Category Archives: Business Development

Treating People Well (or Flies and Honey, which ever you like better)

posted by: Gary Galvin

The key to making a sale and keeping customers is to make a positive and lasting impression

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Software as a Service: Licensing Multiple Units in the Digital Age

posted by: Tom Schaetzle

Valve, the Bellevue, WA-based video game development company, was already one of the most successful and highly-regarded businesses of its type when it again revolutionized computer gaming. Years before, Valve released the critically acclaimed first-person shooter Half-Life, to this day considered by many to be the greatest game to be released on the PC platform. [...]

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Indiana is a Darn Good State to Have a Business

posted by: Gary Galvin

Indiana is a Darn Good State to Have a Business. Indiana has good economic leaders and Hoosiers have true Midwestern values.

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Indiana State Republican Party Re-Design

posted by: Crissy Koger

When the Indiana State Republican Party (INDGOP) approached Galvin, they were not satisfied with their current website. Navigation was difficult and the site was overall relatively disorganized and the site did not integrate with two major internal applications – Salesforce and RPort (INDGOP’s internal proprietary database). In short, INDGOP wanted something fresher, more vibrant, user [...]

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Functional Requirements and Use Cases: Avoiding Accidents and Mix-ups in System Engineering

posted by: Tom Schaetzle

Ok. You have decided to make a monumental decision: you are going to hire an architectural company to build a new house for you. After months and months and what has to equal hundreds of thousands of dollars, you drive to your new home, walk in and…realize things aren’t quite right. You flip the switch for [...]

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Estimating Website Projects

posted by: Gary Galvin

There is a lack of understanding the clients requirements and the level of effort (billable hours) it takes to complete that work. Take time to understand what they want so you can put an estimate around it.

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The Importance of Wireframes

posted by: Kiley LoCascio

I read an article the other day about how important the wire-framing stage is to web development. It was really good timing because we are currently in this phase with one of our projects. This particular client is simply interested in seeing complete design compositions, skipping the wire-framing stage alltogether. So, I thought it would [...]

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Giving Back by Developing Websites

posted by: Gary Galvin

Galvin Creative Technologies offering pro-bono website design and development projects

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7 Blackberry Sales Rules I Live By

posted by: Gary Galvin

Know how to use a Blackberry in the sales call. Have it on you and use it but use it the right way.

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Technology vs. Dale Carnegie

posted by: Gary Galvin

When building professional business relationships you need to make it personal. Don’t rely in technology only.

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11 Ideas Web Companies Should do to Help Client Relationships

posted by: Gary Galvin

11 Ideas Web Companies Should do to Help Nurture Clients

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Congratulations Bluelock

posted by: Gary Galvin

Galvin Creative Technologies is glad to be able to house our infrastructure at  Bluelock, an Indianapolis, IN data center.  We were fortunate enough to build  a relationship with the good folks over there and we want to pass onto them our congratulations on two successful years.  dBusiness just released a nice article about their accomplishment [...]

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Practical Solutions – Use Google Alerts to Prospect

posted by: Gary Galvin

Google Alerts is a great prospecting tool

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