Think Galapagos

Website Proposals

Introduction

Bringing our clients visions to life is what we’re all about.

Working across all creative sectors since
2008, Visions are passionate about delivering excellence through a ‘first time right’ approach, in order to help our clients reach their commercial potential.

Offering a range of creative services, our primary objective is to successfully align with our clients goals in order to create solutions that will exceed expectations and aid business growth.

The Team

Daniel Cordwell – MD

Having a degree in Graphic Design and over ten years experience in Marketing, I created Visions Design in 2010. Having a creative background but obsessed with anything digital. My philosophy is quite simple.

“Do something you Love, Work Hard and Love your Family”.

My greatest achievement to date has been the ownership of a £1 million marketing budget for a national client resulting in a hugely successful campaign.

As the MD and Founder of Visions Design,
I will head the project and remain a key point of contact throughout.

I will work with your internal teams and branding agency to develop the strategy, align our goals and ultimately ensure we deliver an outstanding project that raises your profile.

Julia Crossman – Head of Comms

Jules is an integral member of the team, bringing with her 9 years in the digital industry and exceptional skills in CX/UX, Account Management & Operations. Jules works closely on each project to ensure experience, communication and results are top notch.

Jade Hill – Account Manager

Jade will lead the project through initial briefing to final stages of completion. Experienced in both offline and online creative communications, Jade is a conscientious and meticulous account manager who will be on hand to support and guide the project, working closely with the design and development team to ensure the creative brief and client vision is met.

Alex Kitching – Project Manager

Alex works as the lead Project Manager. In the context of this project he will work alongside Jade to ensure that the project team are on target and in budget.

Michael Nowakowski – Head of Design

Michael is our lead designer and has high levels of creativity. Michael has been with us since the early days and is a key contributor to the success of the business.

Matt Hamer – Senior Web Developer

Matt is our senior developer and will be leading on this project. Dedicated and meticulous,
he is always looking into latest trends and bringing fresh ideas to his work.

Martyn Locker – Website Developer

Martyn is the newest member of our team. Dedicated to his craft, he is always on top of his game. Top notch code and pixel perfect build every time.

Eva Rey del Rio – Digital Marketing

Experienced in driving digital marketing projects, achieving goals set and meeting both client and business expectations, Eva is a key part of our team when it comes to overall management of SEO, PPC and social strategies.

Tash Jeary – Admin Assistant

Tash will handle all the paperwork and billing on the account ensuring there are no bottlenecks.

Your Project

Social Media Marketing

We suggest creating 2 paid adverts per month on Facebook and Instagram. These will consist of relevant content in regards to Think Galapagos and will look to increase the overall visibility considering consistent placing of content on relevant platforms.

These adverts will be highly targeted to specific audiences mentioned such as families, retirees and honeymooners etc.

We are able to use A/B split testing to challenge the results from certain campaigns and create what is classed as Lookalike audiences which essentially means that when a campaign is working with can scale this.

To begin with we will set-up an Instagram for Think Galapagos and create a following for this account from competitors and comparison accounts.

These will both be supported with branded visual aids which we will create and can also be used across other platforms, this will build reputation and create brand awareness.

Imagery and Videography to be worked upon by Think Galapagos for Visions to utilise.

Certain content will be supplied by Think Galapagos in terms of blogging unless specified otherwise and will be used by Visions for marketing purposes.

Site Structure & UX

High organic search engine rankings are often the result of logical, well-structured site architecture.

Organising your sites content into the most logical structure possible will drive a positive experience.

Usability

Logical information architecture that is user friendly. This will enhance user experience and increase conversions.

Rankings

An intelligent structure will pass link equity to the most important pages on your site and therefore assist rankings.

Conversions

A well-thought out structure should walk the user through the conversion process, from information pages through to purchase. Throughout the design and build of your site we keep in mind how both users and search engines interact with your site.

For users, it’s about getting the most relevant content in front of them, in as few clicks as possible. The same approach can also benefit search engines; by flattening your site architecture you can make gains in indexation (more pages in a search engines index) that can lead to more organic traffic.

What Does Poor Site Architecture Look Like?

To navigate to the bottom layer, search engines and users are expected to venture down a six-click path. This depth is not ideal. Search engines will expect pages this deep to be unimportant and will therefore be less visible in search results, even for “long-tail” keywords. Users on the other hand will likely drop out before they make it to the bottom.

Creating a Flatter Site Architecture

Pages buried very deeply in the architecture will not receive enough link equity (both internally and externally) to be visibly in search engine rankings. By “flattening” the site architecture, you can promote content up the architecture and therefore improve its rank. As illustrated in the above diagram, a “flatter” site architecture. This greatly reduces the number of clicks to the very deepest level and improves the indexation of the site.

Internal Linking

The higher the page is in your architecture, the stronger it will be. Linking from down in the architecture back up to pages higher in the hierarchy can help to prioritise the higher pages for more competitive terms. Breadcrumbs are a great way to link up the architecture, providing both more internal links and a way for search engine crawlers to navigate a website easily. Cross-linking from different categories is also a good way to promote stronger pages on your site. It can also help pass link equity across the site.

What does this mean for your site?

