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Advanced Projects: Membership Sites and Directories

Complex sites can present big profit opportunities, but they can also be highest risk. See how BlockStep can make your project as success.

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Often website projects have some sort of advanced features that take them from being a simple website build to more a more complex project technically.  It could be a directory, integration with another platform, or some other more interactive features.
Advanced projects can represent an opportunity for significantly increasing project budgets which is great! The downside is that we’ve seen so many agencies end up loosing money on more technical projects despite the higher budgets.
Some of the challenges we’ve seen agencies face with advanced projects include:
  • Internal teams trying to cobble together a stack of off-the-shelf plugins or tools that they can’t get to play nice together and end up making the whole platform fragile and slow.
  • Driving up costs by outsourcing to high-end software developer who often doesn’t communicate well or understand the business strategy reasons behind actions
  • Working with low cost outsource talent that you have to spend lots of time and attention managing
  • Frustration and delays managing client expectations that are not just design centric but has complex functionality as well.

Thankfully we’ve been able to help our agency partners deliver numerous projects with deeper complexity within budget, on time, and without the client expectation management headaches so common in technical projects.

Common advanced projects we work on include:

Here is a video covering some advanced website projects we have recently completed so you can get a picture of the quality of work and advanced features we are ready to help you tackle.

Need advanced functionality like a membership site, directory, or custom e-commerce platform?

BlockStep has you covered. We help our Partners scope the project to prevent common issues,  cover all the technical bases, and deliver a successful project with a great UX. Get in touch to discuss your advanced project and learn how we can help.

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Grant

Grant is a co-founder of Blockstep. He started building websites for people as a teenager and has been at it for more than 20 years. Along the way he’s led digital projects for everything from small businesses, to venture backed startups, to Fortune 500 Companies. He’s experienced the agency world from all sides and understands the value they can create but also the crazy challenges they face - especially when you add in complex technology to the mix. He loves helping agency partners deliver incredible wins for their clients while avoiding headaches.

Need advanced functionality like a membership site, directory, or custom e-commerce platform?

BlockStep has you covered. We help our Partners scope the project to prevent common issues,  cover all the technical bases, and deliver a successful project with a great UX. Get in touch to discuss your advanced project and learn how we can help.

Connect with BlockStep