gowebplans Launched
For many years (well two, to be precise), we were what most people would call a startup. When I joined Vesess, the company ran out of a tiny room in a technology incubator. A few PCs, a telephone, and four guys in one cubicle, with shared net access (I still shudder at the thought). Fortunately, Youtube wasn’t yet invented, or we’d have died of buffering related stress.
For our clients, not much has changed. We were responsive then, we’re equally responsive now. We delivered on time then, we deliver on time now. For us, however, a lot has changed. Moving past the startup phase, if anything, is a major shot in the arm. It’s a confirmation of something we knew all a long – that we’re in this for the long run.
This is not to say that we haven’t seen hard times. Although tech startups from developing nations are getting more common now, there were very few when we first entered the playing field. It was an uphill climb, and although there were moments where we felt like folding up and going away, we knew the scenery was getting better all the time. Now, as we stand at the top of startup hill and prepare to plunge in to the valley of corporates, we want to be careful not to forget our roots.
It’s in this vein that we launch gowebplans, a web service for Small and Medium enterprises. Having been at the bottom of the hill, we know how imposing that climb can seem. Rent, phone bills, stationery – the last thing a new startup needs is a website, right? Wrong.
Of course you need a website. The kid next door has a site about geckos that gets three thousand hits a day. It’s 2007, and you are a small business. You’d be crazy not to have a website. So, what’s the solution? Websites on a budget, with the same Vesess quality you have come to trust.
At gowebplans, we offer Wallet-sized Websites that you can customise to suit your outlook and budget. The process is simple, the turn-around time is quick, and the product, as always, is excellent. Here’s an introduction from GWP itself -
1) Sign Up
We offer you a base website package which you can change to suit your needs. Select everything from your webspace quota, to the number of email addresses you’d like.
2) Fill Out
Once you have selected your package and filled out our project planner document, we will begin to design you a unique layout based on your preferences, and enhance it according to your feedback. Once completed, we’ll setup the functional site. At this point, all you have to do is add the content you require.
3) Go Live!
That’s it. After you have added what you want, we go under the hood again for one last look. Once we’ve tweaked everything to our satisfaction, your new website is ready to be launched.
If only other things in life were this easy.
Here are some interesting uses for gowebplans that you might want to think about while you consider using this service.
Can you say blog?
Although there are a number of free blog services out there with hundreds of excellent themes, there’s one problem you can’t get away from. There are millions of bloggers. Thousand of themes, millions of bloggers – yes, that’s right, your design of choice is going to be used by many, many others. When you sign up with GWP, you get a unique design included in the package, and better yet, you get to take part in the process of creating it by giving us feedback. Apart from good content, nothing says professional like a slick design that is only sported by you.
Sell that toilet paper, and sell it good.
Whether you sell bathroom supplies or kiwi fruit, an online store is becoming more and more useful. However, E-Commerce software, and websites, and databases – what a lot of work to get done for it. At gowebplans, we’ll setup your website and online store as well. Need more storage space for your ever increasing catalogue of images? Not a problem. We have the resources to expand with you.
Whether you decide to become a political blogger or an online mango seller, rest assured that it is Vesess’ flexibility that underlies GWP and all it offers. We’ve been setting up sites for years, and it’s as natural for us now as reading the 500 or so RSS feeds we subscribe to, every night before bed.
We’re proud of GWP, and what we hope to do with it. As we move forward, I guess it’s a way for us to say thank you to that startup hill and the climb that we loved (and sometimes hated). Although we’re never getting those two years back, there are many companies and individuals who are currently living them. GWP is our way of saying we’d like to wish them luck, and help them get themselves online.
