Friday, August 27, 2010

welcome to the neighborhood

A fitting subject for a company that loves the tiny but wonderful industry we so called "work" in. Your father told you to find a "niche." Well...we've found ours. 
 
Western Canada's real estate building + development industry plays host to dozens of visionaries + passionate performers that also love what they do. These are the people we're proud to work with. These great people are part of great companies that continually strive to grow, innovate + differentiate themselves from the crowd. They endlessly pursue the generation of qualified traffic to show homes, sales centres and websites. They demand measurement + trackability that proves their marketing + communications machine is efficient + effective. These companies, people and expectations get us excited. They get us out of bed in the morning with a smile. They make our work feel more like a fun day at the beach. Needless to say, there's a plethora of great reasons why we love what we do at Chatterson.
 
Today is a bit of a special day for us at CHDR. Two years ago there were a small group of 'believers' around us that supported our decision to create Chatterson. These 'believers' were friends who helped create the Chatterson identity, brand, website, marketing collateral and whole bunch more. We call them believers because they sacrificed their time, talent + expertise for little to no monetary reward--it had everything to do with friendship and nothing to do with money. Chatterson had yet to earn a client, we didn't have an office and 'startup costs' came from our personal piggybank that wasn't exactly Fort Knox.
 
We're grateful to the 'believers' that helped get Chatterson off the ground. We're proud to say that two years later, as Chatterson continued to grow, we made sure these 'believers' were on the bus for the journey--valued colleagues + teammates since day one. We thank you + are so very proud to have you at Chatterson. Today, the handful of believers has grown into a small army of passionate + dedicated brilliant minds who continue to dream up innovative strategies + concepts that drive our business. This special day isn't our birthday but the day we unveil the new CHDR website.
 
Focused on being true pioneers + innovators in our niche area of expertise, we're firm believers that people do their research on the internet + build relationships in person. For this reason coupled with the growing desire for simplicity and cutting the bullsh*t, we didn't create some huge, information packed, hard to navigate website. We've spent the past two years listening to our clients + their prospective purchasers. "I don't want to spend fifteen minutes on a website trying to understand who you are or what you do. Give it to me short + sweet."
 
Well, we heard you loud + clear. No complex navigation. No pages and pages of "what we do" and "why you need to work with us" text. Just the basics on who we are, who we play with, where we play and what's new + exciting in our world. We used the KISS (keep it simple stupid) rule this time around and we think we've hit the mark. Anything more you need to know, we hope + trust you'll pick up the phone and call us or better yet, pay us a visit at our Collaboration Centre in Kensington.
 
So cheers to our growing list of fantastic clients, our top shelf in-house talent and a new website that tells you just enough but not too much. enjoy!
 
-jason