Web Direct Studio

We know consultations are based on trust, face-to-face meetings and a firm, old-fashioned handshake because we used to do it and charge for it $1200 per day. We understand that trusting someone you have not seen to help you guide your business model, further develop your business and explore your business development options requires a leap of faith.

If you are reading this right now it means you are either curious (that’s ok as long as you are not a cat) or are really looking for someone to help you with your business which means you are at the stage where pumping the flesh and making eye contact and listening to buzz-words which mean next to nothing is no longer enough. You are ready to make money and you are interested in the work itself.

Ok, then we can help you. We work, essentially facelessly, with clients from Australia, USA, UK, Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, Singapore and Brazil. They have no idea what we look like (or even if we are young or old) and we have never seen them either, but what we have in common is the desire to win. Because we work online when we take on a project we work on it like it’s our own. We research in-depth, troubleshoot it in-house, bring it up at the regular cross-departmental round table meetings we have each Friday (with half the staff attending via webcam as they work from home), we bounce ideas with colleagues working on other markets and go through our extensive knowledge base of projects that have succeeded and (even more importantly) business models that have failed.

Then we give advice that is targeted, concise, in plain English (sorry, no buzz-words here, we just want to help you succeed) and aimed at allowing you to make the best decision possible.

Each client’s business is handled entirely confidentially. We never outsource work and because everything is handled in-house you are guaranteed continuity in the quality of our approach.

Some examples of the type of result our advice can help you achieve:

1. One US-based website owner was helped utilise existing site traffic and leverage it to create an additional income stream to the tune of $15,000 a month.
2. An Australian based meeting site was helped to double its traffic in just four weeks, change its business model to attract more members and put in place processes that created real income through the membership through the sale of merchandise rather than services. This also entailed a complete overhaul of the applied business model of the site from a subscription-based one to a free-membership site.
3. A UK-based site selling flowers was helped create a packaged online presence that increased business in a year by 50%.
4. An author’s book promotional site went a total change in its business model creating constant, motivated traffic that tripled the author’s book sales in just twelve weeks.
5. We helped a US-based eBay store owner increase turnover by 45% in three months through a combined SEO and SEM campaign and a simple opt-in Newsletter facility applied in a very clever fashion.
6. A Manchester-based businessman selling cleaning service contracts managed to increase turnover by 25% in two months through our advice on how to implement Location Based Search technology and a different approach to the companies he was selling to.
   

There are countless more. The point is: we are active on many fronts. We have in-depth knowledge. We have got past the handshake, eye-contact, meaningless mumbo-jumbo phase of consulting.

How we work
When you come to us we will assess what your business is, what business model you are operating and, if you are a new business, you have a business plan in place. We then shall create a project ID, assign you a business consultant who will work on your project and establish how we can best communicate with you.

Detailed reports and in-depth analysis are sent via email so you can go over them in your own time. Emailed questions are replied to in detail within 24 hours.

We can consult on the phone, using webcam or via an online IM like Skype or MSN.

In each of these cases you will receive after the consultation is over:

• A summary of what was covered
• Action points to act upon
  

Offline consultants are notorious for advising and leaving before the positive or negative impact of their advice can be evaluated. We don’t work like that. When it comes to what we advise we always establish a metric that will help you (and us) gauge exactly how things are progressing. It could be traffic, it could be sales or it could be turnover.

This way you will be satisfied that we deliver on what we aim to do and we will know exactly how the things we ask you to implement work.
Is this high-pressure work? You bet. It also helps us stay sharp, focused and results-driven.

The best thing of all is that by working online we have low overheads. No petrol costs to account for, no traffic queues to be stuck in, no wasting of precious time with those conventional business niceties where we chit-chat about work, you show us the office, we shake hands with all but your cleaning lady and then we site in the conference room where we will set up a powerpoint presentation and proceed to bore than pants off you as we droll on about incentivized market forces split over price-point differentiation potential and customer profile segmentation. Then we’d have to drive back to the office (time for which you have already been charged for) get to our desk and try to remember all the points we agreed so we can start working for you.

We don’t really miss those days. Now we provide satisfying, satisfactory, cost-effective consultation. You may need help with something that can be sorted in just one hour-long online business consultation so why pay for a whole day’s package (as you would have in the past?). And if you need business development and do not want to waste money on an in-house team that will do little more than eat your bottom line you might try our monthly support. This is where for a low, monthly fee, we do all the research, troubleshooting and business development you can handle and, should you have a marketing emergency or need someone to quickly bounce an idea off, we are just a call or an email away.

Contact us and take your business to the next level.