BUYER BEWARE! These days there are lots of options for web companies to cut corners. Yes, I said it. I’m not talking about streamlining the production process of a website – I’m talking about out-sourcing…..and not to a freelance guy down the street. I’m talking about to India, to Brazil, or some other country that is willing to pawn off shoty coding practices and mediocre design to a willing and knowing web design company. Here’s the really bad part – this willing and knowing web design company outsources YOUR website design project to, let’s say India, and then they tweak it a tad and maybe change a couple of colors and then sell it to YOU for full custom designed work! Here let me prove it. We get solicited no less than 10 times a week from various vendors proposing that we outsource our projects overseas – They claim this is better because they are very cheap and we don’t have to have employees that we pay. Read below. This is an actual email I received today.

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montu@rnsinformatics.com to info

7:28 AM (10 hours ago)

Hi,

I am Montu, Marketing Manager.

I have been through your site and can see that you are offering Web Design services to your clients. In these tough times, where it is hard to maintain the
topline, we can help share the bottom line for you.

We have a large team for both Web Design and Development which can execute the campaigns at a much lower cost than what you have in house.

Do let me know if you are interested and I would be happy to send in more details.

I look forward to your mail.

Kind Regards,
Montu Singh
Online Marketing Manager
Contact Numbers : +91-9312639156
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So, here are my questions to the web companies that outsource their “local” clients project to India, Brazil, or elsewhere.

1. Why, in tough times, would you want to support another country and their economy instead of ours? How do your clients feel about this?

2. How can you sleep at night when you know you are passing off sub-par work and selling it as custom work?

Here are the questions any informed client should ask a web design company before agreeing to do work with them.

1. Have you ever outsourced past web projects to other countries?

2. Do you have designers and developers, in-house, that will work on my project?

3. Have you ever used templates on web projects?

4. Will you provide a custom designed mock-up for my web project based on my input?

So, when you begin your next web project – BUYER BEWARE.  Ask the right questions, get references, and you will be off to a great start on your project.

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