Time and time again we get a call from a client that knows a friend that said he/she can build them a cutting edge website that will out perform their wildest expectations.  Well, time goes on and soon enough we get the call that usually states, “My web guy built me a nice site, but we are not receiving business from it and we can’t get him to make updates”.

In most cases doing business with friends and family leads to disaster, especially when you don’t pay them to create a powerful marketing tool such as website.    A website must be updated frequently and you must have your web guy on a short leash to make this happen.

A professional web design company can offer you far greater value than your friend in college that has his own web page and states he can provide your company with one.  At SFC Design Group, our staff including myself is educated in not only the latest technologies in web design, but in Marketing, Business, Information Technology, Accounting and Finance.  We provide you with offsite marketing that helps in better search engine rankings.  We also offer print marketing such as business cards, post cards, brochures and more to gain exposure to a down market.

By bringing our clients a vast knowledge of business, we can provide you with the most effective website for your company.  Every site we create is designed with one simple objective: INCREASE PROFITS.

Most small businesses that decide to have a friend develop their website that does not specialize in web design, do so for budget purposes.  However while the company does not have a large initial expense, the overall expense of a poorly designed website is far greater.

Do your company a favor and find a professional web design company that offers more than just web design.   There are many aspects to web marketing that a person/company needs to be versed in to offer your business the best value.

While most of our clients are small business, spam can decrease productivity throughout a business no matter the size. Firewalls are usually not in the budget of a small business, but we like to offer our clients several anti spam solutions before even going live with a website and before considering our firewall solution.

• Don’t List The Email Address On The Site – This is important as spam bots continuously crawl websites through search engines looking for email address variables. If you don’t list the email address than it is unlikely you will receive immediate bulks of spam.

• Hide Email Addresses In Forms – We like to use forms to submit email questions and comments for a business. It enables us to hide and/or encrypt the email address and makes it much easier for customers to contact the company.

• Stay away from common email address such as “Info”, “Sales”, etc. These are common targets of spam bots and will be spammed regardless.

• Free Email Is Great! - Use a free email service such as Gmail. The spam protection is phenomenal and did I mention “FREE”. You can set this account up in Outlook just as any other email account.

For our serious business clients that have several email addresses and prefer the email address to be listed on the site, than we offer a Spam Firewall by Barracuda Networks. It is truly amazing the way it catches spam and viruses.

Here is a brief introduction to our Spam Firewall:

As a verified solution to spam, we have purchased and installed enterprise-based hardware, from which we offer a premium spam/virus filtering service. Please note; as with similar services or products offered by other companies, we can not guarantee a 100% reduction of SPAM and Virus-infected emails. As to the success of this solution in particular, we are excited to share with you the results of one of our local affiliate companies who installed this same hardware at the start of this year. Over the past 6 months they have blocked/filtered over 760,196 SPAM messages and 8,856 e-mails containing Viruses.

Here is a link to the hardware we will be using to provide this service: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/ (It is the first product listed on the page). In the brief description, you can see what other companies use this product.

This product is offered by us to SFC Design Group clients only. We have limited space on the firewall and reserve it for our clients.