MAXBURST

Please describe the scope of their involvement in greater detail.

MAXBURST delivered an appealing site which explained what we did for our existing and potential clients. Their team has grown along with our company, during which time we've gone through several iterations of our website.

They've also provided search engine optimization and design services, as well as some good pointers on how to attract new business through the Internet.

How did you come to work with MAXBURST?

I knew about their company through past experiences. As with any company, we did our research, checked references, and started our relationship from there. MAXBURST met our needs for project scope, timeline, and cost.

Could you provide a sense of the size of this initiative in financial terms?

The initial website design cost was $20,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

Our relationship is ongoing.

Please describe the scope of their work.

They were very instrumental in coordinating and consulting us into how to make all of our systems work together. Integration is something that they were really good with, which was important to us. They’ve done a number of sites for us, and they’ve done extensive consulting and call conferencing pertaining to integration with some very high-end systems and high-end providers for very secure data. Security is key to us, and they were very good with it. They had an understanding.

What was your process for selecting MAXBURST with which to work?

We talked to around 30 different companies, about 50 percent of them in the Northeast, and 50 percent being nationwide. We did speak to four or five overseas, but didn’t seriously consider them because of the difficulties in communication and time zone problems. I did prefer someone in the Northeast. I think MAXBURST is a higher-end development company. They have a clear understanding not only of what is called for today, but they have a good concept of what the future will call for. I may go as far as calling them visionaries.

Most of the companies we interviewed just don’t get it, if you don’t write it out for them. These guys get the business logic, and to me that was very important in making that decision. They actually think through the development process, and they’re honest.

Can you provide a ballpark dollar figure for the size of the work that they’ve done for you?

We initially had a budget of $50,000, and we finished up at about $43,000.

Could you describe the scope of the project?

We're at the early stages, but they basically created and designed an entire website geared to our residential site. Regarding our contract and hospitality division, which concentrates on portfolios covering our services, and product lines, that site will fit the foundation for what we're going into with the next stages, revamping our residential site. 

They also created a small microsite for what we are calling our customary rug division, which is basically a subsection of our residential site right now. Right now, they're concentrating on revamping the look and appearances of our site and really for our contract division starting from scratch. They've completed a brand new website, which we're launching in September [of 2014].

How did you select MAXBURST as your solution partner?

It was a referral from a third-party vendor that we've used in the past for our Web development who no longer could provide us the service that's required. We wanted to stay with a boutique shop, but somebody that had more hands on experience and a slightly larger staff and certainly more experienced in multiple platforms of digital.

Could you provide a sense of the size of this initiative in monetary terms?

On our contract website that we're launching, that was a $40,000 investment. The microsite for our ARP [address resolution protocol] was a $10,000 investment. The residential site, which we're into early development right now, the proposal is approximately $140,000.

When was the project started?

For the contract, it was started a little bit more than a year ago. It was completed in March. Our U.K. office is putting another section into the site and we're waiting for them to complete it to launch.