No More Client Work

Not quite yet, but almost there. Adam and George have already posted and expressed their thoughts about our move away from client work. As of March 1st, 2008 Pure Adapt will be out of the web development for client business.

This decision to close our client side business down is definitely a relief for Adam and I. For Adam I know the constant client management with emails, constant contact has become a hassle and just isn’t worth it . Now I won’t be the servant to clients ever changing thought about what they want with their design, when they really don’t know what they want. Web design and development is very tough for that very sole reason, that people don’t exactly know what they want.

The client side of our business was a vital part of our business which started Pure Adapt, but at this point it just isn’t worth it. Client work just started to take up way too much time for what we were getting paid for. One thing we neglected to factor in was we were charging projects as if one of us was working on it. Almost all the projects should have been at least double, since there was the development time and client management time. I still believe in the business of web development, but I’m done with it. Adam recently posted detailed outline on how to do client work, that I totally agree with, called “How To Do Client Work Right“.

On the plus side of client work is that I’ve learned numerous things from it. It’s propelled my skills as web developer and designer to where I am today. I’ve put in all sorts of hours into client work including nights, holidays and weekends for our clients. It was all worth it because it’s made me a leaner and meaner designer/developer. Almost every client that I worked on had a unique problem that I needed to learn something new to solve it.

With client work done, we will be focusing on our own sites for the future of Pure Adapt. Detailed Image has proven to be successful in e-commerce in auto detailing products with the most recent major upgrade to the site last year. With the cumulative experience of the four of us we hope to replicate the success in our next major venture Tastefully Driven, it’s going to be “The Contemporary Shopping Lifestyle”.