After 7 months, our "new" website we contracted to be built by DesignThis! is a shell of its…read morepotential and what I was lead to believe was possible. Very little work was done on it, and even less thought put into its design, flow and concept. It's as if a high school intern with no wine industry experience pulled content from our existing website and haphazardly inserted it into a Wordpress template. There was no original content, they leveraged photography which we paid for out of pocket, and the site map and flow of the site are pitiful. Kim said to give her the keys to the car and to trust her 100%. I did that, now we are 7 months from the date the first payment was made when targeted completion was 3 months. I had been told Kim did not like to show the website under development to clients because clients don't understand anything but a finished product. When I insisted, after seeing nothing for 6 months, it seemed they hastily threw together content pulled from our old website on a template. From there, virtually nothing improved for another month, all while they kept telling me it was "custom", that we're "getting a good deal", and that they have many other clients who pay double what we are paying. As for the printed material and templates for tech sheets and email newsletters, they simply pulled existing logos, photography and content to "create" these pieces on Adobe Suite and charged a fortune for work that should have taken no less than 30 minutes per. There was virtually no thought into the pieces, for example, her Tasting Room insert only had space for 3 bottles when we do not offer memberships with 3 bottles. We would have been better off buying the Adobe software and creating them in-house. I have not worked with a company whose fees were as out of line with output as DesignThis!. They are long on lip-service about how they are experts in the wine industry, that they have worked with 80% of wineries in Napa and Sonoma and how great they are. I was disappointed at the level of unprofessionalism within the company, there always seemed to be calamity. There was employee turnover from the very beginning (the person who onboarded us quit) and personal excuses abounded as deadlines were continuously missed. My biggest regret is that I trusted Kim. My second regret is that I paid upfront for poor work that was not completed. Here is a sample of a typical correspondence - after not seeing our website 6 months after initial payment, when estimated completion was 3 months: From: Kim kim@designthis.com Sent: Friday, May 3, 2019 5:22 PM Subject: Re: RE: FW: Re: Omg. Please please forgive me. I've have a weird few weeks. But everyone of my clients will say DT and me are the most amazing. And we def are. Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:15 AM To: Kim kim@designthis.com Subject: RE: FW: Re: Did you want to share website stuff with me? Can I review what you have so far? Over promise and under deliver should be their motto.

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Bonnie is extremely easy to work with. She listens to you and helps you transform your idea into…read moresomething that your audience can relate to and wants to hear. Not only would have I given myself a migraine writing the text for my website without her, the quality of the writing and my message was much high due to her involvement. Working with Bonnie was easily a 5 star experience!

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The Staff here is wonderful and a pleasure to work with. We originally met with Laura Van Galen,…read morethe CEO of Bleu and signed up with them as a medium for our advertising. They have done a splendid job. Our current Rep, Heather Ranta is always available for questions, completes all our advertising campaigns on time, and is great at negotiating the lowest prices whether in print, radio, or direct mail. Duygu Celespoy handles all our Google Marketing, and we always see our advertisements up on Google at all times of day. We have succcessful targeting for all the relevant peak hours and keywords. I would recommend that you sign up for their Business Analysis, where they look at all the current and past advertising you have done, as well as a competitive analysis of how well your advertising matches of that of your competition. And if you want to check if this is a legit recommendation or if you have any questions call 510-237-2300 . Just ask for Alex. I'm the Marketing Director. Alex Brodsky Creative Energy www.creativeenergy.com

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Alison is a joy to work with, super professional and very flexible. I had my Wedding "Save the…read moreDates" custom created by her and they came out exactly how I pictured them (maybe even a little better) she was able to provide input and details to things I wouldn't have thought of,  she has a great eye! Her pricing was reasonable and included a few proofs to ensure I had a product I could fall in love with. After seeing the save the dates, I hired her to create my wedding invitations and she exceeded my expectations all over again!

Excellent service and follow up from Alison and her team. The graphics are very well done for what…read morewe needed. The website they created was unique and well tailored to our tutoring business. We will use them again for maintenance and other things like hosting. Excellent company and fast paced and thorough job by professionals.

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Andy has been my company webmaster for the last 10 years. He has excellent ideas and technical…read moreskills which has helped our website become the primary marketing tool for the business. We appear consistently on the 1st search page. I receive many positive feedback comments about how easy it is to find our online services and information about the company. Most importantly, Andy is dependable, conscientious and excellent to work with. Gary Satterfield Owner - HOA Accounting Services, Inc.