“The TribeVita template model is a godsend to our business.”
Since 2000 Bosweb Systems have gained a wealth of experience and developed over 500 websites & around 100 bespoke line-of-business applications; in partnership with Adobe, Simple Flame & TribeVita, Bosweb Systems provides a comprehensive range of solutions & services to meet the confidence and service levels that our clients and reseller partners expect in a company that has been trading for a dozen years.
When our reseller partner approached us to deploy a common solution to their clients group of accommodation event venues, TribeVita immediately sprang to mind. After carefully reviewing the selection available we decided on the seemingly obvious Firesage Resort.
Our client immediately fell in love with this template, which meant that we could fast-track the development and deployment of a template model to satisfy multiple project stakeholders.
Equally, my team fell in love with TribeVita and their template model. As the business owner, a happy team, working with easy to manipulate templates means a faster deployment and fatter margins means that I love the TribeVita template model too!
The TribeVita team have really compiled some amazing looking templates and we try to use them as often as we can; cost effective, lovingly crafted and well supported, the TribeVita template model is a godsend to our business.
With our E-commerce clients, the ‘Ellecouture’ template is one of our favourites. We have used it a number of times now, and whenever we show potential E-commerce clients examples of this one they immediately fall for it.
The use of TribeVita templates has really boosted how our business is able to provide faster, cheaper, yet still beautiful looking websites, unlike other template based solutions.
Bosweb Systems has developed around 300 Business Catalyst websites since becoming a partner in 2008, and deployed more TribeVita template based sites than I can recall to count which begs the question ‘Why didn’t TribeVita start up sooner!’
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“[Tribevita] made our profit margin go through the roof. We spend 80 percent less time completing projects with more profit to show from each job.”
When I started my business 11 years ago, I made the decision to implement a virtual company model. No employees, but a team of talented & dedicated contractors that put out a great product. Eleven years later, we're plugging away and enjoying life!
Enter BC & TribeVita. It didn't take long to make the decision to become a BC partner. The system had everything our clients were asking for out of the box. It took less time to make the decision to start using TribeVita templates. They are extremely well designed, thought out and implemented into the BC system.
Templates seem to have always been the "fall back" plan for a lot of web design companies. If the client doesn't have a large budget, offer them a template option.
I've taken a different approach. The templates from TribeVita are so well designed, I think it's a disservice to treat them as a "discounted" option. I treat these templates almost to the level of offering a client a custom design. Are they less than our custom designs? Yes, but not by much!
What this has done is made our profit margin go through the roof. We spend 80 percent less time completing projects with more profit to show from each job.
I recently implemented the Legal template for a client. They were so thrilled with the site that they started telling everyone about what an amazing experience it was working with us. Two hours after launching the site, I received a phone call from one of the clients' associates. They asked us to put together a quote which we did within 24 hours. We came in the highest of four bids....... and still won the job. They said they loved the product we put for the other client so much, they were willing to pay the premium!
In the end, the clients are thrilled with the end result and we have the time and money to do what we love to do most. Enjoy life!
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“No need to train a part time employee, when I have Trained BC Experts cranking out state of the art BC sites that I can easily skin myself.”
As a web designer/developer with nearly 12 years experience, I clearly thought I knew everything as I sat in my Woodstock, NY studio and hand coded PHP/MySQL content managed sites for my handful of clients. Sure, as a one-man shop I was always able to bring in business, and my clients were happy. But I knew if I could just do things a little better and a little faster, I could make more money, and have more satisfied clients. I had toyed with the idea of hiring a helper, but what if things got slow? Who was even up to my standards? How would we work together? WHERE WOULD THEY SIT???!!
Then I discovered Business Catalyst, and decided to become a Premium Partner, and everything changed.
I quickly realized two things. First, I was able to deliver better sites, faster, but also I was getting more work, and starting to make more money. I had always been able to stay busy, but here I was with close to 20 BC sites under my belt (my very first was for Donald Trump!), more coming in every day, and the phone kept ringing! A good problem to have, right? Well, yes, and no.
It looked like I was going to have to reconsider hiring some part timer, teach them from scratch about business catalyst, and at the same time, get the work out the door and continue to learn myself! I started to panic. Would I actually have to start TURNING DOWN JOBS!!?
I decided to take a look at the TribeVita Templates. I already trusted SimpleFlame, and Jason Tinnin is a BC Rockstar. These are solid designs, and even better, they were reinforcing what I was learning over at Kiyuco. Here I could see the functionality in action, and get ideas for things I hadn't thought to try. And here was the answer to my problem.
