it would greatly improve the headaches for entrepreneurs. We are working on bringing that to you efficiently and effectively. Stay tuned until next time as we dive deeper into the costs and projections for small contracts and the best templates to use in order to scale.



Cheers from the LegalMe team,






Resources:
https://www.ostraining.com/blog/general/wix-squarespace/
https://smallbusiness.com/digital-marketing/how-many-small-businesses-have-websites/ 

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