Single Point Sites offers an effective range of services to better serve our clients. Our expertise extends beyond website development into general computing related needs. Your personal account manager is your interface to these services.

Website Management
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Internet Marketing
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Website Design & Development
We offer full-service website design and development services. Your personal account manager will partner with your team to clearly understand your goals and co-develop a strategic plan to achieve those goals. Then, our team of computer scientists, graphic designers, internet marketers will work behind the scenes to create a professional, effective, custom solution.

Because our websites are built from the ground up, we have complete flexibility to design exactly what you need. We are never hand-cuffed by website templates or content management systems.

It's our philosophy to keep the underlying website code as simple as possible. Simplicity is the key to building robust solutions that are universally compatible and require low overhead for maintenance. We verify compatibility of all of our websites on all the most popular internet browsers.

After the development is complete, we don't stop there. Our total management solution ensures that your website will be hosted on our servers and available online. We will also setup your new email addresses and optimize your site for search engine optimization (SEO).

The best part is that your personal account manager will continue to be available for all your future needs.

Website Redesign
A good percentage of our clients come to us for a website redesign. In an attempt to save money, they chose to work with a freelance designer who didn't quite deliver the professional website that he promised. Not only that, but when it came to making updates, he was nowhere to be found.

Our single point of contact business model combines the best of two worlds: a personal account manager devoted to your operation with the backing of a credible, established, professional organization. In fact, some of our clients have been with us since 2002.

Without hesitation, we can take your existing page and redesign it with a professional look and modern features. Because much of the content is readily available on your old website, the turn around time is quicker, and the development does not require much effort on your part.

With your new site, your account manager will be ready to keep your website up to date.

Server Hosting
As part of our total solution, we provide fully managed website server hosting. This means that after we design your website, we are also responsible for making it available online.

Your personal account manager will take care of this behind the scenes, so that you can focus on your business. In fact, our clients will never need to worry about which hosting package to choose, how much bandwidth they need, or what their FTP password is. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, even better for you.

We provide a 99.9% uptime guarantee and backup all of your data daily. Our fault Tolerant RAID-10 disk arrays keep your website and email functional, even if the hard drive fails. On top of that, our multi-redundant backup solution is physically located over 1000 miles away to prevent data loss in case of a catastrophic event. Here are some other nice facts about our server:

  • Gigabit uplink with a guaranteed 20mbit connection
  • Fully redundant network with no single point of failure
  • Multiple layers of network security
  • Multiple bandwidth providers (AboveNet, ATT, Comcast, Global Crossing, Level(3), NTT)
  • State of the art Data Center with backup power generators and HVAC units
Domain Registration & Renewal
Every website requires a registered domain name, such as www.example.com. Every domain name that is registered must be unique, and unregistered. For new websites, your account manager will help you to choose an effective domain name.

As part of our total management solution, Single Point Sites will register, manage, and renew your domain for the lifetime of your website. Our clients need not become well versed in the technical aspects of domain management. We'll handle that.

Visitor Statistics
All of our websites include a free traffic monitoring system used to store and report website visitor statistics. Your account manager will provide you an updated comprehensive report upon request. The report includes, but is not limited to:
  • Number of visits, and number of unique visitors
  • Visit duration and latest visits
  • Usage by Months, Days of week and Hours of the day
  • Domains/countries of visitor's hosts
  • Most viewed, entry and exit pages
  • Most commonly requested File types
  • Search engines, Keywords and Phrases used to find your site
  • Number of times your site is added to Bookmarks / Favorites
Photography
Professional websites require professional photography. We offer our photographic expertise to visit you on-site to take pictures of people, places, or things that will complement your website. Our team of graphic artists can then digitally enhance those photographs as needed.

In addition, Websites with an online store (eCommerce) will benefit from our product photogaphy services. Simply ship us one of each of your products and we'll photograph it with a clean white background, or apply a digital background as needed to optimize the shopping experience. This can be continually as new products are added to your store.

Content Maintenance (long-term)
A good website requires pertinent, up-to-date content. Content maintenance is easy with Single Point Sites.

Unlike other website development companies, we believe that future support is just as important as the initial development. With our single point of contact business model, your personal account manager is available at any time to make updates or changes to your website.

