Advent Designs

As the sole owner of a professional DJ service in the Charleston, SC area, competition is tough and getting even tougher, especially with all the “Best City accolades” that Charleston is receiving. When it’s just you, you are not only tasked with finding business, but you are also the marketer, the web developer, and everything else that goes into generating revenue. Building and designing a website is something over the past 6 or 7 years that has increased in complexity, especially with Google and it’s ever changing search algorithms, and the importance of being mobile. A tech savvy person might be able to piece together a template or basic website, but can they be seen and generate revenue? After meeting Michael Waters of Advent Design, I threw out what very little I knew about websites, SEO, and design. After investing some money in a national SEO business that netted me very little or no results and very poor customer service, I knew there had to be another way. I wanted to work with someone local, someone who I could grab a coffee at Starbucks with and chat with. The bottom line is this, I am not a web developer. I am a professional wedding DJ who needs to increase his leads and bookings. In order to do this, I decided to retire my amateur webmaster skills and employ a true professional to take over this task. And I might add, a very important task seeing as though my website IS my store and if it’s not working properly I am more or less out of business. Michael Waters is the consummate professional. When we first talked, I had reservations about a site rebuild, simply because I had put so much time into the existing site. Michael gently gave me my options. After thinking about it, I decided a professional re-design was my next step because it would correct all the errors that were killing my ranking and allowing users to drop off my site. It’s going to take some getting used to not fiddling around with a website, but now I will have more time to work more leads and generate more income because I won’t have to worry about this stuff. Michael Waters keeps up to date with every little change that Google makes in their search algorithms and any other pertinent SEO tweaks that will benefit his clients. As business owners, we simply don’t have time to do this. Michael gave me helpful information to provide temporary fixes to my existing site even before he started on my site redesign. When a bride comes to me and doesn’t have a coordinator or planner yet, I recommend one for sanity sake on their wedding day. Well, as a business owner, I am now going to recommend any small business who is serious about increasing revenue and having more time to dedicate to their business and whose store is online to have a professional like Michael Waters of Advent Designs do a “professional” design job on their website. You can’t just build a site and do nothing, there are tweaks and content changes that need to happen. You need someone like Michael watching over you. Think of Michael like a financial planner, he’s a guy that is telling you what needs to be done with your money / website to generate even more income and stand out. I strongly recommend Michael Waters of Advent Designs. You won’t be disappointed.*UPDATE* 12-8-17 After close to 18 months of working with Advent Designs, I can think of no better business decision than hiring these guys to build / design my site and get my site my ranked. Opening your own business is one of the best decisions you'll make, but hiring these guys is equally as awesome, and I promise it will be for you. Give them a call yesterday. "

I've used Advent Designs to boost our Google rankings and they have done an amazing job. When we started off we didn't rank in the top 50 for anything and now we have multiple high volume keywords that we rank in the top 3 on Google for. We really couldn't ask for better results. Thinking about how much we wasted outsourcing work to India to have Advent turn things around for us in 6 months time is kind of sad. Go with with someone you can actually talk to locally. "

I've had Advent Designs totally re-brand or basically brand my company. He did our brand manual, new website, all our marketing materials, everything. He did a great job with our brand concept. Excellent service and met all our needs. Anything that I think of that the company needs, he designs and makes happen. It so nice to now have a uniform brand across all platforms. "

Advent Designs has been crucial in marketing for my business. They have raise our online business profile to heights we had not seen since starting our weekly internet show. Thanks to their work we have a well viewed and followed online presence.Above other companies they take the time to deal with customers on a very personal basis including making time during the week to stop by and help sort out problems with video capture and even helping setup takes for our weekly videos.Well above and beyond what the normal company behind the keyboard does for it's clients. "

Advent Designs has been crucial in our digital marketing efforts. They have guided us in taking steps to increase our online exposure and helped us rank on both Reverbnation and Youtube in the local Charleston music scene. They take the time to understand your business and your direction while helping you to understand what they are doing.It is nice to have a marketing group that works hard to remove the smoke and mirrors of their efforts and keep you up to date on their efforts. "