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We have developed our own consulting model, the AVdrive Filter ModelTM , to create systems of high value for organizations in a condensed time period. System analysis and design is at the heart of our Venture Acceleration services. The Filter ModelTM facilitates a step by step understanding of how to create value as a customer profile is moved through proposed components of a system.

Methodology:

  1. Knowledge Transfer – Materials such as formal business plans and marketing documents are provided to the consulting team for study. We also conduct Q&A sessions with your key personnel to discern business objectives, organizational values and goals.
  2. Profile Development – We develop an understanding of the all the stakeholders through qualitative interviews conducted by our team. We then create a Psychographic Profile of the top customers for use in the Filter ModelTM workshop sessions. AVdrive’s primary focus at this step is to discern compelling needs and fears in relationship to system function and organizational goals.
  3. Development of a Functions List – We then compile a list of possible system components to examine via Filter ModelTM , for example an e-mail or SMS invitation, functions in a shopping cart, or a Facebook widget.
  4. Filter ModelTM Workshop Sessions – are best with the participation of a cross disciplinary teams composed of client and AVdrve team members. One on one sessions with key people be valuable also. The psychographic profiles are moved through the consumption cycle. The team member brainstorming ideas, share their experience, specify features for each step. This process yields specific opportunities, secondary objectives, feature and constraints. A sequence of components results in end-values of attention, information, and dollars. These sessions often produce detailed and concurrent deliverables in the areas of branding, marketing, metrics, as well as information design, interface specifications, and database schema
  5. Create the system
 

Magento E-commerce Websites

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Is your ecommerce system keeping up? AVdrive Open Source choice for e-commerce is a project that Forrester identified Magento as the e-coommerce project to watch. AVdrive will not only create customizable design using templates they can be iPhone Optimized. We can help you implement features such as controlling multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel. You can execute sophisticated strategies and target your customers with micro websites tailored specifically to their needs. If your partner need to integrate them into their sites you can share as much or as little information as needed.
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Joomla Content Management System

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A content management system for your website is critical tool for your organization in the fast paced and competitive web environment. AVdrive recommends implementing Joomla as a solution to fulfill the needs of many types of businesses and non-profit organizations. It will give you enterprise-level Web site functions empowering you to provide your customers with fresh content. You will have the opportunity to add and edit content website 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Although we like to hear from you won’t have to call us to post your new press release or product or event, etc.

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Internet Business Strategy

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The secret is the AVdrive Venture Acceleration Model it is a process designed to develop a specific understanding of your potential website users and to lay a solid foundation for the design and develop stages. This process is centered on focused interviews of your employees and users and allows us to model the behavior of your most important customers. There are often surprises uncovered at this step about which websites they use, and how they use those websites, so we don't recommend skipping this step this often give your whole Internet business strategy a new competitive edge.


The understanding of your website customer is then used to create a specific user pathways and patterns to move them through stages of a business cycle – inform, transact, delivery, and support, on your website to sell your product, service, or idea. We are often asked to do this business strategy and information design consulting program independent of the design and development stages of website deliverables by start-up and corporations who have their own designer, ad agency or in house design and development department don’t hesitate call us contact us for a free Tune-up and a proposal for AVdrive Venture Acceleration workshop.


 

Open Source for Business

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Open Source software development and customization has been a staple in our teams projects since 1999. We first used it implementing a website project with the Apache webserver and PostgressSQL database. One of the most useful projects for business is called Joomla. With the Joomla content management system it is easier for people without programming skills to build robust, community driven web sites or class portals.

A content management system like Joomla allows more flexibility than static html sites, to create an environment in which your customers interact with your website they can contribute to their own learning process and eventual conversion on your website with a inquiry or sale.

AVdrive can build and customize a web sites that contains forums, bulletin boards, chat rooms, blogs, media, document editing, newsletters, customizable RSS feeds, calendars, e-commerce payment systems and much more. All of the different widgets and tools that can be added to web sites, like a chat room, are referred to as modules. These tools are open source, which means that the capabilities of these tools are always growing.

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