Online Services

Web Design

Too often businesses think that web design is simply hiring someone to build a web site and then a flood of customer orders start coming in.

This couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, we think most businesses know this yet are stuck in neutral because they don’t know how to piece the puzzle together. Therefore, once their website is complete, they publish it and forget about it. Big mistake.

Here are some best practices for a successful site:

1. Develop a strategy that answers questions like, “What’s your message?”, “Who are you talking to?”, “What is it that you want the customer to do and when?”
2. Publish a well written site.
3. Choose a nice and simple layout. Our experience has taught us that most people use computers that are about three (3) years old. Therefore, if your site has too many gizmos, gadgets and flash animation, then it’ll take forever to load.
4. Search engine optimization. Ranking high in organic search results is essential to meeting new customer through the Internet alone.
5. The ability to follow-up with the contacts you’ve made through your site and the Internet.

At WURLWIND Solutions, we work with companies who have already launched sites but feel they need a facelift or a better online strategy. We conceptualize, design, launch and maintain your Internet presence.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

If you already perform SEO on your site then you know the value of optimization. It absolutely means more business.

Those businesses that don’t perform SEO choose not to because they don’t understand how it helps their site, or they can’t afford it, or they don’t know how to introduce it into their organization. At WURLWIND Solutions, we take the mystery out of SEO and we’ll improve your ranking on the various search engines. If someone searches for your product or service and you don’t appear in the search results, you’ve just lost that prospective customer. If you appear on the first page of the results Google or Bing returns, then you’re chances of getting that customer to visit your site go way up. Now, if your business is listed in the top 5 search results, your chance of click thru goes through the roof. Ranking high organically is way too important to overlook. In today’s economic environment, standing still implies decline.

Internet Consultation & Strategy

Most of the time businesses have decent web exposure; OK content, nice layouts and mediocre attempts to optimize their site.

In many cases, we find ourselves discussing online strategy and tactics with our clients. Our support team consists of marketing thinkers and technologists. That combination offers a wide spectrum of insight to help make your online exposure more relevant to your visitors. We understand a core principal about business…you have to always be closing. We believe that this applies to your web site as well. Most designers spend too much time trying to impress you and customers with their design skills and completely forget that the purpose is to try to sell something to someone. Not us! At WURLWIND, generating sales comes first.

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

Often, large companies use outside services to determine if they are adhering to compliance standards such as HIPAA or SOX. Financial institutions regularly employ the services of outside companies to perform a vulnerability assessment or to actually attempt to breach their security to emulate a cyber-attack.

SOHOs and SMBs should focus more on these types of services because with more and more businesses storing information, performing financial transactions online, developing databases and for any business looking for major investment, fortifying your IT investments is becoming more and more critical. This isn’t an attempt to inform you what you can gain, but rather to let you in on what you can lose.

Branding

Probably the most overused and most misunderstood term used these days.

So, here’s our take on the topic. Branding is about building a positive experience in your customer’s mind which then makes your business THE ONLY solution to their problem. WURLWIND Solutions has a team of marketing strategists and thinkers who have real-life experience building successful brands. We’ve also seen our share of good brands that went bad because management didn’t really understand their brand and didn’t let it permeate throughout the organization. With WURLWIND Solutions, we develop multi-step multi-media integrated web strategies so your web content reflects other marketing initiatives your business may be involved in.

Intranet Services

An intranet is a private network that lets a company securely share any part of their information or operational systems with its employees. Sometimes the term refers only to a company’s internal website, but often it is a more extensive part of the organization's information technology infrastructure and private websites are an important component and focal point of internal communication and collaboration.

An intranet can be understood as a private version of the Internet confined to an organization. Your organization's intranet does not necessarily have to provide access to the Internet. When such access is provided it is usually through a network gateway with a firewall, shielding your Intranet from unauthorized external access. This gateway often also implements user authentication, encryption of messages, and often virtual private network (VPN) connectivity for off-site employees to access company information, computing resources and internal communications. Increasingly, intranets are being used to deliver tools and applications, e.g., collaboration (to facilitate working in groups and teleconferencing) or sophisticated corporate directories, sales and customer relationship management tools, project management etc., to advance productivity. Intranets are also being used as corporate culture-change platforms. For example, large numbers of employees discussing key issues in an intranet forum application could lead to new ideas in management, productivity, quality, and other corporate issues.

Web Applications or Webapp

Web applications or Apps are applications accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. Web applications are popular due to the availability and convenience of using web browsers. The ability to update and maintain web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity.

We can develop applications to run over the web or your Intranet to suit your unique business requirements. The key to creating an effective application is to have a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of your business. We always take the final user into consideration, whether that’s the customer or one of your customer service representatives.

Ecommerce

Turning your site from an online brochure into a site that’s capable of handling financial transactions with your customers is a major step for your business. Adding shopping carts, databases, order tracking and customer support features into your site makes all of those transactions possible. If you’re a new business looking to build your site from scratch, we can include ecommerce while we’re building your site. Keep in mind that site content for a brochure-type site is going to be much different than for an ecommerce site. If you’re already operating and want to include shopping carts and other ecommerce features, WURLWIND Solutions will work closely with you to make sure your implementation goes smoothly and flawlessly.

Domain Registration and DNS Services

Now you no longer need to worry about domain names and renewals. Companies get full control of their domain name(s) allowing you to instantly re-route if required. Domain names can be purchased, DNS services can be managed and if your company sells online, we offer extensive marketing tools and experienced staff to discuss your initiatives.

WURLWIND Solutions… The only choice for IT support.

We offer no charge initial consultations and on-site demonstrations.

You’ll see the difference.

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