Eternity

When I started my own business, my graphic designer friend created my website for me and had someone code it for her. While it was aesthetically gorgeous and functioned well at a very basic level, it wasn’t long before I outgrew its usability and functionality. I could’t edit the content myself, it wasn’t coded for optimum traffic, the blog format wasn’t ideal and it wasn’t mobile friendly. I basically started off with a site that was about form over function and realized after a couple of years that I really needed a website that was about function over form. My hesitancy to create a new site, however, was that I didn’t want to give up the form! What I really wanted was a site that maintained the aesthetic appeal of my current site while being one that was high performing and edit-friendly. I decided to have a consultation at Eternity. Mike and his strategist/project manager sat with me on the comfy, leather sofa at the Eternity studio and explained how I could have everything I wanted. Who knew?! While compared to many of my peers, I am fairly internet savvy, when it comes to understanding the language of website development, I certainly am not. But whenever I didn’t understand something, Mike would explain it in a way I could. He made me feel like I was in good hands while welcoming all of my ideas and input. He walked me (more like held my hand) through the entire process of my project from the general framework to the day my site went live. He even took care of transferring my domain name from my previous host to Eternity for me. When I had trouble creating copy for my site (and started to panic), he connected me with a fantastic copy writer and editor. He answered all my emails and texts (of which there were many) with patience and enthusiasm. He never made me feel like I was contacting him too frequently and when I didn’t understand something or messed something up, he was quick and eager to help me out. I felt like I was working with a friend throughout the entire project and knew he really cared that I was happy with the result of my website down to the most minute detail. Even after my site was live and I had trouble making an edit (and botched something up) his front-end designer swiftly came to my rescue and didn’t make me feel as technologically inept as I did. I can’t say enough good things about Mike and his team at Eternity and it makes me happy have their name (and cool logo) on my beautiful, easy-to-edit, user-friendly, mobile-friendly, new website.

The Old Addage is: Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any two. These guys are the exception. They moved our web page from a large nationwide Internet and Cloud company that focuses on non-profits (and others), who shall remain nameless, but they had a big hack recently and were becoming unresponsive. Eternity moved our entire site in less than 3 weeks, gave us a fresh and more intuitive layout, and cut our page load times in half. So that is the Good part. BTW, rosarycenter.org is our site. Each of us reveived a personal training session from Eternity, in less than an hour we can do everything we need to do to update and maintain the site. And they added an auto translation to the site. We now have the site in 11 languages. From time of request to completion of the translate project was less than 2 days. Any help request or question has been addressed within an hour, with most issues being resolved in mere minutes (during normal hours). Their professionalism is the best I have seen in the industry, and they are a pleasure to work with. All of these benefits are worth more than gold. And their charges are inexpensive compared to what the mega-corporations charge. tldr - So who says you can't get Good, Fast, and Cheap (relatively) all at once? I say Eternity nailed it.

Eternity Marketing helped us to finally make our new webstore a reality. We had initially hired a solo developer to help us design/build our new storefront using a template from Volusion with a third-party connector tool called T-Hub. Although the webstore proved to be a decent experience for our customers, the backend proved to be fraught with so many shortcomings and workarounds that it was markedly less efficient for us to process orders. Our IT solutions provider, Connecting Solutions, referred us to Mike Lannen. Eternity Marketing helped us write a more comprehensive project specification which enabled us to finally achieve our goal of replacing our old (Perl-based) webstore with a custom designed, 21st century webstore. Along the way, we learned just how hard it is to build a good webstore. I don’t recommend going it alone. Mike Lannen and Eternity Marketing were/are good design partners. We are very happy with our final storefront. Our customers love it! Why? It's absolutely beautiful, for one and it's easy for us to now manage our own content and inventory. It's been a huge step forward for us as a company. A shout out to Carlos, their Tech Support Dude – he is extraordinary! Eternity Marketing has a lot of expertise and a lot of integrity!

Eternity Marketing was a godsend for our organization. Having struggled mightily through three missed deadlines during our first attempt to redesign our Drupal website while also consolidating three sister org websites into one, we put out a call for help and Mike and his team answered. After our frustration with Drupal, we were skeptical of choosing another CMS not named WordPress but Eternity's team walked us through MODX and had a reassuring answer for each of our concerns. We asked for an unrealistic deadline and they nailed it. From proposal through design consultation (with Mike, Kolby and Rob), development and testing (with Rob and Carlos) and launch, they delivered exactly what they said they were going to. The process was so smooth and the end result was a high-functioning, easy-to-use website with all the bells and whistles we asked for (check it out at letsgrowkids.org [and then sign our Petition!]. Thank you, Eternity!

I worked with Eternity to build an entirely new website for United Way of Addison County. It was no small task, but working with Eternity made it (dare I say) fun and as easy as it possibly could have been for me and my colleagues. We were, at one point, nervous about managing our pretty new website on a platform we weren't familiar with, but Rob managed to make us feel like pros after a 60 minute walk through. (Rob's training skills are ::two thumbs up:: but also it is SUCH a user-friendly platform!) I feel confident knowing that Mike, Rob and the rest of the team are only a Slack away. Their response time is speedy and the answer to my "can you..." questions always seem to be "yes!" or "done!" - two of my favorite words! :) UWAC is so thankful to have a website that reflects the incredible work being done in Addison County - thanks for helping us get there, Eternity!