Solutions
Clients don't want services, they want solutions to their problems, and that's exactly what we provide. Listed below are a few of the common problems we are approached to solve. Keep in mind that we would develop a custom solution to match your business' needs.
I just started my business and I don't know the first thing about a website. Can you help me get a great website on a small budget?
Of course we can. Many small businesses are unable to afford the high price of a custom built website. There are predesigned websites named "templates" that you can buy and add your own content. They are much cheaper because the designer didn't spend the time customizing it for one single business.
You can hire us as your personal consultants, and we will learn your business objectives through a preliminary meeting, go out and find the best templates for your business, then come back and show them to you. But we won't just handle the template selection; we want to make your life as easy as possible.
Having a website up is more work than simply designing the website (or buying an already designed one). You have to purchase a domain name (www.yourbusiness.com), hosting (where you website is stored) and consider how the website will be updated. Let us handle all of that.
We will take care of purchasing the template, domain, hosting, adding your content to the template, and implementing one of our maintenance packages. We will fully manage your website for you so you don't have to worry about it.
I have a successful offline business and realize the Web is the next step for my business. Can you help me establish a successful website that will generate new sales?
Of course we can. A website is more than a pretty, online brochure. It needs to be successful to justify its costs. As we said in our article How to make a Website Successful, you need to include constant updates and marketing to ensure your website is succesful.
After developing a high quality website, we will design a custom online marketing plan that generates sales in both the short-term and the long-term. We will also work to get high search engine results so people can find you. In addition to marketing, we will implement one of our maintenance packages so that the site can be updated easily and frequently.
Your new website is an invaluable asset to your business, and we will help you to realize its potential. By tieing all your website-related services and marketing campaigns into a single solution, your business is able to work much more efficiently (only one person to deal with rather than a separate person for each service) and we can more easily quantify the website's success.
I have some great products I want to sell online but don't have a large amount of money to invest in an expensive ecommerce website. Can you help me get a great site up with limited capital?
Of course we can. The most important part of an ecommerce website is the website itself. But there isn't any income to help pay for the website before it is built. It is a Catch-22 that cause many ecommerce businesses to fail or at least not reach its potential. We have the solution.
Advertising agencies usually work off of a mixture of fixed-price and commission payment for their work, so why should a website be any different? For many business websites, its too difficult to quantify the sales generated by the website as its primary purpose is to provide potential customers with information. But an ecommerce site is different - its primary purpose is to make the sale.
We can work with your business to establish the best course of action for your website including the design, functionality, marketing and maintenance, and then figure out the best way to pay for it. We can develop an ecommerce website with a small upfront fee (for our expenses incurred during the development), followed by a commission contract guaranteeing us a certain amount of profits generated by the website. After a certain amount of time, you have the option to buy our share of the website back.
The upfront cost, percent of commission, price of the option and when it occurs is determined on a case-by-case basis because every business is different. But keep in mind that while we keep a share in your website, we will focus ourselves on generating as much business for your website as possible (more sales equals more profits for us). You could even think of the commission as an ongoing payment for our marketing services; instead of paying for the time spent (regardless of the results), you pay more when we are more successful (and you are more profitable) and less if we are less successful.
Let's get to work
Please get in touch with us so that we can work with your business and develop a solution for you.