We Believe in Small Business
Here are some small business facts:
- Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
- Employ just over half of all private sector employees.
- Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
- Have generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years.
Government, corporations and even Wall Street play a role in the strength of our economy but BlueBranch believes that the foundation of our past, present and future success is built on small business. We want to see you grow to the point where you’re budgeting hundreds and even thousands of dollars a month on your website and marketing efforts and when that time comes we will do what we can to point you in the right direction. But for the small business person that’s looking to maintain a tight budget and watch their costs BlueBranch provides the solution right now.
We’re Easy
(Yeah, we just said that…Easy and proud of it!)
At BlueBranch there are no estimates, guesstimates or long drawn out processes. We’ve created the framework to eliminate the uncertainties that go into creating your website. We have an evergrowing arsenal of themes that you can choose from and any one of them can be customized to fit your brand, your vision and your identity. If you search the web for free websites you will find many companies offering this. What you will find is that after an initial period there will be a monthly fee associated with keeping your site up and running. In addition, you will build your own site using their software. You will take time out of your schedule to learn the software and build your site and in the process spend some more time pulling out your hair because creating a website from scratch is not as easy as you were led to believe. With BlueBrach you get the benefit of knowing exactly what the costs are right up front and you have a web professional build the site for you. You just provide the content (you know your business better than we do) and any photos and BlueBranch does the rest. You get the expense of a “do it yourself website” but with the ease of mind of allowing a professional to do the work so that you can spend the time doing your work.
We’re Equitable
There are no hidden fees. You pay the initial set up fee of $99, the customization fee of $199 (if you want that) and then you pay a $99 annual hosting fee once your site is live. If you need to add on domain names and email you will know the costs right up front. You can read further on our “How Does it Work?” page. Bottom line, if you already have your domain name and you want to go with one of the straight themes (no customization), your first year cost will be $198 and just $99 a year thereafter. It is the goal of BlueBranch to make it possible for every small business to be able to get online and take control of their web presence!
We’re Efficient
BlueBranch sites are built using the very popular and easy to use content management system called WordPress. When your site goes live BlueBranch will schedule a call with you and we will walk through how you can update and maintain your own site. Have you had a webmaster in the past (or maybe now?) that you’ve emailed for days or even weeks just to get a little bit of text changed on your homepage? Move to BlueBranch and fire your webmaster. You will be able to update text, add photos and even add new pages and navigation to your website. We realize that’s not for everyone. Some would rather not get involved in the maintenance side at all and BlueBranch will not leave you hanging. We can make any updates for you at a rate of $40/hour. We bill in quarter hour increments so most simple updates will cost you $10 a pop if you choose to go that route.