Category: Website Design

Check Their Website Design Portfolio.

The best web design companies have them and are proud to display them on their website. When you are looking at their online portfolio of work, you need to be highly critical – be sure that you absolutely love their work, before you engage them to do your website.

What to look for:
– Can you see any websites similar to your business? Remember, you need a site to look totally different to what is out there to establish your own unique online presence. Ideally, your site should be more creative and user friendly than your competitors.

 – The portfolio should represent a varied mix of industries and businesses. Having one web company focus on one particular field is not a good start. They should be able to show you that they have worked across a number of industries, designing a variety of web sites that all have their own unique look & personality. Its all about individuality and if you can see this consistency then you are certainly on the right path to finding the best web comany for your business

– Do the sites look template driven or do they appear as though some design effort has been put into it? Great web companies will NEVER follow a template, but design as per brief.

 – As you look at more and more sites you should see a common thread. If your overall feeling to these designs is unimpressive then you are possibly viewing a web company that operates at the lower end of the market. These kind of companies are found all over the first page of Google and they offer cheap web design package solutions for next to nothing. If you are comfortable with your design work being shipped off to India then this is probably an OK solution for you. But, if you are wanting quality design backed up by years of web experience then avoid these guys at all costs. It will only end up in tears. Guaranteed!

 

Meet With Your Web Designer

The better web companies in Sydney, will prefer to meet rather than correspond via email. If your head office is in Sydney then go with a studio in that city. It will be a lot easier for your when you try to communicate the design brief.

 

Testimonials and Client Feedback

Testimonials are an awesome tool to see if the web design company is any good. Don’t go in blindly believing everything that you are told, read or hear. Of course all web companies are only going to give you the best results and testimonials and will never relate a bad past experience. This is only logical and people are going to protect their interests.

Questions to ask:

 – Are you satisfied with the web outcome? This is a fairly self explanatory question and the answer should always be a quick yes. If there is any hesitation or some kind of um or eh…then you have a problem.

 – Was the project completed on time? Most web companies will promise site completion at a certain time and date and should be able to adhere to this schedule. Obviously there are times when sites can scope out and take longer than expected. Any decent web team should be on top of this and alert you to deadline blow outs. If they do, then great but if they dont, you will know about this.

 – Was the web design company able to challenge you in any way and offer alternative design solutions based on their experience? Clearly, you will have some pre conceived design ideas and thoughts but it is really up to your team to offer creative and constructive ideas prior to beginning the site. Having a site made is not as simple as one would be led to believe, there are so many variables that need careful consideration and it is really up to your designers to come up with new inspirations and articulate carefully what is now needed for a successful web design.

 – Did you get value for money? This is a massive question and this can really influence your commitment to a company. So many studios advertising online will promise you anything to get your business. I personally ( as one of the directors of hopping mad designs ) have witnessed business owners in tears wishing they would have not gone with the cheap alternative to begin with.

Often fooled by slick talking sales people who say they are 'design experts', receive a website that looks nothing like they wanted with absolutely nothing to show for in terms of design. Any design changes or extras are charged for at an hourly rate and there is really no value for money. Be really careful about this question and before embarking on this exercise, you have to learn the difference between cheap n nasty web designers and those web studios offering real value for money. One useful hint: any web business advertising web packages less than $1000 should be avoided.

 – After sales service or website warranty. Did they drop you like a hot potato or did they help iron out any bugs once the site went live. Also, were they helpful with content management issues you may have needed to upload content and images. Many web companies with draw a line in the sand once the site goes live and charge you on an hourly basis for post deployment help. This should really not be the case and there should be a warranty with any work and help with anything you need for at least 30 days. You need to find your feet and learn how to use a CMS effectively and its only fair that this is stipulated in their contract with you.

 – Any there any other issues you had with the company such as customer service, returning of phone calls and emails, over charging, lack of transparency, attitude, lack of experience, dealing with juniors or school/tech leavers etc etc. As a paying customer you want the best product at the best price so if you notice any of the above points then there would be an issue.

