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I’ve a new business and want to approach several web developers for quotes to create my site. Any top-line advice on the kind of things I need to include when doing up the specification for the quote?
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I’ve a new business and want to approach several web developers for quotes to create my site. Any top-line advice on the kind of things I need to include when doing up the specification for the quote?
There are lots of things that you need to consider, but the overriding one is: “does the web agency understand what I’m trying to do with my business?” Everything else must be subservient to that.
It is correct that you speak to your agency about design, technology, content management, hosting, project management and case studies, but when you are assessing quotations from agencies, ensure that your highest weighting is given to agencies that understand what you are trying to achieve commercially. Once they get that, everything else will flow. If they don’t get that, no amount of creativity, technology or content management is going to get you the right result
Seek out reputable web agencies
Other advice is simply procedural, ie find three reputable web agencies on the Irish Internet Association website, ask them to meet with you and get a feel for what you do, ask them all for similarly formatted proposals (so that you can compare like with like), review their case studies and analyse their costs.
Use your business intuition
At that stage you should be in a good position to make a good decision. And don’t be scared because you are new, very often your gut feeling is correct with these things, and your business intuition will get you further than you think, as long as you continually remind yourself that this is a business and communications challenge, not a technical one.
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Gareth Dunlop
