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By: Web Design by 314media.com St. Louis

Web Design by 314media.com St. Louis — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:15:34 +0000

We are official WordPress consultants and on the list at CodePoet.com .. I would like to point out that most of the WordPress consultants are really using WordPress as a platform to build web sites on. WordPress is super powerfull and most users with an out of the box installation really just need more help getting their site to do things that they otherwise cannot figure out.

By: Scott Ellis

Scott Ellis — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:01:30 +0000

Bob, (sorry for the long delay)
Your points are definitely valid. I usually give clients the option of confidentiality and in some cases it just makes sense. Other clients are more than happy to promote us and I’m grateful they do, it’s often lead to other work. I think it simply has to be a case by case basis.

If I do sub-contracting work for another firm/consultant then they own the relationship and I don’t try to claim it.

Scott

By: Bob Bloom

Bob Bloom — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:59:09 +0000

I’m asked all the time why I don’t have a portfolio of sites on my site. A customer wanted me to do work for free back-when, and threatened to pull his testimonial if I resisted. I pulled all my testimonials from my site, and have not published any since.

An unintended consequence is that my clients enjoy confidentiality. I don’t put my own link anywhere on their site; nor their site on mine. No one knows I do their site! If I do mention a client site on my blog, I have special permission to do so.

Since I do a ton of work for other consultants, this has really worked out well.

-Bob

By: mitch

mitch — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:29:48 +0000

Very nice list. There are too many horror stories out there.. more clients should read this.

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By: Deca

Deca — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:36:37 +0000

I think I don’t need wp consultants

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By: David

David — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:21:07 +0000

I never knew there was a niche related to wordpress design by itself, I always though it was mostly self done and the professional designing was for websites. One other thing to note is to backcheck the people your working with. Go to google and run checks on the companies/people who you think can work for you along with the word “scam” (or a synonym). Working on the internet provides it’s advantages and disadvantages so make use of what you got.
Otherwise quality article mate.
Cheers.