Because your account manager knows you and your business personally, they understand the best way to address your needs. It's common for our customers to send us new content, such as a news article, flyer, or event information, and let us figure out how best to integrate it into their website. Your account manager is an extension of your office staff.

Custom Email Accounts
We provide unlimited custom email accounts for every website domain that we manage. Your account manager will help you to setup and use your accounts.

A custom email address is important to building a professional business image. For example, susan@valleywine.com is much better than sue_71@comcast.net. We can outfit your entire team with custom accounts. Furthermore, we can create generic email accounts such as info@valleywine.com that can be automatically forwarded to another account.

Email may be accessed using your favorite email program such as Outlook, Mac Mail, or Blackberry. A webmail portal is also available to allow access from any computer with an internet connection. This feature is especially useful while traveling.

For business teams or individuals who travel often, we offer a premium service called Google Apps. This service puts all of your email, calendar, contacts, and documents in 'the cloud', meaning that you can access them from any device with an internet connection. Your account manager will assess your situation and recommend the best solution.

Regardless of which solution you choose, every email account is equipped with spam protection.

Email archiving is available upon request.

Mobile Access
It's important to retreive your email wherever you are. All of our email accounts can be setup to function with the most popular mobile phones (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc.). Your account manager will assist you to do this.

As premimum service, we also offer mobile access to your calendar, contacts, and documents using a solution called Google Apps. This service is especially useful for our clients who work in teams or spend a considerable amount of time traveling. With this service, all of your information is synchronized so that your mobile phone and office computer always have the same information.

Your account manager will assess your situation and recommend that best solution to meet your needs. We will setup and manage everything, and be here to support you when you have questions.

Spam Filtering & Virus Protection
All of our email accounts are equipped with a free spam filter. We can work with you to adjust the level of protection so that we eliminate as much spam as possible, without also eliminating emails are not spam. We offer a choice to automatically delete spam messages before they arrive at your inbox, or to flag suspected spam emails so that they can be filtered by your email program, such as Outlook or Mac Mail, and placed in a special "spam" folder.

For the best level of spam and virus protection, we recommend and offer premium service called Google Apps. This service updates its spam detection algorithms continually, and scans email attachments with the latest virus detection software available. The amount of spam you'll receive is almost zero, and you can be ensured that your operation is safe from email-borne viruses. If you choose the Google Apps solution, you will also get calendar sharing and document sharing.

Your account manager will assess your situation and recommend that best solution to meet your needs.

Calendar Sharing with Google Calendar
Every business team needs a way to coordinate their daily acitivities. Google Calendar allows others in your organization to see when you're available to schedule meetings or phone calls.

We offer this premium service as part of a system called Google Apps. It makes it easy to schedule appointments with others due to the ability to view multiple people's calendar and choose a time that works for everyone. Each user is in control of their own privacy settings and can choose to let others view their calendar and all details, only show their availability (no details), or show nothing at all; your choice.

You can also provide others with acccess to modify your calendar. For example, the boss can give the administrative assistant the ability to create new events or edit existing events. Once a new appointment has been created, it automatically sends out invitations via email and manages RSVP's so you know who has accepted and who has declined the meeting.

Since this is a web-hosted solution, you can access it from anywhere you have an internet connection, and it's simple to integrate with your mobile phone. Your account manager will setup and manage everything, and be here to support you when you have questions.

This Google Apps solution also equips your team with document sharing to improve inter-office collaboration.

Document Sharing with Google Docs
Every business team needs a way to share documents. Passing documents around via email, or by setting up an expensive network, is the old fashioned way. Document sharing by Google Docs is an effective and affordable way to share and collaborate with your team.

We offer this premium service as part of a system called Google Apps. Safe and secure, you can access your files anywhere you go. If you need to access a document while you are meeting with a customer, you can log in to Google Docs from any computer, or even your mobile phone. The documents are backed up online, so again, feel confident that your data is secure.

Your files are safe from prying eyes. Google Docs lets you set the privacy settings for your documents. Do you want to share your files with a few others, with everyone, with no one? Whichever it is, you have the choice.

Your account manager will setup and manage everything, and be here to support you when you have questions.

This Google Apps solution also equips your team with calendar sharing to improve inter-office collaboration.

Email Archiving & e-Discovery
Some businesses or individuals have trouble locating valuable old emails and attachments. As a premium service, we can configure your email account(s) so that every incoming message is stored in a secure place for your future reference; up to 10 years.

