A few of my posts have focused on the process clients go through in writing RFPs pr selecting a webdesign agency. Over at “The Ad Contrarian” there is a simplistic letter for selecting an Ad Agency. Here is a link to the full article. For discussion purposes I’ve copied the body of the letter here.
Dear [...]
With the holiday season upon us all E-Cubed has been busy with requests by clients to pull together their annual email Holiday Cards and campaigns. Many others will undoubtedly venture forth and do this on their own. With Outlook being the predominant email Grinch in the corporate world we thought we’d pass along some helpful [...]
Several times a week I take calls from different companies asking if E-Cubed, (www.e-cubed.com), can take over a company’s website design and maintenance as well as oversee other online initiatives such as SEO, SEM and social marketing programs.
E-Cubed is in fairly high demand with project lead times of 4 – 8 weeks but we do [...]
I created my first website in April of 1993; a week after Mosaic was launched and the WWW as we know it was born. I’ve reviewed to over 1,500 Requests for Proposals since that time and I can probably count on one hand how many of those clearly and accurately described the project scope or [...]
While some Web, CMS and Design projects simply drop into the collective E-Cubed (www.e-cubed.com) lap a larger percentage come via RFP or ‘Request for Proposal’. I typically refer to these as ‘Requests for Pandemonium’ since many if not most are written by well meaning yet usually unqualified individuals.
Vendors (many unqualified as well) must then guess [...]
December 23, 2008
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