No need to train a part time employee, when I have TRAINED BC EXPERTS cranking out state of the art BC sites that I can easily skin myself. I gravitated toward designs I thought I would be able to use in multiple ways, and honestly, I have! I needed to talk myself out of thinking like I was somehow cutting corners, after more than 10 years of doing things myself, but in the end, I'm not.
I'm giving my clients a better-finished product, customized by me, and I still make money! I'm busier than ever, I currently have 6 e-commerce sites in house (!) and there really is no sign of slowing down. This is a true win win, and I have also gotten the added benefit of becoming part of a community. I'm even starting to refer clients directly to live Templates, and I'm thinking of incorporating several different pricing structures into my business based on the amount of customization they want. Things are really taking off, and the template model is clearly the catalyst. Now I don't have one part time employee, I have a whole "tribe"!
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“Utilizing and customizing pre-created templates allows us to speed up the process by at least 50%...”
As a web design and development firm, Opt2Web receives some pretty last minute requests. Many people have a hard time understanding that designing and developing a website is a rigorous process. They think just because the web is accessible with just a few clicks of the mouse, so is a website. By working with TribeVita we’ve been able to meet these 7 day timelines and since we believe so strongly in Adobe Business Catalyst the relationship has been even more beneficial to our clients.
Utilizing and customizing pre-created templates allows us to speed up the process by at least 50%, especially when it’s an e-commerce site. TribeVita templates allow us to focus more time on creating the right product structure for ease of use throughout the entire site. If I can cut down on a lot of the back-and-forth then that leaves me with time to focus on my business operations and delivering on deadlines in a shorter timeframe.
Our success in using these templates has resulted in two extremely satisfied customers. One project being a township, the town of Lauderdale by the Sea. LBTS Events was created to inform visitors about events in the area. The website features a number of different modules; newsletter, announcements, Blog, content rotators and more. With over 30 merchants involved we were also able to create a page complete with secure log in, for businesses to continually enter all their own information regarding an event. This was a huge time saver and eliminating the need to manually enter them one by one was invaluable. We created the pages, fields required to keep formatting consistent so that once the information was uploaded by the business all we had to do is ‘Enable’ the event in the admin.
The second project is an online business for stand up paddle boarding services. SUP Miami started out as a concept of a customer and a very dear friend of mine whose budget was not significant enough for the tools he was looking to incorporate. As a relatively new business we understand the need to save and keep costs down during initial launch. However, we saw this model as a great opportunity here in Miami, offering tourists a real experience in our hometown. The TribeVita template allowed us the ability to offer a high level website at a smaller price point. The President’s main concern was usability. Spending a significant amount of time digesting all that my client had to offer to his customers, the end result was a great website that’s easy to manage and more importantly can grow with my client’s business.
Both of these examples utilized TribeVita templates and allowed me to customize the experience for my client. More importantly, we were able to launch these sites sooner than planned and within budget. Although our niche market as a creative team is custom design, our main goal as a business is to keep our clients happy and coming back. We will continue to use TribeVita for websites requiring a quick turn-around.
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“With TribeVita, the results are better, and so are my margins.”
TribeVita has made a huge positive impact on my business. As you might glean from my company name, Practically Inspired, I have long been motivated by marrying creative excellence with a down-to-earth focus on solving my clients' business goals. It's what brought me to Business Catalyst, and it's why I love TribeVita. Here's a great example...
A long-standing client, Employer Direct Healthcare wanted me to upgrade their website. They needed the site to be completed within a week and didn't want to compromise on quality. Naturally, I turned to TribeVita, where I found a few options that were suited for this project. I quickly generated some PSDs to match the client's brand, and I presented to the client, who was very impressed with the variety of options I offered. They chose a design direction, and within a day I was reskinning the CSS — which was clearly commented and *much* faster than starting from scratch. Soon the site was in good enough shape that the client could start adding content. They were thrilled by how quickly the project was progressing.
Another benefit was all the built-in features in my template: home page carousel, a great-looking blog, easily-customizable social feeds, secure zone login forms, newsletter forms — all the details were buttoned up tight.
No surprise, the project came off without a hitch. There's no question, I could not have delivered such great results in the available time without TribeVita. In fact, I've been so pleased with TribeVita templates, that I now view all new client prospects as either good business (those in which I can start with a TribeVita template) and not-so-good business (i.e. someone who wants 100% custom design). Honestly, now I steer clear of the not-so-good business, because with TribeVita, the results are better, and so are my margins. That's good for my clients and good for me. Hey, that's practically inspired!
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“The launch of the TribeVita program has provided us with new advantages as a business in two ways: Increased profit margin and operational efficiency.”
The launch of the TribeVita program has provided us with new advantages as a business in two ways – it has increased our profit margin dramatically with lower cost projects, and it has provided us with more options to present to small businesses on a budget.
