Internet Marketing Services

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. Everyone says they are the biggest and the best. Verify that the person you are considering hiring has the qualifications and can show verifiable results from past successes. Adtastic Hosting provides CIW certified webmaster professionals (the highest standard in the industry) to assist you. Once you have chosen a qualified provider, listen to what advice they offer. Their knowledge and skill is going to be valuable in helping you to be successful.

Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?

A. The majority of small businesses in our business outsource a variety of their services. In addition, they are often not as well qualified for the promises they make as you might believe. At Adtastic, we provide all of our services in house and we have all of the industry leading qualifications to prove our professional ability. Many of our clients have been referred to us by our happy customers because of previous unsatisfactory experiences with other web service companies. The most common reasons we've heard were not following through on promises, unresponsiveness, long delays and even poor performance. Our promise is that you'll never experience any of this with Adtastic.

Q. What questions should a consumer ask to hire the right service professional?

A. Always ask about references of other clients that the company has provided services to and verify those references. When a company provides samples of websites they have designed for other clients, for example, is their name on those websites? Most web designers will place a small link on the bottom of the websites they have designed, verifying their work.

Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?

A. Often people come to us with no thought out plan, no budget in hand and nothing more than a glimmer of a idea about building their web presence. Yet they DO have the expectation that once they build the website that is in their "minds eye", success will roll in. Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. We'll help you develop a plan. We'll provide you with honest and realistic projections, information and steps to success. We'll guide you towards the lowest cost methods to your success that will offer the most return based upon your budget and expectations. However, it will help us to help you if you spend some time preparing a plan for your online presence and success just as you would before going into any "brick and mortar" business and a short term and long term budget of what you can afford to invest towards your success- before you come to see us. It will help you to help us best advise you if you first flesh out what type of website you think would most benefit your online presence and gather some examples of other websites in your industry that are online and already successful. If you already have a website and are looking to make it successful or are unhappy with it, put together some talking points about why you think it is not successful now, what you would like to change or are unhappy with and what your expectations or desires for the future of your Internet business are.

Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?

A. This question is answered best in the words of our customers. These are the types of comments that have been made by our clients (we're paraphrasing): "I like how an articulate person always answers the phone when I call." "I spent hundreds of dollars (or thousands) monthly for the last year (or years) for internet marketing services (SEO and SEM) with that other company and I had no idea what was accomplished if anything and since coming to your company it is painfully obvious I wasted those years and dollars because now I am on page one of all the major search engines!" "Your company does everything you say you will do and more and your rates are very fair." "I like how you explain everything to me that other guy never told me anything." "I don't believe there is a company out there that operates a web hosting business like you do. Your company has gone out of its way to make certain my internet business is operating as well as possible and every concern has been addressed in a timely manner. I like the fact that there are no hidden costs doing business with you and your prices are great. I want you to know that I am extremely satisfied with your services." (Actual testimonial) "Your company would have saved me thousands of dollars years ago, brought me a load of business and made life simple for me. At least I found you now!" (Actual testimonial)

Q. What do you like most about your job?

A. Our motto is that "We champion the small business." This company was founded on principle. We were finding that a lot of people in our industry were overcharging and under-delivering, keeping the client in the dark about a complex and technical service in order to take their money and give little in return. Painful, but true. That's not saying there are not other people in this industry that work extremely hard and provide excellent service. Only that there are a lot that don't. We believed (and still do) that the internet was a huge opportunity for the "little guy", the small company, the individual to expand their ability to be successful, make a living and even excel beyond anything imaginable in the "brick and mortar" business world. Having been involved in the Internet since its birth and technically very proficient, we felt this was a huge opportunity for us to takes those principles and beliefs and help others succeed that might not otherwise have a chance. That is ultimately very rewarding. And that is what we do here. How could you not like that?

Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A. The most common question is "How much do you charge?" While we do have published hourly rates and specific rates for specific services (such as web hosting) none of our pricing is set in stone. Just as we believe that every customer is unique and deserves individual attention too we prefer to tailor our programs as closely to the clients particular needs and budget as we possibly can. This means that generally our pricing is found to be much lower than elsewhere and our level of service much higher. On average, we find that our pricing is about 50% lower than others in our business providing the same services with the same type of credentials and training.

Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?

A. Having been involved with the Internet as a marketer since its inception I'd earned a reputation amongst my peers and friends and relatives as the "Internet Nerd." So naturally, everyone came to me for help when they needed something Internet related. One day, someone said after I'd helped them that "You should just do this for a living." Prior to that, I'd simply been doing my own thing but after that day I realized he was right and I should offer my services professionally to those wanting to succeed on the Internet as I had. So my company Adtastic was born on that day back in 1998.