There are some myths floating around about hiring remote workers to get any type of job done. With the internet the way it is today, you don’t need to have someone in your office to get work done. They can be anywhere all across the globe, as long as they have a good wireless connection. Some people don’t like this idea and these "Negative Nancys" have started to spread rumors about the reasons why people shouldn’t outsource web work, but the truth is, those myths and rumors are simply false.First of all, many people believe that when the cat’s away the mice will play - a proverb which means that if the boss isn’t overseeing everything, the employees will not be productive. However, a study by the Harvard Business Review showed that remote employees were actually more products - by 13.5% to be exact. The truth is that when people have the freedom to eat lunch whenever they want, take a break to enjoy the sunshine for a little while in the afternoon, and work when they feel most productive, they get a lot more done because they are happier. Plus, with remote workers, there’s no pesky office gossip and water cooler time to distract!
Other people worry a lot about communication with remote workers. Either they fear that they will be out of contact, or that something gets lost in the fray when you don’t have that workplace friendship with someone. However, there are so many online communication methods that it’s not a problem. There are contained networks like Slack which allow remote workers to connect to anything they want, and of course, video conferencing is much easier than it used to be, not to mention the countless instant messaging services that make it so easy to send off a message to someone in a second.Finally, the last fear that many have about working with someone who is not on site is that their data will not be secure. However, any good company will have measures in place to protect the security of data. There are many services that can be used to encrypt data as it is being sent along, and even more, ways to ensure that only the correct person is accessing the data you want to share.Hiring a remote worker for your web services makes sense. It’s secure, easy and can save you money, so contact us today to see what we can do for you.
Depending on how old you are, you may think that the year 2017 sounds pretty futuristic, even though that’s where we are right now. The web development trends for this time period do seem like something that even just 10 years ago would have been just a pipe dream or perhaps even something you might see on a science fiction television show. Watch out for these trends, and ask us how we can help you make these a reality for your business.
The 360-degree video is revolutionizing certain industries. It’s applicable to education, where students can really see what a particular environment is like without having to visit it. They can see a full view of the rain forest or outer space for much cheaper than a trip in a rocket ship! It’s also doing great things for the real estate industry. Realtors can save a lot of time by showing potential clients 360-degree videos of a space before visiting it to make sure it will be something they are interested in.
Virtual reality takes the idea of a 360-degree video one step further. There have been some amazing headset devices released onto the market in the past year, and different industries are exploring how virtual reality can best benefit them. Of course, video games and adult video are the things that people have been focusing on the most, but a virtual reality video advertisement to give potential clients an immersive experience can put you a cut above the rest.
When you think of AI you might think of robots that take over the world or something like that, but AI is really a lot more simple than that right now. Even many search engine algorithms are already using artificial intelligence to help determine what a person means when they type in a particular query. In addition, digital assistants are assisted greatly by AI, and all of the big tech companies are doing some heavy research into this field.
Any web development trend for 2017 is worth your time and you should not be hesitant to put them in practice as soon as possible. Ensure your software stays up to date with the latest trends with Quantox a company that always works with the latest technologies and solutions. Let's Talk and discuss how to upgrade your digital product.
If you own a business or even if you just have a hobby, chances are that you have some kind of website. Whether or not you are a tech guru or just someone who needs to have a web presence, there are some terms relating to web development that just about everyone should know. This will allow you to communicate your needs to the team who is going to be working with you and will make you feel comfortable doing so.
A CMS or content management system is also sometimes called the “back end” of a site. This is where you can input blog posts, products, and updates to your site yourself. Most backends aim to be user-friendly so that even the most Luddite among us can use them to update the site. There are “out of the box” CMS’, but it’s always much better and more convenient to have us build you a custom one that can be exactly what you want.
You know that little square icon that shows up in your browser tab that lets you know which website you are on? That is called a favicon. It’s an aspect of a site that is pretty important even though it is so tiny! Make sure your favicon represents your brand, and that resembles your logo but isn’t so detailed that people can’t figure out what it is.
A responsive website design is one that will automatically detect what device or screen size a person is using and adjust itself accordingly. This is the best type of design because these days there are so many different devices like tablets and smartphones that people can be used to access the internet - and they all have different screens! It used to be that you would have to make a full mobile site version, but with responsive design, you can get an all in one package.
Most people will probably find your company through a search engine, and that is why SEO is so important. It used to be that only the content mattered on your site for SEO, but now there are many factors involved including how simply your site is to use and how secure it is too. Make sure you take these factors into consideration!
Whether it's responsive design, or having a fast website that follows all SEO website building guidelines, Quantox is known for exceptional web development your can leverage for your business. With our UI/UX design and a clean code, we ensure top-notch user experience and performance that will rank your business high in search results. You need a website for your business? Let's Talk!
When creating a website for a company, many people go with out of the box solutions that are made by large entities like Wordpress or Wix. While these systems are excellent because they allow just about anyone to create their own website with minimal knowledge of coding, if you’re a company of a certain caliber, or want to have full control over your website, you really should have your own custom CMS, which is another word for back end of the site.This way you have full ownership of the back end, and whether or not things are working isn’t dependent on a company feeding you updates and comparable apps that function well only some of the time. Our PHP programmers can make this a reality for you. We’ve got a great team of people who are experts in this field, who can easily make pretty much anything you want on your website using PHP.
This is especially relevant for those who are selling specific things online. Do you need to have certain fields available for specific information that you want to customize and make it easy to input? Or maybe you simply want your website to be easily exactly the way you want. You shouldn’t have to compromise and that’s where PHP comes in. We can make you anything you want and do a custom job for you and your website. There’s a lot of possibilities, so the only limit is your imagination and what you have been envisioning for your site. Using PHP as the framework of a website makes things more flexible and it’s a great idea, so contact us to get started on the PHP project you’ve been dreaming about.
Find out what the talk is all about and talk to one of our consultants today about the web services you need. Quantox PHP developers are the rare combination of affordable and fast with high-quality output that will impress both you and your users. With expertise in many fields, you can only go right with us! Let's Talk!
Nowadays, if you want to be a successful company, the most important thing you must achieve is to please your clients the best possible way! If you do that, the word will spread and in a blink of an eye your company's name will become pretty famous. It is not important what kind of job you are working, it is important how you do your job! Ok, this is a sentence which many writers, bloggers and all other related will gladly have on their posts if they are writing about their companies. But, is this really true? Let's think a bit, shall we? Ok, it IS really important to make your clients satisfied and pleased with your service, but, maybe, just maybe, there is one more important thing. Can't remember? Let me help you! Your employees! In order to make your client satisfied, the first thing you need to do is to make your employees happy and satisfied in all kinds of ways! This is not such a common sight, but, not all the companies are successful, right?
We are happy to announce that our company policy is pointed in this direction and that we are doing all we can to provide the best possible conditions for our employees! That's why we have so many team gatherings, Happy Fridays, funny games in the office and so much more... But, we are most proud of our Teambuildings! Yeah, once again, Quantox Team has been sent to a beautiful place for 3 days and we all had such a great time! Teambuilding is more than just a free day you know! It's a golden opportunity for everybody to get to know their colleagues better. And that's just what we did.Due to fact that we are fast-growing company and that we have offices in different cities, not all members of our team knew each other! But that was before we had this phenomenal trip to one of the most beautiful mountains in Serbia. The Old Mountain, the jewel of the South-eastern Serbia is such a fantastic place and as soon as we arrived, we've encountered so many great things.The hotel we were staying at was off the charts and we were all stunned by the variety of things that were offered to us by the hotel itself and the pleasant stuff! Of course, the places we have visited were remarkable and I'm assured that we will always remember time spent on this wonder of nature! But, that's just a part of our trip! One general part, every company has this kind of trip, but not every company has what we in Quantox Technology have! Friends! The level of friendship in our community is something that I simply can not describe using just words! You have to be part of it to feel it! That is the main reason for our success and on this trip, all of us made new friends and consolidate the old ones.Having a 4-hours-long walk through the mountain, climbing to its biggest peak, swimming in the beautiful pool, sunbathing and chit chatting, using spa, sauna, playing basketball and football, were just an accompanying things on this trip of friendship (I would call it that way). That's why our gatherings are special and this one was probably the best we have ever had! Of course, there are much more to come and we are all looking forward to the new places and new faces in our team! Take a look at the photos below and you will maybe have a glance of the relationships we have here! Enjoy, just like we did there!
When you hire a web developer to improve your website, you want to know that the work they have done is helping your business out, right? Fortunately, it’s very easy to check that with free tools like Google Analytics. This is very easy to use, and very handy also. You simply have to have your developer input a specific code to the site, and then everything will be tracked by Google! This gives you a ton of data to measure and a lot of information. However, for those who aren’t familiar with some of the terminology, it can be a little overwhelming, so here are some important portions to track.
This is the thing that most people look at right on the front of the analytics site. This tells you how many people visited your website, and it shows it over a period of time so you can easily see any dips and bumps. When you track it, you will know if your traffic went up according to any particular marketing push, so it really does give you a nice idea of what works and what doesn’t work. Below this graph will be some other metrics relating to sessions, one of which is the percentage of new sessions. This will tell you how many new visitors your site had - ie, ones who hadn’t visited it recently.
The bounce rate is very important in analytics because some industry experts speculate that sites with high bounce rates get lower consideration in search engine standings. The bounce rate represents people who visited your site, but it wasn’t what they were looking for, so they left pretty quickly. If you have a high bounce rate, there’s a chance that your site is ranking highly for something that doesn’t make too much sense, or something about your site doesn’t draw people in, so it’s time to contact us to see what you can do about it!
Related to bounce rate is the engagement section. This doesn’t have anything to do with holy matrimony, but it does tell you how long people have spent looking at your site. Some SEO experts theorize that higher times on site result in better search engine rankings, so this is a great metric to pay attention to.
This is always an exciting section to look at because it tells you which pages on your site are the most popular. Using this section you can really tell what types of pages are drawing people in and which are not doing so hot. It’s always exhilarating to find out what people really react to and the evidence is undeniable!
Quantox is determined to building IT solutions that are able to satisfy any Web Analytics Tool. We achieve this by building apps that are fast, secure and with the best UI/UX design to provide the best user experience. Do you want your web app to beat any web analytics tool? Let's Talk!
That's the word you hear every single day, no matter what is your profession and what are you currently doing, right? So, let's say a few words about this...
When thinking of creating or updating a website, you need both web design and web development. However, unless you’re working in the field, you may get these two confused. It’s really easy for non-professionals to make this mistake because of these two things really sound lot a like, and heck, they both even have the word “web” in it and start with the same letters, so the chance for a mistake is really big!However, even though web design and web development are related, they’re not the same thing, though one is required for the other. Stay with us and learn the difference and the real meaning of these two very important concepts.
When we talk about web design, we are only talking about the visual aspect of a website. When a web designer works on their project, they use programs like Photoshop or other tools which allow them to create skins and templates for a website. They work hard to ensure that everything looks perfect, and they may also create logos and other graphics for a site’s online presence. When they are done, they often hand off their designs to a developer to implement on the site.
Web development, on the other hand, is using different programming languages to actually implement many different things on a site - from the design to widgets and interactive features that show up on the website. On a very basic level, they can create a site, but more advanced developers can also create a custom content management system for a site, or even develop plugins and apps for existing out of the box content management systems like Joomla or Wordpress. Development is essential because it is used to implement the design. Of course, a developer can make up their own website design, but it is often helpful to have both because you’ll get someone with an artistic eye working on your site, as well as a coding whiz to implement it.
Both web design and web development are a very important parts building your web solution. You need design because you want your site to look amazing, and you need development because you want everything to work smoothly. Luckily for you, Quantox is a full-service agency and we can help you with both. We have a huge team of professionals who are experts in their fields, who will work hard to make sure that your web presence is great in all different aspects. Let's Talk!
The year is 2017, and you still don’t have a website for your small business?!
It probably even sounds a little bit outrageous to you. Small business owners come up with many excuses to avoid building a website, but we’ll tell you the truth: all those excuses are completely bunk. There’s a tough truth to learn and it is that there is absolutely no excuse to not have a website! The good news is, it’s never too late to start, and we’re here to help you along the way.
Some people use the excuse that they simply don’t need a website. However, that’s just not true. Almost everyone uses the internet and the people who don’t are complete weirdos. When was the last time you did anything without first consulting the internet from ordering food, researching a product to buy or looking up the address of a physical place you wanted to go? By not having a website you are missing out on a lot of opportunities, and you are also missing out on making things more convenient for your customers and clients!Other people say that they have enough customers. This is great for you, but wouldn’t you like to make it even easier for your customers to get information about your products and give you money? With a website you can provide online payment portals, and have a website will also help with customer retention so you will continue to have enough customers.A very common excuse for business owners is to say that they use social media instead of having a website. This is a fine idea because social media is very important to any marketing mix, but it’s hard to capture your followers as customers without a website. Especially in the millennial generation, users judge company’s without websites harshly because they know how easy it is to create one, and how convenient it is to use one to get information.
Still, others say they don’t have time to maintain a website. Luckily for you, that’s where we come in! We are a full-service web development agency and we can help you with everything from making a website to maintaining it on a day to day level. Whether you just need someone to make the website or run it, we’re here for you. Contact us today to see how you can get started!
When I came to the office this morning, I had one really pleasant surprise waiting for me on my desk. And, the most of you would probably ask what kind of surprise an employee can get on Wednesday, right? Well, let me tell you a short story about it...As you already know and as you have already experienced on your own skin (if you have some kind of full-time job), we live in a very fast and advanced age. Some of you may not see it that way, but just imagine how things were done just a 20 or 30 years ago and how they are done now and you will see that this age is far more advanced than all the others ages in the history of mankind combined! Our age, our (I can freely say post-modern and technological) age is something we can't fight against. We have to dance by the notes of the age and these notes are crystal clear: A lot of work in order to achieve success and earn as much money as you can and a not so much free time!
OK, we, as a generation, have accepted this concept and we are going shoulder by shoulder with our age. But, at some point of your life, you simply have to ask yourself is this enough? Success and money, expensive cars, exclusive restaurants and similar stuff... Is that enough for you to be happy on a long term basis? Sometimes, the only thing we need is another person's company, a warm word, and a pleasant hug! Money can't buy these things, but we can not live without the money, right... So, what is the best option for us? What can we do to have both free time for love and the friends and success in the business?Maybe answer to this question lies in the words of the famous Chinese sage, Confucius: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life". The job is one of the most important things nowadays and if you choose it wisely, it's like you've won the lottery! That's exactly what we in the Quantox Technology can say about our job! This is not only our job, this is a way of life and that's why my colleagues and I come to the office with a big smile on our faces! So, I can finally talk about this great surprise I found on my desk.
It's Wednesday (I mean, Wednesday, the most unimportant day of the week), I come in the office and I find beautiful and delicious donuts on my desk! Early in the morning! To make my coffee better! How cool is that? This small thing, this little sign of appreciation and respect for employees is what makes our company so great! That's why we all have it all here: Sucess in the business, friends and warm words! We are more a family than a company and that makes us fight our age with ease!
Sometimes, I think we can even win this fight...
Quantox is a full-service web technology firm that can make just about anything you need. One thing that some businesses tend to neglect in their creative process is coming up with a mobile app or even simply a mobile version of their website.They focus a lot of making their website really awesome but hardly give a passing thought to those small devices that people use every day. More and more people access the web solely from their smartphones, making them even more relevant. Plus, in their more recent updates, Google and other search engines have announced that they have started to give higher priority to sites that have their mobile game in order. That means that fixing your site’s mobile presence can even help your search engine standings.
That is something that we here at Quantox can help you with. We have available and experienced developers who can make iPhone and Android apps, and those who are also familiar with how to make a website look A+ on a mobile device or tablet. This will allow your users to browse your site or use your product while they are on the go just about anywhere, which is becoming more essential to running a functional business these days. Pretty much anything and everything can be turned into an app, simply to allow users to have better and easier access to your products, whether you’ve got an online service or a retail product that people can buy online.
Don’t neglect your company’s mobile presence and remember to get some mobile work done to improve your business’ online presence.In this day and age, it is something that really needs to get done and some would even say that if you don’t have at the very least a mobile website going, this may be an important priority for improvement, even before updating or upgrading a normal website. Of course, our consultants can help you find the exact right services that you need and can advise you on what would be best for your company.
THINK ABOUT PROCESSES. THINK ABOUT THE NEXT IN THE PROCESS.
The process is one of the most mysterious terms and notions nowadays. Although it is now so new but exists for a long time, it has never been demystified, so for most people, it sounds so scary.Nevertheless, it is very important everybody to understand what the process is, how it functionates, as well as that our complete life and work happen through processes. Yes, everything we perform in our life, every day, takes place through processes or sets of processes. As Edward Deming said, “if you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing”. If you think over about your activities, you will see that it is quite right.Although you can read that one of four Agile principles says that individuals and interactions are over processes and tools, that definitely doesn't mean that processes and tools there are not or that are not important.
The simplest, we can say that the process stands for transforming input into outputs, using necessary and appropriate resources, as well as by someone`s managing. For example, you have whole bread as an input, so you want to get slices as an output. Therefore you will use a knife as a resource, but you will manage the resource and whole the process, moving the knife in a proper way or at an appropriate speed.Ok, that's nice… so, have a look everything you do- processes are everywhere around you. For everything you have some input- sometimes that is Manager's order, sometimes Customer's demand, technical specification or global standard. Also, input can be something your colleague did, some output of his work. Well, that is interesting- someone's output can be your input.
Definitely, you will work easier if your input is better, simpler or such that can facilitate your work.But, it seems it doesn't depend on you but on your colleague… amiss. Don't surrender, think about what you can do in order to get as good input as possible, to get desired inputs. Yes, you can go to your colleague who will deliver you his work and tell him what you need, in what form, what will be the best for you. Try to be polite, but detailed, concrete, and to define your needs in a structured way.
There is someone in the process after you - your outputs will be his inputs, so take care of that. As you wish and need as better inputs as possible, such next in the process has the same needs. Before start doing your job, ask next in the process what he needs, try to understand why that is important for him, so align your process and your activities with that.Well, that means there are many people who will be included in that stream to the ultimate customer, who can be somebody from the market. So, that means, we should start creating processes backward, thinking what is to be previous activity in order to deliver expected result, so to create processes in that way. It sounds reasonable- you can`t make a roof if you don`t have walls. Start from a roof, start thinking about your processes. Start from the Customer, start from next in the process, help him, understand why some your output is important as his desired input.Go to the mirror and you will understand, it is important for someone else like it is important for you in another situation.Think about processes, think about the next in the process, start building processes from His Majesty the Customer.
We understand that process is at the core of everything we do at Quantox. And because we master at all types of processes we are adamant in explaining every part of our software development process to our clients. With Quantox, transparency and understanding is the paramount for a good business relationship. So, Let's Talk!
When digital commerce began online there was a period of time dominated by Do It Yourself webmasters who worked hard to build and refine their businesses by hand with little or zero external help. As things became more complicated, the trend was toward establishing your own core competency and outsourcing narrowly defined responsibilities to outside consultants or independent contractors. Recently there is a new shift in the way business is being done, and Quantox is at the forefront of the modern web development evolution.
“Doing it all yourself just isn’t practical anymore, with so many systems to learn and maintain, complicated codes to create, design trends to account for and the speed at which everything keeps changing. The idea of a one-man shop running a major online business is obsolete,” explained Vuk of Quantox.
“Similarly, clients are now hesitant to hire several independent contractors on their own because they have already experienced the frustration of watching each blame the other whenever anything goes wrong of ends badly. The holistic approach is the most sensible way to handle web development these days, and that is why we have built Quantox from the ground up with comprehensive product management in mind.”
Holistic web development involves having a single point of contact, to handle all of the outsourced elements of any digital product. Whether you want an entire platform coded as a new backend, and need the design of the front end done as well, are seeking to be sure your site is properly optimized for search engines, want your email campaigns and stat tracking to be seamlessly integrated or are seeking custom solutions to any other aspect of your web-based business, having your own project manager overseeing an experienced team of experts is the only realistic way of getting your business to move forward under budget in the time frame allotted.
Quantox employs more than 100 coders, designers, project managers, technologists and experts in their respective fields – capable of providing you with all of the work you want to be done, and we do not outsource any part of your projects or require you to find separate contractors to handle other aspects of the work.
“By working in a holistic way we are responsible for the entire project and we can ensure the strictest quality control while giving our clients a truly scalable solution for virtually any digital challenge being faced. We don’t point fingers, we don’t make excuses and we are always easy to reach. That saves you time, saves you money and in the long run… it also makes Quantox the obvious choice.”
As all of us know, today's market is very demanding and competitive in every industry. When talking about IT industry, that is significantly more expressed, especially when we know that while the World is connected and that IT companies and professionals are available everywhere around us.If you want to exist on the market in such conditions, you are to be better and better from day to day, to rise continually.Yes, from day to day, not from year to year!No one has so much time to wait for improvement, especially if want to grow and increase own standards, providing the best quality to clients, as well as improving an internal organization, developing employees and increasing their satisfaction. Yes, sounds very difficult, like climbing… actually, it is some kind of business climbing.
Comparing business with climbing may sound strange, but there are a lot of similarities actually.Climbing has never been easy- it demands significant efforts, you can`t reach the top of a mountain in a day or in short period, but through many steps.Setting and reaching the small next goals and making base camps for next steps are crucially important for the success of that project, so that approach demands appropriate (specific) mindset from the start. Small goals/steps are very important, as well as base camps, in order to whole the team be accommodated and prepared/ready for next ascent. This is the best way that ensures whole the team to be successful and to achieve the goal through that exciting journey.As our goals are very high, we in Quantox don`t waste time waiting for something to be improved on itself, nor leave things to be on the same level for a long time. Instead, our approach is proactive and progressive, directed to continuous improvement, such that direct all improvements and implement all incremental solutions in a flexible way, adapting to our current level of organizational development and our next business goals.
Understanding that nothing can be moved to extremely high level over the night, we are continuously building positive environment and mindset, systematically helping every of our employees to be better from day to day, cherish concept that our employees are our the most significant and the worthiest resource, so inspire them and consider their ideas and proposals as the best resource for continuous improvement.Using that synergy, we are making small improvements every day, implement and test them, facilitate every change and enable our employees and organization to adapt to change and make fine-tuning. It really makes amazing results, strongly motivates all to continue improving herself/himself and whole the organisation. Kaizen is one of our secret sauces of the success!
We are developing and applying philosophy, culture, techniques, and tools of Kaizen consistently. We have deep necessity to improve ourselves and the company, it lies in our genuine commitment to excellence. Simply, we don't talk about Kaizen, nor try to imagine what that could be- we really live Kaizen every day.
Let me tell you something about working here, in Quantox Technology! It is not standard, boring job! It's a way of life! How many times have you been in a situation that you would give everything just to stay in the bad for a few hours more rather than go to the work, but you can't do it because you have to be in the office at the precise time? I know, you can't even count all these situations, right? Well, guess what, we in Quantox don't have that kind of problems.
Our working time is flexible!And that means that we can really be in the office whenever we want, with no consequences at all! So, if you are tired, you have something private to do, or you just had a long and interesting night with your friends, don't worry. Wake up whenever you want, grab a cup of coffee, get ready and then go to the office! That's how we do it!Of course, this is just a one of the many good things that working in Quantox Technology brings! I'm gonna turn to the science to make this easier for you to understand, so pay attention. They say that if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. This statement is often attributed to the ancient Chinese sage Confucius, and many scientific researchers have proven it! If you love what you do, and if you enjoy your work, your results will be outstanding. One more crucial ingredient for the success in the work is a team of people that surround you, and we can really say that this is the part of our company that we are most proud of.
We have all the support in work we need, and our team of administrators, project managers, team leaders and quality assurance will give their best to help you improve your skills and be successful. I must mention that we have a really wide range of projects that we are working on, from smart TV apps, Java, Laravel, Objective-C, Angular 2 to PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, XCode, JavaScript, you name it... We got the most of the industries needs covered by the experienced people and some of our projects have over 60 million of views daily.
And all of that we are managing to achieve in the fantastic offices we have. Cooking a lunch or a dinner and eating with the friends in the comfortable dining room, is a normal thing in our office. We also like to play football, basketball, and many other games during our breaks. Of course, all of this is just to encourage our staff and to create the best possible conditions for their best results.For the end, let's talk about the bond we all have in the Quantox. As I mentioned it before, this is not a just a regular job, this is a way of life. We are spending time together not only in the office, but outside also, and we are having such a great time. Our trips and team buildings are something that we are remembering with the joy and smile on our face and every member of our, now pretty large, team has something special to offer to the collective!
Because of all above mentioned, I can proudly say that we have managed to create the perfect environment for every talented person who wants to work and to be successful. After all, our motto "work hard and play hard" really is our guide!
There are artists in the world that can create magnificent masterpieces that evoke emotional connections with otherwise inanimate objects. Quantox Technology does not hire any of them. While we appreciate artistic talent, that isn’t what makes someone a great designer for commercial applications.
“Our clients want to overcome a frustrating obstacle in their business plans, or are seeking to expand their operations, ” said Vuk of Quantox. “They may want to refresh the look and feel of a website to be in line with the best converting designs currently trending, or they may want to improve the efficiency of their sales funnel with a simpler, more obvious path to making purchases.These are time sensitive tasks that can’t be done by moody or overly sensitive artists. When our clients contact us, our goal is to earn them more money with clean, effective and entertaining designs that improve retention without any unnecessary expenses. Every designer who works at Quantox is great at that, regardless of whether they work well with oil paints and marble chisels or not…”
Many business owners are lulled into a false sense of confidence when they are shown the portfolio of an amateur designer who has made a few outstanding pieces of art in the past. Keep in mind, that portfolio likely took them years to create, was probably done when their mood inspired them, and each item in that portfolio may have earned zero dollars for any client no matter how nice it looked.
“When I start to work on the UI/UX of a website, I’m not looking at it while pretending to be Michelangelo,” said Milan, Lead Designer for Quantox. “What I’m doing is putting myself in the mindset of being your potential customer or recurring member. My goal is to increase the number of signups your site brings in, to keep your existing members recurring and present your content in ways that have the best impact on the financial health of your company. If I feel like drawing for fun, I can do that during my lunch hour or on the weekends, professional design isn’t about fun and whimsy, it’s about earning dollars, euros and the trust of your consumers.”
We look forward to having the opportunity to show you why our design team wins awards from business communities and appreciation from the CEOs, even if it isn’t likely to ever adorn the walls of a famous museum (unless that museum is trying to improve revenue from its ticket sales). Quantox Technology provides free price quotes for design work and can also fully integrate any of the other back-end services your company needs to provide you with a top quality fully-functional digital property faster and better than you ever expected. Let’s Talk about your project!
Well, you can find the answers to these questions from our Dušan Pavlović, Data Scientist in Quantox Technology, who will give a lecture PER DATA AD ASTRA on 23th of March at the Geekstone Meet-Up Event.
Dušan will demonstrate such a connection and talk about how computer vision, deep learning, and research on meteors - shooting stars - overlap.
One of the topics is how relatively easily you can apply your knowledge of neural networks to solve the problem of automatic detection of meteors in astronomic data made by radio detectors. This problem is one of the most complex ones in this field and our understanding of different problems in the Solar System depends on it.
