Getting Started on your web project

How WeWork Together

We know, that working with an unfamiliar company can often prompt a variety of questions. How accurate will ClearBlu identify with your business needs? How efficient will those needs be met? How effective will the end result be? How much will the service cost?

1. Our Charges
   Like all service organizations, our invoices are based on the time we invest into your project. Currently we bill our time about 10% under what other firms of our quality and experience normally charge. Project costs range from low of a couple hundred dollars up to tens of thousands, depending on our clients’ needs and budgets. We always provide a detailed proposal and estimate for approval before starting. We adhere to our estimates unless project specifications change.
2. Laying the Foundation
   The first things we do after being assigned a project is schedule information-gathering meetings between our creative team and your key staff. We are interested not only in scheduling, budget and job specifications, but also in your preferences, target audience and objectives. And of course, we will want to know all the user features, and benefits of the product. Although this process can be somewhat time-consuming it will help you sharpen your focus and objectives and it will help us ensure that what we produce is not only creatively excellent, but also strategically targeted.
3. Developing The Right Ideas
   Despite popular misconceptions, good creative work doesn’t often come in a flash of inspiration; usually it comes from lots of trial and error. This is why we also need to take the time to consider several approaches (concepts), work them through, and try them out. Then revise them. In addition, there are usually some practical and functional ends we need to tie up before submitting our ideas- sub-contractor availability, printing estimates, scheduling requirements, etc. All this, plus the need to schedule our workflow in a businesslike fashion, means that we normally ask for up to two weeks, depending on the job’s complexity, before we submit our rough approaches (concepts) for your review. Of course, if you have a rush project or deadline pressure we adjust our workflow and timing accordingly.
   
   It is our experience that it is best if we first present our rough concepts to convey what we believe is the best approach to take, after taking into consideration your budget, schedule, objectives, and preferences. They may not be fully developed in order to save time and effort if we need a different course of action.
   
   After presenting, we’ll ask for comments. The more objective and specific you can be, the better we will be able to respond. Comments are our input for revising the rough concepts into a finished one. Revision normally takes us about a week, and we schedule a second presentation shortly thereafter. From the input at this second presentation meeting further minor refinements are made as necessary. We also finalize timetable, and the schedule a target completion date.
4. Ensuring Your Satisfaction
   We recommend the finished project be routed to the appropriate decision makers for fact and detail checking only, reserving stylistic and subjective decisions to your project manager

During the course of the project we will keep your project manager informed of our progress. Activities that will affect the schedule or budget are identified in writing. Our goal is to keep your project moving ahead quickly smoothly, and cost effectively to make sure that we’ll produce even better results than you expected.

Sincerely
- The Clearblu Creative Team

 

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