Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Select right web development company for your business


Now web site is must to any type of business, you may be in small or medium scale organization or large organization, it is better to have web site when your customers search you on the internet. However building a web site is not easy task and we need some expert knowledge to implement this project and it is an on - going project as well. It is an investment for the company. Some companies, especially large organizations maintain separate division for web site development and maintain it’s operations. However most of companies now out sourcing this project to external company due to various reasons such as internal division maintain is more costly than our sourcing, need to hire more experts to develop the web site and manage it. Other infrastructure like servers are additional cost to company.
Therefore most of companies, event large companies now out sourcing their web site development project to external companies. However finding a best matching web development company might be difficult. This article will help to find the right web development company and what are the main areas to be consider. If you have not selected right company, you could not achieve your target and it is wasting money as well.

01. Plan your basic requirement
Before go to service provider, your should understand your need well. You are the person who explain the need to web development company and they will develop the site according to your requirement. If you have them incomplete or wrong information, They may develop incomplete product for you.

02. Set your budget
Before finding a company to out- source your project you should know, how much you can afford for this investment. There are so many companies doing web development at different price range, careful for very low prices, they may fool you. Most probably, it may be an incomplete project

03. Start searching
Now start to search who is doing web development. Give high priority for local area people such as , if you are in Manchester, search for web development companies in Manchester area . Easy to negotiate and will understand your need and your target audience well. You can search through main search engines, like google, yahoo, or you can collect information from some referral sites like linkdin, facebook. List down most attractive vendors match to your needs.

04. Evaluate each vendor.
Careful evaluation will help you to find the best match to your needs, budget, time limit and other factors. If you have big list first short list them and evaluate. Otherwise you may not be able to take correct decision. It is better to consider positive and negative both factors.

05. Check their previous clients
This is not feasible all the time, but if you can get some feedback from previous clients, that will be big support to evaluate vendors.

06. Ask them the brief and proposal
You can ask short listed web development companies to send you small brief or proposal after you explain your need to them, then you can understand their professionalism for web development area and it will help you to select one company to hand over your project.

2 comments:

Web Development India said...

Hi,
Excellent post. I can only hope others can learn from this.
The modern technological developments have dynamically affected the process of interacting with customers.

Unknown said...

What an exciting experience!/Hilarious! Delightful! True!/wonderful stuff! thank you!

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