This service provides you access to an online account capable of searching through all your company's old emails at any time. This means that you'll always find what you need when it matters most. This service offers:

  • Allows administrators to search a centralized email archive
  • Set email retention periods for up to 10 years to comply with corporate policies
  • Implement litigation holds to preserve email messages
  • Identify and export email messages for further analysis & review

Your account manager will work with you to setup the service and show you how to use it, and we'll always be here to help in the future.

Search Engine Optimization
We believe strongly that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) should be designed into a new website at the beginning, and not as a "package" after the development has been done. For this reason, all of our pages are designed with SEO in mind.

Your personal account manager will work with you to identify the key words and types of users that you want to attract to your site. These words will then be properly integrated into your site to boost your site's relevancy rating. We will also help you generate a 'meta description' that will appear below your site's link on Google. It is important that this description also captures the key words that are relevant to your site's content.

Furthermore we will implement a proper 'site map' and submit your new website to the most popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing, etc. This will help to expedite the categorization process and further improve your search ranking.

Long term, your account manager will monitor your rankings in Google and suggest improvements to your site. At any time, a comprehensive visitor statistics report can be provided to see trends in website traffic over time.

Email Marketing
For many businesses, it is desirable to send out email correspondence to a large group of people in the form of a newsletter. This newsletter should be designed to exhibit a brand image that is consistent with your website and sales collateral. There should also be a method for people to sign-up, and unregister themselves automatically. Lastly, these massive quantities of emails should be sent out without violating various internet usage policies.

We can do it all. First, your personal account manager will work with you to integrate a mailing list management tool into your website that will allow people sign-up, or gather an existing list from you directly. Then, you provide us with your content and we'll generate a professional email that is consistent with your brand image. Upon your approval, we will deliver the message to as many people as you want.

It's important to note that it violates internet usage policies to send out over ~200 emails from your personal email account all at once. Your internet provider will consider it spam, and likely shut off your service. (Not good.) That's why we use special tools to send messages directly from the email server and throttle the mass mailing during non-peak internet hours.

Pay Per Click Advertising
One of the most popular advertising methods is called "Pay Per Click" (PPC). These ads are most familiar as the premium links shown on the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search pages. When a user clicks on your link (and goes to your website), you pay for it.

This type of advertisement is effective to get useful traffic on your website. Your ads are strategically placed depending on the key words and phrases that are specified. The cost will vary depending on the competition in your market. Your total cost is determined by spending limits that you set.

Your personal account manager will work with you to generate a marketing plan and subsequently facilitate the advertisements. We will provide statistical reports upon request.

Social Media Integration
Social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter have become strong marketing tools that can't be ignored. Whether you personally use them or not, many people do, and it can beneficial to your bottom line to tap into this resource.

Our team of internet marketing professionals strive to understand these developing trends and consider which make sense for your marketing strategy. Your account manager will then work with you take advantage of these trends and facilitate the strategy.

For example, we can setup your Facebook and Twitter pages for you and show you how to login and make new posts. Or, we can do more by making posts on your behalf. It all depends on how much time, effort, and resources you wish to invest.

eCommerce Setup & Integration
Many small businesses will benefit from selling their products online. We can facilitate your online store by integrating a shopping cart or Paypal checkout on your website.

Your personal account manager will work with you to choose the best implementation method depending on your expected shipping volume and inventory size. Smaller stores will benefit from a simple Paypal checkout system because of low maintenance and low start-up costs. For larger stores, we recommend a feature-rich, fully-integrated shopping cart system with inventory and customer management tools. Shipping charges can be automatically calculated for UPS or FedEx shipments.

All of our shopping and checkout methods follow strict security guidelines so that your customers' credit card information is safe. We will acquire verified security certificates and configure 256-bit encryption for you.

Furthermore, we are happy to photograph and load all of your products into your online store. All you have to do is ship the goods and collect money.

Blogs
Blogs are a chronological set of information postings. For our customers, these are useful for posting up-to-the-minute news or information directly to the website.

The blog will be integrated with your existing website. Typically, we will add this feature on a "Blog" or "News" page, but automatically post the most recent entries on the home page of the website. We give you a special login code to add, edit or remove information at any time.

