All of our work is priced on an individual basis with the exception of coaching sessions available to book online. There are several reasons for this, not least because not all logos, documents, and websites are created equally . There are range of factors that influence how much a website or logo might cost. For instance, how much of our time will be spent seeking and editing content (clients can reduce costs by committing to doing this themselves), whether the client has imagery or whether we need to source this for them (purchasing stock imagery for instance). In the case of some of our graphics these can take several hours to produce. No two jobs are equal. That's why we take great care to understand your needs up-front and explore how you would prefer to work - this allows us to provide written quotes (not estimates that some provide which can be significantly inflated!). We've tried to outline some examples of costs below: A one-page website with short contact form, about, and services section. That does not take payments and using standard stock imagery. Price includes hosting for one year and personalised domain name = approximately £380. An 8 page website, hosted for one year, with each page search-engine-optimised, indexed through Google and Bing searches, with a blog built into the backend and support to develop content in your organisation (4 hours) = approximately £1700. Logo design ranges according to needs and is priced at £35 per hour for non-profits and £40 for businesses. Report covers tend to cost around £35-£50.

You can now add a Buy Now button on your Wix store! Ideal if your customer are not likely to browse your site extensively and adding lots of items to their cart. Learn more about this new feature here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-a-buy-now-button-to-the-wix-stores-product-page

We're been asked more and more to spend an hour or two enhancing existing Wix websites, either because business owners don't have the time, have become stuck or need another opinion. As a result, we've met some lovely site and business owners, improved the functionality, usability and number of quality visitors to their sites. To respond to this demand, we've created a new booking function that allows you to book time with us to go through your Wix site. You can find more about this service here: https://www.esmecreative.com/wix-coaching To book: Go to https://www.esmecreative.com/wix-coaching Choose the service you require (initially this is a one hour service but we'll be adding further options); Select the date you'd like your session. Available times for that day will open. Select a time. Complete our booking form making sure your email address in particular is correct. If you've a coupon code (we sometimes pop these on Facebook) then enter it in the box on the right. Don't forget to check out our Cancellation Policy. Pay via debit/credit card or PayPal. We'll send you a confirmation and later a reminder with details about dialling into Zoom for our one-to-one. Tips for getting the best out of your session: Let us know in advance of anything in particular you want to go through (there's room on our booking form). Or email us hello@esmecreative.com Consider providing us with permission to view your site as a website administrator (this access level allows us to see the backend of your site without seeing any of your clients' personal details. Otherwise, we can coach you on functions in our demonstrator site. Try to perform the Zoom call on a desktop computer that way you'll be able to see any screen shares better. If we can help at all then please do let us know! hello@esmecreative.com THANKS FOR READING OUR BLOG POST. USE THIS CODE TO GET £3 OFF A ONE-HOUR COACHING SESSION: Wix3

We met with a lovely lady who had been let down with her website. Not only had the website provider failed to deliver but they'd pounced some expensive extras and commission on her too. We met over a cuppa and discussed what she wanted from her website (not all websites need to sell stuff!). How she wanted to interact in and out of her social media, features she'd like to see, etc. Hilariously, a customer called her whilst we were meeting and asked 'Have you got a website?'. She was thrilled when we handed over stating: " It's amazing thank you so much I love it! I can't wait to show it off. You're super talented..." If you're close to Burton-upon-Trent or Swadlincote then look out for her beautiful business - www.sweetpeasflorists.com

This logo was developed to support a Derbyshire COVID response scheme. It was developed using Adobe Illustrator with the South Derbyshire map hand-traced. The colour palette is adapted from the organisations new brand colours of mints, turquoise and deep purple. The map has an outer glow to emphasise it further.

This one-page website is simple but effective. It features: the client's own personalised domain name; clear contact details; an enquiry form. Our client recognised the need for a website but doesn't rely on it to the same extent as an e-commerce business might. For this reason, a simple and relatively cheap website was developed. www.ktcsltd.com We also engage with this client through our administrative offering, providing overflow administrative relief as required. Transparent Pricing: We host and maintain websites of this nature for around £200 per year.

Wix promo codes are hard to come by, but we wanted to share with you some advice about how to get a discount with Wix. Wix often run 50% off plans. In the last two weeks alone they've run two of these offers over several days. That Wix website offer will come along! Our advice to you would be to develop your site on a free plan - you don't really want to pay for something that isn't live yet anyway! In the meantime wait for a Wix offer to come along. It will! This Wix offer has happened for many years. Existing Wix website owners can also benefit from the discount when their plans run out. There's several options for how to do this. You could duplicate your site (free), then purchase the discounted plan for the duplicate site and move your domain over to it. Or, you can move paid plans across sites, so you could take a discounted paid plan out on a blank dummy site then move it to your main site (don't forget to cancel the old plan!). We've used both without bother. Be patient, that discount will come! If you need help with your Wix site then please don't hesitate to contact us. We work on a transparent hourly rate, or can quote for an inclusive project amount. Email Tracey: hello@esmecreative.com for a no-obligation discussion about your needs.

ESME have attracted a new client, a Derbyshire florist. ESME Creative are delighted to be working with them, a thriving business who have grown to a Facebook followership of over 3000 in one year thanks to their own creative floristry talents. Working with such beautiful pictures is making for a stunning and visually impactful website. We're excited for the start of this partnership and hope to share the results soon!

Over 60% of web transactions are made using mobile devices as opposed to traditional computers and laptops. We're going to explore what this means for your website. There's a growing recognition that content needs to be optimised for mobile users. Mobile-optimising your website will allow your site visitors to see a mobile-friendly version of your site. ESME Creative optimise all sites it builds as standard. If your site is not mobile optimised then users may find it difficult to use on their mobile devices - naturally, there is a risk that your potential customers go elsewhere. If you're looking to be even more mobile-friendly then ask us about mobile optimised presentations - you can now ensure that documents or presentations that you send clients or display on your website are optimised for mobile phone use.