 

Rapport Between Designers and the Client

 

Having a website designed is a crucial part of your marketing mix and will more often than not be your only source of advertising. This is why it is crucial that you have a great rapport with your designers. After your initial meeting you should be able to get a clearer idea of the people you will be working with and will therefore be able to see if you are not only comfortable with them, but that you also have the trust and faith that they will be able to deliver on this project, well above your expectations. Basically, you want to leave the meeting with that feeling you get that those people were awesome, they really understood you, your business and your web objectives.

Having a web site designed for most people can be a scary thing. Ideally, you need to get the feeling that you are dealing with a professional, down to earth mob who will take care of your website and other online marketing needs. 

For this reason a good tip is see the response time on your first couple of phone calls to them. If they are not returning your calls within a day or if they are forever in meetings then treat this as an ominous sign of things to come.

 

Are they SEO Experts ?

When you are ready to meet with your top web design company be armed with some useful questions and see if they are willing to divulge technical information such as: search engine optimisation, browser testing ( ensuring that the website will work across all major platforms), download times, social media strategies, copywriting help, interactive content, user interface styles, their coding capabilities, content management systems.

Most decent web companies should be able to chat with you about each of these points in detail. These are the ‘ must haves’ for the web design industry and knowledge in these particular areas is an absolute must. For example if they are looking nervous when discussing SEO, this means that they obviously are unclear about the topic or how they are going to rank your web site. If they are trying to steer you away from topics that revolve around web copywriting then again, this is an danger sign.  Any sign of doubt should result in you looking for another more cutting edge and professional web design firm.

 

Payment Terms and Intellectual Property:

See if you are able to pay in installments upon milestones being achieved. A great idea and one that should be put on the table and spoken about upfront is a 50% deposit with a further 25% upon design completion and the balance on uploading the site. This way you are in total control over the life cycle of the web project when it comes to funding. Never pay 100% upfront and be clear about paying these installments only when you are satisfied with the final result. Also be sure to see that you will be the rightful owner of all completed artwork once the site goes live. You should own all images, content as well as source html files as a matter of common courtesy. You have paid for the site and should therefore expect to own everything associated with it. Be strong willed when asking for these 2 things as many web studios will be reluctant to hand over files and will want most of the payment up front to protect themselves. This is about you, not them so do everything possible to protect your rights and ownership.

 

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The trick for any business looking to either get a new website or get their current site revamped is to find a credible web design studio that they can work with. That is, to find that creative web company who can offer great designs at affordable rates with awesome customer service. This is not as easy as you may think, but if you follow a few of the points listed below, you should be on your way to dealing with the most creative web design agencies in Sydney.

 

What do all of these Top Creative Web Design Agencies have in common?

 

1. They have all been around for many years. You will find that most of the better web design companies have been working within the industry for well over 10 years.
2. You can work with a your allocated designer as opposed to working with an account manager.
3. They all have some knowledge of search engine optimisation. You are probably using these studios because you have found them on Google. This is a great thing. They have been able to rank their own website, which means that the principles they have implemented to get their site ranked can be used on your site.
4. They will encourage a initial meeting for the web design brief rather than conducting business in the virtual world.
5. All of the designers will be university or tech trained. You will find very few people in these firms with little or no professional training backing them up.
6. Most firms will be able to rattle off recognisable brands that they work with.
7. They will have a clear understanding of the latest online 'must haves', such as mobile and responsive web design, content marketing and social media strategies to offer.

 

 Why use Hopping Mad Designs as your Creative Web Design Agency?

• Hopping Mad has been part of the pack of top creative Sydney based web design agencies. As a design agency we are proud to say that we have been working with a range of businesses both large and small with all their creative design needs, both print and digital.

• All our web and graphic designers are highly creative and extremely talented. They have all been to university and are all mid to senior level. You can rest easy in the knowledge that when you are working with Hopping Mad Designs you will never have your design projects handled by a junior or freelancer.

• We know search engine optimisation ( SEO ) well. This means that once will make your site live it will have the best possibility of ranking well on Google. All our coding is Google compliant and all our SEO techniques are what is termed ‘ white hat’.

• Our WordPress content management system is highly intuitive and super easy to use. Once you get the hang of it ( we will train you in the usage of the CMS) you will find that you are making site wide amends regularly.

