5 Questions to Ask Yourself When Hiring Web Development Agency
Sector: Digital Product, Technology
Author: Nisarg Mehta
Date Published: 10/17/2018
Today this is the world of digital presence. In order to expand a particular business or a brand, the company needs to be in the digital world.
This increases the potential of your business and your brand name reaches faster to people who can be your future customers. For that, you need to develop a good website. Instead of doing the web development in-house, it is advisable that you hire a good web development agency. But, before you hire a web development agency, you should keep a few things in mind. Here are 5 questions you should keep in mind for hiring a good web development agency.
5 Questions you should keep in mind for hiring a good web development agency
So, it is done. You have decided to make your digital presence. Now you want to hire the agency. There are many web development agencies in the city and all of them claim to be the experts. Now, you are confused about whom to hire and what to do? so, in order to simplify the entire process and help you in your decision, we are suggesting 5 questions you should keep in mind for hiring a good web development agency. These are the 5 questions:
- Does the website development agency have a good reputation?
- Can you provide the portfolio and or case studies?
- Which is the field you specialize in?
- How will you distribute roles and responsibilities?
- In what time frame will you complete the project?
1. Does the website development agency have a good reputation?
You may feel that this is not important, but it is very important that you check for the companies reputation. You should check the online reviews the customers have provided for their site. Also, check how they manage their own Facebook and other digital profiles. Check how they have developed and executed their own site. This will give you a very good idea about the expertise the company has. Also, check out their page saying about their previous work. You may also get in touch with the previous clients of the company to do a thorough background check. Also, make sure that the company has been around for a while in this field.
2. Can they provide the portfolio or case studies?
If the company is an experienced and good web design agency, then they should have worked with a good number of clients. Ask the company to provide their portfolio or case study of the clients. Most of the good web development agencies are really transparent about the clients that they have worked with and build up their reputation. They will be able to provide you with a portfolio of clients that they have worked with. If not, then you need to check with their reputation.
3. Which is the field you specialize in?
You need to check does the company is having specialization in the technology you are looking for? Eg. you want to hire Magento Development Company but they have expertise in Woocommerce. Or not having expertise in Magento. The company may just be a mediator and actually, delegate your work to a third party person, whom you do not know. The company may be specializing in other fields like SEO but not in web development and creativity. They may just be selling the services in their name for someone else and be the mediator. So, check which field the company is specializing in.
4. How will you distribute roles and responsibilities?
The agency should particularly discuss with the client and the responsibilities they will take and the information or resources that the client should provide to the agency. For example, the agency might request the client to provide content or photographs to them and they will do the web development.
Also, you should discuss the plan of execution for the project with the agency. You should discuss the steps that the agency will follow to develop the website.
5. In what time frame will you complete the project?
There is a saying that “time once gone will never come back”. Who can understand this better than a businessman who wants to expand his business? So, you should make a point to see that your website is designed on time. But, also you should understand during the development of the website, the web designing agency may face some technical and other cliches. As a result of which you need to give some advanced time to the agency also.
So make sure to discuss the time constraint with the agency and then start developing the website.
So, these are the few questions you should keep in mind before hiring a web development agency.
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