Expansion… that word has many meanings in the American Dictionary. Some of the meanings are: (1) The act of expanding or the state of being expanded. (2) Something expanded; an expanded surface or part. (3) The degree, extent, or amount by which something expands. (4) An increase, enlargement, or development, especially in the activities of a company.
Well in this particular blog post we are referring to the fourth definition I wrote here. But I suppose I should explain why I am evening writing about this first. As you have been reading, our company is growing at a slow but very comfortably steady rate. We have been pulling in clients at a steady rate that has not allowed us for any downtime at all. Mostly they have been DJ’s and restaurants, which is where we found our knack to be.
There has been however some discussion if Austin and I have chosen the best name for our company to represent us and what we want to do for the company. We held numerous meetings with each other and came to a unanimous vote that we needed to change the name of our company in order to present ourselves as a more “techy” company to the public. Ray has used a name for years now before teaming up with Austin when marketing web sites and hosting services, and that name was 13South. We will get into the history of that name at a later date. But to wrap this paragraph up, we registered that name under the corporation, and now use that name to represent our company.
Moving on … Up until now (now being February of 2011), work has been coming into the company at a slow, but comfortable rate, and we were able to sign on a client, and produce their website in about two weeks. But now the clients were coming in and getting stacked up. Austin came to Ray and stated that he needed help. This is where our company expands in the essence of people working for the company, for the first time.
Wesner & Graham Web Services Inc. which is now doing business under the name 13 South, hired their first graphic design specialist, Ryan Beilhart, out of Baltimore Maryland. This is unique in two ways. We are now a three person company, and we are technically located in two states now, which will allow us to pull in clients in a more extensive radius.
What this has done for the company is it has allowed us to delegate the work coming in more efficiently. And by this I mean it allows Ray to work on setting up server space for each client, and allow him to focus on each customers administrative access to their websites, and allows Austin to focus on the actual frame and content of each website, leaving the newest addition Ryan, to solely focus on the graphic design area of each website.
Expansion: An increase, enlargement, or development, especially in the activities of a company.
Keep checking back, to see where we are headed next!