If you like the idea of a blog, but prefer not to have to login to anything, you can simply send your account manager the information you'd like added to your blog, and we'll take care of it for you.

User Forums (Bulletin Board)
User forums can be integrated as part of your website to help promote a community atmosphere and drive traffic to your website. They allow visitors to login and create topics or reply to other user's topics in a public format.

After the initial setup, your account manager will work with you to create the topic categories and start some discussions. This is important to get people to regularly use your forum.

Moreover, every forum should have a moderator. This person is responsible for maintaining order and promoting healthy discussions. Depending on how much you'd like to get involved, you can moderate the forum yourself, or we can do it for you.

Custom Tools & Applications
Your account manager works with a talented group of computer scientists that are capable to customize your website applications. Whatver you're looking to accomplish, let us know and we'll find a solution. Sometimes we can find something off the shelf, other times we'll need to modify or create something new.
Custom Artwork
Your account manager works with a talented group of graphic designers. All of our websites are custom designed to portray your company's brand and style. If your business does not already have a strong brand and style, we can help you develop one based on your market objectives and business strategy.

Our graphic abilities don't stop there. We also create Flash-based animations or artwork to supplement your marketing campaign over the long haul. We can create a custom advertisement to be used in print, or design that you need for a t-shirt. Whatever you need, let your account manager know. The best part is that we're already familiar with your business, so we approach our designs with a marketing perspective.

More specifically, we offer comprehensive logo design, business card design, and other print material design.

View our website portfolio for a sample of our work.

Logo Design
As part of our total solution, we offer complete logo design services.

Your personal account manager will work with you to hash out some general guidelines, then work with our talented team of graphic designers to generate some examples. Choose your favorite, then have it fully integrated into the design of your website. Our single point of contact business model ensures that you'll keep working with the same person who already understands your needs, and how you like to work.

We will store your logo on our secure servers, and are ready to send it to anyone you want, in any popular image format, at any time. Just let your account manager know what you need, and where it needs to go.

If you need business cards, save yourself the hassle and let us design them for you.

Business Card Design
As part of our total solution, we offer business card design services.

We design your business card with your website and marketing strategy in mind. Simple ask your account manager, and we'll generate some for your review. Choose your favorite and we'll create a digital file for each person on your team. Then, you can choose to print them at your favorite store, or we can order them online for you and have them shipped to your door.

We will store your business card design on our secure servers, and are ready to print or send it to anyone you want, in any popular image format, at any time. Just let your account manager know what you need, and where it needs to go.

If you need a flyer or brochure design, save yourself the hassle and let us design it for you.

Flyer & Brochure Design
As part of our total solution, we offer flyer and brochure services.

Your account manager will work with you to develop the content for the flyer or brochure, and then our team of graphic artists will make it look professional. If we've already designed your logo and website, creating the style is easy for us and will save you time.

Once you've approved the design, we'll create a digital file that you can use to print yourself, or we can have it printed online and shipped to your door for your convenience.

We will store your flyer or brochure design on our secure servers, and are ready to print or send it to anyone you want, in any popular image format, at any time. Just let your account manager know what you need, and where it needs to go.

If you need a document to look professional and match your company brand, we can help you with that too. We offer document improvement and creation services.

Document Improvement & Creation
A sloppy document or PowerPoint presentation will send an unprofessional message to your customers. We can save you the time and technical frustration by creating customer-ready documents using programs such as MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, or Illustrator (to name a few).

Our team has many years of experience using the most popular software tools to generate professional, effective, and aesthetically pleasing documents. Here are some examples tasks that we've done for our clients:

  • Clean-up graphics and animation in your customer presentations
  • Create a PowerPoint template with your company's logo
  • Convert documents to PDF format
  • Create charts and graphs in Excel
  • Format documents with section headers and dynamic table of contents
  • Add headers, footers, and dynamic page numbers
  • Edit images to remove background colors, and/or improve quality
  • Resize images to reduce the file size
  • Convert image formats to something useful
  • Integrate video and sound into a PowerPoint presentation
  • Convert old overheads to PowerPoint presentations
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At Single Point Sites, we never say "that's not my job".

With our technical expertise and business/marketing experience, your account manager will do their best to find solutions to your problems. Let us know what you need, and we'll do our best to help.

 
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