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So you have decided that you want to take the next step and get your product or service online and out there for the world to sign up and enjoy. It should be a really simple process right? Get a couple of bids from your local web development talent pool, pick the cheapest one and 2 months later you retire and make money hand over fist while you’re sleeping. It’s that easy right? Wrong.
Interestingly enough we find that 3 projects out of 10 that we do, we were originally passed over for a cheaper company and when said company dove in and realized how difficult it is to truly produce a web development project that looks good from a web design perspective, functions well from a web development perspective, is integrated with social and mobile apps, and is secure, well, they quit. A month or two later Thrive gets a call from the customer that goes something like this, “Hey, remember me?” Just like that, we are on the job and down the road making your web development project come to life.
Why is it that web development is not as easy as just picking the cheapest web developer, snapping your fingers and making the project appear? We will attempt to take you to the ten-thousand foot view of a project and then hopefully you will begin to understand why picking your web developer isn’t [or shouldn’t] be an afterthought or the result of a low-ball bidding war.
Project management under girds the success of a web development project.
I am amazed that time and time again, either our competition does not have a project manager or if they do they are only a PM in name and not function. It is crucial to ask companies that you are interviewing what methodology they use to manage their projects in and if their project manager is certified as a project manager? What certification do they hold? Why is this important? It’s important because a typical certified PM will have six-thousand to seventy-five hundred project management hours and have passed a stringent test to make sure that they know the procedures to ensure that your project comes in on time, in scope and in budget. Make sense? Bottom line, you need a qualified project manager to make sure you don’t get taken advantage of.
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E commerce is not limited to an exhaustive ecommmerce application or elaborate shopping cart software.
Some great examples of simple implementations of ecommerce are when a service company, HVAC for instance, adds a payment form to their website to allow a customer to pay as soon as the service is rendered. Another example might be a furniture store adds a payment form on their site to take finance payments online. These are two examples of how ecommerce can be added to your site simply and affordably. Not only is it painless but it provides real value to your customer and to you.
Maybe simple isn't what you are looking for. Ready to move up to then next level and put your store online? Maybe you don't want an ecommerce store but instead you have a product or a service that a customer has to pay to get access to. We've got the answer.
Check out the gallery below for a couple of examples of ecommerce applications we have finished in the last few months.
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