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		<title>Select Good Customer Support Service when You Create a Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everybody has heard about outsourced website builders, they are so popular today. They offer anyone the possibility to create their own website really fast. Website builders provide all necessary tools for creation of website in a quite short period. It seems to be rather practical especially if you are not a webmaster, programmer or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.freelancermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/site-2-you-300x208.jpg" alt="site-2-you" title="site-2-you" width="300" height="208" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1300" />Almost everybody has heard about outsourced website builders, they are so popular today. They offer anyone the possibility to create their own website really fast. Website builders provide all necessary tools for creation of website in a quite short period.  It seems to be rather practical especially if you are not a webmaster, programmer or a web-designer, or you have limited budget to hire a specialist or to purchase the required software.</p>
<p>It is absolutely easy now to find a company that proposes services if you want to create website yourself. You can compare all their services and draw a conclusion taking into consideration their informative and designing aspects.</p>
<p>Until you try out their services, you never know what they propose. The best way to evaluate the Program is by a free trial usually proposed by every developer. But you have no idea about their Customer support service using their designed templates, tools and websites.</p>
<p>Everybody knows that pretty often we are welcomed by the pre-sales department, but after the deal closes we get only permanent delays, different troubles and many excuses or even no support from the company. The same problem may appear when you decided to <a href="http://www.site2you.com/" target="_blank"> create website </a> and selected a company for your website creation. Some of the website creators even do not include the webmaster Support to the offered Service Package or sometimes they customize your site for extra fees. Their calling operators seem to be absolutely useless when you ask them to check your site and fix some problems. General instructive answers will never help you in an individual problem even if it is a small one.</p>
<p>So, that’s why it is very important to choose a reliable Support Team, not only comfortable Admin Panel and well-designed templates when you decide to <a href="http://www.site2you.com/about-us/">create your own website</a> with online site creator. Do not rely only on your own skills, especially if you are sooner a newbie than an expert in this field, you will feel much better if you have professional team for this purpose. It does not matter how the whole system works and how many clients can manage for the best results. You just want to get a skilled webmaster to give you a hand if required while you create a website.</p>
<p>Site2you proposes their great Support as a part of the routine process, while you create your web site, not for additional fee or as complementary service. Their Support Service Team is known for excellent customer care on every phase of the procedure. You may receive all information about their Product via email, chat, phone or interactive system which allows you to communicate with the experts exactly when you <a href="http://www.site2you.com/how-it-works/" target="_blank">create a website</a>. Favorable and caring staff will assist you with your particular problems during the subscription, editing procedure and after site creation completion. You will be sure that your website will be completed and maintained afterwards by a qualified professional Site2you team.</p>
<p>Consider all possibilities and feel free to query the Support Service Team about any issues concerning creation of your website.</p>
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		<title>5 Other Services all Freelance Web Designers Should Offer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a Web Designer or Developer? Yes? Well are you optimizing your reach by expanding your services beyond Web Design? No? C&#8217;MON! Whats wrong with you?! Jeez! As a Web Designer you have more options and services to offer your clients than in most other freelance fields. Some of which take almost no work [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.freelancermagazine.com/images/img.jpg" alt="Services" width="200" height="270" />Are you a Web Designer or Developer? Yes? Well are you optimizing your reach by expanding your services <em>beyond</em> Web Design? No? C&#8217;MON! Whats wrong with you?! Jeez!</p>
<p>As a Web Designer you have more options and services to offer your clients than in most other freelance fields. Some of which take almost no work at all! From Web Hosting to SEO, here is the run down of the basic services <em>all</em> Web Designers should offer&#8230;</p>
<h2><span>#1.</span> Search Engine Optimization</h2>
<p>As a designer you&#8217;re going to learn a bit about SEO sooner or later so you might as well just dive in. SEO services can stand on there own so why aren&#8217;t you cracking into this field? The resources out there are abundant so you have no excuse not to do it!</p>
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<p>Try some of these as a starting point:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/seo-guide-for-designers/">SEO Guide for Designers</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization">Beginners Guide to SEO</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-tools/7299/">Online SEO Tools &#8211; The Ultimate Collection</a></p>
<h2><span>#2.</span> Web Hosting</h2>
<p>Either by using a reseller account or certain shared accounts (check your TOS!) you should be offering some type of web hosting to your clients. If you don&#8217;t have tons of clients knocking down your door for web hosting (why not?) there are still many cheaper reseller accounts out there. If you pay $9.99 a month for a reseller account and charge each client say, $5.99 a month then you just need two clients to start getting to the profit point.</p>
<p>When getting started, look for reseller accounts that offer customer service so your not stuck with handling everything yourself!</p>
<h2><span>#3.</span> Competitor Website Analysis</h2>
<p>For those of you who net the established clients out there, then you could possibly be offering them a &#8220;Competitor Website Analaysis.&#8221; Basically that means you will be using free online tools to research their top competitors and then create them a (monthly??) report on these statistics. You will get information such as Number of unique visitors, Budget spent on advertising, their cost-per-click, demographic makeup and more&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not hard to do but the competitor website needs to be established enough for this info to be available on the following services:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/">Quantcast</a><br />
<a href="http://www.alexa.com/">Alexa</a><br />
<a href="http://www.spyfu.com/">SpyFu</a></p>
<p>(Credit: <a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/author/jamiemintun/">Jamie Mintun</a>)</p>
<h2><span>#4.</span> Marketing</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;re good at marketing yourself (and you need to be!) then you are probably good at marketing others as well. Depending on your knowledge in this area, you need to be at least offering some sort of marketing from your clients whether it be adword&#8217;s or any other type of campaign or viral marketing. There are tons of resources out there and the overload of information can be daunting but don&#8217;t let it fool you- it&#8217;s not complicated! As a web designer you know about branding your clients and yourself, now you just simply need to build awareness of that brand by setting up campaigns for your clients and monitoring that with analytics software and tools that you are already aware of!</p>
<h2><span>#5.</span> Project Management / Consulting</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;ve worked on any number of &#8220;larger&#8221; web projects then you&#8217;ve had to be the project manager before. If you&#8217;ve also contracted out some of the positions on the project as well then you should definitely know how to manage a project.</p>
<p>There are many out there completely lost when it comes to getting an idea off the ground and then to completion. As web designers we build something beautiful and functional out of thin air every day. As any seasoned freelancer can be a top project manager, any talented web designer can be as well!</p>
<p>Set up software such as <a href="http://www.activecollab.com">ActiveCollab</a> and start adding projects and clients while keeping you and your clients organized by using tasks, messages, milestones, attachments, and so on!</p>
<h2><span>#7,521.</span> Everything Else!</h2>
<p>If you can&#8217;t do it yourself&#8230; find someone who can! Contract them out and then offer that service directly on your website.</p>
<p>Too many freelancers don&#8217;t take advantage of contracting out projects. As a web designer, i&#8217;ve done many contract jobs for web design firms&#8230; some of those web design firms have absolutely <strong>no web designers</strong> on their team! When they receive a project- they contract it out, skim some off the top and by the end of the day they made money from doing almost nothing but handling a few emails! So go network and start to build up a list of other freelancers who offer services that <em>you don&#8217;t</em>!</p>
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