Salt Technologies

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the VP of Marketing at DelphianLogic Technologies. We develop corporate learning solutions, such as custom content and technology.

What challenge were you trying to address with Salt Technologies?

In 2022, our company went through a rebranding process. We needed a company that could redevelop and redesign our website to reflect our new brand.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Our website has been live for around ten years, and we wanted the new look to reflect our rebranding. We hired Salt Technologies to analyze our existing content, create new ones, and develop a new WordPress site. They were tasked with designing the site’s UI/UX, which involved creating wireframes, and developing its information architecture. The project is divided into three phases, and Salt Technologies is working with us to roll out each phase in a successive mode.

The site has primary pages for customers to look at, as well as secondary pages, which include blogs, case studies, and downloadables. It's built to also integrate with different third-party tools such as marketing tools, tracking software, and analytics software. We’re also planning on creating microsites in phase three for some of our products and services. So far, Salt Technologies has completed phases one and two and are now working on our microsites. They’re also working on an outsend template, which will allow our team to take over and scale the site up as needed without needing any third-party support.

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with eight people from Salt Technologies.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $26,000 on this project.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in July 2022, and the engagement is ongoing.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Salt Technologies has been consistent in following our brand guidelines, and they’ve delivered high-quality work that perfectly reflects our new branding. Simplicity was one of the key things we wanted the website to reflect, and they’ve successfully delivered that. In terms of the site’s functionality, they’ve built the site to scale up as needed, which we’re pleased with.

How did Salt Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

Salt Technologies has performed well in terms of project management. They’ve been very collaborative with us and haven't missed a deadline yet. We have a dedicated project manager,  a Google Chat group for real-time communication, and weekly meetings for status updates. We follow the Waterfall model for this project.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We’re impressed with Salt Technologies’ ability to understand and prioritize user experience. We also appreciate how they provide alternative suggestions instead of just doing what we ask of them.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They’re growing fast, so it would be nice if they had more stringent processes in place so they are less dependent on individuals and anyone can take up any responsibility.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Be collaborative and discuss your objectives with them so they can uncover more needs than you think you probably have.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the Founder of Women's Web, a digital platform that empowers women through content, resources and opportunities.

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies, and what were your goals?

Our website is built on custom Wordpress and over the years had added a lot of code and features that were of varying degrees of use to our audience. Our company has hired Salt Technologies on an ongoing basis to conduct various activities that help us serve our users better such as - improve website speed, eliminate redundancies, improve the UX, collect user data and build new offerings for our visitors that will also help us better monetize their presence on our platform.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

I asked fellow entrepreneurs as well as industry tech experts for referrals and interviewed 4 teams as part of the process. What made us decide in favour of Salt was that they demonstrated the ability to think of technology in the context of business problems and not as a standalone.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The scope of work is ongoing; hence the process used is a Sprint method where the key issues & steps for each fortnight are detailed and Jira used to communicate and track the progress. Technologies used are Wordpress, PHP and some degree of Linux server management.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Founder, Project Manager, Senior Developer

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Overall outcomes have been in terms of improvements in website speed and performance as well as shorter time to fix various bugs that have entered the system over the years.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Fairly positive in terms of timeliness; the founder is extremely responsive and able to address business-facing concerns. Jira & Hangouts chat are used for communication

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Ability to address user issues.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Perhaps some additional clarity at the problem identification stage will help further cut down time.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We’re a technology consulting and services company, and I manage our marketing team.

What challenge were you trying to address with Salt Technologies?

We hired them to help us redesign our website. Our goal was to enhance our brand awareness and generate more leads.

What was the scope of their involvement?

After defining the scope and direction of our project, their team presented us with some compelling concepts for the design of our existing website. They then put together a project plan, covering the front and backend changes that needed to be implemented. We worked together on the whole layout and design of our site, as well as re-working the content.

We’ve already relaunched the new website in May 2020, and they are currently providing maintenance efforts and continue to make enhancements or any additional changes as needed.

What is the team composition?

We work directly with the CEO & founder of their company, including a project manager. We also work with different developers and designers throughout the project.

How did you come to work with Salt Technologies?