• If you are looking to sell products online through an ecommerce shopping cart our content management systems platforms are scalable that allow easy integration of this shopping cart.

• Hopping Mad also has what I would say are one of the best team of copy writers in Sydney. They are business to business and business to consumer copy experts that can not only bring your website to life through well worded and sales driven content. This is why we look at web content as much as the creative when it comes to site design. We place a heavy emphasis on content for page relevance, which in turn will help with your ranking. Given the fact that content writing is a difficult task, we are happy to offer this service as part of the creative design process.

• Once you come on board with us we allocate you a dedicated creative designer. All communication is between you and them and we never interfere in this process. We feel that this simplifies the whole design process and makes everything just that bit easier.

• Hopping Mad has a complete understanding of all marketing platforms. Keeping up to date with the latest marketing trends means we are able to bring our knowledge to the table to further push your marketing and brand. Whether its social media, mobile websites, customised blogs, e newsletters, social media monitoring, online reputation management or even web copywriting, we feel that we are on the cutting edge and have the best in the business to implement these.

• As a creative design agency we know the value of branding and understand that all your communication and sales material must have a consistent look and feel. This is why we are adept at looking at your brand from a holistic point of view and carry the established creative across all comms. We never try to dilute or water down your brand but look at alternative ways to implement and include this in your material, especially your website.

• We like to think that we are affordable, fast and super responsive with our turn around times.

 

So, how much should and how much does a website design cost?

This is an important question and I do get this asked all the time by potential clients who come to meet with me in our design studio and the answer I give to them is the same each and every time. What type of web design are you after and what do you want your website design to achieve?

In real terms, if you are a business owner and want a functional and effective online presence you really do not have to spend huge sums on money to get a great looking web site design that is also search engine friendly.

Working with a web design studio like Hopping Mad Designs means that you are getting real value for your marketing dollar when you embark on the journey of choosing your next web designer in Sydney. Sure, there are heaps of designers out there offering websites for next to nothing, but going down this path can and will only lead to major issues further down the track.

Over the years in business I cannot begin to tell you about the number of calls/emails I get from small businesses through to larger companies who have gone to a cheap web designer only to be left out of pocket, without a working website.

Think of this in terms of buying a car. If you want a basic run around car, that will get you from A to B with a minimum of fuss, but without all the added extra’s such as leather seats and air conditioning, you are going to be paying a base price. However, if you are looking at making a statement and want a little bit more of that ‘ wow factor’ you are going to have to pay a bit more for say a European brand or a top model in the Japanese series. These will be fitted out with all the extra trimmings, bells and whistles and will get second looks for other motorists and people in the street.

This is exactly the same for web design. You can pay as little as you like ( this comes with a huge warning which I will talk about later on) or you can pay that bit extra and get a web page design that users online will notice. For a business looking to get an online presence the choices are limitless. There are an enormous amount of web package design studios offering sites for little over $100. Most of these sites will be a template style website and your business website will end up looking like every other site online. But, if you want to compete for the attention of internet users ( who are all becoming that much more web savvy) you have to go for the more expensive option, and use the services of a a professional web design studio that is able to design and deliver a better than average website.

Another perspective is you get what you pay for. I have again heard this numerous times with potential clients. They will do the ring around and speak to the same web companies that are on the first page of Google, like us, and say that they are able to get a website designed for $450.

And I always have the same response; you get what you pay for.

If you are comfortable with a very basic online website and are happy to have a site that looks exactly the same as most other template websites on the market, then that is ok. You should possibly explore and go with that option.

But, if you are wanting to get noticed and have people look at your website then this is clearly not the best option for your business. I am literally amazed with the number of phone calls I get on a weekly basis from business people who have gone down the cheap n cheerful path only to end up with big problems.

Following are a few issues you many encounter when going with the cheaper web design.

These web companies will quote low just to get you into the front door, virtually buying your business, but you will be slugged for each and every design change you make that is not included in the original quote.

And believe me, this will be charged at an hourly rate and there will be no room for negotiation. The reason why you will want so many design amends and changes is because of the poor quality design that was given to you in the first place. This is due in part to lack of design experience and the in ability to get a proper brief from you in the first place.

