Professional Website Consulting since 2001

Professional Website Consulting since 2001

Website Consulting

A website consulting services company for businesses of all sizes. Fix, improve, or get insights on your existing or new website without adding expensive overhead. 23 years experience. Results-driven.

Expertise.

It’s at the heart of strategy and tactics. Without it, you’re either making mistakes or making guesses with your website.

  • Is there enough expertise fueling your website decisions?
  • Is your website design driving engagement?
  • Is it inspiring conversion?
  • Is it driving quality traffic?
  • Is it bringing you ROI?

Wherever you’re at with your website, we'll bring over 2 decades of website experience to the table and play the role of website consultant.

Our clients view us as an extension to their team, filling in expertise where needed so their websites run on all cylinders, all the time. We can educate. We can strategize. We can even design, provide development assistance, and help you get found in search engines.

a ProtoFuse Proverb

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”

– John Maynard Keynes

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Quality Leads

"Our website is drawing in quality organic leads EVERY WEEK!"

Steve L.
Cactus Technologies

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Customer Knowledge

"ProtoFuse gave us more than a new website. They helped us understand our business & customers better than ever before."

Katherine H.
Contec

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Happy!

"We're so incredibly happy with our website!"

Robert S.
Falcon's Creative Group

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Results

"Anyone can slap a website together these days. ProtoFuse creates websites that actually work."

Tom R.
Export Solutions

Website Consulting Options

We offer 4 different ways to engage our website consulting services

By the Minute

Want to have a quick but meaningful conversation? Find Eric on Clarity.fm and simply pay $3/minute (15 minute minimum).

Mini Engagement

An excellent starting point for improving an existing website. We get in quickly, provide a ton of value, and let you get on with things for just $499. Delivered in 2-3 business days!

One-time Engagement

Have a specific website problem? We’ve seen many over the last 20 years. These budget conscious engagements tackle very specific, yet common, website issues. Start at $2,500 and completed in 2 to 8 weeks.

Custom Engagement

Websites are like snowflakes, there's no two alike. If you're facing unique problems, we can step in for 1 month, or up to 12, and fill in the gaps where help is needed.

Website Consulting FAQs

Is a website consultant a good fit for your business?

We think it’s simply doing what is required in the short-term on your website, but also helping you see into the future more clearly.

Website consulting means talking, diagnosing, planning, and sometimes even helping you fix stuff. Thanks to technology, it can be carried out in person or remotely. Most of ours is done remotely thanks to virtual meeting software and project management tools.

The word “consultant” comes with ambiguity. What exactly does one do?

Here are a few things: 

A website consultant will work with a variety of teams. We, for example, collaborate with:

  • Agencies
  • Internal Teams
  • Contract Designers/Developers

Think of them as your website ally! They should fit into your workflow nicely and understand the dynamics of working with various skillsets and personalities.

Fees and rates will vary depending on the firm’s experience and depth of the consulting.

If you want to hire a proven website consultant, their hourly rate will probably be somewhere between $125 to $250 per hour. Fees, again, depend on the level of consulting you’re buying and the complexity of your website. They could range anywhere from $100 to $100,000.

We offer a few mini engagements under $500 to earn your trust before we dig into one-time engagements or custom engagements.

A website consultation is an initial meeting between a client and a professional website consultant. The conversation should keep a 20,000 foot view perspective and discuss the website's:

  • current team
  • current use of technology
  • what's working
  • what's not working
  • conversions
  • traffic
  • future deadlines (if any)
  • goals

To then answer these 3 critical questions:

  • Is the consultant/client a good fit?
  • Does the client's budget meet the consultant's offering?
  • Is the timeline acceptable to the client?

Start a website consultation with ProtoFuse.

To some people, yes. But, from a true definition, no.

The Web (aka World Wide Web) refers to the entire network of interconnected online resources. Things like Email, APIs, websites, social media, video, maps, images, podcasts, search engines, and more. A Website (also written as "web site") is a specific entity within this network, consisting of related web pages accessible via a unique domain name (e.g. https://protofuse.com).

The web acts as the broader landscape, while websites are like specific destinations within it. We offer website consulting.

Learn more about the Web vs Website.

Website consulting arrangements, at least from our experience, are work for hire situations. Most don’t require extensive website consulting agreements or contracts. We have a single authorization document for our one-time engagements.

One of the benefits of hiring a consultant is the “plug-and-play” value. They should be able to fix problems quickly and easily. Lengthy contracts and agreements only get in the way of solving problems.

With that said, engaging a web consulting firm without signing anything isn’t wise. At the very least, make sure the engagement details the scope of work that should include:

  • deliverables
  • timelines
  • pricing
  • unknowns (if any)

We rarely take on the actual execution work (design, development) with our engagements. If you need WordPress website development help or support, we highly recommend our partner Seahawk Media.

We do often oversee the design and development efforts of websites (regardless of CMS) to ensure it maps and follows the strategy, architecture, content, and SEO plan.

As a stand-alone service, we do not offer website hosting. We recommend WP Engine (get 20% off first month or 4 months FREE with this link).

With that said, we have previously offered website hosting through ProtoFuse (using our WP Engine partnership) to clients when it made sense to help facilitate other engagements.

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