John McKown: President of Delaware.Net, Inc.
2007 was a good year for Delaware.net. We grew 24% overall, and web design project revenue grew 90%. Our staff also grew, and we accomplished most of our goals, including launching new applications. Lots more is coming in 2008, and if you want to hear about some of our plans, click the link.
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Adobe invited me to give and advanced web design presentation live online, and it happened today at noon EST. There were over 1200 attendees. The presentation will be available on-demand on the Adobe web site in about a week. I demonstrated how Delaware.Net is using the latest Adobe Dreamweaver and ColdFusion tools to build Web 2.0 web sites.
I am VERY pleased that we just won this project. The Delaware State News is one of the largest newspapers in the State of Delaware, and I have wanted to earn their business for years. When the Request for Proposal came across my desk, I knew we would be competing with other design firms to win the project, and that we would need to create an unbeatable proposal that demonstrated why we are the best choice for the project. Well, we just got the signed contract, and the job is a go. We can’t pat ourselves on the back too much for this one yet, because there is a lot of work that needs to be done in a short amount of time. I’ve always wanted to partner with the local papers to provide interactive services, but typically advertising agencies and print publications are threatened by interactive agencies such as us. This project should demonstrate to those agencies that we are the perfect company to partner with, because this is what we are best at, and we can add value to their projects.
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2007 is our best year ever for R&D
In late 2006 and into 2007, I hired a bunch of new talent for Delaware.Net, and we also improved our internal web development process greatly. This was due to customer demand for more responsiveness from us, and I am happy to say that we achieved this goal. The new team and our business plan is literally transforming our company and taking us to a whole new level.
Our new creative team celebrated the completion of the MonsterRacing.com web site by taking a ride in Monster’s NASCAR racing cars. Monster was very pleased with their new web site so they invited our team out for a day to experience what their program is all about. Jason Cockerham, Creative Developer at Delaware.Net said “1 word…. AWESOME. Better than any roller coaster that I have ridden“. Shannon Sierra, Graphic Designer at Delaware.Net said; “The staff at Monster Racing was great and very attentive. They take special care in making sure that everyone understood that, as thrilling as the ride would be, that it was also safe, so everyone was relaxed and comfortable with the experience.”
Traditional SEO work involves tweaking a web site’s code so that Google ranks the site higher in the free organic ranking area of search results.
So far I have not been impressed with the companies that do this work full-time in our area. They all seem to be focused on getting rich via maintenance fees than actually innovating and providing real results for our customers. Since we built our store engine and it has some SEO already in it, we are really the best choice for ecommerce seo for our customers. For this reason, we are going to start to formally offer SEO services at Delaware.net. For our ecommerce customers, this is a no-brainer service.
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