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I.T. Boutique Artisan Crew, Los Angeles.
Custom Software, Custom Marketing Solutions.

Artisan Crew is the
that specializes in

Since 2001 we have partnered with companies from the U.S., Japan, and around the world to bring new brands, custom software solutions, and websites to life. When we team up with different businesses, brands, and manufacturers to create comprehensive strategies for their state-of-the-art websites, we do much more than just "design" a website or "advertising buying". We help clients internationalize, not "localize", their services, and our main goal is to develop successful business plans & strategies for successful online properties so we can retain clients and share in their success. We believe that a website or web campaign is only as good and honest as the company behind it and strive to form partnerships where everyone involved, from the president of our client company to their end consumer, is engaged and satisfied.

New Client Memo: Apologies in advance, but we can't take on clients that run sites / sell services or sell products that we believe to be illicit or harmful to consumers. On a similar note, we never take more than one company per sector if we're doing their SEO / SEM / Online Marketing Strategies to prevent conflicts of interest. We don't show all client work because of various NDA restriction, but will tell you up-front if we can't take on a new client in your sector.

Web Marketing / Internet Branding
Web design / Website development
Custom Software & App Development
The Only One Stop Shop
International Interactive Online Agency. Specialization, NOT "Localization".




Internet Marketing & Online Advertising Agency Artisan Crew


What Makes Our Internet Marketing Services Different?
（It's our SEO・PPC・SMM & VIRAL Results）


Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click (P.P.C.), S.E.M., Social Media Marketing & Viral - Artisan Crew Results.

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Consistent top 5
rankings since 2002

Since we started offering SEO as a service over 12 years ago, we've never failed yet to hit the top 5 for the target keywords.

2Mil

Got targeted S.E.O. traffic, increased client's annual sales by $2 million.

About our S.E.O. services

Some S.E.O. Results

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Our Av. P.P.C. C.P.A.
is consistently between 1% & 3%

About our P.P.C. services

Some P.P.C. Results

Social Media marketing (S.M.M.) + Viral Marketing = Amazing Exposure / great costs

At least 10,000 legit fans
in under a year

Even for our clients with minimal budgets, we maximize buzz and goodwill on social networks resulting in a loyal and engaged fan base. Many companies buy fake spam "likes" or "fans". What's the point? Fake people don't spend real money on your products. We're not just here to say 10,000 fans, we're here to say 10,000 ENGAGED consumers.

100k

At 100,000 fans and growing,
our shop is an industry leader

About our S.M.M. services

Some S.M.M. Results

International media coverage
for the price of an idea

About our Viral Marketing services

Some Viral Marketing Results


Maybe you’re a Japanese or American company looking to significantly increase your brand exposure in Japan. Maybe you’re the new American branch of a major Japanese company looking for much more than just a native English speaker to help set up a booth at a trade show and translate a “localized” pamphlet for you without a marketing or branding strategy to back it up. Maybe you’re an American business searching in the greater Los Angeles area (or Torrance specifically) for a web marketing firm that will actually help you use your online advertising budget 1000x more efficiently than that “new media” company in Santa Monica/Venice/Manhattan Beach with the super aggressive sales force who snowed you with jargon, promised you everything, delivered nothing, and now won’t take your calls. What you NEED is a company that actually knows internet marketing from the ABCs of S.E.M., to effective Viral Marketing, to S.M.M. You need a company that can talk about their clients' results, not just drop their names. We'll start by dropping a result right here; How about an increase in client's sales OVER $2 million in a year thanks to our S.E.O. work for their website? That's how we roll.

If you've looked at a few other sites for online advertising agencies you're probably used to the other companies who, instead of talking about WHAT they can do, show you logos of client companies they hope you'll be familiar with, and then maybe show you a print brochure or banner ad or YouTube video or Facebook post they've helped do for [that dropped name] and that's mostly because very few "design" agencies actually understand things like amazing C.P.A.s. and how to achieve them for clients, focusing instead on how they, as an agency, make money off of a client. Their sales force makes bank, for themselves and their agencies, but do they make that bank for you? Speaking of CPAs Artisan Crew CPAs comes in consistently at between 1 and 3%. And that's money in YOUR bank.

Website Design & Web Development by Artisan Crew


What makes our web design special?
(Our online shop, marketing website & website design principles do.)

