Name of your website?Reptile Advertising & Design - Graphic Design and Marketing for New Businesses
Your name?
Faisal Tahseen
Your Location (city, etc)
Toronto
What inspired you to launch your own website?
To provide new flourishing businesses with a limited budget to have a channel to advertise. We wanted to help new businesses create an image for themselves. Our aim is to indicate that advertising and great graphic design is not limited to those companies with a six figure advertising/marketing budget.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
Our first website was launched in April of 2006. It was full of petinent information that a business order may need to know for launching a campaign.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
Using key elements of search engine optimization.
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Reptile Advertising & Design's site is targetted to new businesses that require advertising and design services at a great price. We offer graphic design, logo development, corporate identification, page layout and design, printing services, photography, copywriting, web design, search engine optimization. Whatever a new business requires in order to become established, we're here to help. We have helped businesses with existing campaigns to push it that much further.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
Our prices and services are second to none. You are given a dedicated account manager to deal with and no one else. No having to leave a message with someone for someone else. From the get go, you have one point of contact to avoid miscommunication. Furthermore, we're here when you need us. 24 hours a day! No other agency offers such great service.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Our goal is the be the advertising agency of choice for new businesses in all of Ontario
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
Our success is relative to happy our clients are. If our clients are not happy, then we are not happy. We work until we get it right.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Most agencies have a flashy website. But what does that prove? That they spent large amounts of money to develop a great site? Our site is clean and informative and is easy to naviagte. We would not change a thing. Unless it is uploaded new clients work, which we love to do.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Of course. Our dedication is to our clients and the great service that we provide to them.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Not enough time in the day!!
What has been your biggest challenge?
Outlining to propective clients what is required in order to successfully launch a great campaign. Many of our clients are foreign to the idea of graphic design, advertising and marketing. We try to customize a strategy that they can understand and be happy with.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Links Links Links!
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It allows us to communicate with our customers on their terms. It also allows our customers or prospected customers to view our work and use our site as a reference tool. We are able to refer them to our site for information or ideas instead of having hard copies of content with us.
How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?
Our site has officially been up for almost two years and it will be up for as long as our doors are open!
What is your website address?
Reptile Advertising & Design - Graphic Design and Marketing for New Businesses
