Ongoing costs include:

• Yearly renewals of your domain name registration (just $35 a year)
• Monthly hosting fees (to keep your site up and online unless you plan on serving your site from your location).
• Updates and additions. Virtual Internet Services will continue to make any changes or additions wanted on the site, and do so at our standard hourly rate of $50 per hour for the actual time spent. Posting a simple newsletter on an ongoing basis may cost anywhere from $50-$400. When changes involve graphics and multiple pages, costs increase. Simple text changes may be accomplished for less than $50, depending on the quantity. Complex additions or changes will be quoted.
• A suggestion is to set aside a budget for regular updates that is between 10 and 15% [same comments as above] of your initial development costs per month to be set aside for site improvements. Doing so will generally delay your needing to go into a total redesign mode of what you have. This type of budget should allow us to keep adding to the site and keeping it active.
• Not a part of keeping the site up and running, but an ongoing cost to be considered is continued marketing of the site itself. Whether that's Internet advertising dollars spent or postcard direct mail campaigns, there needs to be a continuous awareness push to keep your Web site on the minds of your market.