Do you need a Virtual CTO also know as a Virtual Chief Technology Officer?
I’m offering a new consulting service that I’m calling the Virtual CTO package. Let me tell you more about it.
What Does A Virtual CTO Do?
If you’ve worked with me in the past, you probably came to me with an IT issues you wanted me to fix.
The Virtual CTO flips that on it;s head a little and I become an integral member of your team to build an IT strategy to deliver your business goals.
You get access to my years of IT experience and knowledge to make IT work for your business.
Why I Want To Be Your CTO.
My favourite types of projects are consulting ones. I’m called in with a problem to solve, I find a technology solution and implement that.
Being your CTO is like a large ongoing consulting project where we have a series of business goals we need to achieve and lots of IT problems to solve.
What We Will Do Together
If you retain me as your virtual CTO we’ll do the following together …
1) Create A Technology Strategy For Your Business
We’ll get together in a virtual meeting a create a technology strategy to match your business goals.
W’ll look at your business goals and we’ll create a plan to use technology to hit those business goals.
I’ll document that and create an action plan.
We’ll costs out the strategy to meet your budget, then the hard work begins.
2) I’ll Implement That Strategy
I’ll work to implement that strategy so we can hit your business goals together with tech.
Some of the items I’ll do myself but we may need to outsource other aspects, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
I’ll either do or manage the process to get our technology strategy full functional.
3) Get Results
The result of this ongoing consulting project is IT that works for your business.
We can use IT to automate, streamline, scale and increase your bottom line.
My Credentials To Be Your CTO
I’ve worked in IT all of my career, that’s over twenty years. I’ve spent a lot of time in large corporate IT departments before starting my own IT business.
Here are some of the big corporate IT companies I’ve worked with PWC (Acconting), UK National Health Service, Nissan (Automotive), Santander (Banking), Aviva (Insurance).
I’ve started my own IT company WPDude.com (as you probably know), more than 10 years ago.
Here are some bullet points on my experience:
- I’ve built websites (more than I care to remember)
- I’ve built apps
- I’ve built teams
- I’ve outsourced work
- I’ve built processes to make business run like clock work
- I know how to market an online business
- I know how to sell online
- I can integrate across technologies
- I can automate
- I can program
- I’ve built sales funnels
- I’ve built ad campaigns
- I’ve built lead magnets
- and lots lots more …
In short I can make IT work for your business.
An Example
Here’s a hypothetical example of what we could do together.
You own an online e-commerce business that sells physical goods. We get together and create a strategy plan. Your business goal is to increase sales from your WooCommerce store.
We find that shipping is a bottleneck, that getting repeat business is an issue and cart abandonment is a problem.
Our action plan looks like this:
Outsource shipping to fulfilment by Amazon, implement extensions in WooCommerce to automatically send new orders to Amazon to send our from their warehouses for us.
To get repeat business we implement an automated funnel in Mailchimp to reach out to current customers every 30 days with alerts about new products that we have that match the ones they have already purchased.
We install tools that monitor for an alert to cart abandonment. If a user adds an item to their cart and begins the checkout process and then abandons it we know about it. We send an automated reminder to that person using WooCommerce extensions and Mailchimp.
It will have details of their cart, and a nice 10% discount if they complete checkout, a single click brings them back to your store with their cart intact to checkout to increase sales.
Who Is This For?
This is for owners or CEOs of small online business that need help implementing an IT strategy.
You are growing an online business but technology is getting away from you, you don’;t have time to know all the tech out there and don’t want to. you don’t have time.
You have money to invest in a team and technology but not the time to do it yourself.
Your Investment
If you hire me as your Virtual CTO it’s a monthly ongoing retainer model. The minimum amount is five hours per month at my consulting rate of £50 per hour. That’s £250 per month.
If you want to get things done more quickly you can increase my retained hours. If our strategy action plan calls for more work again you can increase that minimum.
I have limited time available for this type of work, so I have opened up four Virtual CTO client slots.
Limited Lifetime
I don’t see this as a continuous engagement, rather we’ll build the strategy, implement it and there will be a natural end to the consulting and we’ll end the retainer.
Application Process
As mentioned I only have four two (slots are going quickly) available slots for this type of work, so I have an application process, complete this form and tell me how I can help your business and we’ll book a call to start a conversation to see if I’m a good fit to work with you as your Virtual CTO.
Wrap Up – Do You Need A Virtual CTO
I’m excited to work with people as their virtual CTO, if you need direction to get IT working for you get in touch.