In focus
Why Mohakhali businesses keep coming to me after a company already let them down
Mohakhali is a genuinely mixed commercial belt - trading and import firms stacked inside towers like SKS, a dense healthcare cluster around the cancer hospital and its diagnostic centres, development and NGO offices along the Bishwa Road, plus a growing run of startups and service businesses in the DOHS. What ties them together isn't industry, it's the order they arrive in. Most owners don't reach me shopping fresh for a website.
They reach me after a 'company' already took an advance, handed the work to a junior, and shipped something that embarrassed them in front of a customer or a board. By the time we talk, they're not asking who's cheapest - they're asking who will actually finish the job and pick up the phone when it matters. That's a much more honest place to start.
So when a Mohakhali business asks me 'koto taka?', the answer turns on the work, not the org chart. First, how many pages carry real, distinct content - five to eight pages for most businesses, where 50,000 BDT covers a sharp core site, 90,000 BDT the full structure, and 1,50,000 BDT adds e-commerce, bookings or bilingual pages. Second, whether you hand me copy and clean photos or I write and source them.
Third, the quiet hour-eaters: wiring bKash and Nagad, a product catalogue, a CRM hookup, redrawing a logo from a blurry file. What does not move the price is the word 'company' - you are not paying for an office, a sales team or a corner desk in a tower. You are paying for design and development done properly, once, by the senior who answers your messages.
Everything an agency bills as overhead, I simply don't charge for, which is the whole reason the floor is 50,000 BDT and not three times that.