Michelle’s Review of Natalie Crowe Designs website design service
DID YOU KNOW? Natalie Crowe Designs is your one stop shop when it comes to getting a Website, Logo Design and Facebook Styling. We’re your friends in the business offering support, helpful advice, great prices and everything you need through the one service.
We work with you from your first consultation; over the phone, skype or face to face, establishing your needs and how best to meet them. Through to designing a professional visual representation of your business, to putting our collective ideas in place and supporting you through the process of launch and growth of your business.
We have packages to suit all budgets, payment plans available and we’re more than happy to discuss your options as to how to get the best out of our service.
Check out what one of our recent clients had to say:
Michelle from The Left and Right Brain Centre
https://www.nataliecrowedesigns.com.au/working-with-the-left-and-right-brain-centre
If you need a website, logo or Facebook styling or know someone who does, stop by http://www.facebook.com/nataliecrowedesigns or visit our website https://www.nataliecrowedesigns.com.au/
My name is Nat and I’d be happy to assist.
Natalie Crowe
OWNER/OPERATOR of
Natalie Crowe Designs
______________________________________
http://www.nataliecrowedesigns.com/
support@nataliecrowedesigns.com
Ph: 0423285233
www.facebook.com/nataliecrowedesigns
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Basic Website On A Budget
[ Package includes:]
♦ 5 Page Information Website
♦ Custom Design to suit your business.
♦ Including Homepage, 3 pages of your choice and a Contact Page with a Contact Form complete with Email Notifications directly to your inbox when you receive enquiries, and automatic email responder notifying your clients that one of your staff will contact them shortly.
[Web Hosting ]
♦ 12 Months Online storage for your website related files
[Domain name or Website Address]
♦ 12 Months registration for a website address of your choice www.yourwebsite.com.au
[Ability to edit your website]
♦ 12 Months access to NCDAchieve Content Management System – which is an all in one system that will allow you to update and manage your online business in a central dashboard.
[Personalised User Guide]
♦ Step by step user guide tailored to your skill level on the best way to manage your online business using NCDAchieve.
[Standard Search Engine Optimisation]
♦ We do keyword research and optimise your website ready for launch, in addition to submit your website to the primary search engines.
[1 hour phone consultation]
♦ One hour consultation included in the price
[Free Email Address and Webmail associated with your website]
♦ For the first 20 clients to utilise this package, they’ll receive their own email address, an online webmail interface (similar to Live Mail or Hotmail) and a tutorial how to setup your Free Email Address on your computer, phone or ipad.
We request a 50% deposit upfront and then either Payment Plan arrangement or Payment on completion.
For full product listing click here: [ 5 Page Information Website ]
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Call Back Policy
Something that all small businesses need to do is put into place a policy or strategy as to what they’re going to do in relation to dealing with follow ups and “calling clients back”. How many hours a month are you wasting?
One of the biggest issues I’ve seen as a part of my own business is the extended time spent chasing up clients who show expressions of interest in your services but time and time again, one call, two calls, a few emails etc social media connections, later, you look back and see a massive time loss during chasing those clients and their business.
After analyzing how many hours in a given month, We recorded a minimum 5-10 hours a month of accumulated time, following up calls or chasing clients for information. Due to this, Natalie Crowe Designs has initiated a new policy in terms of Call Backs and follow ups. In the instance of a first consultation we contact the client twice, if we can’t get hold of them, they’ll receive an automatic email notifying them that we have tired to contact them however we have been unsuccessful, should they wish to organise a scheduled appointment to discuss how Natalie Crowe Designs can best help them, please feel free to contact us on – 0423285233 or reply.
Imagine what could be achieve with an extra 5-10 hours a month up your sleeve!
Making it easier for clients to find your business
Make your business as visible as possible
Like every business owner, you understand that you need to make it as
easy as possible for your potential clients to locate your business,
and having your potential clients locate your business means your
business is one step closer to having them purchase your products or
utilise services and there are a many ways to of making your business
more locatable,however, the easiest way starts with having your own
website.
Almost everywhere you look the internet is readily, at the
click of a button you can type in any search phrase and locate any
number of businesses? So what if your clients knew your business name,
for example “Natalie Crowe Designs” they could search for you (click here for a sample) or perhaps they typed in some keywords related to your business, on our case “Website Design Cessnock” (click here for a sample).
With a website, we can create an online presence that is optimised to
be more likely to appear when clients search for these terms.
Time to set this weeks goals
As a means of focusing on being more productive, I’ve started pre-organising my week. Scheduling events if I can help it and working with my time more efficiently.
I have been working on a list of tasks to complete which I have been diligently working on, however whilst completing client paid work and my Search Engine Optimisation course, it’s been a slightly heavy workload.
‘They’ believe that you should in order to achieve something you need to take ACTION and realistically unless it’s life threatening, you should really only be spending 30-90 seconds to make a decision. You can always CHANGE that decision if it’s not working out. But 90 second tops!
I made the decision this morning that I was going to take action and make a move on some of the tasks I had been procrastinating on for my own business and needed to make a move on for my client’s businesses.
5 Main Goals for this week.
1) Review & Complete outstanding modules for the SEO Course we’re completing by 5pm Thursday
2) Update NCD website with new portfolio items to generate more interest in the business.
Posting 20 updated client project photos by 5pm Tuesday afternoon.
EDIT: ACTION TAKEN – I have completed the main part of this goal, but I’d like to style the gallery to make it more visually appealing. Portfolio can be found here
3) Create achievable to-do list template to aid productivity:
You can download our basic template here: Monday To Do List
We have created individual files for each day, but it’s just a matter of going in and changing the day.
