I’ll probably get told this should be in the classifieds, but hell I’ll give it a go…
I employed the services of a company to develop a website for my wife. We’ve done some research in NZ and found there’s a market for fairly ‘basic’ training plans for girls wanting to go from womens only type events to the next step - full Oly etc. They don’t wanna employ a full time coach, they just want to get a taster for a structured plan.
Part of our plan was to put together a team of girls to be the ‘face’ of the company, train them, get them out there at the events etc, which we’ve done, had hundreds of applications for the team of girls who will receive free Asics gears, B70, air travel with Air NZ, etc. The girls have been chosen, announced, had them on TV etc (as we’re able to leverage Sam’s profile along with the ‘good will’ to get heaps of exposure)
I contracted a company thats name suggested they were a NZ company and everything seemed ‘do-able’ when discussing my wants / needs for the site…
Paid $1,000 for the first stage, which went online last week (2 weeks late) that you can see here:
It all looked great but it became increasingly obvious that the lady I was dealing with was working out of another country, her Indian accent didn’t worry me on the phone, but the emails at like 2am started to raise my suspicions, and her inability to upload content without making obvious grammatical errors is becoming a real hassle.
What she’s done so far - to be frank I could do myself with the software I’ve managed my wifes other site for 3 years now (www.samwarriner.co.nz)
What I need is an e-commerce site that girls can blog on (the team), they can receive messages from registered users, and most importantly, users can pay via paypal (or what ever) for services and the programming releases a plan upon payment - so I don’t have to monitor who has paid on a daily basis.
I was thinking, since we’ve got quite a bit of US dollar sat at the bank that we can’t change because of the terrible exchange rate at the mo (8 month high last week?!) - is there anyone on here that fancies a tri project, wants to make a few dollars…but can get onto this VERY quickly as I wanted it all up and running last week…
Sorry Dan if this isn’t appropriate but I really need to get onto this.
PM me if you are computer savy enough to help out, a portfolio of your work (in hiindsight) would be great!
Steve.