Last week I gave you a brief overview of how you can make money and gain clients by promoting yourself and your knowledge at Prfessor.com. Since then, I have had several conversations with Dave VanHorn, one of the founders of Prfessor.com. Beginning today and in the weeks to come, I will share with you the features of this amazing marketing tool, in detail.

One of the first questions most people ask when presented with something new and exciting, no matter how new or how exciting, is “what’s it going to cost me?” That’s understandable.

We have to be sensible with our hard earned dollars and when you’re a freelancer, sometimes those dollars aren’t quite as plentiful as they used to be.

So let’s break it down.

Say you want to create a site where you or your career is the focus. Both of these items are ‘product’.  You want to draw others to your ‘product’.  How do you do that?

• Your first step is having a professional, informative site that attracts users and then interacts with them once you get them there. A site that will fit this criteria will cost you anywhere from $3000.00 to $5000.00 to build professionally.
• You want to include a shopping cart. You want your site to have a money handling feature, such as PayPal or a credit card gateway. You want to be able to interact and communicate within your site. A site with these features will cost you up to an additional $1500.00 using professional assistance to integrate everything.
• You want to include an audio player and a video player so you can offer multimedia content in addition to the standard printed essay style information.
• Already, the site is costing approximately six grand. That’s $6000.00, boys and girls. And guess what, you still don’t have any content on your site. The content must still be added. Do you value your time? Factor that into the start up cost (not to mention that you still aren’t ready to go live)and you can easily be looking at nearly $10,000.
• Don’t forget, you will have a lot of visitors to your site that are there to just poke around. If you have any sort of tracking of visitors and you want to follow up, be prepared to waste a lot of time.

TOTAL COST: $833.33/Month

Prfessor.com is the best value out there, with the best user friendly features.

Once you become a client of Prfessor.com, you can immediately begin working on your site. How do you do that?

1. The layout is so simple; you click a button and begin building the body of your site. Boom.  You’re off and running. This means your content is available from day one.

Cost: FREE with your subscription.

2. Your Academy includes two payment gateway options to manage the cash flow through your site.

Cost: FREE with your subscription.

3. Your Academy includes an integrated shopping cart feature.

Cost: FREE with your subscription.

4. Your Academy includes a user friendly way to allow you to drop video and audio material into your curriculum.

Cost: FREE with your subscription.

5. Your Academy includes an e-mail capture system that lets you know who visits your site.

Cost: FREE with your subscription.

6. Your Academy includes an internal messaging system to allow you to correspond with visitors. All visitors register with an email in order to view your content. You now have the ability to track interest in your Academy and begin building business relationships with a personal touch.

Cost: FREE with your subscription.

7. Your Academy includes a Test and Assessment feature. This feature is one more way to encourage interaction, thus building the professional relationship. With this feature you will be able to offer monitored certification programs within your Academy.

Cost: FREE with your subscription

TOTAL COST: $49.97/Month

Yes, like I said before, Prfessor.com is the best value.

The folks at Prfessor.com believe in productivity and good common sense. They believe in being green.  No trees were harmed in the creation of this website. Your dollars go a long way, your client base will grow, and the Web3.0 model used at Prfessor.com will guide you to a whole new level of self marketing.

Part three of this series will focus on how you manage your University and the several ways to profit from utilizing this excellent, amazing tool no freelancer should be without.

Dave Van Horn is one of four founding partners of Prfessor.com. He has been involved in developing web based business solutions for many years and is retained by a variety of for-profit, and non-profit organizations. Mr. Van Horn specializes in creating innovative web based products and services and working with those who do. He holds a variety of US and EU Patents Pending, and has an extensive career in global business development. He is a father to two High School aged children and resides in the Greater Cleveland area. Van Horn encourages you friend him on Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin.