Andrew called, lm for me early this morning. Called him back,lm for him. His email to me below sent last Friday afternoon:
“Hi Danny,
I hope you’re doing well. I’ve copied your conversation with Wael below so I will spare you a long introduction other than to note I am an independent dental consultant who recently sold several practices and a medical spa I owned. Prior to that I worked in M&As after finishing my MBA. I work with clients across a broad array of initiatives from marketing to practice management, acquisition integration, etc.
Wael has hired me to essentially plan and execute a comprehensive marketing campaign for MVFD which includes initiatives in SEO, AdWords and Facebook ads. The goal is obviously toboost new patient flow through entry into and increased competitiveness within these channels.
I think that Optimized 360 has delivered a fantastic site to Wael in appearance, form and functionality and therefore I have no doubt that if we can simply increase traffic there, it will do its job in consistently converting visitors into new patients. Respectfully, however, Wael informed me that he hired your organization for SEO yet neither he nor I have seen much evidence that any project work has been performed either on-page or off whereas many of even the most basics of initiatives are missing.
Now, that’s none of my business and having employed over 40 people myself at one time, I understand that it can be difficult to marshall resrouces and execute project plans; hence the reason I work solo now. So, that’s between you and Wael. My only goal is to see him achieve the success he desires going forward and after studying his market extensively, I believe there is a decent-sized gap In the aforementioned channels where we can make a splash and overtake the competition.
However, the unfortunate reality here is that my job primarily in the SEO realm yet also within AdWords to an extent is going to be impossible to perform without at least access to plugins (which I avoid using at all costs) and moreover, without access to the web root and theme. Since you’re undoubtedly very knowledgeable, I’ll spare you a list of all the initiatives I’m unable to perform within the present state of access, but it’s obviously a very many.
So, I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement that I be allowed to have full admin access within his WordPress dashboard and to the hosting as well. I understand that you may have had trouble with other third party vendors in the past, but I did all my own marketing work for my practices and med-spa over eight years, have been consulting for nearly two years now having served over 35 clients and am proficient in writing HTML5, PHP, Python and Perl to name a few languages. During this time, I have yet to wreck a theme and am always extremely cautious, diligent and conservative in my work. I am very respectful of the web designer-marketing relationship and the last thing I would ever do is modify the aesthetics of functionality of a site without one’s aid or blessing at the least.
Please let me know how you feel about this situation whereas I would like to resolve it quickly and work in harmony with you. However, if that’s not an option then I suppose I’ll have to discuss migrating the site with Wael to a new host so we can perform the work that needs to be done. Obviously, I’d like to avoid that option at all costs because no one wins, and please don’t take it as a threat, but I am very big on putting my clients’ best interests first and will simply do what has to be done for them. I am hopeful, however, that we can work together.
I appreciate your time, Danny, and I look forward to hearing back from you. Please feel free to email or you can call me at (704) 905-0527. Please Note, however, that I am currently in Germany and 6 hours ahead of eastern time/8 hours ahead of mountain time. Thank you again!
Regards,
Andrew L. Schweiger, MBA”
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