Being a business owner can be busy - the day-to-day delivery of your products and services can mean that time for audits of your brands online presence, project management, and processes and systems you may use (billing, communications etc) remain on your to-do list for longer than they need to be. Do you want to drive your business forward but are stuck in this position? That's where an OBM - Online Business Manager - can be useful. They are contracted to manage key facets of your business on your behalf, but are not an employee. They can take care of strategic and operational aspects of your business, and may specialise in some specific areas of business (marketing, HR, etc). Paid on a 'per project' or retainer basis they provide flexible capacity. Dr Tracey Wond of ESME Creative will be offering this service from July 2020. Here is why Tracey is well placed to deliver our Online Business Management (OBM) service. Tracey has experience working on senior management teams and boards, experienced in strategic decision-making. She is a former Head of Research in a University Business School, Treasurer of a non-profit, and trustee of several charities. Working at board level she has supported significant financial, operational, strategic and people-related decisions. This includes having dotted line management responsibility, mirroring that of an OBM. She also holds a HR, CIPD (level 5) qualification, and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute. She holds a PhD in Business and Management and has taught on business programmes from undergraduate to postgraduate (MBA and PhD levels). She's published in a range of international business journals and books in subjects including governance, careers, and leadership Tracey is experienced in managing projects, having worked as a Projects Officer and working predominantly in project environments. She holds a PRINCE2 Project Management qualification. She is Creative Lead and Director here at ESME Creative, where she's supported many businesses to review their online presence, work within teams to develop web content, deliver websites and lead their rebrands. A bit of a tech-geek at heart she's introduced online booking, electronic invoicing, personalised domain emails and other solutions into a range of organisations. She is a big thinker, able to see the bigger picture and how complex elements of business decisions intertwine. Online Business Manager services will be offered from July 2020. Limited availability to ensure a quality service to all of our clients. To discuss please call Tracey 07760175782 or email hello@esmecreative.com If you'd like to read on then please do. Here are some of our achievements over the past few weeks: - Launching 3 client websites in short timescales in the past 5 weeks, with a further 4 under development. Some to respond to COVID and ensure business continuity. - Coaching one business to 'pivot' amid COVID-19 resulting in a highly successful transition leading to increased business, and almost 5000 new social media followers. - Conducting an online audit for a new client, leading to action to secure their unclaimed social media sites, and rectify dead URLs and content that could have been more professional. We provided further advice on improving their SEO including building off-site SEO through their networks (reaching out to suppliers to put their domain name on their websites to increase backlinks for instance). - Introducing 3 businesses to Stripe, Wave and GoCardless to support them to process online payments. - Two logo designs and rebranding assignments. Including the logo for a regional COVID response unit, pro-bono. - Developing an online 'bar' graphic to help an organisation communicate it's new social breakout platform. - Supporting a primary school teacher to develop her online teaching resources to ensure they were visually appealing. - The creation of Zoom background graphics for clients. - Adding COVID business as usual/closure statements to all of our clients website at no additional charge.

A contact approached me a few weeks ago with a concern about their website costs with another provider. They'd been asked to renew for the forthcoming year at a cost of almost £2800 (for one year!). This included hosting their site and maintaining updates and security patches. The site is fairly basic, a front door to their organisation with a few downloads - no customer data, no commerce aspects. Our discussion followed several lines: Whether their website was an integral part of their business. This revolved around how much of their offering was delivered through their website. For my contact it was one or two downloadable documents but very little more. For other organisations this appreciably differs. We discussed the value of their website to their business and concluded that whilst it was needed it wasn't crucial. Now, since we develop websites, this might seem like a strange conclusion to reach but it really supported me to work with my contact to make a value judgement about how important it was to spend £2800 on their pretty basic website. The alternatives... I've made no secret in the past that I find Wordpress over-rated. At a time when new small and medium business (SMB) apps and technologies have replaced the way that businesses do their accounting and communicate, I don't see why there is so much snobbery about how a website is built if it is fast, secure, accessible and functional. I also don't like to use Wordpress - the backend's clunky and ugly! My greatest reservation is that website clients become heavily dependent on others to maintain their websites at a cost greater than they'd like to pay, or than it's potentially worth to their business. I'll say it again.... at a time where SMB technology means your accounting works through apps (like Wave, QuickBooks or Xero) and our communication works through apps (Zoom, Skype etc), then why isn't web maintenance easier/app like? Well, solutions are out there and have been for some time. One that's stood the test of time is Wix. I've developed sites on other builders, including Wordpress for years but around 5-6 years ago I began to predominantly use Wix. At the time, it wasn't anything special but it worked. Since then they've really upped their game and now allow developers to add their own code - and their apps aren't too shabby either, allowing bookings, subscriptions, online shops and member-only areas to be developed. Importantly for me, it allows me to develop functional and fast enough websites that I can handover to clients for them to maintain should they choose, and within their budget. I'm now a Wix partner which provides me with some discounts, a dedicated developer forum, and early announcements of new releases and I'm constantly encouraged about the direction that Wix are taking their platform. The criticisms of web-builders such as Wix are fading - the ability to code, secured https protocol, google indexing etc. An enduring criticism is that your site is always owned by Wix, but for many relying on third parties to host their site, have you truly got control anyway and do you need it? For some the answer will be yes (a complex web-store might have an issue with this - but then again the data can be exported into a .csv file!), but for many small and medium businesses this is less troublesome. To rebuild my contacts website and host for a year is likely to cost around £1600, almost half of their hosting and maintenance cost quoted for one year! What do you need from a website?