About
THE STORY BEHIND ACUMEN WEB SERVICES
Acumen Web Services offers a comprehensive business web site solution developed to help you create a web site that actually does what you want it to do, create more business for your business.
My name is Kathy Hendershot-Hurd and I’m the owner of Virtual Impax and author of Beyond the Niche. Even though I began developing web sites professionally in 1997, I actually started creating web sites as a hobby in 1994. By the time I was accepting paying clients, I already had a dozen sites under my belt.
Over the years – I’ve worked with hundreds of small business owners and helped them to get their businesses “online”.
Over the years, I’ve discovered exactly what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to creating a web site that works.
I’ve developed a fast track business blog launch system designed to get your business on the fast track to a web site that works as hard as you do.
If you’ve experienced the “traditional” web design process, you know that it’s a frustrating process. First you hire a web developer, and if you’re lucky he or she will create a beautiful web site for you. You’re thrilled. The site is perfect. All is well.
Then comes the frustration.
Your business changes and you need to update or add a page on your web site – or maybe you’ve read that frequent updating of your web site is ESSENTIAL to your web site success.
However, you don’t know how to update your beautiful web site.
So, you contact your original web site developer only to learn that he/she is busy or worse yet, has decided to move on to a more profitable use of his or her time. You need help but don’t know where to turn.
Or, your frustration takes another form.
A scenario I have seen REPEATEDLY begins to play out is all too familiar.
You discover that your original web developer didn’t understand the search engines and how they work. You assumed that since your web site LOOKS good that it will WORK WELL too. You discover years later the “truth” - your beautiful web site STILL doesn’t come up in a Google search FOR YOUR BUSINESS NAME!
You contact your web developer for help. Assuming he/she is still in business, he/she may actually take your money and claim to fix the problem. However, more time passes and your site still can’t be found.
I wish I didn’t see this as often as I have in my practice. The worst case was when client spent over $10,000 on her original web site for her business. However, when she searched for her business by name – her web site didn’t come up in the search.
She contacted her developer – who told her to be patient. She waited patiently for 8 years for her web site to get “found” by the search engines. Then she talked with a Virtual Impax client who referred her to Acumen Web Services. Within 6 months of launching her Acumen Web Services Business Blog – her web site was not only ranking #1 for her business name – but a year later she was ranked #1 on a critical keyword for her business.
It’s one thing if your web site doesn’t come up in a highly competitive search, such as marketing or business development – it’s another when you type in your business’ domain name and your web site doesn’t appear on the first results page!
When that happens, it means that potential clients/customers who are actively trying to find your business CAN’T!
Acumen Web Services has the solution.
An easy to use, easy to update business blog that you can use to build your business is essential for business owners today.
Your Acumen Web Services Business Blog is quickly implemented, it’s search engine friendly and most importantly, it’s easy for you to update and add content.
We offer two versions of our business blog service – the DIY “bootstrapper” edition and the “set it and forget it- we do the work so you don’t have to” quick start to blog success edition.