We did an extensive online search, and they were the vendor that matched a lot of our criteria as a partner for this project.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working on this project in February 2020, and our engagement is still ongoing.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

After relaunching our new website, we’ve noticed an improvement in our rankings for several related keywords — in fact, some have made it into the top five. We’ve also managed to maintain a top ranking for our already existing keywords.

How did Salt Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

They’ve been a very good partner in this regard. We communicate directly with their project manager regularly and hold weekly meetings via Microsoft Teams. We also interact through email.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We’re most impressed with their ability to produce work that aligns with our vision. They also come up with different ideas to improve what we’re currently doing, which has stood out to us as well.

Are there any areas they could improve on?

We’ve started working with them in other areas, such as graphic design, but the process has been a little bumpy. That being said, they should ramp up their team to ensure a smoother process.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Make sure to set your objectives and tasks clearly and be open to their recommendations.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder of the company called Bagsease. We are a paper bag manufacturing company located in Maharashtra, India. We have a full fledged manufacturing setup where we produce custom paper bags as per our customer’s requirements.

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies?

Since we were startup back in 2014, we wanted a robust web presence with solid understanding of organic growth and marketing along with website development and its maintenance.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

The requirements were quite clear at our end and during our evaluation process, Salt stood up for following areas

1. Their lightning response time
2. Attention to detail for all the questions
3. Their critical thinking and depth in the understanding

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

Initially we started off with a website project of around 25 pages which had products we sell along with case studies and company pages. They followed standard development process of:

• Analysing
• Designing
• Developing
• Testing the pages
• followed by deployment

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

In total, there were 4-5 team members involved which include:

• Strategist
• Designer
• Developers
• Tester
• Project Manager

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The final website was pretty satisfactory to us. I can safely say that, our website was best in the industry we work in. No one else had such kind of grand presence then and even now.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The overall coordination was quite cohesive. Both the teams gell very quickly with each other. We used to visit the office as and when they needed and solved all the gaps in those meetings so as to avoid any misunderstanding and delay.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their in-depth knowledge of how the business sites are created and ability to optimize our site's ranking is amazing.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I believe, the process is something they can improve further to make everything documented and accessed via central login.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a general manager and defacto CEO of a sports management firm based out of Bangalore, India

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies?

Our bootstrapped website needed a total rehaul and needed to be able to capture leads more effectively. As an important part of the funnel, we worked with salt on the strategy to achieve quantifiable objectives

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Previous work. Salt has worked with a very close friend's startup and so i could use their good word

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

We went thri their past work and found the closest relative website that we liked. meeting were held to strategize on the pages and the layouts. Looking at some of the best examples in the market and customizing the same for our market with innovative elements were decided a roadmap was laid with checkpoints and brainstorming sessions to achieve the final product

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2. Web designer and the CEO

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

our website is has risen in organic rank and also has the capability to host information that is critical to badminton players

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

the project manager was easy to work with. They always kept time and also were nible enough to work around our schedules. As none in my team is dedicated only with this task, it was complicated yet executed with ease

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their grip on what the market trends are and design. Love the way our website looks and work. Everything feels like it is right where it needs to be

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

They do quality work but are on the higher side when it comes to pricing

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the head of demand generation for a software development company.

What challenge were you trying to address with Salt Technologies?

We needed someone to provide us with web development services.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Salt Technologies is helping us build and optimize a new website based on WordPress from the ground up. Our current website is quite broken, and Salt has been doing a lot of work to get it stable and functional, including implementing a cleaner architecture and integrating new features.

Right now, they’re guiding us through the wireframe and creative process, and the end result for the product would be to help build awareness and improve our efforts in demand generation.

Another big thing for us is a more streamlined HubSpot build, so we don’t want a lot of widgets and aftermarket add-ons — we’d rather keep it seamless to speed up our process.

What is the team composition?

We work with the CEO, project manager, a couple of developers, and a graphic designer.

How did you come to work with Salt Technologies?

I reviewed vendors that I’ve worked with in the past and decided to go with Salt Technologies for this project, because of their intimate knowledge of our company.

We also chose them because of their quick project turnaround and attentiveness to our needs.

What is the status of this engagement?

Our ongoing partnership started in January 2022.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Working with them has been great as they’ve been on point with our timelines, as well as turnaround times. Our wireframes should be done by the middle of this month, but they’re generally ahead on all of their deliverables.