As someone who studied astrophysics, being an author and the host of the science podcast "Radio Galaxy '' while engaged in the physics of meteors and meteorite astronomy for years, Dušan will show one of the examples of how to apply Data Science to scientific data!
The lecture will be held in Serbian and the entrance is free!
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:00 - 8.00 PM
Science and Technology Park
Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
Save the date and welcome to the World of Data!
Register at the link
https://www.meetup.com/geekstone/events/292131441/?isFirstPublish=true
Serbian IT companies will gather from the 3rd to the 6th of April at the CS:GO Vol.4 charity tournament.
Motivated by the important topic and achieved results from the previous year,
we decided to stay with the same goal - in 2023 the IT community will be playing for Serbian maternity hospitals and better conditions for the youngest and their mothers!
Companies can register up to 3 teams and donate the financial funds to the common fund. As in previous years, the start for one million dinars is provided by Quantox.
After the closing of applications, by public voting and filling out an anonymous survey, we will together decide which maternity hospital we are helping this year!
We hope that the HIT CS:GO crew will expand this year with new companies and teams that will compete, have a great time and show that the greatest victory is humanity.
Register your team by the 31st of March.
Link for team registration and more information: https://hitturnir.com/
It's time to play even harder!
We are looking for an exchange of experience and ideas that improve the digital world and shape our future!
Gathering together Haufe experts and IT companies, partners, and clients, the Haufe X360 Summit takes place at the Kameha Grand Hotel in Bonn from the 29th to the 30th of March.
Lecturers from Haufe and Acumatica - the platform on which Haufe is based- will discuss planned system innovations and software improvements.
We are looking forward to hearing from great people, meeting other Haufe partners, and sharing experiences and ideas.
The Quantox Crew will be there!
You can meet our people and find out more about our services, advanced digital solutions, and models of cooperation. We are happy to have a chance to network with new potential clients and all new partners ahead!
Summit Agenda and more info can be found at the link
Petar Slović, Chief Innovation Officer @ Quantox Technology, will give a lecture at a workshop organized by DaFED at the Rectorate of the University of Novi Sad on March 1, starting at 6 p.m.
At Peter's workshop "Simplifying Full Stack Serverless Development with tRPC in NextJS" visitors will have the opportunity to learn how to use the power of the T3 stack and tRPC to create scalable full-stack serverless applications.
DaFED is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating educational workshops and networking events for designers, developers, and all tech and innovation enthusiasts.
Discover the benefits of using tRPC in NextJS and learn how tRPC can facilitate the creation of secure and efficient serverless APIs without burdensome infrastructure management.
The workshop is free, and you can find more information, registration, and a link to the live stream at https://dafed.org/
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If you are looking for a man who will answer your questions about potential partnership opportunities, look no further. Alek is our CDO with solid skills in leading teams and running projects developed over the years. Do you have projects that need reinforcement, and engineering support or do you need a partner for brand-new software solutions? Talk to Alek and find out more.
He is your guy if you have a major project planned or ongoing but don't know quite yet how to ensure your software development is running smoothly. As our COO, with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Dan can understand you and optimize your software development process.
A new milestone in the IT world! Building the future with strong partnerships!
Quantox Technology and Sandberg Capital have signed a partnership for the further expanding growth of the company, bringing it to a higher level! A €20 million investment is aimed at making a significant leap for Quantox’s future sustainable development, talent acquisition, and strategic global expansion.
Sandberg Capital is a Slovak private equity company established in 2014 with an AUM exceeding €340 million. It focuses on investments in small and medium businesses in the Slovak Republic and the region of Central and Eastern Europe, including among investors institutional ones, such as the European Investment Fund.
This partnership is one of the top 5 investments in the region so far, signed with companies from Serbia.
With Sandberg’s support, Quantox Technology plans to make successful breakthroughs in new markets, building even stronger client relationships with greater freedom and creativity in creating new software solutions.
“By entering into a partnership, we want to broaden our expertise and further strengthen our position as a leading IT employer in the region. Also, this investment will enable us to have a greater presence in the European and US markets, which will mean a lot to our clients by increasing the range of services in delivering high-end digital solutions and providing comprehensive IT support”
The company’s focus remains the same – discovering new perspectives and empowering the Q team. The partnership is an additional lift that will bring Quantox even closer to long-term growth, sustainability and stability.
“Given Sandberg’s multiple investments in the IT sector, we see an increasingly strong push for digitalization across the economy. At the same time, we perceive a severe shortage of IT professionals that may be preventing companies from growing and achieving their strategic goals. The investment in Quantox reflects our long-term strategy of partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs in sectors that directly or indirectly help with the digital transformation of the economy,”
Matej Klenovsky, Investment manager at Sandberg Capital, believes that Quantox and Sandberg share a similar growth mindset and have the same ambitions and perspectives for future achievements.
“Quantox, in addition to employing a large number of IT professionals and having a great ability to attract clients from various industries, is truly committed to the development of the local IT community. We believe that this company is more than ready for the next step and we are eager to follow them along the way, giving support through our experience, knowledge, and capital.“
Both partners will be focused on strengthening Quantox’s business – establishing a local presence, expanding the spectrum of services to respond to clients’ demands from all parts of the world, and improving internal processes and organizational structure.
“We are extremely grateful for the trust and support of our new partners – this is a kind of confirmation for everything we have done so far, as well as the opportunity to be even better and grow together. Following the shared vision for Quantox, we strive for global expansion and adoption of new knowledge, skills, and experiences while preserving the values and culture of the company itself”
With 16 years of experience, Quantox is recognized as a reliable partner in the world of digital technologies. After three successful acquisitions in the last year, this is an important step and kind of “wind at our back” that will lead us closer to our vision – to grow in expertise, nurture people as the priority value and become one of the most trusted and efficient partners in the digital world.
Quantox was advised by Grubišič & Partners – Corporate Finance as financial advisor and Four Legal as legal advisor and Sandberg Capital was advised by ESFA as financial advisor, EY as financial & tax due diligence advisors, and BDK Advokati as their legal support.
A new digital era is at our doorstep. By supporting clients worldwide and developing IT potential in our region – we continue making ideas and vision possible!
Proud to announce that our team has received another reinforcement! We are introducing Marko Nikolić – the New Head of Finance at Quantox.
With many years of experience in various senior positions and expertise in the financial sector, Marko brings a unique set of skills. He is highly creative, innovative, and well-versed in the latest financial trends and strategies.
His passion for finance and enthusiasm for achieving results and high goals make him the perfect person for this position at Quantox. With his expertise in the financial sector, Marko will bring fresh ideas that will help the company develop and grow even more.
My primary expectation is to grow professionally together with the company. The biggest challenge of working in a large company like Quantox is coordinating activities with many colleagues from several countries.
My experience is complementary to colleagues from the finance sector. I expect that it will contribute to the realization of new initiatives, such as, for example, the implementation of the new budget.
Quantox has a concrete and straightforward business model, and we should stick to it – “back to basics”!
This can be a competitive advantage in the current global financial trends and can be used in both cases – to expand in the markets where Quantox already operates and to win new ones.
