A note from the founder:Yesterday. I was in your shoes…Hi, I'm Taylor Reaume, founder of Search Engine Pros. Yesterday, I was in your shoes…trying to make sense of the average cost of websites and online marketing. I searched and I searched, and all I wanted was:1.) A simple answer.2.) Someone who has been there, and could provide me clear, concise explanation.3.) A price tag that didn't make me run for the hills.Perhaps my expectations were set to high (but I didn't think so). As my goal to make it to financial freedom was too precious to entrust to an amateur. I desperately wanted to build a successful web presence for myself. I decided to learn it on my own. 15 years later, here I am, a successful entrepreneur. My company Search Engine Pros helps people along the path to e-business success.I live and work in Santa Barbara, California. In 1998, I started designing websites. As my business grew, I started to offer SEO services. I became somewhat of a local authority on SEO because word got around that one of my sites was getting over 200,000 unique visitors per month…which led to the sale of the site for six figures in 2007.This gave me the undeniable proof that my SEO methods really worked. No black hat SEO methods – just naturally strong rankings as a result of diligence. As you can imagine, clients would ask "Can you do that for me?"Web Design Costs"Of course, I can," was my reply. However, much of the time I was faced with the very scenario I've mentioned above. It was plain to see that business owners needed an affordable and quick solution to this problem that was ballooning their online expenses AND causing them to lose sales to online competitors.Whether you are an author, an entrepreneur, a small to mid-sized business or a multinational corporation, growing your presence online is a matter of consistent content creation, cost effective promotion tactics, calculated risks and measurement.