The Case for Professional Web Development

I have heard this story a thousand times. Heck, I have even been a part of this story.  What story you ask? Let me set the scenario for you:

Two business owners are having coffee. They have successful businesses that they are ready to expand on to the internet.

“Have you chosen a web developer yet?”

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Be the Bull.

Breaking a company’s recession with a strong marketing strategy

As the recession continues to loom like a dark cloud that continuously ruins your family vacations, what can you do to improve your business forecast? Most companies, like my former, decided to cut costs. Cutting costs unfortunately almost always means cutting people, and cutting very good people. While this solution may help a short term goal of reduced expenses (or to the terminated employee, their income/mortgage payments), in the long term this will only bury the organization under more work for a diminished workforce to handle. It is like quicksand, the harder you try to fight tough economic times, the farther you get pulled into them. In my mind, the best approach is to take action. Face the bull head on. Instead of cutting costs because of reduced business, go out there and find more business. The key to new business is marketing.
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