Welcome to 2009!

What an eventful past few months we have had. As we all know, the economy has been a rollercoaster, the country has a new president, and we all have a brand new year which hopefully will bring a lot of changes for the positive.

Here at Workhorse Creative, we have had our own hurdles to cross the past few months as we navigated migrating all web clients to a brand new hosting server. The economic downturn of 2008 meant that our "old" hosting company was bought out, and sadly the new company did not measure up to our standards. But out of negative situations the opportunity for growth can be plucked! So we spent a month researching our options and decided on a brand new, cutting edge technology called "Cloud" hosting.

So far, we have moved 95% of clients over and everyone seems thrilled. The server is lightning fast with increased security. And problems that clients were experiencing at the end of 2008, such as slow email times, have been eliminated.

In addition to the new server, we have made some significant upgrades in services, and have several great ideas on the horizon to implement this year. We think that 2009 will bring some great turnarounds for the economy, some technological growth for us, and in turn, some great improvements for you!

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We're not just websites!
Did you know that we are extremely effective in print design as well as websites? Keep us in mind for your print work this year. We have plenty of samples of our work online, and can offer highly effective marketing through direct mail postcard campaigns and brochures, and in these tough economic times, can offer highly effective print design for advertisements and more at a lower price than the larger agencies.

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Are your marketing dollars WISE dollars? TRACK THEM...
Is that email blast, website, banner ad, or even print ad actually working for you? Don't trust the sales person - find out for yourself! We can tag your web banner ads with a piece of code that plugs right into google analytics, allowing you to see exactly how many people are coming to you through any ad. And we recommend tagging print ads too. Interested in learning more? Just ask us how! We have had clients save thousands by eliminating wasteful ads such as yellow page ads, and gain new business exclusively through the web.

Plus, you may view 2 types of web reports via our new server - both server traffic reports and google analytics. If you have questions about either, need your client info sheet to log in, or want to know if your site has been added to google analytics yet, please email us here.

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Refer a friend, earn free hosting!
Refer a business associate to Workhorse Creative for a new or re-designed website and when they sign up for their site, you receive 3 months of free hosting. Paid for your year of hosting already? We'll either give you a credit for the amount in web work, or give you your three months in the next billing cycle. You get 3 months free for every business that you refer that signs up. Refer enough and get free web hosting indefinitely!

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Site Facelifts & Upgrades - 30% off during Jan., Feb., & March.
Existing clients receive site redesigns or upgrades (upgrades include the new content management systems, property or image databases, e-commerce, photo galleries and blogs) for 30% off - that's just $52 per hour rather than our normal $75 per hour rate.

If you are currently paying us per hour for site maintenance, and you feel you could benefit from a content management system - now is the time to upgrade, it will save you bundles this year!

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Thank you, and we look forward to continuing to work with you this year.

Sincerely,
Caroline Harrington, Workhorse Creative
caroline@workhorsecreative.net
864-238-2857

Who Owns Your Info?

CLIENT INFO SHEETS

We are now supplying all clients with a "Client Info Sheet". This will contain your domain name ownership and login info, hosting info, control panel login, and additional usernames, passwords, etc.... anything related to your work with Workhorse Creative and your website. If you have not received yours yet, please let us know and we will get it to you.

Many of our clients initially come to us displeased with another agency who has ownership control over their domain name and/or hosting, many times leaving you - the client - with no resources to handle those things.

This is the purpose of your Client Info Sheet, it puts YOU back in control of your domain name, hosting, and all info related to your site.

Remember, when you purchase a domain name you should always make sure it is purchased in your name, not the name of your design agency. Should you ever need to switch agencies, not owning this info can prove to be a big problem for you.


If you don't have your Client Info Sheet yet, call us at 864.238.2857 or email us at info@workhorsecreative.net and we will supply it for you.

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