In the Finance and Accounting sector, a sudden jump in the application of Business Intelligence tools for reporting to management and investors was noticeable in the previous years. As a result, CFO-s and their teams had to adapt and improve their reporting. Modern platforms and programs help them in these endeavors; technology is progressing and taking an important place, so constant adjustments are also needed in this sector.
I believe that the current global situation on the market is simultaneously the biggest risk – it can lead to a decrease in demand for our services – but also the biggest opportunity to expand into new markets under more favorable conditions than before.
I like to innovate, propose and create new things, and constantly look for ways to improve and upgrade that creation.
Quantox is dedicated toward providing organizations with a solution for system monitoring and management that will help dispose of the break-fix approach. As a managed IT services provider, we aim to simplify IT management for other companies efficiently and affordably.
Dušan Milojević has the expertise and experience to make Quantox a leading managed IT services vendor in Europe, implement new IT technologies and build worldwide-applicable solutions with his team.
I started from the university and Microsoft Academy, and then went through the positions of Consultant, Developer and Analyst. Right now my official role means leading three different teams for the implementation of various products. The biggest challenge for me to get the company as a leading vendor for managed services as Quantox is for custom development.
The goals of the managed IT services department are to accumulate as much expertise and projects from various vendors like Microsoft, Salesforce, even IBM, and Oracle. The people in our department and their work are very strongly connected, no matter which team they depend on.
In the future, Quantox will expand its business areas and build solutions that can be implemented worldwide. So, the power this department gives to the company is being able to cover all needs that come from one customer. Custom development and managed services have a great tendency to work well together and bring new opportunities to each other.
I’m thrilled to be a part of Quantox. At the moment, I’m still trying to get all procedures lined up and getting to know the on-boarding team members while working with other colleagues on our first potential projects.
Companies in some sectors, like Fintech and Telco, use more than fifty systems in their daily business. All of those need to be integrated into one place, and that’s where we come in – we can fully cover all these processes with our team. Having a corporation as a client is a great opportunity that can lead us to long-term partnerships.
Of course, we need to follow all new approaches and technologies. From the last conference in Munich, I’ve realized that we can integrate PowerApp with Business Central as an app that can be the solution for warehouse management with fewer costs instead of building the app by itself from scratch. We also plan to get RPA (robot process automation) part of the integration team and start working with machine learning. Quantox’s managed service department is pretty good at keeping up with the latest technology trends.
The most interesting things about working in Managed Services will be the projects and the possibility of having a proven team working for one of the biggest customers in their branches globally. However, the biggest challenge will be to put Quantox on the managed services market for this part of Europe which is our goal for the next two years.
What drives me forward is having new opportunities on a daily level – new employees, technologies, countries, projects, and approaches. I also firmly believe that people can improve their skills only if they step out of their comfort zone, which is what my team and I are doing right now.
Having ideas is great - getting know-how is a step to another level!
QLab Accelerator aim is to support fresh ideas, build strong teams and make innovative startups possible. And we are starting from our own house!
Quantox launched an internal call for Quantox people with the most promising start-up ideas with a goal to support it and transform it into marketable digital solutions.
From professional guidance and mentoring support, specialized business & start-up knowledge, through networking and funding opportunities - QLab is designed to give major support during the idea development from scratch.
By joining the contest and submitting their ideas, our people have a chance to get an opportunity for a 3 months educational program this summer, specially designed to turn their brainchild into a successful product, and get a chance for funding.
The most promising concepts and teams will be chosen for the program to gain essential business, expert, technical knowledge, and guidance from experienced mentors from all core fields, needed to kick off their start-up idea. Furthermore, the best idea on the final pitch will get a grant of 10.000 EUR to provide a smooth start and push for further development.
Lead by the mission to be a generator of internal knowledge, skills, and ideas to create value and make a leap in the digitalization era, and create an environment that encourages quality and innovative approaches to digital challenges, Quantox decided to start QLab Accelerator as an innovative tech nest for all those who aim to go further.
It is possible to turn ideas into reality with proper support and experienced people behind you. We believe in the ideas and knowledge that make a difference!
We truly believe in the potential of this program to discover remarkable solutions from our people and we are thrilled about the possibility to expand it beyond the internal hub in the future.
It’s not just about ideas.
It’s about MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN!
Dare to innovate, we are here to support you!
In our vast experiences dealing with projects and project management, we have learned that it is best to KiSS. No, don’t worry, that isn’t a romantic come on, it is simply a witty acronym that stands for Keep it Simple Stupid. Complicated projects with multiple moving parts that all depend on one another rarely succeed, from what we’ve seen.
Our advice is to get to an MVP (minimally viable product, or the least amount of features your product or project needs to get started) as soon as possible, and launch. Once you are actually launched it is quite easy to work towards incremental improvements continuously throughout the life of a product. One of the biggest mistakes that we have seen in our experience is people who have an unclear vision for their projects, which doesn’t make for a clean and concise MVP.Another mistake that often hampers projects is when companies try to do too much and create too many features prior to launch so that your product is sitting around while competitors can easily take advantages of gaps in the market. Ambition is definitely good, but too much ambition can also be a killer.
How do you get the perfect MVP? It’s not that hard. Think about your product or project. List the features that are essential to it’s functioning, and get those features working flawlessly. Leave out anything that is extra, or not essential to the product you want to create. Those most basic features are the ones to launch within your MVP. After launching, think about any bells and whistles you would like to add to enhance or change your project.Remember, the thing that matters most is having a functioning product that does what you want it to do, not having the most elaborate product out there on the market.
Quantox operates with the help of Kaizen mindset, meaning we achieve great results by first completing smaller, but equally important tasks. Each one of us, but working as a team, has a clear task to complete that will enrich your project and lead to project realization faster and without hassle. Task by task, we'll take your project from idea to MVP, launch your product and keep on improving it with new features and possibilities. Do you want to see simple and clear project development process? Let's Talk!
So, you have a project and you are going to create a request for an exterior company to get the job done. Keeping your project request clear and detailed will help you a lot down the line, and will also save you money. Project requests set the precedent for the entire project, and it is helpful to start it off on the right foot.
If you end up presenting a project with a confusing description and scope of work, it costs your team time, costing you money. There are a few ways that this will drain your pockets. First of all, all of the back and forth communication it will take to clarify your work request just isn’t worth it, when with a clear work request your project can get started right away. Each minute you spend communicating and clarifying is the time that is not being spent working on your project. What is even worse, is the second way that an unclear project proposal can cost your company money: unclear project requests can lead to drafts of your project being created that are completely misguided or simply not what you are looking for.
In creating clear project requests it is also important to get your whole team’s input early on in the process, before making the request, rather than presenting them with a nearly finished project and getting their input then. This will also save you a lot of time and money because your team is smart and probably has great ideas that would improve any project your company is working on. Using their ideas early on will keep you from having to revise projects over and over to incorporate innovative employee ideas.Start your project off right with a clear and concise request that will lead the way to the project you are envisioning.
