Affordable, professional-looking websites – launched in about a week.*

Don’t we all get stuck in a rut sometimes? Here at Rowboat Media we sure do.

While we love our work, and our clients (thankfully) love us, sometimes the process of putting together a 100%, fully custom website from scratch can just drag on.

A lot of clients don’t realize how much they are responsible for, even with a full-service studio like ours – like writing their content or hiring someone to do it (and managing that process), and providing actionable feedback on our design presentations, etc., and as a result, they can get caught up in running their own businesses (shocking, we know) and take weeks – sometimes months – to get back to us so we can launch a shiny new website and crow to the world about it.

We understand how this happens, but it doesn’t make life very much fun for us creative types who like to see our work going out into the world in the service of joy and commerce.

Therefore, we developed ExpressLaunchTM – an affordable website program two years in the making, finally made possible by the incredible selection of Genesis child themes over at StudioPress.

ExpressLaunch helps us get websites out into the world, where they belong – instead of stuck on our development servers waiting for content or feedback.

We get to create, which makes us happy, and you get fast websites with less management, time, and money invested. (Yes, I just used an Oxford comma there.)

What’s the catch?

Due to the extreme affordability of these websites, we can only take 10 clients at a time.

We have to honor our commitments to our fully custom clients, and we want to make sure we also keep our promises to ExpressLaunch clients in terms of turnaround.

Therefore, once we have 10 ExpressLaunch clients on the boards, we will close the program until our schedule clears up enough to accept another 10.

Find out what ExpressLaunch is all about, and discover the meaning of asterisks.

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Manual Photography Cheat SheetThank you to Jeff Sarris for turning me on to this insanely gorgeous – while also being correct and useful – Manual Photography Cheat Sheet by Miguel Yatco. He’s made it available as a print poster, and I have to say I am mightily tempted.

Given that our Deborah Wolfe has been a commercial photographer for over 20 years, and not too long ago we were dodging and burning in the darkroom, the content is beautiful to us in a way that is deeply emotional.

Content aside, the beautiful vintage fonts, the faded paper effect as if it’s already spent a bit too much time in the sun – the whole package has me attempting to reach inside my computer screen and touch it.

Eighteen year old Miguel has amazing talent. Whippersnapper.

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While speaking with some prospective clients, they pointed me to a video they thought “struck just the right tone for an introductory video.” I went to watch it, and couldn’t agree more.

The video is by Tad Hargrave of Marketing for Hippies.

 

Things Tad did right: read more

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