• Do you want to work from the comfort of your own home?
• Want to work your own hours?
• Want the freedom to travel?
• Do you have a passion for helping others and making this world a better place? Are you okay sacrificing a bit of money to make that happen?
• Do you want to build a company from the ground up?
• Want to reinvent what a website design company is?
• Do you enjoy working with clients?

If the answer to ALL of those questions is yes – then we’d love to hear from you.

Of course, before you know whether you’re interested, you’re also wondering what’s involved? 3 primary components.

1. Client Management – which includes but is not limited to scoping website projects, quoting the client, get website contract signed, talking the client through the final design prior to getting approval, and managing expectations.

2. Overseeing the website design & development process — wireframing (will train on this if needed), move clients through design by relaying feedback between client and graphic designer, and overseeing the development process – bug testing, working with the developer to make sure site matches design spec.

3. Online marketing and content marketing – You’ll need to use various marketing tactics to attract clients, with content marketing being one of the most well proven strategies.

ESM is a bootstrapped web design company, but does have a small portfolio of sites already. Compensation will be entirely reliant on how many websites are put through the system. The perfect fit for this role is someone who has a desire to build and run a web design company, but wants some support and mentoring along the way rather than building it entirely from scratch.

Note you have a massive head start if you have existing online marketing and WordPress experience — but it’s not required if you are willing to learn.

Interested? Hit me up. drew at esmexecdesigns dot com.

This letter is addressed to me, but I have to thank Jessica Na (design) and Brandon Matson (development) for their work on Room 77′s new blog.

Mary, the first girl from Saint Monica’s Children’s Home to go to college, now has a computer. Jeff and Rocky Turner purchased it prior to their trip to Kenya right after Christmas.

Unfortunately, the world is not a level playing field. We believe where you are born should not dictate the quality of your life, and anything we can do to help level it for those all around the world is a step in the right direction.

Sure, we love helping clients like Room 77 launch gorgeous new websites for their audience – but making the world a better place is why we get up in the morning. Donating a computer for every website we build at ESM is the least we can do. I keep going back to this quote by Will Smith:

If you’re not making someone else’s life better, you’re wasting your time.

What are you doing to better the lives of others?

Take a look here!

Take a look and let us know what you think!

There are a couple thanks in order before I can wrap this up…

Thank you to Dawn Lyon for the introduction to the Room 77 team.

As a relatively new web design company without a large portfolio, we’re certainly thankful the Room 77 team trusted ESM Exec Designs with their site redesign — I guess it didn’t hurt that I worked under one of their board members (Spencer Rascoff) for several years and spent an inordinate amount of time writing content on Zillow Blog.

The fact that Room 77 chose ESM  for their redesign means that Mary at Saint Monica’s in Kenya (pictured below) has a brand new computer for her college experience. If you’d like to learn more about our one for one model (one computer for every custom website we build), you can learn more about our motives here. ESM is not just a web design firm — we’re a web design firm with a social purpose to leveling the playing field in this vast world that we live in, one computer at a time.

If you’re a startup looking to undergo a corporate blog redesign — let us know and we’re happy to see how we can help.

For those who want a sneak peak of what the new site will look like, here’s the home page design:

I read Toms founder Blake Mycoskie’s book, Start Something That Matters, a couple months ago and was beyond impressed with what Toms has accomplished. Once I decided to branch out on my own, it was a given to implement those same Toms’ values and mission at ESM Exec Designs. At ESM, we are doing our small part to help improve the lives of others. Why? Because we are beyond fortunate to be born into a life in the US where virtually anything is possible. We can accomplish anything we set our minds to. Nothing is impossible. But the world is not a level playing field. Unfortunately, where you are born (largely) determines the quality of your life, and the vast majority born into the world aren’t given an equal chance to succeed in life. My friend Kayla shared this story from her time in the Dominican Republic with me nearly four years ago. Four years later, it STILL puts a knot in my stomach to read it. Every little thing we can do to help level the playing field around the globe is a win in our book.

We know you can buy a custom site from any number of design shops — there are literally thousands of design shops that do great work. But by choosing ESM, know that your purchase of a custom site results in a child somewhere in the world receiving a computer they would not have otherwise. Mary, the first of the girls at St. Monica’s Children’s Home in Kenya to go to college, is the first recipient.

To close, I’ll leave you with a quote from Will Smith:

If you’re not making someone else’s life better, you’re wasting your time.