Having a cheap website means that you are going to look like the guy next door. You may even have a site thats got a similar look and feel to your competitor. This is just not on as being unique and having a point of difference is important when it comes to marketing your business online.

There is the temptation, I know, to save money if you are setting up a business and are looking to trim start up costs, but penny pinching on your web design and development is a bad mistake.

Perhaps look at cutting costs elsewhere and invest a bit more into your digital strategy.

Most of the work is off shored to a third world country where labour and wage rates are so much cheaper. There are just so many issues and problems associated with this that I would occupy this whole blog talking about it. But let me put this in plain terms, every one I speak to about this, has had a very bad experience. I cannot recall in my  years here as director of Hopping Mad Designs one good or positive comment about their dealings with these cheaper web development options.

Each individual story has its own nasty ending and each person swears blindly that they will never do this again. The problem here is that there are so many new businesses starting up, who are totally naive about the pitfalls ahead of them that they go blindly into this, believing that they are just getting a good deal.

The purpose of this blog article is to hopefully educate those people reading this so they wont make the same bad judgement call. All it takes is one phone call or email to a design studio like Hopping Mad Designs and this can be avoided.

Their level of customer service is poor. Remember what I said above; you get what you pay for. Well, this is what will happen. Phone calls will not get returned, deadlines will be missed, artwork will be wrong, design will be totally off brief ( if there has been any design), the list goes on and on. Paying next to nothing means exactly that. Nothing. at the end of the day –  you will be lucky to get anything and lucky if you get a functioning website.

I am not just writing this because of the competitive nature of the web industry. We don’t want to compete at this level and we certainly cant. I am here writing this, to help those poor individuals ( out there trying to make a decent living), understand about the options available to them.

They might think that they are smart and prudent business people because they have struck up a cheap deal, but hopefully they are reading this and hopefully will heed this advice. So do not expect phone calls or emails to be replied to promptly and never expect that your website will look anything special. these are the cold plain truths and you should really ask yourself this question; is it worth all the angst and aggravation?

If you want to compete online, you need a website design studio that will be able to rank your site. website ranking on Google is the combination of both on page ( what they see on the actual site) and off page ( what you dont see). Getting your ‘on page’ programming absolutely search engine compliant will ensure your website has the best chance of ranking. If you are getting a website that has been churned out in a production like manner then the chances of your ‘ on page’ SEO frame work being completed correctly are very minimal. What this means for you and your business is that your website will not get as much traffic as it could possibly be getting and you will be missing out on those important new business phone calls. Basically, you have started off on the wrong foot and this will have consequences for your business later on. In most cases all the so called work that has been completed will have to be re-done again, this time, properly.

What are the advantages of paying just that bit more for your website design?

The advantages certainly outweigh the disadvantages. Here are just a few:

This is your business and if your website is your shopfront to the world then you need something that’s not only going to be attention grabbing but a site that is going to be a reflection of your business and its culture and style. Only a web design studio thats trained in the art of website development will be able to facilitate this properly.

By taking a proper brief from the outset, and implementing design accordingly, your website should last you years and act as a very powerful marketing and sales tool.

Nothing comes close to having a great looking website ranking well on Google and for this privilege you have to pay accordingly. This just does not magically happen. A lot of time, effort and years of knowledge are combined to make this happen.

You get superior customer service. Calls are returned promptly and emails are answered. No one goes missing in action and your web designers are held accountable for the entire project. You get to meet with them face to face and things are not entirely done in the virtual world. Basically, if you are prepared to pay the price then you will get a premium design combined with great customer service. It will make a huge difference.

You will have a better chance of your web site ranking if the whole process is handled by web developers who know how to program CORRECTLY. Give it to a bunch of amateurs and you will not rank, let search engine optimisation experts work on your site and your website will work much better for you now, and in the future.

Paying the right amount now and getting your site designed and coded correctly will see your web traffic increase with sales leads as well.

