Cookie Cutter Robbery

Why your Content Management System is a Rip-off  

You’re an accountant. Why are you attempting to manage the development and expansion of a very complex content management system. Your degree is in Law why are you wasting valuable time generating graphics and attempting to develop your firms’ website. First and foremost your website is a spoke in the wheel of your marketing and sales campaign. Secondly, educating yourself on the functionality of a website and IT strategies is in order.   Finally, the ignorance perpetuated by organizations selling Content Management Systems, which are built on open source platforms, and sold for thousands ought to be criminal.

Hiring an IT consultant is essential to your web development strategy and IT strategy. We are privy to technologies that maximize cost, time, and productivity.

What does that mean? 

It means your organization won’t be duped into a contract with a company that selling open source platforms for an exorbitant base price and monthly service fees.  It means your valuable time as the accountant won’t be spent trying to navigate a convoluted cookie cutter content management system that you will probably never understand. It means as the principle partner in your legal organization you will never have to download white papers, and videos that “’train” you making your website effective and relevant all while making antiquated search engine optimization techniques appear as rocket science. It means so much in dollars, time invested and cost. It means if your IT strategy is broken its going to cost your organization to fix it. The cost will depend on how thick the wool is over your eyes, or how much you have invested with an ineffective, inefficient platform.

Yeah I know you been in business 50 years.

Well guess what? It’s the information age. Your competition uses Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube in unison with website development and various IT strategies to engage, retain, and increase their customer base. Get your head out of the ground. If you don’t it will cost you sooner rather than later.  

Find the right team. Develop your IT strategy

Consider a Custom Content Management System built specifically for your business. In the end the cost will be worth it. These big box organizations develop bad systems to fuel customer support departments in their organizations. They get small business tied into five figure contracts that can last for years with little or no return on investment. Staying in a bad contract is never conducive to good business practices.

Gene “Websologist “ Williams has 12 years experience in information technology  as the director of Websology Consulting LLC. His areas of expertise include Management Information Systems, Electronic Business Technology, Entrepreneurship, Web Development, and Project Management.