How did Salt Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

So far, they’re consistently staying on budget and schedule, so they perform well from a project management standpoint.

I believe they use JIRA to manage the entire process, and we typically communicate through Google Meet and email.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We’re impressed with their attention to detail and overall willingness to work with us, as we’re quite a crazy company with a lot of bizarre requests and needs.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I think it would be better for our partnership to establish a project management tool in place, so everyone can have visibility of the process. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I advise you to be open with your expectations and what you’re looking to achieve because they will always find a way to make it happen.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as a Digital Media officer, responsible for Digital campaign and online presence of the organisation.

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies, and what were your goals?

We have hired Salt technologies for website maintenance and performance enhancement.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Selection process had different criteria to select the vendor like - services offered by the vendor, presentation made by vendor, interaction and communication by the POC and cost. Analysing all the above factors Salt was considered as the Website maintenance agency.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

WordPress Updates/Backups SEO Readiness Technical Website Maintenance Security Reports

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

One project manager, one website maintenance executive, a graphic designer and a front-end developer.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Salt is helping us in enhancing the performance of our website and also making sure all the updates are bugs are fixed on time ensuring smooth functioning of the website.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We have regular calls with project manager, where we get the updates of the ongoing tasks and also upcoming tasks will be discussed and multiple meeting will be set up to coordinate with different teams to finish the task assigned.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Salt Technologies is easily approachable; They break down the complex technicalities to make a layman understand the necessities of the task and provide report timely which helps any team to understand the nature of work better.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Nothing I feel could be made better. So far we have a very good interaction that is happening. And Salt technologies is highly recommended.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a social enterprise enabling creators across the globe.

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies, and what were your goals?

Revamping our business website.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We connected via LinkedIn and vetted other similar projects they have delivered.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Revamping our corporate site. UX/UI review Speed and Optimization

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

About 4 from the Vendor team.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The delivered an aesthetically pleasing website.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

They provided daily updates and they delivered within estimated timeline

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their technical expertise was impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Not at this time.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Eilisys formerly known as Ascent, has been doing a successful run in delivering flexible & quick HR software solutions. We assure you of constant value addition and innovation to help HR teams work smarter. From development to delivery of each of our products, we prioritise serving your business needs to the best. The best thing about Eilisys HR software is that one size fits all. The software is created in such a way that, it easily adapts to all needs of your organisation. Moreover, it also has a robust security system that helps keep all the information safe. I am working as Business Development Head.

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies, and what were your goals?

Our website crashed and the design was old. Hence, we wanted to hire a professional company to develop website with new technology.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Salt Technologies were referred by our SEO Partner. Presentation done by Salt Technologies, their knowledge and way of convincing was excellent.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The scope of website development includes the planning, designing, coding, testing, and deployment of a website. The project steps involved creating a sitemap and wireframes, designing, coding, testing, and deploying the website. The key deliverables of a website development project include a well-designed and functional website. Latest technology is used for developing our website.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

A project manager was the main POC for us. Timely designers, and testers stepped in as required. Also, the owner always kept in touch with us for the happenings.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Feedback is awaited for the number of visitors to the site and the number of leads or sales generated.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Salt Technologies were good at setting clear goals and objectives. They were also great at providing adequate resources and support, and monitoring progress to ensure that deadlines are met.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

-A strong focus on customer service and satisfaction -A team of skilled and experienced professionals -A commitment to quality and excellence -A track record of success -A dedication to innovation and creativity -A passion for web development

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

No suggestions. All good - as per expectation.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Digital Marketing Executive in Xenia Consulting, a Digital Marketing Agency that offers services across Website, SEO, Social Media, etc.

For what projects/services did your company hire Salt Technologies, and what were your goals?

We hired Salt Technologies to revamp the website for our client, as the website was too old and was not truly representing the business.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We had worked with them before. So that was a comfort factor about responsiveness, skills and overall project management.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The website was developed using wordpress and the client had stringent requirements in terms of design as well as page load time.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

There was 1 project lead and 5 to 6 project developers.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The website developed achieved all parameters as mandated by the client. Overall project and escalation management was good.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Project Management was hands on. And weekly dashboard was maintained. Adjustments to plan to meet final goals were well managed.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We were impressed with their timely delivery and experienced project management.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Testing process could have been better.