Wanted: Web developer/designer with some payment flexibility - dog lovers a plus!
My mom has recently started a small family business selling pet products. She's got a very basic website up, but it needs some enhancements. Since the web dev that she had worked with previously has turned out to be a complete flake, we're in the process of copying it over to a new hosted infrastructure (I think it's almost completely copied at this point).
The existing site is http://www.kumfytailz.com.
Design-wise, the site is pretty poor by current standards, but Mom's industry is not very demanding in this respect (most of her sales will be to distributors and retailers via traditional channels, rather than web sales). We definitely want to redesign and update the site in the next 3-6 months, but it's not the immediate priority.
Right now we need to:
1. Add an "online press room" consisting of a few additional pages and a nav-bar link. I think this should be relatively easy.
2. Add a short (2-3 min) video to the site. I'll provide the video in some standard format, and we'll need you to embed the player, etc. Not really sure of the best way to do this, you'll use your discretion.
3. Implement and integrate a Quickbooks (online version) - compatible web store. I expect this will be the most significant effort. There's an existing web store which depends on PayPal to process credit card transactions, which is no longer an acceptable solution for us. Obviously this will require that we work closely with you to test, at first.
Ideally we're looking for someone who's interested in establishing an ongoing relationship, with some web designer as well as developer abilities (we'd love for you to be responsible for the future redesign as well as any minor ongoing changes/enhancements we may need down the road).
The catch? The business is really just getting started, bootstrapping itself, and has very little cash. So we'd like to do a sales-based deal with you, and offer you a commission on every retail unit of the product sold via the web.
If you are comfortable establishing and conducting Adwords campaigns (or similar), we have a modest marketing budget, and would love for you to drive the online component of it. This would be an opportunity for you to directly influence online sales (and thus your commission).
The other catch: We can't get you access to the server that the existing site is on. But the existing site has already been copied over to a new hosted server. You can work on it there, and at the right time we'll just cut DNS over to the new server.
To be candid, this is probably a fair amount of work in the next week or so for not a lot of cash up front, followed by a modest ramp up over the next several months to perhaps $500-$1000/mo (maybe more?) for not much work, on an ongoing basis. It's hard to predict, and of course there are no guarantees.
If the arrangement sounds workable to you, and you have the requisite skills/experience, contact us to learn more about the product and see whether it's something you can get behind.
Thanks!
Matt Romain
matt@kumfytailz.com
My mom has recently started a small family business selling pet products. She's got a very basic website up, but it needs some enhancements. Since the web dev that she had worked with previously has turned out to be a complete flake, we're in the process of copying it over to a new hosted infrastructure (I think it's almost completely copied at this point).
The existing site is http://www.kumfytailz.com.
Design-wise, the site is pretty poor by current standards, but Mom's industry is not very demanding in this respect (most of her sales will be to distributors and retailers via traditional channels, rather than web sales). We definitely want to redesign and update the site in the next 3-6 months, but it's not the immediate priority.
Right now we need to:
1. Add an "online press room" consisting of a few additional pages and a nav-bar link. I think this should be relatively easy.
2. Add a short (2-3 min) video to the site. I'll provide the video in some standard format, and we'll need you to embed the player, etc. Not really sure of the best way to do this, you'll use your discretion.
3. Implement and integrate a Quickbooks (online version) - compatible web store. I expect this will be the most significant effort. There's an existing web store which depends on PayPal to process credit card transactions, which is no longer an acceptable solution for us. Obviously this will require that we work closely with you to test, at first.
Ideally we're looking for someone who's interested in establishing an ongoing relationship, with some web designer as well as developer abilities (we'd love for you to be responsible for the future redesign as well as any minor ongoing changes/enhancements we may need down the road).
The catch? The business is really just getting started, bootstrapping itself, and has very little cash. So we'd like to do a sales-based deal with you, and offer you a commission on every retail unit of the product sold via the web.
If you are comfortable establishing and conducting Adwords campaigns (or similar), we have a modest marketing budget, and would love for you to drive the online component of it. This would be an opportunity for you to directly influence online sales (and thus your commission).
The other catch: We can't get you access to the server that the existing site is on. But the existing site has already been copied over to a new hosted server. You can work on it there, and at the right time we'll just cut DNS over to the new server.
To be candid, this is probably a fair amount of work in the next week or so for not a lot of cash up front, followed by a modest ramp up over the next several months to perhaps $500-$1000/mo (maybe more?) for not much work, on an ongoing basis. It's hard to predict, and of course there are no guarantees.
If the arrangement sounds workable to you, and you have the requisite skills/experience, contact us to learn more about the product and see whether it's something you can get behind.
Thanks!
Matt Romain
matt@kumfytailz.com