1. Why choose a Magento Certified Developer?
Cost
Using an experienced Magento Certified Developer requires an appropriate one-time investment in an online store solution that will grow with the business. Cost of project failure is extremely high when working with untrained and untested developers. You will inevitably pay those costs in the form of higher maintenance costs (hiring another company to fix the failed implementation), lost revenue, longer time-to-market.
Certainty
Magento Certified Developers offer a high level of certainty when it comes to schedule and quality. There is a high level of risk involved with using a untrained developer due to the high level of flexibility and complexity of Magento. Because the software is open source, anyone can edit the core behavior, which can lead to catastrophic outcomes. When working with a Magento Certified Developers, customers can feel confident that the end product will be intact and working according to the original standards used to create the Magento software.
Trust
There is an unsurpassed level of trust between Magento and the Magento Certified Developers because each party is committed to the success of their own business as well as Magento's success. The Magento ecosystem requires collaboration, reciprocation, and dependability. That high level of commitment breeds growth and success. You know they're going to be around. Also, partnering with a Magento Certified Developer provides you with the assurance that the developers know and follow the Magento standards.
Quality
Hiring a Magento Certified Developer for an implementation over a untrained developer is like hiring an experienced plumber to fix a plumbing leak instead of hiring your 16-year-old nephew who has taken a shop class in high school. You get the picture.
Return on Investment
Magento Certified Developers have the talent and experience to deliver an eCommerce solution that results in higher conversions, better user experience, and more revenue because of their history with creating successful eCommerce solutions.
2. Preparing to contacting a Magento Certified Developer
When contacting a EYEMAGINE, a Magento Certified Developer, for a Magento project, you should come prepared with an open mind and a positive attitude with respect to brightening your eCommerce future. Of course it also helps to have a pre-approved budget and executive sponsorship from the highest levels of your organization.
Aside from that, an understanding of what works and what is broken with your current eCommerce platform and alignment within your organization to a set of clearly defined and communicated goals for the project go a long way. Practically speaking, a technical resource should also be prepared to inform us of important details and specifics that we cover in-depth during our onboarding process.
We always like it when our clients come to us with their “wish-list” of features and blue sky ideas that they would just "love" to put into action; the wishlists they bury away somewhere because they think it’s almost too unrealistic or too forward thinking. We have found that not only are these possible with the seemingly elastic flexibility of the Magento platform, when put into action and executed properly they are often the most profitable and market disrupting features of the projects.
3. Ensure a positive experience
Communication is absolutely critical to ensure success in all business relationships. Ensuring that you are engaging in open, honest, and clear communication with your Magento Certified Developer is a necessity to ensure a positive experience. Communication is critical on timeframe, budget, goals and objectives, roles, design preferences, extensions, and custom features. Without effective and positive communication, not much can be accomplished. Our successful client engagements have always boiled down to effective communication.
Albert Einstein once stated that if given 20 days to solve a problem, he would spend 19 defining it. We believe this principle applies to projects we work on with our clients and relates back to communication. Let’s make sure 110% that there is alignment and definition of the scope of the project and the variables at play, before we commence. By focusing on preventative activities like this we can reduce and even eliminate disharmony that could arise from misalignment early on as the relationship develops further.
By stocking our business development, account management, and project management teams with top talent who focus on effective and positive communication, we are able to ensure that you will have a positive experience with EYEMAGINE. That being said you must take on the responsibility of being up front, honest, and open with us, as well.
4. How to engage
Our client engagement process will vary to some degree depending on the your idea or opportunity to grow you revenue online utilizing Magento. Ultimately, everything begins with a series of conversations that progress into unveiling an opportunity that was once cleverly disguised as a problem. When this occurs the conversation can pivot into an area of exploration and new ideas. This is an area that EYEMAGINE thrives in. When you and EYEMAGINE have arrived at the natural point in the conversation where potential solutions are beginning to arise, we will formalize the business relationship through a document detailing the preliminary scope of work and phases of the initial engagement.
EYEMAGINE approaches projects with fundamentally two phases of work: Discovery and Development. The Discovery phase is fluid and exploratory this is the period in which questions are asked and unknowns become knowns. During this phase EYEMAGINE brings together a cross disciplinary team of user experience/user inteface designers, eCommerce strategists, business development strategists, eCommerce technologists, Magento certified developers, and project managers to arrive at a realistic, actionable blueprint for the project that can be executed in the appropriate time frame and on budget.
In the Development phase our team of certified Magento developers work hand in hand with our Project Management team to develop our clients new Magento powered eCommerce site, you are kept up to date of progress and feedback action items by our attentive and responsive Account Team. After you have tested your new site and signed off on it, it is ready to be shared with the world. When the curtain is lifted it is all hands on deck here at EYEMAGINE. We make certain that during the birth of “our baby” we have a hand for you to squeeze. Once your site is released into the wild and begins to make your cash register ring, we are there for the next update, the next feature deployment, and the next...
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