Profit margin – especially when we can select a template with modules already built out, we can price the project from a value basis, yet a lot of the work is already done for us. Or, we can adapt the functionality in a fraction of the time.
Profit margin – though we have not reused a template yet, we can repurpose templates we have already purchased for new clients, depending on the situation.
Operational efficiency – this allows us to use more of our time on larger, more expensive custom products.
We have a long time client that was outgrowing its HTML site and needed more dynamic functionality, but had a very limited budget. We wanted to help her out, but the costs for a typical BC buildout were too much.
Soon after TribeVita launched, we decided to try out the template approach.
The site was implemented with great success. They have integrated their blog (formerly on Blogger) into the site with significant increases in organic search traffic. Using a web app for specials has made them look more consistent to the user and is easier for the client to manage.
When she wanted a mobile presence, we were able to leverage another TribeVita template we own and are in the process of launching that as well.
Finally, the client has been so happy with the site and the system, she has had her three other clients (she is a marketing consultant) hire us to re do their sites as well, resulting in an addition tens of thousands of dollars of business, not to mention the referral business we are also getting.
TribeVita templates make things high quality, easy, and profitable.
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“TribeVita has helped us revolutionize our production process. We reverse engineered a lot of the functionality to help us better understand the ways we could push the boundaries of BC.”
Simply put, TribeVita has helped us revolutionize our production process. We were early adopters, but we approached the Tribe a little differently than some. We bought our first template BEFORE we had a client in mind, and reverse engineered a lot of the functionality to help us better understand the ways we could push the boundaries of BC. By doing this, we were able to solve more of our clients needs, and increase the value (and price) of our projects.
For clients with a small budget, or a tight turnaround, we like being able to offer a template re-skin as an affordable option that will have them up and running in under 2 weeks. Prior to joining TribeVita, we weren't able to serve these types of clients as well without reinventing the wheel for each project.
However, most of our work is based around custom projects. For these we've taken an "infrastructure first" approach with TribeVita, matching key functionality with client needs, and then creating our own custom designs around that. Starting these types of projects with a TribeVita template as the framework cut our development time by 30%-50% in some cases. Because of this we are able to go live with sites much quicker, and work with more clients in a given year.
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“What we’ve really come to appreciate is TribeVita’s dedication to quality; both in design and the underlying code.”
Since the mid-80s, we had specialized in fast and efficient print production projects. We’d followed the evolutionary page layout path of PageMaker, Quark and then InDesign. And Photoshop, Illustrator since the beginning. But we weren’t designers. Instead, we did the work designers didn’t like to do…the production and pre-press part. Technical, precise and expensive if you made a mistake.
For precision and consistency, we used templates (aka master pages) and styles; character, paragraph, objects, etc.
Over the past 10 years our business has, like most, been evolving from print to web. It’s now to the point where our web business equals the print production side. And the web side is growing much faster.
Since we work with ad agencies, graphic designers, photographers and others in the creative field, we figured we needed a website. We built our own using RapidWeaver, which uses templates. It was successful and we got calls from our clients asking if we could build their sites. The business grew, but we were always looking for a better way. A way to add features, benefits and functionality that were missing in the RapidWeaver platform.
We’d build a site and invariably our client would ask for us to add a client database, web forms, widgets, email marketing, and reporting.
When Adobe came out with Business Catalyst, we took the plunge. We trusted Adobe and, while it was a steep learning curve, we started producing websites with the kind of functionality and flexibility we’d been needing.
But one of the things we like about RapidWeaver was the ability to purchase a template with a great design and adapt
it for our client. There were lots of sources for templates, but they all needed to be re-worked or “wired in” to the BC system.
When TribeVita was announced a year ago, we were one of the first to utilize their templates. The designs were what first attracted us. They were sophisticated and current. And they had built-in features and functions that appealed to our clients. And mobile versions.
What we’ve really come to appreciate is TribeVita’s dedication to quality; both in design and the underlying code. Having templates that comply with industry standards means we have very few problems with the site working in all current browsers. And if by chance something is amiss, they usually have a fix within hours.
TribeVita templates are very cost effective. We build the template cost into our bid. And once we own the template, we can replicate as needed with no additional cost. We’ve done that numerous times: replicate, tweak the CSS and voilá… a new look and another satisfied client. This is especially handy if we have a client with a very low budget or if we’re doing the work pro-bono.
TribeVita has become our trusted source for high-quality templates that are all designed to make our life easier. Where once we tried to hide the fact we were using a commercial template, we now point out to our prospective clients the advantages and cost savings. We focus and position our company around building online businesses, not designing custom sites.