Creating eCommerce sites, branding or marketing websites or starting new web development? We understand that before we start discussing fonts and colors, we're going to need to start with a solid business plan and marketing objectives if your website's going to be worth making. At least 95% of the web work we do involves marketing and branding. So that we can answer the "Why do we need an internet advertising agency to design our website?" question, we help create a website for which web design is simply the internet portion of a much larger marketing plan. Impactful, responsive web design is a given, but we don't do website development in a vacuum.
Truthfully, even the $15 templates Wordpress or Joomla CMSs provide can be pretty enough in terms of looks, and you can do that in-house for next to no real cost. But if that's all there were to it to be successful online, everyone would always be winning on line. But they aren't, and that's why we get hired; to not JUST do pretty, but to do EFFECTIVE web design which starts with developing your marketing and branding goals, which leads to sales, before one font is chosen or one line of HTML is written. We consult with your business to understand your customers, to help you brainstorm new potential markets, and then we help you come up with the best website development plan that you can afford

Ecommerce websites; We practice what we preach. Since 2007, we have run full scale online shops internally, with inventory, marketing, staff and sales. So when a client comes to us with issues with their online shop, or wanting us to develop an ecommerce website for them, we actually know how to run online businesses, not just how to code a shopping cart. If you need an online shopping expert, they need to have experience running profitable online shops or you can't really expect them to do much more than customize a template. And if that's all they're doing, YOU need to be the expert guiding THEM, because they can't do the guiding, so you might as well just do it all yourself.

Website design / Web Development Services

95%

95% of our web development & web design projects involve marketing.

If you need a little slideshow thing, or a full site worth of professional photographs or a responsive website or an online shop, we can do it. We CAN do anything. But if marketing isn't the basis of WHY we do WHAT we do in web design, you might as well go with a template and your boss's nephew's friend.

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Our website renewals increase clients' contacts from 2x to 8x

About our Web Design services

60%

With our responsive web design, your company can reach the 60% of web users who are on mobile without doubling development costs.

Learn more about Responsive Web Design here

Ecommerce development / online shop design: not just carts, shops that sell.

1K

One client shop, over 10,000 UNIQUE VISITORS PER DAY from our S.E.O.

Not "hits". Unique visitors: Shoppers, customers.

15x

Online Shop redevelopment: 15 TIMES the sales volume in under 9 months.

100K

Internal shop sites that do over $100,000 in sales a month in the North American market.

About our Online Shop development services

Some of our Ecommerce Results

Here's another place our web development services stand out. We have no sales force. Our websites are our only, and best, salespeople. All of our clients find us through our own web marketing and choose us based on our web development successes. Think about this. If you're considering hiring us to develop or design your website, we've shown you we can do one of our most important jobs; get visitors looking for specific services / products to a website. How we make money for you is how we make money for ourselves.

If your web design / internet marketing firm found you, RUN. They've already shown you that they can't successfully do for themselves what they're trying to get you to pay them to do for you.

I.T. & Custom Software Development by Artisan Crew: Part #1


CMS (Contents Management Systems) &
Database Driven Catalog Publishing Software


Custom Contents Management Systems (C.M.S.)

Even companies with their own internal developers and internet divisions can benefit from a robust C.M.S. (Contents Management System) driving their website. Yet sadly, because most "web design firms" and "online ad agencies" don't have real software developers internally and have to have an ad or web account rep oversee farming out programming and development (often over-seas) with varying degrees of success and often failure since they can't back up the work of those third-party developers, they don't have the option of offering custom C.M.S. solutions to their clients and instead have to "customize" (set specific fields and parameters in) popular and readily available C.M.S. like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal. If one of those solutions is satisfactory and specialized contents and formats aren't needed, they might be a solution for some. Artisan Crew chooses not to focus on the pre-packaged solutions and instead offers a fully custom CMS for those of you who just need more, and who need the originality of not starting at the same place as every other business in your sector.

In fewer words, why a company might need a custom Contents Management System (CMS) with so many boxed solutions available.

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Custom CMS Merit 1:
Flexibility

Technically and from a software development standpoint, there's the flexibility to do almost anything. Sure, your budget may be limited and that will limit the extent of where the custom CMS software goes, but you're going to get something unique to your needs, NOT fit your need to the available system which is what a boxed applications requires.

2

Custom CMS Merit 2:
S.E.O.

In the marathon race that is S.E.O., you're all using the same CMS, even one that claims that they are "Search Engine Optimized". None of you start out ahead because you're all running the exact same thing. Custom CMS, when well designed, can help make your SEO starting point a mile ahead of the boxed guys.

