Project Overview
Total Solutions Group (TSG) was a premier IBM and Microsoft business
partner and one of the Top 25 companies in Minnesota two years in a row. TSG wished to launch a new web site during a time
of tremendous company growth that clearly presented the company in a way
that instilled potential clients with a confidence about the company's
capabilities, resources and consultant teams.
My role in the project was
to champion the design and implementation of the website. I
managed a team of Marketing staff, eBusiness Consultants and Graphic Designers
who contributed content, images and code to the site.
A key
component of this project was building the site in a way that
would allow employees in the Marketing department to easily
update the site content. The Lotus
Notes/Domino platform provided the perfect mechanism to aid in
doing this. A series of databases were developed which allowed
employees with no HTML or website coding experience to easily
update information in real-time on the site.
The finished site was
a natural extension of the print
Marketing campaign. Content such as the calendar of events and
training schedule could easily be updated through a simple Lotus
Notes database. The site's integration with the sales CRM system
ensured that visitors who requested more information were
assigned to a sales rep for follow-up to translate these leads
into new customers.