You’ve heard people say, “It’s not personal, it’s just business.” But you won’t hear me say that. Your work matters to you, it’s personal. My work matters to me, it’s personal. So I think it’s important to agree, right at the start, that the work we do together is going to be personal.

I don’t advertise.  I don’t talk people into working with me. I won’t try to reel you in. You’re probably here because we’ve met or one of my clients recommended me and sent you a link to this site. I’ve intentionally positioned CircleWebWorks as a small web technology firm.  My clients appreciate working one-on-one in what is usually a very impersonal sector. 

I partner with a select group of clients to help them build and manage an effective and evolving web presence. I don’t compete for jobs, because what I offer is not really best understood as the creation of a product. Instead, I offer an ongoing professional relationship in which I help my partners, people and organizations, to identify and best utilize the possibilities available online. In the course of that work, I usually build websites for my clients. But it’s what comes before and after the website build that often determines whether the financial and time investment in the website will yield a sufficient return or not.

I know almost all other web firms will be more than happy to just listen to your wish-list, submit a bid, and build a site. They may remain available to do updates after the site is done at additional charge, some may offer to perform the routine upkeep and maintenance for a monthly fee, but that’s pretty much the extent of it. You are basically left having to drive the bus of your online presence. I’m just not so sure that works very well, especially for organizations, because there is usually frequent leadership turnover. So that’s why I offer a different kind of service.