Treating your clients with respect!

Every company should treat their clients with respect by providing the best service available.  If your current advertising or marketing company is not providing you the response you deserve – FIRE THEM! Your business deserves a quick response with a quality project.  Big business is eating all of your profits by charging you too much money for what they are doing for you. STOP THE MADNESS OF WASTEFUL MONEY!!

Freelance website and graphic artist will provide you creative and cutting edge design at cut rate prices – quicker and after hours.  Worried about hiring a freelance? You should be! But be smart – ask for references, ask for samples, Google the freelancer and see what you find out. It’s your money, its your business! Finding the right freelance designer will be worth your while. You will save money, have better resources, better designs, better available with late night services.

Now go do your research and save your company money and time! Be the hero in your office today.

Core Values of Business

What is your core values in business?  Does it matter to you what other business hold as its core values? Well, it should!  Without core values a company and its employes have no direction to follow as right or wrong.  Businesses should not dismiss what values brings to its business.

The Bell Image Group is proud of its core values and want to share them with anyone who wants to know.  Our values are:

• Respect
• Concern with clients needs
• Value of a product
• Loyalty
• Do more with less
• Have fun with growth and opportunity
• Humble
• Open and honest by communication
• Positive leadership reflects a superior attitude

Don’t overlook the details that can make your experience with website or graphic designer a positive outcome.  If your current designer lacks core values then you might think about starting a search for a new source.

Go to our website for more information about The Bell Image Group.

How to pick a website designer!

Hiring the wrong website designer will cost you thousands of dollars!

So how do you pick the right person?

• Conduct an interview

Don’t be afraid to ask the website designer questions.  You are going to have a long on-going relationship with this person so go in prepared! Do your research – find a website you like and ask the designer if he or she can create a website for your company like your example.

Ask for reference and examples of site they have completed with success. Make sure the designers examples don’t all look the same! What I mean is if every site is created the same but with different colors then I would say don’t walk away from the designer – RUN!

Is the designer listening to what you want or telling you what they can do?? Red flag – some people will try and sell you in their capabilities and not on what you want!

• Ask a business associate for referrals

Business associates can be a great reference for designers and maybe a better reference for who not to hire.  Ask your business associate why the “type” of referral they are giving (good or bad).  You don’t really want a referral that is a friend trying to do something on the side UNLESS the friend can provide examples and references. Then by all means set up a meeting and see what they have to offer!  Freelancers can save you alot of money and usually provide quick, quality designs.  Freelancers are not restricted to 8-5 Monday to Friday so they tend to work into the night and on weekends at no additional cost to you!!

• Use social media

Use your connections on Face Book or Linkedin.  These are just too big of a source not to ask about a designer.

• Know some details

Okay, so you have to do some work before you start on finding website!  First, do you own your own domain name? If so, do you have your own hosting? Most companies can set both of these up with little charge. You need to know what all you want the web designer to do for you.  For example, you need a new website, hosting, e-mail blast, promotional pieces designed and more.  Let the designer know this up front so they can tell you if they are the right person or not. If you have a logo, make sure you have a clean electronic version along with information you want to have on your site.  Remember, you know the most about your company and what you want to say about it so here is your opportunity.

Your journey to create a new or redesign website should be easy, fun, and exciting to see the final project.

Contact us today for additional help with your graphic needs.

Social Meida – is it really FREE or costing your company money?

Why would anyone pay a company to maintain its social media site? Social media is free – easy – and quick! I mean does social media really work for a business or is it just for adults who have nothing else to do?

Well here are some facts….

• Your employees don’t care about your attempts to build your business! Yet, you are putting them in charge of your social media accounts thinking they have your best interest in mind.

• Is your message consistent in your posting? This is important since you don’t want the wrong message, coupon or special posted potential costing your company thousands of dollars!

• Is your social media site being watched for potential business? If your customers are not getting responses when contacting you on social media – why is their motivation to return to your site? NONE!

Free is great – but sometimes you get what you pay for – what is your companies ability to increase business value to you????

Hire and professional or do it yourself to save money?

Why do companies or individuals pay to have a website created when they can do it themselves? Return on investment! If you are searching the internet for a product or service will you be likely to call a company that has annoying pop-ups on their site or a site that is overwhelming or offers little direction? Doubt-it!

As a business owner, small or large, you should not waste your time trying to construct an html code or format a css layout for your companies website. Instead, find a freelance website designer that offers custom built site and personal service such as thebellimagegroup.com. Make sure the company you hire has samples of previous site they have built for reputable companies in which you can inquire about their services.

Don’t delay, the time you spend on trying to save money on building your own website will cost you money in the long run by missing out on building your client list.

Start-up companies website needs are finally met!

Small and start-up companies websites have been met at The Bell Image Group with a team of skilled graphic artist, website designers, and creative photographers.