4) Review and recreate NCD questionnaire with more focus on goals and benefits of our services rather technical jargon – Goal : to be more user friendly – by Wednesday 5pm
5) Write Minimum 2 new blog posts before 5pm friday.
although we’ve successfully completed this goal TODAY, I’d like to continue to post twice a day, and modify the goal from posting twice a day to sharing minimum of 2 blog posts a week.
Bonus:
6) By 5pm Friday I will have a schedule drafted for 22nd – 27th of October.
This is in addition to our regular client work.
Have An Existing VistaPrint website?
After being approached by several clients in the last few weeks we’ve been researching the best way to solve the following situation:
“Hi Nat, I have an existing website that I setup with vistaprint. I’ve got and email address using the website address (domain) in addition having the website address on all of my business cards and advertising material, so I really don’t want to lose the website address, but I am not happy with my website. What other options do I have? is it easier just to start a new website? Thanks Mel ”
There are a few options:
Starting from Scratch.
You can get a brand new 5 page information website for $600 including:
– Purchase and Setup of a new website address (Domain),
– Website Hosting & Editing Software for 12 months (Online Storage for files related to your website and an interface to edit your website)
– Custom designed layout to suit your business (overall appearance of your website)
– 5 webpages e.g Homepage, About Us, [Custom page 1], [Custom page 2], Contact Us
– basic contact form (your prospective customers can fill in online for that send enquiries directly to your designated email address)
– basic search engine optimisation (help your business get found on the search engines)
– and the ability to edit your site yourself
– and a how to Tutorial on using the system
We also offer email hosting for $60 a year ($5 a month)
you’ll get a
webmail access and ability to set your email on your phone, or computer
via most common email programs.
Requesting VISTA PRINT release your domain name (website address).
We recently contact vista print with the following email:
” How would I go about transferring my domain to another service provider? I have branded my business including my cards with the domain registered with Vista Print but would like to use my domain with an alternative service Kind Regards Nat ”
Vista Print Reply today:
We have received your request
to transfer your domain name you have registered with Vistaprint to another
registrar. Vistaprint can release the domain to you, but you must transfer the
domain to a new registrar. The transfer deadline is the anniversary date of when
you signed up for it on.
Please read the information below. If you would like to release the domain to
you, please send a confirmation email and we will add your Domain Transfer
Package to your Shopping Cart. Releasing the domain will not cancel your current
website or business email address. To cancel go to My Services, then Account
Information and follow the self-cancellation path.
The domain registry requires that your domain name has been registered for at
least 60 days before you can transfer it to another registrar. This is industry
protocol, not a Vistaprint requirement.
The general process is as follows:
- Release Payment: Pay an administrative fee to release the domain name from
Vistaprint. The cost is $29.99. You are purchasing the right to the name, not
the registration. - Email Instructions: Once we process your payment for the release, you will
receive an email with a user name and password for OpenSRS and transfer
instructions. The following are the two main steps to transfer the domain. - Opensrs:
- Contact Information: Go to https://manage.opensrs.net and update your
contact records using the user name and password in the email you received from
Vistaprint. Make sure to update all contact types (Administrative, Technical,
and Billing). Vistaprint will remain the Organization Contact until the domain
is completely transferred. All email communication from Opensrs will be sent to
the person listed as the Administrative Contact. - Unlock Domain: Go to Domain Locking and make sure domain locking is
disabled. - Authorization Code / EPP code: For com, .net, .org, .info, and .us domain
names, you will need a code for the new registrar. It can be found under Domain
Extras.
Additional Instructions: Follow any other instructions sent to you
by email from OpenSRS.
- Contact Information: Go to https://manage.opensrs.net and update your
- Transfer to New Registrar:
- Contact Information: If you haven’t done so already, sign up for a new
registrar and domain transfer at the registrar’s website. - Nameserver Information: Get the nameserver information for the new registrar
and go back to OpenSRS and enter it under Manage Name Servers. - Additional Instructions: Follow any additional instructions they send by
email.
- Contact Information: If you haven’t done so already, sign up for a new
Transfer the domain to your new registrar as soon as possible. If you don’t
transfer before the domain expires on the anniversary date when you signed up
for it on , your domain will become inactive and you’ll have 30 days after the
expiration to complete the transfer process before your domain name goes back
into the pool where another person can take it.
We hope you find this information helpful. Please feel free to contact us if
you have any further questions.
NCD Corkboard Intro
Good Morning Everyone!
After the realisation this morning we have exactly 3 months til Christmas, it was a little bit of a wake up call that 2012 is coming to an end rather quickly. 2012 has been a big year for us with plenty of changes happening, a new office, introduction of credit card payment facilities, plenty of sites, studies and training and a lot of movement in what services we offer you guys.
In all of this; the last 9 months, we’ve been pinning things on corkboards all year with ideas and developments, plans and endless to-do lists but we’ve decided it’s now time to take action NCD Corkboard is our means of tracking progress, sharing with you guys without updating facebook statuses every five minutes and also keeps an accountability for actions and improvements we want to make for Natalie Crowe Designs.
In saying all of this. This will be both personalised and down to earth approach to business blogging. Natalie Crowe Designs is run by a real person. working with real people. It’s one thing to offer a corporate image and portray yourself as a bigwig company, but 99% of our clientelle aren’t looking for that and we know that. We’re a home-based business, much like most of you. We have a family to support, life commitments and a passion for our work.
Stay tuned for plenty of tips, website launches, updates on trends, triumphs and learning curves that will take place whilst we’re on our journey to build a service for you. Natalie Crowe Designs – your one stop shop when it comes to getting a website.
Natalie Crowe
OWNER/OPERATOR of
Natalie Crowe Designs
______________________________________
http://www.nataliecrowedesigns.com
support@nataliecrowedesigns.com
Ph: 0423285233
www.facebook.com/nataliecrowedesigns
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