Work with me
How I work with Clients
Deep Dish Creative offers a solution that is designed to make your web, print and social media marketing efforts easier and effective:
Step One: We meet in person, on Skype, or on the phone and define the parameters of the project, specifically, what you’re trying to accomplish and how you want to do it. We’ll discuss project requirements, time frame, budget, and other pertinent details.
Step Two: Depending on the scope of the project (website, social media, brochure) I’ll send you a checklist and worksheet that should identify and eliminate items on your wishlist, and stimulate thoughts about SEO, media options, print parameters, etc. Based on your responses to the checklist I’ll prepare a proposal that outlines a solution and includes a budget and time line. Generally several options are given.
Step Three: If you accept the proposal and return the contract with an initial retainer fee, we’ll begin work. At this time, I’ll need the content (text, graphics, photos, etc.) that you’d like to use on your website or print project. This part of the process ensures we understand each other. It sets expectations.
Step Four: At a predetermined date, I present several concepts to you. I’m a creative person, and I always try to approach your project from different angles. I’ll show you these ideas and get your feedback. They will be posted online (as .jpg image files) so that you can review them.
Step Five: Based on your direction, I’ll refine the work until we’re both satisfied that it meets your objectives and keep a strict schedule so the project launches or goes to press on time. After final approval and the remaining balance for the project is received by me, we’ll go to press, launch, or send out that email blast.
It’s that easy.
Pricing
Web, graphic, and e-marketing design efforts can be all-out campaigns or bits and pieces created with shoestring budgets. No two marketing solutions will be the same; varying goals, desired results, project management and budgets all play a part in assessing your needs.
Web packages can be just a 1 or two page web presence or an large project involving dozens or hundreds of pages and include a family of online marketing tools such as email marketing, web banners ads for other sites, social media arms like Facebook and Twitter, and maintenance of your brand everywhere it appears online.
To assess how far you’d like to see your business grow online, let’s have that discussion about how big, how small, how far-reaching, and your budget.
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Options for your business online
Web Presence
The single most efficient and effective marketing tool, the immediate accessibility of a website, an attractive, useful website, can be a powerful sales weapon in your marketing arsenal. Where you can’t grab their attention face-to-face, or with perfect timing, your website is where to get potential customers to spend a little time getting to know you and to keep them coming back.
- Things to consider: domain name, new or transfer of hosting service, bandwidth, security, bells & whistles such as flash, databases, interactivity
Social Media
Customized, branded social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are mandatory in today’s business marketing environment. Not only do I brand these platforms to match your business web site, I TEACH you how to use the tools to get the most mileage from them. Consistently offering coupons, specials, event announcements, great reviews, etc will grow your follow-ship and keep your community interested with you on their minds at regular intervals.
- Things to consider: must be consistently maintained to keep/grow followers, your brand online should be monitored at all times, totally FREE and VAST marketing potential
Advertising
A collection of web banners to complement your print ads, reflecting your brand and website for use with your media plan such as travel planning websites, guides and B2B sources.
- Things to consider: media costs, target markets in various publications and web visitors, having a great web presence to work in tandem
Email Campaign
Customized, branded email templates mirroring your website and printed materials for use with your favorite email blast service such as Constant Contact. To be managed at the owner/staff’s discretion.
- Things to consider: list maintenance, provider, reporting tools
What I DON’T do (or at least not with a lot of panache)
- Flash websites
- Powerpoint Presentations
- Word Document Templates
- Programming
- Hosting
- Video compression or editing
- Anything having to do with Publisher, Pagemaker, Microsoft “creative software”
- Use unlicensed software or fonts
- Share software or fonts
- Spam
