To establish structure we first need to design your website wireframes to create a layout that's functional, professional and has placeholders for both content and images.

This helps our designers to visualize the layout and ensure that the structure is conducive to a user-friendly website that's optimised for your ultimate objective. It doesn't stop there, we'll also use these wireframes throughout the build phase of your website to communicate design ideas and concepts to designers, developers, and other members of our team to ensure that everyone is on the same page and working towards a shared vision for your website.

After confirming your wireframe designs we hand them over (along with your new Brand Pyramid and Discovery form) to our professional copywriters.

It's their job to create powerful, compelling and engaging web copy that's keyword heavy to give your new website great SEO and resonate with your target audience to not only captures their attention, but persuades them to take action too.

Now that we've got both your wireframes designed and web copy created, our professional content creators can join you on site and get to work on creating eye catching content that's unique to your business and brand.

Did you know that public perception of websites will automatically place more trust in a site with professional, personal photos than those with stock images.

Once we've build your wireframes, written your powerful copy and created some trustworthy content it's time for our great in-house designers to get to work on visually putting all the pieces of your website together.

Think of front-end designers as online architects that use all this information and design brief to create something beautiful.

Now your websites filled with copy, content and built to filter web traffic through your sales funnel to perform your ultimate objective (receive a call, email or quote request) it's time to let our in-house back-end developers make all the necessary connections between your website and your rest of the internet.

eg. Google Analytics, your domain, your email provider, your testimonials partners and any job management software you may use just to name a few.

Now your website's connected to the internet it's time to generate trust online with reputable search engines (like Google and Bing) so traffic searching for your solutions can find your business online. We call this "Search Engine Optimisation" or "SEO" for short.

Now there are many ways one can build a website with strong SEO, but the main factor involved in building trust online with these search engines is to provide quality content that's optimised with relevant keywords, high-quality backlinks with other reputable websites and page loading speed just to name a few. 

Now your websites milestones are complete, we sit down with our merchants to discuss any and all change requests you may have. The reason we do these changes at the end of the build phase instead of throughout each step of the build is because it gives you the merchant the opportunity to create a list of change requests to be dealt with all at once and it allows us to process through each previous stage without any delays.

Revision round 1 will be your original list of change requests that you've built throughout each phase of the process where as revision round 2 is in place to ensure the correct changes were made. 

Once your website is up and running online it's time to set up your Google Business Profile to provides great organic exposure for your business. With a Google Business Profile, your business will be easy to find on Google maps, and customers can easily find information such as your service area, phone number, website, business hours, and reviews. This helps in building credibility and trust with customers in your local area and makes it easier for them to find and engage with your business.The best thing about a Google Business Profile is that it's completely FREE, making it a valuable resource without adding additional costs to your business.

Once we've completed the Build phase, it's now time to give your website an online address so people searching for your services online can be directed to your website. We call this online address a custom domain name (eg. tradienet.nz).

You can either purchase your  domain name directly from tradienet by clicking here, or if you have a domain name already, then we can either transfer you over to our own tradienet hosting, or you can leave your domain with your current hosting provider and we can connect your third-party domain by having your hosting provider edit whats called your domains DNS records. 

Now that your websites complete and your custom domain's successfully connected to your website, it's time to sign you up to one of our ongoing support plans to make sure your website stays on top.

The package we'll recommend you register for will depend on your onging requirements. However, they vary from Hosting only plans (which includes a number of custom emails eg. support@tradienet.nz), our Maintenance & Protection only plans (which are pretty self explanitory) and our Complete plans that offer great value for our merchants that need us most.

These plans are not required, but come as highly recommended as they allows you to continue to focus on running and building your business. While allowing us to act fast when needed most because we're likely to identify problems and solve them faster as the original builders of your website.

At tradienet we're big believers of giving you complete ownership of your website. Reason being is we want our merchants to want to work with us and not feel feel like they have to because we own their website (like other designers out there).

By giving you complete ownership of your website it allows you to grant and deny access to your websites admin for the partners and developers of your choosing. As a Shopify merchant you'll have access to all their available patners (just like tradienet) who are ready and waiting to help you build and develop your business without the help of tradienet alone if need be. 

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The old saying of "if you build it, they will come" simply doesnt apply online. After all, just because you have a visible website online, doesnt mean poeple automatically know the address (your domain name). This is where a powerful search and/or social marketing campaign can work wonders for kick starting your business to new heights.

However, that doesnt mean all our merchants require an online marketing campaign to start generating traffic to their website. A lot of our merchants are simply starting our in their business journey and are looking for a website that's going to allow them to inprove the proffesionalism of their business and brand by displaying their newly build website on their work vehicles, business cards and quotes to significantly improve the chances of them winning new work.

As a growing business ourselves, we can only take on so many new merchants each month. Because of this, we require a booking fee from our serious merchants to secure their registered time slot. This booking fee is then deducted from your 50% deposit.

Once we have an approved design brief and the discovery stage is complete (phase 1) we'll send you your initial invoice and receive payment before we begin phase 2.

Once we've completed your website to the specified design brief we'll request your progress payment before moving onto Phase 3.

Once we've completed your website and transferred ownership we'll invoice you for your final payment.