You get quite an education when you decide to expand your business. You do the right things, you plan and prepare, and consult a professional. It's shocking when you find out how much it's going to cost, and then, to add insult to injury, you find out YOU still have to do most of the work! If YOU had that much time on your hands, you probably wouldn't be looking to do that! And, if you had that kind of dough, you might not be looking to expand!
That's what we're here for! We believe in small business, that's what we are. We have more than 30 years of small business marketing under our belts to know how difficult your job is - and how you don't have time to go out to lunch, let alone build your own website!
Sure, you'll still have to work with us, we need to get to know you and the business you do now, and where you want it to go...or find out if there's something altogether different you want to do. There's ways we can help you do that without cramping your style. It's about creativity, and leveraging what you already have, and leveraging what we already have.
The cost? Well, actually, we can negotiate that. In many cases, we can get you started for no money up front. The reason for this? Our part of this is already bought and paid for, except for our time. We would love to have a small deposit, and may require that of people and businesses that we don't know, just to secure our efforts. That's negotiable. We know, being in business for ourselves, that money can be tight, and spending it on something you're not sure will take off is risky.
How do we make our money then? We design YOUR website, putting YOUR business on the web. We design a marketing plan that includes Internet marketing, as well as other creative ways to market your site. We carefully calculate what efforts of ours goes into building and marketing YOUR site. We negotiate with you based on what we put into it, how much you owe us for what we've done before YOUR site goes live. Once YOUR site goes live, we will have arranged with you how much percentage of each month's net income goes to pay us for the site to this point. We also will have negotiated with you to pay for monthly site hosting fees ($40), and maintenance fees for YOUR site (that will depend on the complexity of YOUR site. In other words, you'll pay a higher percentage initially, but you only pay when you start doing the business on the Internet. Once you've paid off your initial build fees, then you only pay for hosting and maintenance, and that can be arranged that you don't pay us, we actually pay you, if we make those arrangements. As your business takes off, and you want to make changes and additions, the same terms apply.
It's really that simple.
Our philosophy is this simple: We believe that small business make the world go 'round. Small businesses are essential to communities and quality of life. The world has changed so much in the last decade, that small business, if left behind, will be cease to exist, no matter where you live. If, however, we can provide small businesses with just that little edge, they will thrive, and thrive, regardless of the economy. If we can assist lots of small businesses to be successful, then, obviously, so are we! We want to do a little bit, for a lot of businesses.
Maybe you have already established your businesses. Maybe you want to start a new one. Either way, we can help you GROW your business. And, we won't put you out of business to do so!