Comments on: Got $50k & 2 Weeks? Sprout F3 Offers Facebook App & Fan Page http://www.centernetworks.com/sprout-f3-facebook-fan-app Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:13:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Michelle Wohl http://www.centernetworks.com/sprout-f3-facebook-fan-app/comment-page-1#comment-26867 Michelle Wohl Mon, 18 May 2009 21:00:16 +0000 http://www.centernetworks.com/?p=15694#comment-26867 Hi. Thanks so much for the coverage. In fact, there are no design templates at Sprout. If you're familiar with our prosumer offering, sproutbuilder.com, you can see how we use our technology platform to make rich media development more visual and thus faster for us to develop. (A good analogy is how much easier it became to create Web pages with Dreamweaver.) Our campaigns are incredibly deep and engaging and we think $50k is a great price for a brand looking to reach fans across Facebook and have them create personalized content to share with friends. And thanks for the alert about the missing text next to the asterisk. I will fix that! Essentially we are assuming that we will provided with brand assets and are happy to fill in some gaps but should there be no assets, we would need to charge a design fee. Hi. Thanks so much for the coverage. In fact, there are no design templates at Sprout. If you’re familiar with our prosumer offering, sproutbuilder.com, you can see how we use our technology platform to make rich media development more visual and thus faster for us to develop. (A good analogy is how much easier it became to create Web pages with Dreamweaver.) Our campaigns are incredibly deep and engaging and we think $50k is a great price for a brand looking to reach fans across Facebook and have them create personalized content to share with friends.

And thanks for the alert about the missing text next to the asterisk. I will fix that! Essentially we are assuming that we will provided with brand assets and are happy to fill in some gaps but should there be no assets, we would need to charge a design fee.

]]> By: Ben Strackany http://www.centernetworks.com/sprout-f3-facebook-fan-app/comment-page-1#comment-26793 Ben Strackany Mon, 18 May 2009 16:50:25 +0000 http://www.centernetworks.com/?p=15694#comment-26793 You're probably right about some cookie cutter aspects, since they're not going to rewrite the generic web service code, FB connect wrappers, and other glue/platform type stuff for every client -- there wouldn't be a technical need to. Just like we don't rewrite other plumbing like database connection code, application frameworks, etc. for other web projects. When we do social media apps we keep costs down making sure that any branding, design, custom features, or other client-specific pieces are written from scratch, but not generic pieces. Granted, if a client wants to pay to rewrite everything, then we'll consider it... $50,000 is a good-sized price tag, though -- if that's considered a teaser rate to attract new customers, we should start raising our rates. You’re probably right about some cookie cutter aspects, since they’re not going to rewrite the generic web service code, FB connect wrappers, and other glue/platform type stuff for every client — there wouldn’t be a technical need to. Just like we don’t rewrite other plumbing like database connection code, application frameworks, etc. for other web projects.

When we do social media apps we keep costs down making sure that any branding, design, custom features, or other client-specific pieces are written from scratch, but not generic pieces. Granted, if a client wants to pay to rewrite everything, then we’ll consider it…

$50,000 is a good-sized price tag, though — if that’s considered a teaser rate to attract new customers, we should start raising our rates.

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