Management Packages

Your Management Package will cost an agreed monthly charge based on your needs.

Standard Management Package

Suitable for small businesses who want someone to keep an eye on their site, handle all the updates and carry out search engine optimisation and marketing activities

Focused on getting on with it and 'doing stuff' on your site:

• Content updates
• Search optimisation work (back link development for example)
• Competitive monitoring
• AdWords campaign management
• Social media updates

You specify what you need.

• From $390.00 per month (ex gst)
• Includes up to three hours activity on your website
• Includes monthly performance summary report
• Includes search ranking monitor and report
• Additional hours $80.00 per hour
• Activities are based on what you need to achieve your goals

Business Partner Package

Suitable for medium businesses who have staff members who can make simple content and social media updates.

This package focuses on management activities including:

• Site monitoring
• AdWords campaign management
• Supplier management
• Strategy and planning
• Monthly report preparation
• Staff training and monitoring
• Call centre support checking
• Social media strategy and monitoring
• Competitive/industry research and monitoring
• Improvement recommendations
• Other activities as required

You specify what you need.

• Start from $450.00 per month (ex gst)
• Includes up to four hours management activities
• Includes monthly performance summary report
• Additional hours $100.00 per hour

Website management packages include

First, we work out what your goals are and come up with a plan to achieve them.

Then we roll out the plan with regular monthly activities.  This would include:

• Monitoring of website visitor activity to identify trends and problem areas
• Content writing and updates including blog updates, discounts and specials etc
• Design tweaks and additions*
• Search engine optimisation including link building
• Search engine ranking watch
• Social media monitoring
• Edit and upload of image and video media files
• Email newsletters
• Competitor monitoring

^{*If your site is not an Essentee designed and developed site, these would need to be referred to your website developer for action}

Why outsource your website management

Consider the skill set of a person you would have to employ to run a successful website:

• Graphic design
• Copy writing
• Usability
• Content architecture
• Search engine optimisation
• Analytics and reporting
• Social media
• Web development/programming
• Understanding of web infrastructure - databases, search engines, hosting etc
• General understanding of web trends

AND the overheads associated with employing someone in-house:

• Purchase and upgrades of software such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and specialist search monitoring software
• Purchase of hardware
• Training and maintaining competencies with regular (costly) training
• Covering sick and annual leave
• Recruitment costs
• Ordinary overheads such as power, phone, floor space etc
• The headaches that go with staff management

FAQ's about Management Packages

Can I choose what activites the hours are used for?

Yes, the listed activities are recommendations only. Activities carried out each month are based on your needs. However, a minimum amount of monitoring is necessary to understand how your site is performing.

What if I only need an hour or two?

We'll customize a plan to suit your requirements. We find that one or two hours a month work only if all you need are content updates and your are handling the rest of the management of the site yourself. In which case we'll come up with a plan specifically for you.

How will I be billed?

Monthly plans are billed at the beginning of the month (in advance). Activities only commence once the invoice is paid so we recommend a direct credit is setup.

What if I don't use my hours?

They will be carried over to the next month, but can't be carried over for more than three months.

Will I need to get you to redeveloped my site?

It's possible. If your site is not working for you the problems may be bigger than the fact that you simply don't have time to update it. Some problems such as a lack of search optimisation and a limited design, require a complete redesign to resolve. But the good news is that you will have a robust platform to start your new phase with!

What if my site is hosted by someone else?

We can manage sites hosted by someone else, but what we can do for you depends on your provider and the content management system used. We prefer to host sites ourselves because then we have full access to your code and control over all aspects of the site. But we acknowledge that this may not be feasible.

For Business Partner Management Packages, this is less important as we work with the team who are responsible for updating or developing the site.

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