Hi! 
I'm John Locke, and I'm the manager of a small web startup that helps businesses and associations make the most of their web sites.
At Freelock, the launch of a web site is just one milestone of the project. The web has become a powerful, fast-changing medium for marketing, providing a cost-effective way of reaching new customers and interacting with current ones. We stay on top of the technology, and actively partner with our clients to help them make the most of the rapidly changing online landscape.
If you're not continually reaching out to new social networks, streamlining your sales funnel, eliminating barriers to sales, or measuring effectiveness of your marketing campaigns, your competition surely is. Is your web site nimble enough to keep up with your changing business needs? Are you engaging with your customers online? Do you need your website to be more than just a brochure? If your business needs to make more use of the web, but you don't know where to start, give us a call!
About Freelock
We're a 5 person company in Seattle, Washington. We take great pride in crafting quality web sites that are extremely flexible, easy to change, fast to get launched, and tremendous value. Read more about these benefits on our "Why Freelock" page, or hire us today!
With a strong background in system administration, we often support e-commerce and applications that manage sensitive data or have sophisticated needs around workflow and permissions. We manage the entire technical infrastructure, and provide easy tools for you to manage your content. While we have a lot of in-depth experience building sites on a variety of frameworks, e-commerce systems, and from scratch, almost all of our current work is on the popular Drupal platform.
Our aim is not to just build you a web site. We want to help your business succeed, working with you for the long term to handle your web system needs. And while we have tremendous depth in our technical expertise, we talk business, and are happy to tell you how what we suggest will lead to profit.
What can we do for you?
We provide development services, interactive web sites, integration services, and technology strategy consulting. We don't do graphic design or marketing -- but we can steer you to some partners for these services. Our customers find the most value from:
- Ongoing support contracts. We keep your site up-to-date. We answer the phone, train you in how to make changes to your web site, handle quick content changes, connect your site to other applications for sales management or bookkeeping, make look-and-feel changes, restore backups, and much more, all for predictable monthly contracts. Click here for our support plan options.
- Custom web sites at very low up-front costs. We have created some canned configurations for association web sites, e-commerce, and basic business. These configurations cost a fraction of a custom site up front, yet have thousands of features available to be turned on. When paired with a support contract, we can tailor these sites to do anything you might want your web site to do. Check out our base packages here.
- Technology consulting. We've helped many startups create a strategy for how to build their application, what kind of personnel to hire to get the job done, and how to make use of open source software to get the job done quicker. We've saved several companies tens of thousands of dollars of startup costs by pointing out low-cost ways of rapidly developing their business. We offer these services on a consulting basis--ask us for a quote.
Stories
For a technical company, we think about business a lot, and we've got a ton to say. Check out some of our favorite posts:
- Scrap the requirements -- 10 problems with web development projects, and how we've solved them
- Is Your Business Ready for a (non-Twitter) Community?
- Black Vodka, a Finnish Sauna, and a Database
- Rules of Business I learned from Sailing
- How to make a (un) Useful Travel Website
What's Next?
Got a project to discuss? Call us at 206-577-0540. Drop us a line using the form below, or by sending an email to computing at freelock.com. Or fill out our request form to have us recommend a package.
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Use "helpareporter" as the coupon code during checkout, and save $100 on any of our support plans, buckets of hours, or standard packages. This offer is good for new customers through March 8th, 2010.