Website Self Sufficiency
Posted on | September 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Our aim is to help you become more self sufficient and get more from a small budget.
Whether you are looking at being be more productive or collaborate more effectively or simply want to create a conversation with your customers/audience. Or perhaps you are looking to better integrate your systems.
What we won’t do
We won’t waste money on things that you don’t think will help your business.
We won’t shackle you with dated technology that only experts can drive.
We won’t even punish if you then decide to work with others, in fact we’ll make the migration as smooth as possible.
Baffle you with jargon. (Interrupt us the moment we do!)
Tell you that we know when we don’t or pretend something is easy when it isn’t, or the other way around for that matter. (Though not everything is what it seems, so we reserve the right to change our mind!)
Tell you you need some newfangled function, if you don’t.
Tell you you need X or Y, if you don’t.
What we will do
We will explore your requirements and translate these into a manageable solution. This involves quite a lot of toing and froing initially. When this doesn’t happen we often get the fatal “expectations gap”.
We will ensure customers and suppliers can find you and your products / services really easily.
We will strive to give you the best of what is available today and will upgrade so that it will also work tomorrow.
We will leverage your budget (ok we promised no jargon – get more for less!).
We will give you access to a bag full of tools that will help you tailor further investments in the site.
We will provide you with the hands-on training, mentoring & support to get you going.
If you have rather more complex requirements or are really pernickety about design we’ll marshall those skills too, but make sure your budget covers this!
Some projects go off course:
- poor specification (e.g. it is not always easy to articulate your requirements clearly)
- insufficient time to devote to it (e.g. without some understanding of your new system you may not get the most out of it)
- what’s important changes (e.g. you wanted to get started quickly and cheaply, but on reflection …)
- erratic communications (e.g. we get feedback only weeks or months after we complete a task or piece of work)
We will try to avoid all these common problems and tell what can and cannot be done within your budget.
We will try and respond to all your questions or instructions promptly, which often means within hours but not days or weeks. If you ever have concerns we are just a phone call away and are always happy to meet with you on your own premises.