Includes a world-class designed interactive homepage, and world-class website functionality incorporating e-marketing, shopping cart, database & much more... all for just $495 (including GST)
Hosting, functionality software, maintenance & enhancements for as little as $77 per month
Live to the web in 10 business days
No Contract - No Risk - Month to Month
We provide the total accountant's website solution, which includes personalised website design, tax content, daily tax and business articles added to your website. The package also includes monthly client newsletters, intranet system, practice management support, ongoing training and regular upgrades along with great value-add services.
Our position as Australia's leading website provider comes from making sure that our clients are delighted with their website and our service.
Our website will immediately provide you with real benefits at low risk and low investment. No Contract - No Risk - Month to Month.
Click through the tabs on the left to find out what's included in your monthly plan.
* In order to manage your website, you will require an IBM Compatible Personal Computer, Internet Explorer version 7 or higher (free) and utilisation of broadband internet connection.
Included in the $495…
A world class website design
A world class interactive homepage, that is easily updated
Over the phone design consultation with one of our senior designers
Deployed live to the web in 10 business days
Your website includes links to 10,000’s of pages of free, up-to-date Income Tax content and kept up-to-date for you.
Providing this resource for your clients saves you time and ensures repeat visits to your website.
Your website will always have the latest news articles, with a focus on tax and accounting related business matters.
On a daily basis, sponsored articles (valued at over $3,000 per month) are automatically uploaded to the home page and news sections of your website.
At the end of each month, the daily articles that were uploaded to your homepage will automatically be collated into a monthly e-newsletter and emailed to all the clients in your website database, from your website.
You will be automatically provided with Chan & Naylor's proven Business Intranet System, as used by over 600 practices in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Chan & Naylor were the BRW 2007 Fastest Growing Firm in Australia and are ranked 59th overall, in Australia’s top 100 Accounting firms.
Developed by practising accountants for practising accountants, it includes an electronic library of over 600:
procedures;
checklists;
templates;
pre-written correspondence;
and even job descriptions.
This library is automatically updated for you each month.
On a weekly basis you will receive Chan & Naylor’s ‘mentor’ Practice Management support program.
You will receive high value information updates covering a diverse range of subjects affecting your practice.
Typical content includes:
Team Training Sessions;
Checklists;
Workflow Procedures;
Standard Client Letters;
Team Management Tools.
There is no limit to the number of pages that you can create on your eknowhow website.
Our content creation tools are easy to use, even if you have no previous web experience.
You can be publishing any type of webpage*.
Interactive Homepage
Adding Content
Contact & Location
Image Gallery
Events Calendar
Hypertext Links
File Downloads
Online Tours
Surveys & Forms
Advanced Searches
Website Membership
Online Shopping
You can easily add to, edit and update your interactive homepage…
* In order to manage your website, you will require an IBM Compatible Personal Computer, Internet Explorer version 7 or higher (free) and utilisation of broadband internet connection.
Your website incorporates world class Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) technology.
When content is added to your website, it is automatically put into a format that is google / search engine friendly.
Our website software allows you to easily create a html sitemap, a google sitemap and google business listing.
Note: that your search engine ranking is also determined by the relevance, quality, quantity and frequency of content updates that you have on your website; as well as other authoritative websites linking to your website. So, the onus is on the website owner to incorporate all of these factors.
With your website, you can capture the profile of your customers and send an unlimited number of personalised emails and newsletters at the click of a mouse.
The profiling and e-marketing functionality on your website assists you to:
Communicate faster, easier and better
Track the results of all your campaigns and mailouts
View instant reports on all e-marketing activities
The same communication through any other method ie: direct mail (brochures, newsletters, flyers), fax stream or advertising (local newspapers, radio, television etc) would cost thousands of dollars and could not be tracked to an individual level.
* In order to manage your website, you will require an IBM Compatible Personal Computer, Internet Explorer version 7 or higher (free) and utilisation of broadband internet connection.
Our advanced survey capability means you can capture the results of:
e-marketing & e-newsletters
Customer feedback
Market research
Polls
Competitions
Orders
Online exams
Our inbuilt reporting tools enable you to track and report on:
Website usage
Page views
Number of website visitors
And much more...
These results are automatically compiled and accessible online 24 hours a day to help your business work smarter and faster.
* In order to manage your website, you will require an IBM Compatible Personal Computer, Internet Explorer version 7 or higher (free) and utilisation of broadband internet connection.
You can use your website as an all-in-one marketing communications solution with multiple access levels.
Multi-level access gives you the flexibility to:
Develop a members-only area on your website
Build a confidential document area, intranet or an extranet
Use the client management system as a CRM, utilising client properties, client notes & reminders
eknowhow's functionality is easy to use and allows you to:
Update your homepage items (e.g. News update, Services / Products offering etc) with a click of a button
Publish your own professional web pages
Capture the profiles of your customers and prospects
Setup and manage an online database
Send unlimited e-marketing messages to your clients
Report on website traffic and e-marketing
Your website technology is upgraded regularly to ensure that you always have the most up to date and latest eknowhow website functionality.