Creating project request and presenting it to an exterior IT company is not an easy task, but with Quantox it can be a lot easier. The project managers working in Quantox know that the best developed ideas are presented in the clear and concise manner. So, when you're ''stuck'' and can't seem to organize your project, our PM's are there to help you determine the scope of work, requirements, timelines and deadlines of your project, thus helping you save money. You have a great idea, but don't have all the details ''polished-out''? Let's Talk!
Project documentation is an important part of any project, but especially those that create systems that will be used by people whether inside or outside of your company, which are either created by people outside of your company or will be used by outsourced employees. Proper project documentation can set the precedent for the way your company will manage that project once it is complete and the way that other related projects will get managed in the future.A job certainly isn’t over when a project is completed, especially in the sphere of web and technology.
Most projects in this sphere are development projects that will get used in the future either internally within a company or externally by consumers. These projects will need to be supported since your internal teams will need to learn new systems and get used to using them. You can really prevent problems down the road by having great documentation.When you use project documentation, it is best to use whatever best practices are suitable for your industry, because then it will be easier for your team to learn the new system, and any new team members who come on should be able to learn it easily, as long as they are familiar with your industry best practices already. In addition, should your team run up against any obstacles in the months or even years after the project was completed, having proper documentation can save your company a lot of money and time.
Without documentation, your company will have to spend money and use people’s time to figure out any issues, but with the project being clearly explained, you should see nothing but smooth sailing in your future.
At Quantox we keep our organisational skills at the highest level. By having professional project documentation, but also company profile documentation and Quantox people documentation, we armed every Quantox member with a reliable source for solving problems and built bridges between our own people.
Outsourcing with Quantox gets that much easier when we present our documentation, leaving no questions unanswered. Still, error prevention may be the best outcome of our diligent record keeping of everything we do for our clients. Do you want to learn more- Let's Talk!
When hiring someone for work that is not going to be done within your company, it can be hard to tell whether you should hire a freelancer or use an outsourcing company. What is the difference? Freelancers are typically individuals who provide specialized services on their own time while outsourcing companies have full-time employees who can provide many types of services under their direct supervision.
Many professional companies and people prefer outsourcing companies because there is a single contact person that can give you access to a wealth of services. When you go with freelancers, you will have to contact different freelancers for different services, which will not only make your Rolodex quite large but can get confusing and often leads to scheduling conflicts that cascade if anyone freelance misses a milestone that the others were relying on having completed in time. This becomes especially problematic if you have a lot of projects happening simultaneously.
Another reason why businesses prefer to use an outsourcing company is that it mitigates risk. If a freelancer gets sick or has some type of family emergency – that’s it - your project becomes delayed. Your work will not get done until they are better and back to work. However, if the person working on your product from an outsourcing company is ill one day, there is typically someone else there who can pick up the slack and keep your projects going full steam ahead. Thus, outsourcing companies tend to give you more complete coverage and usually get a job done faster.
Lastly, with freelancers, there is no surefire way to vet them. Sure, there are online review sites, and they may provide you with references before you hire them, but if you choose an outsourcing company, they have already gone through the hiring process. Thus, they know their employees well, and typically know that they are quality workers who will finish the job in a timely manner because they have a reputation to uphold. Hiring a random freelancer off Fiverr may sound like a smart way to save money until you examine all the unintended consequences and learn to leave those risks on the shoulders of an outsourcing company with shoulders broad enough to carry them all for you.
If you don't need only one Java Developer or a web designer, but a whole development team, you should consider outsourcing a company like Quantox. You'll have access to all necessary staff members- from developers, to analysts to QA specialists. It you have any questions about IT outsourcing, we are glad to answer them and help you reach an inofrmed decision. Let's Talk!
When you hire an outsourcing company to get a job done, you may feel comfortable knowing that they have the experience to deal with your project, so creating some type of official agreement may not be on your radar. However, agreements are actually quite important, no matter how much you trust the company you are hiring to get the job done. It helps to protect yourself as the client and them as the vendor, should anything go wrong during the job, as small as that possibility may be.
First of all, having an agreement is really the only way to make sure everyone truly understands the project at hand. It usually spells out the scope of work entirely, with specific details, so both parties know what is expected of them, and that includes you.
The company you hired won’t be waiting for a month to start the project because you didn’t know you were supposed to send them some photo assets, and they will be able to provide the results you need when you need them.Agreements can also help to avoid miscommunications during the work process, and also can avoid conflict when miscommunications do happen during the project timeline. If a miscommunication does occur, you can just refer to the agreement and quell the worries of both parties since the job will be spelled out plainly in the agreement.
Finally, agreements help to create a timeline and actionable checklist that the team working on your project can work from and check to make sure that all the work agreed upon is done in a timely manner and at the level of quality that you have requested.Basically, having an agreement always ensures that both the client and vendor are protected and covered, and prevents things from going wrong due to mistakes and miscommunications. While things hardly ever go wrong, agreements make it easy to smooth things over on those rare occasions.
Here at Quantox we understand how important it is for you to feel that your intellectual property is truly yours. Not only will we protect your idea from plagiarism, we will also ensure that every word of our written agreement pertaining to the development process is fulfilled.
Don't take our word for it- our promise are our signatures on the project detail and development process contract. Let's Talk!
Employing people in-house is the most costly option, and beyond the obvious costs of salary, benefits, and training there are many other expenses that come along with the challenge to continually motivate your own staff. Outsourcing is a good way to save some time and money by utilizing a fully managed team of personnel who already have exactly the kind of expertise you require.
Outsourcing also gives you the opportunity to save money by only utilizing the people you need for the specific tasks you wanted to take care of right now while letting someone else worry about all of the HR challenges and ancillary costs that come along with maintaining a world-class workforce.The main barrier companies have when starting to outsource workflow is the fact that choosing the right outsourcing company to work with can be a challenging and confusing ordeal in itself. However, if you follow some common sense tips, choosing an outsourcing company can be made easier and establishing a streamlined workflow that saves you resources while improving your results is an attainable goal.
When starting to think about choosing an outsourcing company, always get references from trustworthy brands in the industry. Just as you would get a reference for a good dentist from a friend you trust, an outsourcing reference about the team that seems to have everything together is the key to knowing the difference between an option that merely looks good and one that actually is great.Once you have a potential company in your sights, do the research necessary to get to know the company and the individuals you will be working with on your own projects.
Make sure the company has a good track record and can articulate a recent easy to verify trail of satisfied companies who have already had similar projects to your own perform. Most importantly, get examples of work they have already done.
Many outsourcing company sites will proudly display some of their clients, and they may even have a case study or two on their sites to show how using their services can positively affect your bottom line – but always be careful to vet those items by speaking to the actual clients being quoted and making sure they are recent examples rather than old work done by someone else who left long ago.
It is also important to make sure that any outsourcing company that you are considering is able to come up with a clear plan that has concise milestones for your needs. It’s one thing to be able to talk the talk, but can they walk the walk? Displaying the ability to set a plan in place is a good sign that they can also complete the work assigned. All too often you’ll notice the same people who failed to show you a workable plan are the ones who are unable to complete the work as well.
