My experience in hiring a Consulting Group
May 2, 2010 • E-Commerce • Comments
My job as a Web Marketer has become somewhat pushed aside as I have taken on many roles ranging from Project Manager to Web Administrator. Finally, my boss decided to give me the official title of Web Manager. Since it was now my job to manage the website and the employees who work with the website, I felt (as did my co-workers) it was time for an upgraded e-commerce platform. We chose to go with Magento Enterprise Edition, but being that I was the only programming in the company, and the company has over 100,000 products we needed a full development team. So I started to do some research. I had a few general questions I asked each of the partnered companies that worked with Magento Commerce such as:
- How long have you been working with Magento E-commerce?
- How many websites have you built using Magento E-commerce? Can we see them?
- What kind of timeframe would we be looking at for this project? (Turns out I needed to answer that question)
- Aside from development and deployment, is there any support for post-launch ie: 30-day post-launch support?
Only 2 companies had good answers that I really liked and in the end the company we chose was Lyons Consulting Group. I’m not sure if it was just because of the fact that they were on the same timezone as us, which – in my opinion – makes communication easier since you have more hours in the day to discuss plans for the website, or that the consultant I was speaking with answered all of my hundreds of questions through the several week decision making process. When we finally made the decision to go with them, it was a feeling of bliss in my opinion. But for me, that was only because now I knew I could actually focus my attention on the marketing of the website and continue to manage it without worrying if it needs to be programmed or reprogrammed. That’s all for now, until next time…
PS: My personally posted articles will become more informative in the future when I have more time research an article’s topic before writing, so stay tuned.
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