Because the cold calling market is so saturated, you may have to make well over 100 calls to get even the smallest nibble. And, even when people say yes to receiving information from you, they are doing this just to be polite to get rid of you. Don’t be fooled into thinking that just because someone says yes to receiving an email from you that they are at all interested. The lesson from this is that you do not have to put yourself through the misery of cold calling anymore. There are now thanks to advances in technologies and the internet, new ways to reach out and get new business. Following are a few great new marketing ideas that you should start implementing into your business, rather than spend fruitless, miserable hours speaking to people who do not want to be contacted. By adopting these strategies you should start to see results immediately and in turn see sales and revenues rise. Save your nerves and reduce your stress by never having to cold call again.

Get a new website design for your business.

This is a no brainer. All businesses need a website, and if you have not got one yet, then you are really doing damage to your business. A website is now the fundamental cornerstone of your business and it is the first place that consumers, new clients ( if they can find you ), will turn to, to do a bit of research about you and your product or service offering. If you cannot be found online then you are a ghost and you might as well close your doors. Unless of course, you have such a great name that people come to you purely out of your reputation. Most businesses and companies are not in this fortunate position and need to have a web presence that clearly reflects their business, their personality as well as a strong visual presence to attract users.
Alternatively, if you currently have a website and you find that it is not working for you ( perhaps it is a few years old) then think about getting a complete website overhaul. In fact, you should be looking at refreshing your site annually. There are huge benefits to this which I will discuss later on in this article under SEO.

Times change and so does the consumer base and this has to be reflected in your online image, that is your website. If your look and feel does not evolve with the market then you will and this is a certainty, loose business to your competitors that may have a funkier, more stylish look and feel. Think of it like a hotel. If you are on holiday wouldn’t you prefer to stay at a modern hotel with all the add on facilities, like a gym, pool, internet access, rather than an old 1970’s style hotel with a old bed and fan. People gravitate to more modern, contemporary and dynamic styles and your website design is no different. A new look will impress your old clients and attract new ones if your marketing strategy is right. If your site is optimised for the internet and online rankings then you should start to see your listing rise on Google and this in turn will bring in the inquiries, meaning you never have to cold call. All you need to do now is find the right website design studio to turn this into a reality. A word of note here; be extremely careful about who you align yourself with when it comes to web design companies. There are just so many web companies online that making the right choice is going to be fundamental in the way your site is perceived and ultimately its success. Keep these points front of mind when looking for a web studio:

– find a web design company that is prepared to have a face to face meeting and go over a proper design brief. Remember, your aim is to get the phone ringing again and to do this you need to deal with people that know how to design a sales driven website.

– Don’t just go with the cheapest option. There is, I know the temptation to say to yourself that times are tough and you need to trim down on marketing. But, this is the opposite. Spend more money on your marketing, including your website and get it properly done. Cheap and fast web solutions are absolutely pointless and will do nothing to lift your online digital profile. Might as well forget the whole exercise and go the beach instead of wasting your time. Only a web studio that has a credible design history with a solid design back ground should be offering advice to you. Anyone else is just there to take your money, and deliver sub standard web templates that will only turn people off. Being tight now, will just cost you more money in the future. So open those purse strings and get real about web design and about what’s feasible for your business.

– Speak with your web designer/s and explain to them clearly that you are having issues with your current site or that you need a site to get inquiries happening. Be honest and open about your expectations and try to be as clear in your brief as possible. Also, be very open minded about what can be done and be prepared to accept the fact that you might have to completely change your image both offline and online. The aim here is to bring about changes that will have a positive impact on your business, so be accepting of the advice as you should be dealing with professionals who do have the answers. Being negative, close minded or taking the easy cheaper path is not the way to go at this stage. Adopt a broader, open minded philosophy and be aware that you will have to take risks and be bold to turn the slump around.

Think about your branding

Think about the following questions carefully:
What does your marketing or sales material say about you and your company?
Is the logo a relic from the past, handed down over generations?
Is the owner reluctant to make any changes to the logo because hes scared to do anything.
You don’t want to get any new brochures printed because you got thousands printed 10 years ago and there are still some left in the basement.
You got your cousin to design a logo 5 years ago free of charge but it does not look professional.
Our older clients like our marketing and sales brochures so changing them might offend them.
If these sound familiar then you are fooling yourself that you can get out of cold calling. Sitting with old and out dated collateral just further distances yourself between your business and a new market base.
A good idea is to chat with a graphic design company to discuss ideas and see how you can give your company branding an overhaul and bring it into the 20th century. I have seen so many examples over the years here at Hopping Mad Designs the power and positive benefits to a business just by simply giving the logo and some sales material ( brochures, flyers, business cards ) a new revamped look. It really can give your business a complete revitalised and energetic overhaul it needs to again be competitive.