There is plenty of work to be done in preparation of your project, and that phase of the relationship is also an excellent opportunity for you to evaluate the team you are hiring and the way they work with you.
Once you have the right people in place, from a company like Quantox, the scalability of an outsourced option gives you tremendous advantages over in-house employees, because unlike the arduous process to hire one person in your office, the outsourcing path opens up the possibility to acquiring a limitless pool of qualified experts at virtually any task you want to accomplish. Let's Talk!
In sports and virtually every other form of competition, the cliché is that speed kills, because getting to the goal first provides an undeniable advantage for one competitor over the other. That same principle applies to all forms of web development and it is becoming increasingly essential thanks to recent changes by Google and others to the way organic web traffic is allocated.
Even more importantly, the expectations of your customers are tied directly to the speed of your site, apps and digital products.
In the dial-up era, it was common to wait for a page to load due to lag times caused by low bandwidth. This was also a blessing for inefficient developers because the slow loading times and resources squandered by their code were often covered up by the even slower download speeds available to customers. Now, with many clients having access to 1GB connections and mobile providers continually improving throughout while spreading the reach of public WiFi, even the smallest lag or latency is infuriatingly obvious to your potential customers or clients.
Google had repeatedly expressed the fact that mobile load times are now a significant signal used in determining their search results, and that has even gone so far as to provide a simple tool to test your load times on desktop and mobile versions of your website. The tool is free and it assigns a 1 to 100 score for your site speed. Even more importantly, it makes simple suggestions of ways to improve your speed score, and it is critical to achieving a score of 85 or better for both Mobile and Desktop on nearly any website you publish.
The so-called Mobilegeddon update Google made in 2015 underscored the importance of Mobile responsive design and echoed the significance of making sure your site loads lighting fast across any device that a viewer decides to use.
Quantox helps many of our clients by cleaning up the antiquated code, refreshing the underlying database structures being used and making many other seemingly small improvements to incrementally optimize existing websites. We also use industry best practices and many proprietary methods to ensure that any new site we create for you is as fast as possible, to the delight of search bots and human visitors alike. Let' Talk!
Imagine if you walked into a brick and mortar store and were greeted by a salesperson who immediately asked, “What is your date of birth and credit card number?” A store like that wouldn’t get many sales or last very long, yet online site owners seem to think it is somehow more acceptable to create landing pages that abruptly demand all kinds of personal information from potential customers in a completely non-conversational way.Too often we are given site mock-ups or see sites designed by others that immediately request signup information from end users. Sure, having a signup button makes sense, or asking for a name and email address may be part of your business model, but the conversion ratios, time on site, bounce rates and other metrics can easily be improved across the board by engaging the viewer in a more conversational way.
For example, instead of asking someone to enter their purchase information and then giving them access to a catalog of items for sale after they have registered, you will earn far more by allowing customers to browse your catalog as guests, let them choose the items that they want and only ask for payment details once they reach the cart page to complete their transaction.The psychology of this method is very simple. Once someone has already invested ten or twenty minutes of their time browsing items, choosing products or services, and building a basic level of trust with your brand by seeing how well your site satisfies their requests, they become far more likely to take action at the eventual point of sale. Exactly the same way a shopper is more likely to buy a pair of jeans at a clothing store after browsing the shelves, selecting the perfect pair, trying them on, interacting with a sales associate and then later being asked to pay at checkout by a cashier.
The best sites do a terrific job making the sale seem secondary. As online marketers we are all focused on improving the CTR, maximizing revenue and preventing traffic leaks – but as a customer that all need to fade from your attention and be superseded by the fun and excitement of finding the site you want most, getting the attention you deserve and feeling as though the money being requested is more of an afterthought than the central priority of the entire user experience.
Quantox experts are available right now to look over your existing sales funnel and to make actionable suggestions that improve the flow of traffic from your landing page to your join form or cart transaction page. The results are easy to track, and as any experienced marketer can tell you it is almost always easier to earn more by properly monetizing the traffic you do have than by inefficiently marketing to a new wave of visitors. Let's Talk!
One of the more common buzzwords among developers these days is ‘responsive design’, which many confusingly misunderstand as ‘using a Wordpress theme that looks sort of OK on mobile devices or desktop screens.’ The fact is that responsive design actually requires quite a bit more than that, and the benefits of doing it right are substantial.
Responsive design is all about presenting online content on any device as if it were intended to work perfectly on that device primarily. When a customer views your website from their desktop computer, they could care less how it might look on an Android phone. If they use an old and antiquated version of Netscape at their browser, they want to see the site in all its glory, and how it would have looked if they chose Chrome instead becomes meaningless to them. When it comes to design, the customer is always right, and that includes their implicit choices of mobile carrier, platform, operating system, browser, hardware, and software each time they visit your website.Some great tools have been added to the development arsenal recently including HTML5, H.265/HEVC video codecs, letsencrypt.org SSL certifications, a slew of mobile diagnostic tools from Google and more.
Utilizing these tools and many others, Quantox creates websites, mobile apps and offline marketing materials that give your brands a terrific uniform presence in a way that is completely agnostic to the choice of device or viewing methods your existing or potential clients prefer. To learn more, contact your Quantox agent and see some examples of what responsive design can actually do for your own bottom line. Let's Talk!
Some consulting companies will try to tell you that everything should always be outsourced (because it benefits them for you to outsource every task), but at Quantox our goal is to help you succeed so that we can be part of a long-term arrangement that earns you far more than we cost. That’s why we have created this simple checklist to help potential clients determine if a specific task is appropriate for outsourcing.
The first factor is the complexity of the project or components you are considering. Small tasks that are not mission-critical are excellent opportunities for outsourcing because they can be cleared off your timeline and accomplished easily by a qualified third-party developer. Often, larger more complex tasks can be segmented into several smaller tasks, and an outsourced team of professionals can also carry out a significant group of those elements.Once you have established a strong degree of trust with a company, even the most complex modules can easily be outsourced unless they are a part of your own core competency.
Every company and employee of that company has a set of skills and talents that they bring to the table. If you are a terrific database designer, outsourcing database design will only serve to frustrate you because you would be asking someone else to do what you are best at accomplishing. The best use of outsourced labor is in areas where you have some familiarity but do not have a high degree of expertise.Quantox often works in a modular manner to provide what our clients need most while leaving the things they are best at to be done in-house as part of the overall timeline.
Almost any large task can be segmented into smaller better-defined milestones. Outsourcing works well when you can monitor progress along the way and offer input at specified intervals. That allows you to steer the project toward your desired goals, maintain maximum efficiency, and the result is almost always a great product completed on time and under budget.The more well defined your timeline is, the more likely outsourcing is the right answer for you.
Getting great results from outsourcing projects to Quantox is as much a matter of setting achievable milestones ahead of time as anything else. That’s why we work diligently with you before any project begins so that we have a clear and concise set of deliverables, dates, and desires in mind right from the start. Let's Talk!