{"id":1075,"date":"2010-04-13T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2012-12-23T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:33:53","slug":"bad-approach-to-web-design-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/13\/bad-approach-to-web-design-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad approach to a web design agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft-pull pullquote\">\n<p>A few tips for wasting web designer\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is <strong>how-not-to make the first contact<\/strong> with a web design studio or agency:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Promise more work later on, as a compensation for a limited budget<\/li>\n<li>Copy and paste response e-mail to competing agencies and forget to change the recipients name<\/li>\n<li>Offer a share in the project<\/li>\n<li>Not having budget at all<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Promise more work later on<\/h2>\n<p>Instead of planning future projects and future marketing and future additions to the current project, it\u2019s better to focus on doing what you do right now. And do it the best you can. If your current task is to create the best possible website, then you better create the best possible website. <\/p>\n<p>If the budget is limited, plan for the scope that fits your money. A single feature done right is way better than fully featured nonsense.<\/p>\n<h2>Forget recipients name<\/h2>\n<p>This is obvious. For starters, don\u2019t copy and paste your e-mails. Never.<\/p>\n<p>Next, don\u2019t collect proposals from many different agencies all at the same time. We are in a custom tailored service business, not mass production.  <del datetime=\"2010-04-13T11:47:50+00:00\">Many<\/del> <ins datetime=\"2010-04-13T11:47:50+00:00\">Most<\/ins> of us don\u2019t copy and paste websites, so we can\u2019t provide you with a discount based on lower production costs.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for the cheapest option, any studio or agency will be too expensive. Maybe a pre-made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=website+templates\">website template<\/a> is the right solution.<\/p>\n<h2>Offer a share<\/h2>\n<p>Would you share your house with a tiler or a carpenter who built it?<\/p>\n<p>Shares only make sense if the project is something that attracts that particular contractor apart from merely building a website. If they find the project interesting, they will usually offer to do it for alternative kinds of compensation.<\/p>\n<h2>Not having money, only great ideas<\/h2>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have the budget for a project, secure it and then come back. Securing money for a project actually helps. It puts people in a reality perspective. Securing the budget is a start of a project itself and it usually allows some room to rethink and filter the project ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few tips for wasting web designer\u2019s time. This is how-not-to make the first contact with a web design studio or agency: Promise more work later on, as a compensation for a limited budget Copy and paste response e-mail to competing agencies and forget to change the recipients name Offer a share in the project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,19],"tags":[48,47,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}