Graphic design agencies, marketing agencies, communications agencies and digital agencies have an incredibly tough time keeping up with clients and their requirements.
With web sites getting bigger and increasingly more complicated as clients grasp the buzzwords and concepts behind them agencies are finding themselves taking on more and more to fuel their clients expectations.
On the whole agencies are rewarded well for sometimes herculean efforts to produce top quality web sites at an alarming pace, clients remain happy, results improve and budgets increase for the next set of even more complex site builds.
So what is the answer? Step back from the bleeding edge and produce more mundane work, do not delight your customers and concentrate on what you are 100% confident with. That is certainly a sensible option but will perhaps not continue to win work much further down the line.
Invest in staff and internal systems to bring in the skills that you need in order to remain at the forefront and one step ahead of your clients. Another compelling route although much more expensive and not a guaranteed winner.
There is a third option and that is to utilise the skills of a professional third party to assist you in one of the biggest areas of concern, the testing of web sites.
Have you ever launched a web site that should have been tested more thoroughly before it went live? Most people’s hands should now be in the air and one of the reasons that Testing Web Sites was conceived is because its owners have learnt some hard lessons in this regard in the past.
Making sure the web sites you build are fully tested is a big deal because if you do not do it well enough or are not thorough enough then your agency can seriously have egg on its face. The bigger the client the more potential there is for an issue to become a costly mistake, not just the cost of fixing the problem but also how it affects the client relationship and the prospect of future work.
Testing Web Sites is owned by WebDepend Ltd. and provides support services to agencies in the ongoing testing of web sites. Agencies use us for a variety of reasons including outsourcing the work because of a lack of resources or skills in house or to sanity check work before a web site is launched. Our ongoing management services are also utilised to provide agencies with an early warning system of any issues, which has an extremely positive effect with clients.
Benefits of Using WebDepend
- Outsource the testing of web sites if you have a lack of resources and/or skills in house.
- Peace of mind to provide a sanity check before a web site launches.
- More in depth testing than can be managed in house.
- Win client trust and confidence on the quality of the web work you produce.
- Ability to pick up issues at an early stage by using our proactive management services.
- Use our services within your pitches for new business to increase your chances of winning the work.
Tom Batey, the owner of WebDepend, has been immersed in the Internet industry for over 12 years. This means that we have a huge amount of experience when it comes to testing web sites ahead of launch or dealing with the management and ongoing maintenance of small, medium and large web sites of all types.
We have seen most of the problems and issues that can occur and are now in a position to offer you this same experience and knowledge to improve the quality of your own web site.
Our experience of working within fast moving and pressurised digital agencies also provides us with the insight to assist agencies of all types who provide web development services to their clients. We work professionally and in the background keeping you up to date at all times.
WebDepend’s Services
If you would like to take advantage of WebDepend’s website testing services or would like more information on our company or how best to test web sites then please contact us.