Why Use a Local Bay Area Web Designer vs. Outsourcing Web Design to and Another Country?

A common question regarding web design from potential customers of ours is “Why should we use Shadomedia here in the Bay Area when we could just outsource the work to somewhere like India to save money?”

There are numerous reasons to use Shadomedia’s custom website design services.

1. Instant Gratification - As you may already know, there can be alot of interaction back and forth between a client and a web designer throughout the design/build process of a new website. Because of time differences with other countries such as India, requested changes and updates on the site are not addressed immediately and can often take 1-3 days to implement.  A greater amount of changes tend to be requested on new website that tend to be more in-depth or comprehensive.  Companies in the Bay Area that use our web design services do not have an issue with a lag of requested changes as our customers are able to contact us at any time and changes/updates can be made or addressed instantly.
2. Face to Face client meetings - Many of our website design and web maintenance customers here in the Bay Area prefer to meet in person so they are comfortable with who is handling their web project. When outsourcing a website, you never really know who is designing or building your website, and you have no way of predicting what designs will be. 
3. A better quality website - Our goal is to not just slap together a website for our clients, make a quick buck and move on.  We take the extra time to learn about our customers’ businesses, who their target audience is and where their target audience is located.  All of this is factored into the design and production of the website. Both my business partner and I are Bay Area natives and we know the area very well and this is a great benefit to our clients.Our goal is to build a website that drives new business to our Bay Area customers.  Most of our clients find that the website pays for itself within a few months.  We want to our customers to succeed online and because we know how to help them succeed, we have established many long-term relationships with our customers.  The difference in money saved via outsourcing is minimal up-front, but the reward for using a local company such as Shadomedia Design has much more reward.  Basically in a nutshell, you get what you pay for.