Comments on: Can I Have Your Attention Please?

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:31:23 +0000

Christine a great guide behind the thought process, as a freelance SEO myself i do indeed offer the Rools Royce service at a price that befits my experience and never take on more than i can handle ensuring that my clients get the best of what i can offer them.

However there are advantages to the larger corporation including combined years of experience coupled with the team effort, my advice would be to thoroughly research your prospective partner using a simple tool known as Google?!?

Believe it or not researching your partner this way can give a clear indicator to the reputation and/or success or failures of that partners online efforts.

By: rahul chawda

rahul chawda — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:28:24 +0000

hello christine

a good post on the quest to find out the right partners, in this case marketin and advertisin aspects of the business.

as small enterprises, we have observed how difficult it is to identify partners, that have the promise of long and mutually benifical association.

the key to such snergies is to pass a sense of ownership to your parnters and not look for ‘stop gap jobs’.

synergies are a way forward for small.

By: Len Romano

Len Romano — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:57:14 +0000

I agree with your general message but I have an addition. I believe a small design studio can indeed offer a Rolls Royce treatment, more often than a big company can, and assure the client that their whole team is going to be involved with their project and the client is going to get the absolute best the small design studio can offer. That’s the only way small design studios can compete with the big guns. My own design studio is a 4 person company and I spend months hiring the right person for the job. I have a long list of potential employees who would leave their jobs tomorrow to come and work here – because they know of our reputation for the highest standards and ethics. Almost all of my employees come from big ad agencies/design firms and every single one of them has had to re-learn how to take their time, stay emotionally connected to the task at hand and keep the client’s (and end users) needs consistently in mind throughout the project. As a result every single one of my employees has won national design awards whilst working here. When a client hires my company, no matter how big or small the project, they get an initial meeting with the our two principals and they are guaranteed that our whole team will be collaborating on their project from start to finish. That is what I would consider the red-carpet, Rolls Royce treatment. My clients obviously agree as, this has been proven time after time, I have no trouble whatsover taking business from my bigger competition which is why I love them all from the bottom of my heart and would like to take this opportunity to thank them for being so big and so silly.