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“Not only did the TribeVita templates reduce my development time, it helped flatten my learning curve in Business Catalyst development.”
Using Templates For Business Success As owner of Auroratec Business Solutions I started my web career in 1996 doing both freelance and employment. In January 2011 it was time to break away and venture on my own path and thus the birth of Auroratec.
In being self‐employed, new and unforeseen challenges emerged. One of the biggest being time management. Being very familiar with all of the Adobe products I felt it was time to give Adobe’s Business Catalyst a serious look. It didn’t take long to discover that Business Catalyst was the best direction to take my new business.
This however, raised more challenges such as the learning curve of a new platform, and how sites were set up. I knew that Business Catalyst would help with my time management but now the learning curve was using that time that I was saving.
I was introduced to TribeVita, a template distribution website for Business Catalyst and began to look seriously at investing in these templates. I started out with a mini site purchase to test the waters. I quickly discovered that not only will these templates help reduce my design time, but also I was able to ‘deconstruct’ the elements of the templates and see how they were built. So not only did the templates reduce my development time, it helped flatten my learning curve in Business Catalyst development.
Since then I have invested in multiple templates all of which have paid for themselves over and over. I still use the templates as starting points and have done many sites using the same templates simply re‐skinning them and getting the client’s project up and running quickly and efficiently.
The TribeVita templates have played a big role in my increasing success using the Business Catalyst platform.
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“Success of the project came via a TribeVita template, allowing us to hit the ground running, customize the design, and not worry about building the functionality as we would normally do.”
We received a referral to a local Podiatrist who had been messed around by several website developers over many years and were very unhappy with their current website. After our initial briefing with the client it was clear that they required a lot more functionality in each of the three stages of their website redevelopment, including a mobile optimization.
The client required the new site to be live in a very short period of time which increased the pressure on our production timeline for the project. Normally it would not have been possible to meet the client’s expectations in such a short time frame.
The solution and success of the project came via a TribeVita template, which allowed us to hit the ground running, make the required design customization and not have to spend time we didn't have building the functionality as we would normally do.
The result has been stage 1 of the project delivered on time and on budget with the delighted client now an advocate of WebsiteWise. The success of this project has opened the door for us with other medico customers allowing us to increase our footprint in this vertical.
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“We’re way more profitable using TribeVita templates than when we build a custom site and our clients are happier because we can offer tools and modules that they didn’t think they could afford.”
Using TribeVita’s templates has directly impacted our sales in a positive way. Until we became Business Catalyst partners, we developed only custom designed sites on custom built platforms. The first step in reaching a wider market was moving to Business Catalyst as a content management system solution for our clients. This opened our services up to businesses with smaller budgets.
By utilizing TribeVita templates, we have been able to reach an even wider audience by cutting the cost for custom design as well as development of functionality. We have been able to offer clients additional functionality that is built into the TribeVita templates, which these clients would otherwise not be able to afford.
Another added bonus to using TribeVita is that you can show your clients a fully built site that utilizes a template they might be interested in. We frequently share links to the demo sites so our clients can experience the modules and web apps that come with each template.
The bottom line is that we’re way more profitable using TribeVita templates than when we build a custom site and our clients are happier because we can offer tools and modules that they didn’t think they could afford. And, I can’t say enough about the TribeVita team. They are always there when you have a question or need help.
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“TribeVita frameworks provided us quality design elements, reusable modules, and a wide variety of features and designs to choose from at competitive price points.”
As a new partner with Business Catalyst, we were confronted with the primary issue of how to rapidly adopt the platform and still do so with the high design integrity and reliability that we are known for. A critical measure to us on a platform's future are the vendors that help grow the platform, and TribeVita is an integral part of that success.
Our initial 4 sites were built and deployed in 1/3 of the anticipated time. TribeVita frameworks provided us quality design elements, reusable modules, and a wide variety of features and designs to choose from at competitive price points.
Without TribeVita, it would have taken us far longer to expand our company into utilizing Business Catalyst. As an existing Adobe partner, this was critical to us and the team at TribeVita was incredibly helpful.
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“[TribeVita] allows me to take on more projects in a shorter timeframe”
I've been a BC partner for 5 years now. I've built sites from scratch and also used the free BC's templates as they are and as a basis. One of the things that takes the most time is customizing the templates with my design ideas and customer needs. Since I am the only one in the company that creates websites, I must do everything from beginning to end.
Now I have discovered TribeVita and have several templates to choose from. It allows me to take on more projects in a shorter timeframe. I am now working on projects 4 and 5 since I started using TribeVita only 2 months ago. My process and turnaround time is so quick, and enables me larger profits. Most of all, my customers are very satisfied with the progress. Finally, I can start making more money, while enjoying what I do.
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