Have you heard about Social Media?

Your kids are on it, your staff are on it but your business is not and this is a big issue. No one has explained social media to you and just the thought of it makes you uncomfortable.
Lets draw another comparison with other technologies. Look at email, slow to take on board but after a while everyone had one. It was common place and part of the business process. If you didn’t have a email address you were a dinosaur. Email is so common place that sending things via snail mail is now becoming more uncommon. This is the same with social media, slow to begin with but this will eventually outstrip all marketing mediums and platforms. If you are the type of person who wants to stick your head in the sand, hoping it will go away then you are wrong. And I must emphasise wrong. The uptake of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google + will mean that most marketing campaigns will be conducted online and through these sites.
The barriers to entry of are easy and you can have your own business Facebook page up and active within a couple of minutes. Rather than be afraid of these new technologies, embrace them and look to them to reach out to a whole new potential client base looking for your product and or service.

Does the word copywriter mean anything to you?

If not, then you should really familiarise yourself with what they are al about and what they can do for your business. If you were responsible for all the content that has gone on your marketing and sales material, then it may be a good time to read it again and see if it is still relevant. If is isn’t, then you may need to engage a copywriter or wordsmith to look at all the copy on all your material. If business has slowed down, then it might be that your communication is out dated and poorly written. A professional copywriter with a strong B2B background could just be the tonic to get things moving along just that bit faster. This can be especially true for the website where well worded content can have a huge impact on your search engine rankings.

Have you implemented a search engine marketing campaign yet?

This is an absolutely mammoth area and if you have not implemented an SEO campaign then you are really doing a disservice to your business. SEO is the technique of ranking your website on the major search engines and is really the best marketing tool available today for you to generate new business leads. SEO is something that only a company with heaps of previous experience can implement and before you embark on choosing a SEO company, you really need to take heed of the following few points to avert any disasters.
– never go with the cheapest SEO company. Generally speaking, if they are cheap, then they are cutting corners and will not do a proper job for you./ Plus they may be using really bad SEO techniques which could cause you to incur a online penalty.
– Make sure that the company you deal with can show you their past SEO work and make certain that they are able to point out their own online rankings.
– Never sign a contract with them and only go on a month by month basis.
If done correctly a search engine campaign should and will in most cases get your business ranking very high on page 1. This I believe is your most powerful weapon and you should do everything possible to ensure that this SEO campaign is started without any delay.
You will see the difference this makes to your business and once ranking you will notice those inquiries start flooding in. So if you are at the stage of thinking about cold calling, then don’t worry. Put all that negativity behind you and forget about ever having to do it again. SEO is the real answer and if you start this today you will be one step closer to ditching cold calls forever.

If you are thinking about cold calling and have just read this article and want to learn a little bit more about other much more effective options available to you then please give us a call here at Hopping Mad Designs on 02 9360 8514. After speaking with me for just 5 minutes I can guarantee you that you will ditch cold calling forever.
 

Hopping Mad Designs has helped businesses throughout  Sydney + Australia with their search engine optimisation, ensuring that their website appears at the top of the Google ranking for their main keywords.

We have a team of search engine experts who really understand all there is to know about SEO.

FOR THE BEST SEO ADVICE CALL 02 9360 8514

 

 

 

WE OFFER YOUR BUSINESS A COMPLETELY FREE WEBSITE AUDIT and CONSULTATION

So many SEO companies will over promise and under deliver. They will say anything and offer the most ridiculously cheap SEO packages just to LOCK YOU into a fixed contract that is very difficult to get out of. We NEVER do this.

We look at your website and offer you constructive  SEO advice and offer you a complete fixed price, without ever locking you into long term contract.

 

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION EXPERTS WORKING WITH US.

Hopping Mad works with a few of Australia’s best search engine optimisation SEO experts.

This is very clear if you look at what we have been able to achieve shown in our own amazing rankings and those of our clients.

