About Web Ventures Plus™

We Navigate you through the World Wide Web

Founded in September of 2009 by current Chief Webmaster and Owner, Jonathan Gibbons, Web Ventures Plus™ has been attempting to fill a current void in the internet marketing industry. This mission is to create a one-stop shop for all your internet needs. We offer you an agency to serve as a member of your team as our mission statement outlines. It used to be that all a client needed was a website for their business, talent or campaign. Nowadays the world wide web has evolved to include much more than just a need for a website. Out of this evolving industry has emerged the need for a full in house web management company. This is who we are. We are a full service web design, social media, hosting, internet marketing and internet publicity business. There are a variety of web service companies in existence but few, if any, offer hands on client focused services for full web ventures; which we provide. The founder is a certified webmaster administrator who previously worked for a web design and software development business for four years. Currently located in Florida, but originating in New Jersey and Oklahoma, we are a diverse business who understands the needs of a diverse clientele. Following is a detailed description of who we are, the philosophy driving us and some information on why choosing a webmaster and web management company trumps doing it yourself.

On the top of our website and elsewhere, you’ll find the phrases: Web Design & Management and Social Media Management. In the growing complexity of the World Wide Web it has become necessary for there to exist more than a mere Web Design Company; this is the logic behind those phrases. In fact, many of the standing Web Design companies are struggling to survive with the vast majority of “do it yourself” website solutions that exist. As they’ll tell you– and so will we as a Web Design company –nothing compares to a fully customized website design. We certainly do build websites on templates for clients, but our first recommendation is always to develop a custom website.

We are a full service in-house Web Management Company. We are able to manage all of your website needs, from registering you a domain name to fully customizing your website and social media networks. We provide services for managing your websites content, metrics and social networks. We’ll even perform social networking status and blog updates on your behalf. Sometimes we utilize internet based press releases to garner you better search results and further publicity as well.

To supplant founder Jonathan Gibbons’ philosophy of being a navigator/guide to each and every client through personal hands-on care, this brief video was created.

We believe a successful web venture combines two core elements: a strong website and accompanying social media marketing. These two core elements will help you better understand who we are and what we do:

1) Web Design & Management

We can develop a custom designed website or build you a website based on an existing free template. Either way we offer complete solutions. All of our management solutions include the following standard web management services: hosting, domain name registration, on demand metrics and weekly data backups. Our custom web design page covers our web design services in full detail. Additionally, our template setup services page covers our services for fast and professional website setups.

Ongoing Website Management

We Provide On Demand Website and Social Media Metrics

Once a website is fully developed and launched, it is now the job of a webmaster or content editor, to ensure that the website is maintained correctly. There is often a news/blog section that needs daily maintenance and there are some pages that may need monthly maintenance. We provide monthly and per-update management plans for our clients. All our clients do is email us the updates they need and we go in and do it for them.

In addition to standard content updates, we provide our monthly managed clients statistical updates and analysis whenever requested. Additionally, we may utilize these statistics as well as Google Webmaster Tools to monitor their Search Engine Optimization and website performance on a daily basis. These metrics contain information on successful keyword usage, which pages are being read, which pages are not being read, how many search engines are ranking and indexing pages, the locations of visitors, how many visitors are recurring and how many are new. Metrics of this nature are a goldmine of information for a data and SEO analyst.

2) Social Media Management

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a variety of other social networks have become essential to any strong web venture. Social media websites allow you to interact with your fans, customers and supporters by going where they are, rather than bringing them to you. The majority of web surfers today utilize their social networking websites more than they check their mailboxes or visit any other website. Facebook has become a dominate leader in the web and has held the #2 position for most visited websites on Alexa’s Website for more than two years. Alexa is a leader in website rankings and visitation metrics.

With the advent of tremendous social networking tools, there has developed a new breed of webmasters or rather social media masters. As we laid out above, we provide more than just website design, template site setups, and website management. Our social media management services provide clients the expertise they need to maintain and grow their existing fan base. In addition to handling status updates, tweets, email blasts, and the like, we are able to customize and enhance social networking profiles. Below you’ll see images of what are called custom Facebook tabs. Facebook allows you to create a custom tab which you can set as the default tab shown when a non-fan visits your page. Not utilizing this feature could be the “kiss of death” for your Social Media Campaign.

The image on the left (below) shows a Custom Facebook Tab before someone has liked the page. This allows us to excite them about liking the page. Once they like the page they are granted access to free music downloads. For a business site, we may offer them free materials and/or a discount on services with a special code for liking the page. The image on the right (below) shows the custom tab after it’s been liked.

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