About DiG
Development & !nnovation Group
Sure I build great brands and good looking web-presences for business entrepreneurs. But you’ll get so much more than just a pretty website out of our time together. From day one, we’re on a journey of discovery to the centre of your business, and this is where my twenty five years of business management, marketing and design experience come into play! While we’re exploring, you’ll start to see yourself and your business in a new light. Every step we take will bring you closer to realizing your potential—the raw truth of what you’re capable of.
During this discovery process, my mission is to use my love of entrepreneurship and business branding to both guide and inspire you. I’ll be your coach, your marketing guru and your visionary. Then at the end of our solution development journey, you will have a visual identity package that captures the essence of your corporate identity, an online presence that truly serves your enterprise needs, your business soul and your story told. That’s my promise to you.
Mark Simon - Chief !nnovator at DiG
What We Do
From web design and web development to content creation and maintenance,
we offer end to end web services and support solutions that are smart and affordable.
At DiG, we pride ourselves on achieving great things with modest budgets.
Web Design
From information architecture to look and feel, we design websites that are responsive and user experience-led. and most of all, will strengthen your brand identity and enguage your potential market while establishing your business propriety.
Content Strategy
It is important to plan your content as it is the story your business tells. From strategy and planning to creating, reviewing and editing, and ongoing content management too. We ensure that what you need to say is heard in the right place at the right time.
Content Creation
Writing for the web is a specialist skill compared to copywriting for other media. Our team can review and edit your website content, or write new content that engages and motivates users to act. We use content to establish propriety, engender trust and build a relationship with your market.
Content Admin
Content management takes time and effort, and for your image to stay fresh and engaging it must be done regularly to keep up with your evolving business and changing market. We do this all for you on a monthly retainer leaving you to get on with what you do best, running your business.
User Experience
Our years of research, analysis and experience ensures what we do works! We place great significance on user experience. While we design websites that are easy to navigate and are engaging we also ensure that mechanisms, like forms, are easy to use to motivate visitor interaction.
SocialMedia Strategy
As part of our monthly retainer we deploy a social media strategy. This involves feeding regular articles on your website to social media platforms posts and sharing those posts into target groups. This drives visitors to your website, where we can use a call to action to achieve interaction.
Email Marketing
Managing email marketing campaigns is about a lot more than just designing pretty flyers, as you need to be aware of sending server limitations as well as ensuring that your recipients are correctly engaged otherwise your domain could be reported for SPAM. Our team are specialists in mass email solutions and email campaign management.
Web Development
We use industry standard platforms and open-source content management systems, with a combination of off-the-shelf and custom functionality. This is so that your web presence is robust, secure and enjoys service continuity. Our expertese is also augmented by a vast network of open-source experts.
App Integration
We can offer business process mechanisms that integrate into the websites that we build. These tools will assist with automation of repetitive tasks and streamline your communications, saving you time and ensuring prompt and effective interaction with your stakeholders, customers and your staff.
Data Management
Staying compliant with current data and privacy legislation, like GDPR and PoPi can be quite daunting, but we provide a range of data management solutions and strategies to help you remain compliant while still able to use your data effectively for efficient business marketing and logistics.
Web Hosting
We offer a state of the art secure website and email hosting service in a fully managed server facility at Data Centre Park. Our fully redundant power supply and high-performance Juniper network ensures that your website and email service is always online.
Support
Unlike other organisations that are too large and corporate, we pride our selves on providing personalised ongoing web support services, this includes marketing advice and technical support.
We’re always here ready to assist no matter what your needs may be.
Our Portfolio
Websites • Graphic Design • Online Applications
aHead Furniture
Trattoria Maranello
Melkbosstrand FTTH Collective
Graphic Design
UnderDog Motocycle Customs
Simpson Consulting
more Graphic Design
Velocco
CiPumps
Testimonials
CLIENTS • PARTNERS • BRANDS
"As a Chef and a Restaurant Owner/
Uli Stamm
Owner / Chef, Trattoria Maranello Melkbosstrand
"What a fantastic guy! Mark has
Monique Chatburn
Director, Simpson Consulting
Mark has worked with
Landie Stevens
Director at Fresh Beginnings
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There are so many companies and individuals offering websites out there, so why should you use DiG to create and manage your online business presence?
Yes we have years of coding and design knowledge and we are very good at building websites, but we also have actual business management experience and an understanding of what it takes to run a business from logistics through to marketing. This is were our offering differs. We use those years of industry experience to develop online tools to assit with your business work flow and processes. This automation will not only save you time and prevent task repitition but it will also ensure that all your processes are compliant with current legislation.
WE OFFER ONGOING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ... ... not just websites!
There is something special about your business.
Our goal will be to let the world know what that is!
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We are not cheap . . .
. . . but we do, however, offer reasonable Website Subscription Plans that make our services affordable and accessible, without sacrificing quality. This is a great option for smaller to mid-size companies who need a great website on a budget and who also need our regular Monthly Marketing, Social Media and SEO support.
There’s always someone willing to do it cheaper, but . . .
. . . generally, when you find someone willing to do a cheap website, that is what you are getting – a cheap website, and there is always a catch to a cheap website!
Your website should work for you. It is your best employee. Would you underpay your best employee?