* In order to manage your website, you will require an IBM Compatible Personal Computer, Internet Explorer version 7 or higher (free) and utilisation of broadband internet connection.
Your website is hosted in a security access controlled operations centre, which is manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
VESDA laser detection smoke system
GFS 12 month data backup system with offsite backups
18 CCTV camera video surveillance
Security
Our managed hosting solution's facilities have:
A 24 hour security guard in a bullet-proof control room
Motion detection and CCTV surveillance around and throughout the data centre
Electronic security card access for all staff members
All visitors are escorted by personnel
Backup
Our managed hosting solution maintains a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan that is regularly reviewed and tested.
The hosting solution uses a detailed backup and off-site archive mechanism to ensure that data that might be required to restore any portion of a system is available from either local or off-site tape storage.
Speed
Due to our unparalleled connectivity to the Internet, bandwidth restrictions are never an issue for our clients.
The Control Centre features over half a gigabit per second of connectivity. This is delivered via four high capacity divergent path links connected to Optus and Telstra.
As policy practice, the Control Centre ensures that it always has four times the capacity of its peak traffic loads.
Operating systems
We take complete responsibility for the provision and management of the operating system environment, in line with our Service Level Agreement. This includes responsibility for appropriate deployment of patches and configuration changes.
We continuously monitor public and manufacturer supplied information sources to ensure that performance and security are maintained at the highest possible levels.
We have extensive experience in managing a range of operating systems in complex environments under heavy user loads.
Hardware
The high service levels offered by our hosting solution are supported by a hardware platform from leading manufacturers, HP.
These platforms are monitored using external monitoring tools, as well as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agents, to give detailed and rapid monitoring of individual hardware components.
Many accountants who have chosen an eknowhow Accounting website generate '000's of dollars from gaining sponsorship and advertising revenue from suppliers that they refer their clients to.
In fact, these accountants are delighted:
at how eager their suppliers are to sponsor and support their website, and how easy it is to get the sponsorship;
that they are able to generate nearly 4 times more revenue than it costs them for the low monthly plan;
that they are significantly cash flow positive from day one, as their sponsors/advertisers pay them up front; and
that they are making a $4,000 cash profit simply from having a website.
What is included in our Monthly Website Plan?
1. World class fully integrated software includes (for NO additional cost):
a. Content management system (any type of page/ unlimited number of pages) b. Multi-level access – public, member, client, staff extranet c. e-marketing/ newsletter d. Online forms/surveys/polls – recorded against individual website member records e. Database for individual website members f. CRM – customer relationship software g. Forums h. Document libraries i. Integration / linking with other applications j. RSS Feeds k. Reporting on all the above functionality l. And much more……………
2. Monthly software upgrades to the above functionality/ applications (so you always have the most up to date software, and do not have to pay for upgrades later).
3. Unlimited e-marketing as often as you like, that is fully integrated to individual member reporting (so you don’t have to pay more, try to integrate with other software or deal with another external supplier etc.).
4. Fully integrated database (so you can capture, profile, monitor, communicate [on mass, by profile, or individually] with your website members and visitors as often as you like).
5. Ongoing daily 24/7 hosting technical monitoring and maintenance (means you don’t have to worry/ chase up/ find out, etc. what is wrong when your website is down – saving you hours every time there is a problem).
6. Ongoing daily software technical maintenance (means you don’t have to worry/ chase up/ find out, etc. why your website software is not working).
7. Daily, monthly backups (means you don’t have to worry about losing important data or content – saving you hours every time there is a problem).
8. Single contact point for all your website requirements (means you don’t have to wait hours/days trying find out what is wrong, who is responsible, how do I fix this problem, you have direct instant telephone access to the full service provider – not some buck passing, waiting on hold, interactive voice service).
9. Annual free redesign/ mobile version of your website - value $495 = $40 per month saving (so that your website always looks fresh, fantastic and represents your business image in the best possible way – or give away/transfer to a friend).
10. Finally included in our website plan is hosting and bandwidth…….this is the smallest/easiest/cheapest component of the monthly website plan.
Why do we include everything in a low Monthly Website Plan? To allow our customers to focus on, and get on with growing their business
Eliminates days researching and tinkering
Eliminates having to deal with frustrating techno, mumbo, jumbo jargon
Eliminates having to try to deal with interactive voice response, buck passing telcos and other service providers who take days/weeks to respond to any issue.
As customers say... “My monthly website plan is the lowest monthly expense our organisation has, and we receive a complete, first class, cost and time saving website product and service!”
Business plan $77 per month
* Includes visitor's hits and uploading articles/files/images to your eknowhow website Admin Area. Figure quoted assumes average article file size including images/files equals 400KB ± This assumes on average, each article equals 40KB including text and images
* In order to manage your website, you will require an IBM Compatible Personal Computer, Internet Explorer version 7 or higher (free) and utilisation of broadband internet connection.
As part of your monthly website plan, we provide access to our Online Resource Centre, and User Manual.
If you require any further assistance, we will provide a quote for this assistance.
