Portfolio of Recent Ittrium Projects

I have been in technology for over 17 years. Of that, I have been working with Internet technologies since 1989. I've launched several major Internet properties, and have had multi-million dollar budgets to implement major Web portals for Fortune 100 corporations and Internet start-ups alike. So when I wanted to launch my own Internet business, I knew what the pitfalls and expense/revenue ratios were. (It can be awful). I knew I needed a solution where content management and publication could be done without a staff of developers and designers, as well as having a technology that could be cost-effectively and rapidly deployed. As a small business, it was critical that cost of ownership and life-cycle maintenance costs were extremely low.

I found Ittrium at a time where I was gathering cost proposals from custom Web
development houses. The estimates for minor functionality were way outside of my budget, and they certainly weren't solving my content management and publication problems. Upon meeting with Ittrium, and getting a demonstration of the Ittrium product, I knew I had found my solution. Even with extensive experience in evaluating and making major software purchases telling me I was crazy, I signed the purchase order with them a day after the demo.

Unbelievably, a week after making my Ittrium purchase, my site was launched. A week after that my site was relaunched with my branding/look and feel. I spent an evening putting up content, and promoted at my first major event less than 3 weeks after buying Ittrium. I was able to come to market so fast, and so nimbly, that the one competitor I had threw in the towel and signed a co-marketing agreement with me.

I will sell my first advertising customer within a month of my Ittrium demo. That is the fastest time-to-revenue I have experienced in all of my 17 years in this industry.

When I come in to my day job, and show my Internet Implementation staff the pace at which I can do web creation and publication (I am not a developer), they walk away amazed and depressed because they know that the tools we have at our corporation take months and many dollars to implement a change I can do in less than 3 minutes in Ittrium. I am literally doing the same amount of work that I have three direct reports, and four developers doing at my employer's, in my spare time evenings and weekends.

The only thing that Ittrium will have a challenge with is that technology personnel in companies such as mine think that Ittrium's too good to be true. They're so trained that Web development is expensive and painful, that Ittrium can't be real. I think that companies who can get over that mentality, and make the very wise decision to select this product and this company (great customer-focused company, by the way), will get immediate return-on-value, and dramatically decrease their cost and risk of implementing Web properties.

Bottom line?

My last Web portal launched for my employer:

Major e-business technology platform with major industry content management solution
6 months development
$1.2M in services
Over $1M in software
$10,000/month hosting
Six months time to revenue
Support staff: seven people ongoing

My "night job" launched with Ittrium?

$400/month hosted Ittrium Webmaster service
Less than $5,000 in services
1 content person part time
1 week of creative design assistance.
1/2 person ongoing for maintenance
Less than one month time to revenue (would have been less had I been full time).