Paul & Erik's Services
Websites function best when they are built by people who understand the customer's business. Technical computer skill is important. However, it is extremely difficult, even for a highly skilled designer, to build a good website for a business they know nothing about.
We feel qualified to build and support these kinds of websites:
Personal websites are worth it even if all they do is gurantee a unique email address. Of course they may alsp include pictures and other information. They make a great place to display a resume when job hunting. Our personal websites include:
- Email with good spam filtering from your own domain name. When you own the domain name you can always keep the same email addresses. If you move to a new state, new country or have to change your ISP, your email will not change. If you are sick of spam email, the accounts we set up include state of the art spam filters.
- Optional: A home page with whatever information you wish to place there.
- Cost is $180 per year which includes domain name registration and renewal and hosting.
Professional Services Websites (like this one) are designed to make the business "real" in the mind of the customers. PaulAndErik.com is designed to help a potential customer decide if the services we offer are what they need and available at a price they can afford. In our opinion, no professional can afford to be without such a website. Our professional services websites include:
- Email with good spam filtering from your own domain name. When you own the domain name you can always keep the same email addresses. If you move to a new state, new country or have to change your ISP, your email will not change. If you are sick of spam email, the accounts we set up include state of the art spam filters.
- Ten to twenty pages of customer provided content designed to display your professional knowledge, showcase your work experience, provide your contact information, and get you ranked by the search engines for your personal and/or business name.
- Cost is $400 for the initial website development and $25 per month for hosting, domain name renewal, and support.
Used Car Dealers need a website where they can send traffic from their print advertising. The site should have some information about the dealership, especially hours of operation and directions. Most importantly, it must be easy for the staff to quickly add/edit/delete vehicles themselves. Our used car dealer websites include:
- Email with good spam filtering from your own domain name. Joe@JoesAutoSales is a much stronger email address than Joe@AOL.com
- Five to ten pages of content that gives a history of the business, directions, financing plans which are available, etc.
- As many pages as needed where minimally trained staff can add/change/delete pictures and descriptions of vehicles themselves.
- If you already have a website and like the look, but not the functioning, we can keep the existing look and connect it to the new functionality.
- Charges start at $500 for the initial setup plus $100 per month for ongoing support, website hosting, domain name renewal, etc.
Real Estate Brokers need websites which explain why customers should list or buy with you. You need to be able to add/edit/delete listings quickly and easily without our help! Our real estate broker websites include:
- Email with good spam filtering from your own domain name. Sandra@SandraSmith is a much stronger email address than Sandra@BigRealestateCompany.com. Brokers work hard to build up a following; you don't want to have to change your email address if/when you change to a new company.
- We do not build sites with automatic connections into MLS data bases. They all look the same.
- Our customers build multiple small sites for their listings. This pleases sellers and keeps visitors focused on your listings, not distracted by the thousands of other properties for sale in MLS.
- As many pages as needed where the customerf can add/change/delete pictures and descriptions of properties themselves.
- Charges start at $500 for the initial setup plus $50-150 per month for ongoing support, website hosting, domain name renewal, etc.
Landlords need a website where customers can see lots of pictures of the property and apply immediately if they like what they see. The landlord must be able to quickly and easily add/edit/delete information about each propterty without our help. Our landlord websites include:
- Email with good spam filtering from your own domain name. This way you can keep everything tenant related in it's own "box" and away from your personal life.
- A few pages with information about your rental policies and whatever else you think would help prospective tenants decide they can work with you as a landlord.
- Pages with lots of photos and descriptions for each of your properties. You must be able to turn this information on or off as units become available and get rented. The landlord must be able to easily add/edit/delete(hide) information about each property.
- An application for the prospective tenant to use.
- Charges start at $300 for the initial setup plus $30 per month for hosting and support. Custom photography is available for an additonal charge.
Ecommerce websites are for online businesses that sell (or plan to sell) products online and need all the functions of a retail store. Our ecommerce websites include:
- Installation and support of a heavy duty shopping cart system that you will not quickly outgrow and which is already set up to handle things like sales, coupons, wholesale pricing, and all the other marketing techniques you expect in retail sales.
- Multiple email accounts with good spam filtering on your own domain name.
- Up to twenty pages of pictures and text that describe your store, it's operation and policies, your location & hours plus any other information you think will encourage customers to shop with you.
- An administrative backend that makes it easy to add/edit/delete products, prices, descriptions, etc.
- An initial bulk upload of your product catalog
- Domain registration and hosting on reliable servers
- Working with your graphics designer to "Skin" the site with the template you want, or provide a default look if you prefer
- Set up connections to/from an Ebay store if that is part of your business plan
- Charges start at $1,000 for the initial setup plus $100 per month or more for hosting, shopping cart support, etc. At this level websites are so individualized these charges are only a rough guide.