We don't charge anything upfront. Your satisfaction first, easy payment later. Either you love your new website or you don't pay.
You've heard it many times: to build a sustainable, long-term author career, you need an author website. There is some truth to that statement, but creating an author website is not instant or free, so you should consider the trade-offs. Building a full website takes time and a healthy chunk of money. Most importantly, your website can be a constant distraction, taking your focus and time away from what's most important: writing, publishing, and connecting with your readers. When you start, you don't need to blog, you don't want to handle WordPress updates, and you certainly don't want to spend hours troubleshooting random tech issues.
What you really need is a tool to help you grow an email list and a place where you can send your readers so they can easily find out where your book can be purchased. To get all this, you do not need a full website: a simple landing page will do the job just fine, at a fraction of a price.
What's a landing page? It's a simple one-page website where visitors can take only the specific action that you want them to take: sign up for your newsletter, download a reader magnet, or find links to buy your book.
We have been helping indie authors publish quality books for over 12 years. We know your time and focus is precious, so we made things as easy as possible. All you need to do is take 15 minutes to provide us with basic information about your book and preferences, and then we will create a mobile-friendly one-page design and put it on the Internet using our fast hosting.
The design and initial setup of your landing page cost only $100. This charge also covers the first two years of our managed hosting. If, after two years, you no longer need the landing page, that's all you will ever pay us for the service. If you decide to continue hosting with us, we will charge you only $50/year (that's only $4 a month), until you cancel. While we may raise our prices for new landing pages, once you sign up at the current price, we commit to never increasing the hosting fee as long as you continue to host with us.
What if you don't like your new landing page or it isn't quite what you expected? As with all our services, we don't charge anything upfront, so either you are 100% happy with the final result or you don't need to pay us anything.
And if you work with our team to get cover design and book formatting off your to-do list, we will create your landing page completely free of charge and we won't charge you for hosting either.
Responsive landing page design, email signup form integrated with your preferred email marketing provider, and hassle-free unlimited hosting with an option to connect your domain are things you can expect from this "all done for you" service. But that's not all you receive from us for the very affordable fee.
You will also get access to link services you won't find with any other web design and hosting solution, much less one tailored for self-published authors: a URL shortener and a Universal Book Link (UBL). The links will use your domain name: that's good for your branding but also for keeping full control over your link experience in the future (whether you continue hosting with us or not).
With a URL shortener, you can create a short link to instantly redirect your readers to where you want them to go. So you could create a link like example.com/amazon that will redirect readers to your book on Amazon, instead of using the full link like amazon.com/long-link-of-your-book-on-Amazon which neither looks good nor can easily be typed by hand. The way you use this service is only limited by your imagination. For example, we have a short link on this website, FormattingExperts.com/b (that's just one letter, "b") that will take any visitor to the landing page (which has a much longer web address) that presents our full book design and formatting offer.
With a universal book link (UBL) you can have one smart link for Amazon that will automatically detect the country of your reader and send them to amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, or another country-specific website where they can purchase your book.
To get the URL shortener, like bit.ly, working with your domain name, you would need to say goodbye to $350 each year. But that's only for short links, as they don't offer Universal Book Link. To get that, you would need another service, like Geniuslink, which will cost you $670 a year if you want the links to use your domain name. With us, you get both of these features without any additional charge.