3

Custom CMS Merit 3:
Originality

With a commonly used CMS you might not look shoddy, but you're going to look like everyone else. If you're the only company selling your particular service or goods, that may work out fine. But if you're competing with anybody else, how are you going to win using exactly the same ammunition? A boxed CMS can get you to the same starting line as everybody else, but it just doesn't get you ahead of the pack.

About our Content Management Systems

Automated Database Driven Catalog Production: Web, PDF, InDesign and more

Cut your catalog production costs in half

With our custom one-button desktop publishing solution, you can publish data directly from your system to:

The Web

Keep your online catalogs up-to-date and have them accurately represent your product lineup, pricing, and description changes. Web catalogs even have built-in S.E.O., allowing more visitors to find your site, view and buy your products.

PDF

Create pre-press ready or web uploadable .pdf files with the click of a button. Print catalogs can be exported as InDesign, PDF or Excel files.

Printed Catalog

Simply design the template and set the layout once to create and update your catalog as many times as your company needs. If you publish web or print catalogs more than 4 times a year and don't want to hire a printing company several times annually, print directly from your system database to save time and money. A lot of money.

About our custom database driven catalog publishing software

I.T. & Custom Software Development by Artisan Crew: Part #2


Custom software development & mobile system software design

ACE Inc. Custom Software Development: Enterprise Software Solutions

What makes Artisan Crew Engineering Inc's custom system software so different from packaged solutions is that we allow your system data to not only be protected and accessed, but help you make it into a powerful offense tool as well. If you're using packaged ERP solutions for your business, chances are you've spent hundreds of thousands to "customize" a boxed software and you've modified some of your business practices to work with the software specs instead of the other way around. If you absolutely need to use YOUR unique business capabilities, YOUR special business logic, YOUR streamlined routines, and everything that makes your business out-of-the-box thinkers, it can can be lost with a from-the-box software solution. When you can use all your unique processes and flows you've gotten an edge over your competitors who are matching their processes up to work with their input requirements.

Use multiple currencies in your transaction? We've got you covered. Have unique inventory management systems? We can help you keep managers responsible for the inventory they ordered. We've helped both American and Japanese companies come up with system software that works for the unique multi-cultural multi-business regulation and laws, and taxation that they have to deal with to stay competitive and grow in a global environment. **

**While some app development can start around $10,000, custom enterprise system software development generally starts from at least $30,000~. We are happy to provide clients with system development quotes based on system specs you provide us. If you have zero idea of what the actual project scope is and "are just looking for some general costs" it generally won't be possible to make even a reasonably accurate project quote without fairly detailed system specs and is usually irresponsible to even try. If you need to have those system specifications developed for you so you can get accurate quotes from software developers, we can provide systems software consulting for between $200 and $350 an hour depending on consultation scope. WARNING: Custom software development is calculated based on total project hours and scope. Without a detailed project scope, the type of quote you can get from generalized sales staff can easily be inaccurate to the tune of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Think of it this way; You can't get a reliable construction estimate for a house without providing the construction company with a blueprint, and you're not going to get a reliable quote for system software development without detailed system specs. And just as an architect doesn't provide you with a working blueprint to build a house for free, neither do System Engineers who can actually develop.

2Mil

Reduced on-hand inventory by 2 million dollars with ACE's custom system

1.5

Reduced the number of people necessary for data input tasks from 20 to 1.5

5Min

Data processing that took 3 hours in the old system now takes 5 minutes.

About our custom software development

Custom Mobile System / Mobile App Development

Increase sales with a mobile system application (Sales force automation)

SFA allows the sales force to check inventory levels, customer account information, cross-sell opportunities, promotional opportunities, and just about any other vital information from anywhere. With custom software you and ACE, Inc. design together, you define just how much -or how little- information is available to whom.

Streamline work processes with custom mobile system applications

Reduce Human Error. Old-fashioned handwritten order forms are subject to a variety of human errors. Everything from penmanship, fax quality, and interpretation can affect the accuracy of an order. That opportunity for error is multiplied daily as the orders "play telephone" down the data entry and fulfillment chain. With all these factors, it's no wonder companies lose millions of dollars on simple human error. Luckily, SFA can virtually eliminate most of the causes of such errors. What once took a small army can now be accomplished with one salesperson, and most of it can be accomplished remotely in the field at the touch of a finger.

About our custom mobile software / app development services



Website design, developed to be seen.
Interactive advertising agency and i.t. boutique
Artisan Crew, Los Angeles, knows how to bring the traffic.
Custom software, custom strategies, custom solutions.
No sales force so no pressure sales, real developers so no outsourcing, full creative staff so no unpaid interns.