Promotional and Fundraising Videos

A Video Can Be A Great Companion To Your Website

I am not just a web designer, and Schildbach Design does not only build websites. Schildbach Design is actually moving toward Branding Design and Business Identities. In addition to all the web design and graphic design services Schildbach Design provides for Businesses, my assistant Shaun and I have started offering short promotional videos as a service. A short promotional video can be a great companion to your website for those customers and clients who want to get a feel for who you are. And, a fundraiser video can be a great way to raise money for your project or non-profit.

We Have Access To A Photograhy Studio For Filming Video

Not to disregard the years of learning and work it takes to be a videographer, we are not competing with videographers with years of experience and thousands of dollars of equipment. Instead, we have quickly figured out a way to make affordable promotional videos for businesses and for individuals with projects that need a short video. As you know, your website is not the only tool for marketing that you need to promote your business. A good social media presence, and now video, are needed to round out the promotion of your business or project. Schildbach Design has access to a photography studio for filming at their Gelb office. We can do basic set design for formal interviews. We are initially taking a low tech approach to the video recording using an iPad. You would be surprised at the video quality once adjusted in the editing process. And, our sound quality is excellent—we are using high-end microphones and audio interface for sound. Finally, we do video editing in Adobe Premiere which has all the editing and effects capabilities for a film, let alone a short promotional video.

2018 Video Package

In 2018 we are offering a promotional video package for only $400. This includes:

  1. Planning, Strategy, and Storyboarding
  2. Filming (Video and Audio)
  3. Editing (Video and Audio)
  4. A Final Video of up to 5 minutes for any web platform (YouTube, Kickstarter, Website, Etc…)

This is an amazing opportunity for any business who needs to attract more clients or make more sales. As we buy more video equipment, prices will go up in 2019. You will need to be in the Seattle area for this offer. See an example of what we are providing. Go to this Kickstarter campaign. We made the video.

Secure Your WordPress Website with SSL

In 2017 hacking is on the rise, and most browsers are requiring website owners to add an SSL certificate to their site if the site has a database. This includes all CMSs, which includes WordPress sites. You may have noticed that if your site is still “http” you either see an insecure lock icon or text that reads, “Not Secure” in the upper left hand corner of your browser. This is obviously bad for a number of reasons in addition to your site not being secure. Your web visitors are going to not trust being on your site and now Google and other search engines may even dock your SEO.

Schildbach Design offers a service where we will secure your site with an SSL certificate for $50 if it is a WordPress site, and $100 for any other CMS. With some research, you could also do this procedure yourself. If you have purchased a website maintenance package with Schildbach Design, I can apply the time it takes to do this procedure to the package. So, if you are seeing those security warning messages or icons, it’s time to switch to “https”. Contact me for more information.

Website Maintenance Plan & Tech Support Packages

Every business needs to have a website maintenance plan for their website. The economical route is to do it yourself. But, having a professional maintain your website frees up your time to do what you are good at—your own profession. See the top 10 most common forms of website maintenance that Schildbach Design does for clients.

Schildbach Design offers Website Maintenance Plan & Tech Support Packages. My Production schedule is usually full, so I request clients prepay for a website maintenance package. I rarely have time for “on call” web maintenance and tech support without these pre-purchased, time based, fixed rate packages. Entrepreneur Magazine has a article about why you need to keep your website in good shape.

This has been a win/win situation for both myself and the client. Many clients have purchased, and are happy with this new policy. With this change, I have a more structured, manageable production schedule, and clients needing tech support have my agreement, that I will get to their maintenance requests, updates, and tech support within 48 hours (unless I am on vacation, and then I will refer you to either my colleague Leslie Timmons or Shaun D. Vine).

For clients needing maintenance and tech support, who choose not to purchase the packages, they will have a wait time of 2-4 weeks for me to get to your requests. I apologize for this wait, but I am booked that far ahead.

Here are the specific parameters of the maintenance plans:

Policies for Website Maintenance Plan Packages

  • Package options are 5 hour, 10 hour and 20 hour
  • Non-profits, individuals businesses and institutions pay $54 an hour
  • The 10 hour package has a 5% discount off the hourly rates
  • The 20 hour packages has a 10% discount off the hourly rates
  • Rates are $270 for 5 hrs, $513 for 10 hrs, and $972 for 20 hrs
  • I invoice at the beginning of work, payment must be received by the time I’ve completed 2 hours of work
  • Packages apply to maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, consulting and tech support
  • These packages can not be used for large pay by project jobs
  • The package expires in 2 years after submission of the invoice. If unused hours remain, Schildbach Design returns the value of the remaining hours
  • You receive a status email after any work is done (stating the hours used and remaining), and a final project report when the hours are used up
  • When hours are used up, you can either buy another package, or choose to go back to by the hour costs
  • If you are unhappy with the progress of the maintenance and can articulate why, I will return the prorated cost for the unused hours back to you

And, of course, please contact me with any questions.