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I provide monitoring, maintenance, support, and development services. See my pricing page for details.

I charge in service plan terms and prepaid hourly development budgets, a kind of “base plus” model. A service plan is not required in order to purchase development hours.

Service plans are paid in advance for 4-12 months. The small plan is annual, medium plan is twice a year, and the big plan is three times a year. The terms have affordability in mind. There is a tendency with high quality work for clients’ needs to taper down over time; The work is beneficial. Every client is unique!

I compete with other freelancer developers and bigger website marketing agencies. Here’s how I would differentiate my services to theirs:

• The client gets to work with me directly. I do not subcontract, outsource, or have any staff.
• I use the best practice built-in builder tools for design, content management, and settings, not bloated third-party components, though in preexisting cases I can support those tools.
• I’m about simplicity over complexity, spending more effort cleaning up old code than writing new code, removing Apps over adding them, reducing maintenance burdens and customization risks. The code I write is intended to be a thin layer of portable customization.
• I’ve never been pushy on sales. Of course I do have to ask for the sale, but I don’t apply pressure or bug people more than a single follow-up. I’ll know they are serious and ready when I see their order arrive!
• I offer free ballpark estimates during free introduction calls or in a follow-up email. I offer raw unpadded estimates with a paid project planning / discovery phase. Estimates are based on tasks, which are based on line item solutions, which are part of a written project plan that takes time to put together.
• I don’t use recurring subscriptions. Sales are easier as a one time decision, though it does require asking for renewals when the time comes.
• I keep clear of fixed pricing. Most freelancer services answer the demand from customers to provide X at Y fixed cost. This makes assumptions about X in order to lock-in Y and close a deal. That almost always results in a poor outcome. Businesses are unique and fluid, so is their website.
• I work within budget by billing in smaller, more agile chunks of time (sprints) with quick delivery / monetization and the openness to continually re-prioritize. That’s results-driven work!
• I provide daily monitoring and peer comparisons of PageSpeed Insights with a service plan or during development cycles so we have real measurements. Data is available on the My account page.
• I use Trello boards to organize findings, approved tasks, assignments, timelines, status, and history. It’s a simple and visual approach to project management. Some of my clients use it directly.
• I log development time using my own online software. Burn charts and downloadable time logs are available on the My account page.