When designing and building your site, we keep in mind the best practices of site architecture from conception through to launch. Our platforms promote a “flat” site architecture. This, combined with the logical categorisation of your content means that your site has the most logical and usable structure possible. The impact this will have on your usability, search engine rankings and conversions will be significant.

Search function

Every page will offer a clear and obvious search function as well as free text searching to enable visitors to navigate effortlessly around the site. Results will be displayed by relevance and will offer close alternatives to accommodate mistypes.

Our Ideas

Looking at your web stats, the website was performing well via organic results, something we would highlight is when building the new website ensure the site architecture in particular blogs are considered in terms of ‘slugs’. From the above, you can see that via Social Media there is very little traffic meaning we can make a great difference here.

From the Goal Conversions set in your analytics, there are only 9 successful conversions since January and again these are either direct or organic searches.

Our Tools

The latest technology enables us to maximise our efficiency and keep you up to date with current progress.

It’s all about communication. These are just our initial ideas but the best ideas come when we work closely with our clients. Through working closely with you we ensure we are all on the same page & pulling in the same direction with a clear goal!

Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more.

Slack is an instant messaging platform bringing all our communication together, in a single place — helping everyone save time and collaborate together.

We use monday.com a project management system which helps us plan out a project while keeping our clients informed on progress. Once a site is launched we can use the same software to support the website, logging tickets and time spent. Our clients are given full access to monday.com, giving you the ability to monitor the workload.

At the design stage we use an online proofing system called InVision.

InVision allows us to prototype and share design ideas directly with our clients who can view and comment directly on the design. This saves us time and allows us to present ideas and receive feedback quickly and precisely, eliminating unnecessary delays.

HubSpot offers a full stack of software for marketing, sales, and customer service, with a completely free CRM at its core. They’re powerful alone — but even better when used together.

Your Data

Regular data backups lead to peace of mind.

There are two ways that you could look at backing up a solution, the first being the UKFast backup, and the second using CommVault.

UKFast Dedicated Backups

  • 1 full backup per week
  • Daily incremental backups of all files that have changed in that day
  • Growing 7 day retention, the full is overwritten each weekly cycle

CommVault

  • Application aware, allowing you to separate your file and DB backups
  • Custom backup frequency and retention times
  • Data is compressed and de-duplicated giving you much better space efficiency
  • Option to encrypt backups at rest

The website will be compatible and work perfectly and consistently in all modern web browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. All images throughout the site will be optimised and compressed to ensure the site has quick loading times and improves the user experience.

Process and Timescales

The timescale for a site of this nature can take anywhere in the region of 4 – 8 weeks, depending on the turnaround time regarding review and feedback. We can work to more specific timings within reason.

1. Kick off Meeting

A kick off meeting to get to grips with the project and ensure full understanding of all requirements will be scheduled. From here a creative brief will be developed internally and sent to the design team.

2.Website Content

We will require skeleton content at this point, if not all. It is ideal for us to have an idea of what content will be involved throughout, in order to give us a steer on the development of design.

3.Design

Initial creatives will be developed and will be sent through for review before a full wireframe design roll out is created and signed off.

4.Build

Once the design has been signed off we will begin the development of the site. Once complete we will review and test internally, before sending over for full review.

5.Go Live

When everyone is happy and the site has been signed off, we will then schedule to go live. We have a dedicated go live checklist to ensure all boxes are ticked and no links are left unclicked! Once live, we will be on hand for any support in the event of any technical problems.

 

 

Trust us

A dedicated Account Manager will be on hand to support and drive your project at all times. It is important to us that all our clients expectations are met with the delivery of each successful project, but don’t just take our word for it, take a look at our reviews!

“Visions have helped create all my branding, business cards, website and emails. Can’t fault the service I have received. I highly recommend!”

~ Crossfire Close Protection

 

“Really good service. Designed and built the website I was after, understanding my requirements. Would definitely recommend Visions Design.”

~ Individual Living

 

“From the first point of call to completion the team listened to my needs and wants and worked with me. The end result has surpassed my expectations.”

~ Precision Orthopaedics

 

“The Visions team stood out from the crowd for us with their professional approach and genuine interest in our business. After our initial meeting we were under no doubt it was Visions that we wanted to work with.”

~ Bathtime Bliss

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Costings

Each client will pay 50% in full before we schedule the work (unless stated differently elsewhere). Once the quote has been agreed and the invoice has been paid in full we will begin all work.

We will closely monitor all work and update you with any changes or issues. Once the agreed work has been completed we will notify you and allow for a single set of related amends (unless stated differently elsewhere).

Once the project is finished and signed off each client will be invoiced for the remaining 50%.

Please adhere to the invoice payment terms provided. Queries or disputes regarding the invoice must be made prior to the due date. Any disputes after the due date will be at the discretion of Visions Design Ltd.

Acceptance of this quotation confirms adherence to our terms and conditions.

Social Media Marketing

Initial Set-Up of Instagram – £200+VAT (one-off)

Facebook and Instagram paid advertising – £400.00+VAT per month excluding budget

Let's start
the conversation...

Thanks for reading our functionality breakdown. We hope we’ve answered any questions you may have had, however if there’s anything we’ve missed or something that’s not quite clear then please feel free to give us a call for more information.

Visions Design
9 Church Road
Lymm
WA13 0QG

01925 75 9669
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