Anyone can make a website work—but can they make a business work? With Otobis, I'm not just getting a web design firm, I'm getting a strategist who helps me think through what's right and wrong with my business and how I can make it bigger and better.
Otobis took our idea for something that didn't exist in the marketplace and made it real. We were able to generate over 5,200 new users in the first two weeks of launching.
Credit card processing is fiercely competitive online—with millions of "me too" websites. The site Otobis created for us has closed business on its own, without sales intervention. It makes the features and benefits so clear that it's easy for customers to see how we're different.
In 1999, our long distance revenue had fallen from $125 million to $40 million and was projected to go to $20 million. Otobis helped us transition from being a long distance company using legacy technology to being a modern, web based, internet service provider."
In just a few weeks, Otobis helped us completely rethink and expand our business model. We developed a new plan calling for one third the investment capital with five times the exit value. Soon after, we secured our first round of funding and successfully launched the company.