When you partner with Hopping Mad Designs to run your SEO campaign, you will notice the difference that we can make for your business. We will literally blow your competition out of the water by ranking you so far up those rankings. Don’t be fooled by those cheap and nasty Search Engine Optimisation companies. They offer false hopes and promises.

 

WE ARE RELIABLE AND TRUSTED BY BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT SYDNEY

Over the past couple of years the SEO industry become tarnished by bad operators.

Working with Hopping Mad Designs means you can rest easy in the knowledge that you are going to be working closely with an SEO industry leader that has been in business since 1998.

What this means for your business is that no matter where you are currently ranking online or whether you have had a bad past experience with a SEO provider, we are able to turn this around for you and get your online marketing campaign back on track in a professional and very timely manner.

 

DONT GO WITH CHEAP SEO COMPANIES

!f you are even remotely tempted to go with a cheap SEO servcie provider, ask yourself one question. If they are going to cahrge you say $200 per month for your search engine optimisation, then wouldn’t you expect that they do only 2-3 hours work on your site per month?

A decent SEO strategy requires a minimum of 10-15 hours work per month ( depending on the keywords you want to rank for), which is certainly not achievable with such a low budget. Pay peanuts you get monkey’s, but in the case of SEO; pay peanuts and you will get a SEO penalty from Google.

So, basically to get a decent result you have to pay a reasonable amount.

 

 

 

 

IS IT TIME FOR A BROCHURE UPDATE?

If you have had a look inside your office store room and noticed all your old sales brochures and corporate profile documents sitting in the corner on the floor, then it’s probably a good marketing decision to throw these out and get them redesigned. No one likes to read old brochures – it's a business killer!

This is where we come in – Hopping Mad Designs has been designing and prodcuing brochures and other marketing and sales collateral for companies, businesses, organisations and Government departments Australia wide since 1998.

If you are serious about giving your sales and marketing brochures a new more contemporary overhaul then CALL 02 9360 8514 – it's totally free, so what are your waiting for?

Why Use Hopping Mad Designs for your Marketing Collateral?

We Simplify The Design Process.

1) As a graphic design company we are great at getting the best possible design brief from you. At this initial briefing stage we like to get you into our design studio in Darlinghurst Sydney, for a one on one meeting where we get to learn a little bit more about your business, client base and what you are expecting from your new brochures. We also try to get a bit of an understanding of your design style, your creative likes and dislikes and offer constructive design solutions.

2)  We help you forget about all your pre conceived ideas of what you think you want, and come up with brochure options that will work for your bsuiness and communicate your message effectively.

3) We can handle all the photography. We have a great relationship with a wide variety of niche specific photographers that can bring real authenticity to the sales brochures. If you need food photography, product shots or even model photos, we can take care of the whole process for you. Just give us the brief and we will deliver the final images all at very competitive prices.
 

4) If you are stuck for copy and do not know what to write on these brochures, we can also help you with this. If you feel that your product or service is dull and there is absolutely no way that it can be livened up, then you are mistaken. It’s amazing the positive effect that our professional copywriter can have on your brochure. Hopping Mad has copy writers that can sell your business effectively through well worded brochure content.

5) Having a visually creative design piece is one thing but it also needs to be complimented with the proper paper stocks and finishes. Do you want a varnish on the front cover with spot UV finishes all on eco friendly matt paper? If all this sounds foreign to you, we can guide you through the world of paper and show you the various types of papers and finishes available.

6) Obviously you are going to want to get these brochures printed and as a graphic design studio we are able to organise print quotes, dispatch these sales and marketing brochures Australia wide.

If these above points are not enough to convince you that we know what we are doing then why not go to our website www.hoppingmad.com.au to see some of our previous work and list of clients.

If you still need convincing then why not give us a call on 02 9360 8514  and we will get back to you immediately.

One other important point to note is that we are able to also design and produce other forms of other external communication documents in addition to sales and marketing brochures such as annual reports, training manuals, prospectuses, office stationery, direct mail marketing pieces, basically anything that you can think of that needs designing and printing we can do.

 

FOR YOUR NEXT CORPORATE BROCHURE CALL 02 9360 8514