Time and time again I have people come into my office with unrealistic budgets and misguided ideas of what it takes to build a company's brand and website.

It's not the client's fault though, because there is no industry standard when you have all these self proclaimed web developers promising the world to people for pennies.

I'm so tired of having to explain quality vs. bargains. You know that the saying "you get what you pay for" is true. It reminds me of my grandfather, when I was young I used to live at their house in the basement apartment while I was studying at Ryerson University.

I would watch as my grandfather would hire all these contractors to fix odds and ends around the house. He was the man who would hire the cheapest service provider, to him it was always the bottom line. Well needless to say he spent more money fixing the mistakes of all these incompetent workers than he would having hired someone who charged a bit more but actually did the job well.

This is when I decided that in my business I was always going to provide quality and with that came a price, a value and a service that I could be proud of. The people who would pay for my quality would be ecstatic because they would see the results of their investment. They would realize how their own clients respond to their professional image, they would see the growth in their sales and ultimately their return for doing things properly would be faster and higher.

So, 7 years later, I am running a company setting my own industry standard. My prices are fair but not cheap, the quality surpasses the competition and our skills are exceptional, most importantly because the clients I have see the value in us and put their faith in us, it makes us strive and work all the more harder to satisfy and impress them.

Jeremy, my developer knows the pains we go through sent me this comic today which I knew I had to share as it is so hilarious and so true!

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