Core Group Technologies goal is to provide the small to mid-sized business or community group the ability to inexpensively launch and maintain their Internet website. 

Typical Website Setup

We'll work closely with you to quickly identify 5 to 6 Website pages that professionally represent your business or community group.  Using the content and digital pictures you provide, we will work with you to select a professional website template that best represents your company or group's internet presence.  Next we will integrate your content and pictures into the template and provide the completed website for your review within 2 weeks from the receipt of your content and photos.  Need help writing content?  We can do that too.

By using an existing template from our vast supply of professionally designed templates, we are able to save you a great deal on startup costs.  A typical setup charge for 5 to 6 page website built on a template using your digital pictures and your content will run only $250.

Custom Website Setup

Not interested in using a template for your website layout?  No problem, we can also work with you to develop a 100% custom solution.  While significantly more expensive, this is always an option. 

Domain Name Selection and Registration

Now that we have your website setup and ready to go, we need a way for Internet visitors to find your website.  We will work with you to identify a unique website name (for example, www.CoreGroupTech.com) so that your website can easily be found.  Not only will this be your website address, it can also become your e-mail address as well (for example info@CoreGroupTech.com) .  We will take care of registering this website domain address for you as part of the setup of your website.

Monthly Hosting

Now that we have your website setup and ready to go, it will need to be "hosted" on a web server.  We lease space on commercial website servers in bulk to get a reduced rate so that we can pass that savings on to you.  After several years of providing website hosting for our clients with various commercial website hosting companies, we have found a company that mixes a reasonable hosting rate with good service and minimal downtime.  What?  Downtime?  Yes, there will be some downtime.   While we'd like to be able to guarantee that your website (or anyone's website) would be up and running at all times, that simply is not possible.  The good news is that the companies we work with do a great job of keeping downtime to a minimum.  They do that through the use of redundant hardware, backup electrical power systems, and redundant internet connections.  They are also very good at scheduling maintenance in the wee hours of the morning to minimize the impact to your site visitors.

E-mail

With your monthly hosting comes 5 e-mail addresses that will be unique to your organization.  We will work with you to identify these and to get them setup.  You can choose to access your e-mail over the internet (from any internet connected PC in the world), or setup "POP3" e-mail that you can access on a single PC using your favorite e-mail client (such as Microsoft OutLook).

Monthly Hosting & Maintenance Packages

So how much will it cost on a monthly basis to host your website?  And what if you want to change the website to reflect a new product or a pricing change, or to announce your groups next meeting?  Also, what about that annual domain name registration fee? 

Good questions.  Website development companies approach this differently.  After a few years of working with small and mid-sized business and groups, we understand that smaller upfront setup costs along with known monthly expenses are far more desirable from a cash flow perspective.  We also realize that unless we build in some pre-paid website maintenance (website changes) in our monthly fee, that some small businesses will let their websites get outdated simply because they don't want an "extra expense" periodically to keep the website up to date.  But we also know that the only thing worse than not having a website is having a website that is woefully out of date as site visitors are very turned off by out-of-date information. 

Lastly, we also know that small to mid-sized businesses and groups also don't have a great deal of time to spend learning how to setup and maintain their own websites along with juggling invoices from various companies (domain registration, website hosting companies, website maintenance work, etc). 

So what to do - what to do?  We've hit upon a simple solution that addresses all of these challenges.  We offer two versions of a simple and inexpensive monthly website hosting and maintenance plan.  We include website hosting, ongoing domain name registration, and website maintenance (changes to your website) in a convenient monthly package for one price.  To make it even easier, we bill you quarterly instead of monthly.  Want to pay annually, no worries, we can even make it that simple.   One bill for all of your website expenses and nothing else to worry about.  The best part, is that your website changes are already paid for.  So all you have to do is e-mail your changes to us and we take care of them for you!  Sweet.

Cost

Ok, so you're sold.  This is the deal that you are looking for.  So let's cut to the chase.  What does this all cost?  Here's a sample run down on setup and our two monthly hosting and maintenance packages. 

Typical Setup - $250 (based on a template package with 5 to 6 web pages)

Custom Setup  - TBD on a case by case basis.  Will typically run 4 to 6 times as much as a typical setup.

Monthly Hosting and Maintenance Package A  - $25 per month

• Monthly commercial website hosting cost

• Use of 5 e-mail addresses

• Pro-rated monthly domain registration cost

• 30 minutes of website maintenance work per month

• Note: The monthly 30 minutes of website maintenance can be used anytime within the billing quarter. For example, if during the quarter you only change the website once, that change can go up to 90 minutes (3 months X 30 minutes per month). However, if you have no changes during the quarter, those 90 minutes do NOT rollover to the next quarter. So use 'em or lose 'em!  (We do these to encourage changes to your site!)

Monthly Hosting and Maintenance Package B  - $50 per month

• Monthly commercial website hosting cost

• Use of 10 e-mail addresses

• Pro-rated monthly domain registration cost

• 60 minutes of website maintenance work per month

• Note: The monthly 60 minutes of website maintenance can be used anytime within the billing quarter. For example, if during the quarter you only change the website once, that change can go up to 180 minutes (3 months X 60 minutes per month). However, if you have no changes during the quarter, those 180 minutes do NOT rollover to the next quarter. So use 'em or lose 'em!  (We do these to encourage changes to your site!)

Website Maintenance above the package amounts - $50 per hour

Wow.  $50 per hour?  Ouch.  That's why the packages are so attractive.  At $50 an hour, many small business people just don't want to make changes to their website.  However, with the monthly hosting and maintenance packages, the price includes either 30 minutes or 60 minutes of website maintenance along with the monthly hosting costs and the domain registration fees.  Everything in one convenient bill and no other "hidden costs".  How cool is that?

Hey - Couldn't I do this myself?

Absolutely, you can do this yourself.  All of the information is available on the internet.  I'll even tell you that I use www.GoDaddy.com for domain name registration and I use www.LFCHosting.com for website hosting.  I've migrated to these two providers over the years as they balance good service with reasonable costs. 

Hmmm... what's the catch, eh?  Why would I give you this information?  It's like every thing else, where do you want to spend your time and what level of quality are you expecting once you have completed the work?  For example, you could build your own house.  But unless you have the background and the tools and the connections, you will pay more, you will spend time you could have invested elsewhere, and the result will likely not meet your expectations.  Having said that, there are certainly exceptions, but for the most part it's not the happy ending that the we longed for when we started.  Often times, (websites and houses) a professional is called in to finish the job.  Then you have lost the time you invested and probably spent much more than if you had just had the professional do the work. 

Jeff Dunn
317.946.9527
JeffDunn@CoreGroupTech.com