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A friend asked me the best way to start a few months ago. I advised her to use Squarespace for a while and if her idea takes off, perhaps then look at something a little more bespoke.

She ignored me and contracted a local development company, ended up paying £1200 for a Wordpress/WooCommerce site that could have been set up for peanuts.

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Good. Sometimes people need to learn hard lessons. It's kind of nice to hear that she spent way too much money in the end. Hopefully her business takes off still but I get really tired of people asking for my advice and totally ignoring it.

'She don't know what she don't know'. I bet she thought/thinks she was getting a bargain.

So some simple maths, today Shopify medium offering is £60 per month. So that's 20 months worth of subscription. Not including any payment tax.

£1200 for a 'finished' e-commerce site, with training and hosting, sounds fine to me.

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