A little about my group, first. We are 12 women in the construction industry who started a nonprofit to help mentor women in the industry. We had already started our website but needed some extra skills to add a mentor section to our website and some special event capabilities (ok there were two pages worth of requests, but this is the skinny). Being the hard-headed women we are, we bid out the job to several companies and got a crazy range of responses. Some were 20x as much as Robert's quote. I had another quote in Robert's range, but he was very prompt (always first) in his responses, and that is important to me.
I headed up the effort from our group and had some experience with web design, just not the time or expertise to do this myself. So when I saw the quotes coming in crazy high, I was concerned and irritated. Luckily, Robert didn't play games. He knew that all we needed were a few plug-ins for our website, and some TLC. He had a tight timeline (roughly two months or so) and twelve strong-minded, opinionated women to deal with.
We all know how tough it is to make decisions by committee, and Robert took it in stride. We shaped our comments via email, I would list out all the comments from the group, and a few days later he would respond that items were corrected. I went out of town for a month, which probably didn't help, but he ran with it and had a lot for review when I got back. Every so often, he would reach out to me via phone to clarify my requests to make sure we were on the same page. How nice! I wasn't chasing him down for responses, he just jumped right in!
Short story, I truly believe Robert had a tough client (12 women who knew little about web design, and were stubborn minded), but he was kind and helpful all the way through, up to the very day of our anniversary event, where we planned to sign women up for our website using the apps he added.
If you are thinking of hiring someone for your website, and you aren't the biggest tech person, Robert truly can speak your language and come up with the product you want. His prices are fair, he is self-motivated, extremely knowledgeable and the person you want to work with. We will have more websites to build as our group grows into new chapters and there's no doubt Robert will be our #1 recommendation. read more