Consulting Services

i-Ohio draws on a wealth of experience and current knowledge about the Internet to help you decide whether your business should invest in a site on the World Wide Web or other Internet technologies. We always begin any relationship by visiting your business and discussing how your business operates.

After establishing a preliminary understanding of your business, we can discuss some ways in which investing in a site on the World Wide Web could help you do business. We think creatively about how your business could use the Internet.

We realize, however, that not all businesses should invest in these new technologies—the nature of some businesses is plainly ill suited for the World Wide Web. We can tell you some stories about business that we have seen on the Internet that will never be successful. Our role as Internet Consultants is help you determine whether the investment makes sense for your business. Often, it will, but we promise to assess the likely costs and benefits honestly.

Design Services

Often we will have some exciting ideas about your business's potential on the World Wide Web. If we feel that a World Wide Web site or other forms of digital communication could help your business, we will outline expected costs for site design and hosting. Our design and hosting costs are very competitive--often under cutting the national average for the services we provide by up to 40%.

Ongoing Consulting and Support

Once we've designed your site, our job is not complete until we've helped you to establish a presence in the Internet community and helped you to leverage your new site in your traditional marketing, sales, and advertising efforts. We will register your site with major search engines so that Internet users will be able to find your site when they are searching for related information. Additionally, we can help you to establish relationships with other organizations that can provide links and additional traffic to your site. Depending on your needs and what you want to do with your site, this can be one of the most important stages in the site's development.

After we complete your initial site, we can help you to publicize it on the Internet and through traditional marketing strategies. We can also make changes to the look and feel of your site, or help you to keep the site's content current.

One of the things that you will always hear about the Internet is that the content is "dynamic." This can mean different things, depending on the context. One thing that it always denotes, however, is that web sites change. How often depends on the kind of business you do, and the amount of traffic that your site receives. A rule of thumb, however, is that a site should be reviewed at least twice a year to ensure that its content is up-to-date, and that it still accurately conveys your company's message.