General Business and Internet Consulting

This consulting service is provided by John J. Alquist. It includes general business consulting on any topic, as well as topics related to Internet business strategy and business website development.

A consulting client is not required to have Alquist Enterprises create its website. We can evaluate your existing website and provide suggestions for improvement and/or additional business strategies to capitalize on your firm's Internet marketing plans and programs.

However, if you use Alquist Enterprises for website creation and development within three months after the conclusion of a consulting project with us, we will credit 50% of your previously paid consulting fees up to $450 toward the development fees on your website creation project.

Our consulting fees are $ 150 per hour. There is a two hour minimum, and we offer a daily fee of $900, which saves $300 off the hourly rate.

Any travel by John J. Alquist requiring an overnight stay and/or a distance of over 100 miles from St. Petersburg, FL will also include travel accomodations arranged and paid directly by the client.

Internet Website Development

These services include the following: strategic project consulting, professional copywriting, full graphic design, software coding, Internet Service Provider selection and liaison, transmission of your website from us to the Internet Service Provider via FTP, and up to four hours of Internet marketing and website consulting at your place of business--after the site goes up on the Internet's World Wide Web.

These services and related fees assume that WebsiteXpress will use available backgrounds and available animations, as well as any artwork and photographs provided by the client.

This contract further assumes that all client-provided artwork and photographs shall be of Internet-efficient sizes and formats. This means client material shall be sufficiently small to assure that website visitors with slower, older computer equipment will be able to download these materials without unnecessary delay.

Should Alquist Enterprises need to downsize and optimize client artwork or photos to make them Internet efficient, client show be so advised, and we shall charge $75 per hour to reformat client art and photos accordingly.

Any customized creation of animations, artwork, or photographs will be charged at $100 per hour, but our charges shall not exceed a prior quotation previously approved by the client.

Internet Website Development Investments Defined

Many Internet industry website resource firms use a per page method to price Internet website development.

In Year 2003, our pricing for Internet website development is:

Three page site--$1,600

Four page site--$1,800

Additional pages (5-14)--$250 per page

Additional pages(15-24)--$225 per page

Total of 25 pages or more--Per Our Customized Quotation

Project Production Schedule and Penalties

Sensitive to client need, and wishing to complete concurrent projects for other clients in an efficient manner as a matter of equity to them also, we use production schedules binding to both parties. The dates below are binding upon both parties for this contract.

The steps are:

1. Agreement Signed:__________________(actual date).

2. All materials supplied by client to us. This date is no more than two weeks from the contract signed date above. We shall invest up to four hours--but no longer--on this project phase.

All materials must be provided to us by:__________(actual date).

3. We shall complete website creation by:_________(actual date). This is two weeks after receipt of all client materials.

4. Final approval decision by client must be made within one week of receipt of completed website creation material. In this contract, that date is:_________(actual date).

Approval shall be granted, provided that the website attains the business objectives and content mutually agreed upon. However, any client changes due to client subjective factors--or client change in direction--at that point shall be charged at $75 per hour.

Free Added Service

At no additional charge to you, we register your website in the top five search engines on the Internet as well as up to five specific on-line directories applicable to the needs of your business.

Additional search engine registrations will be charged at$ 75 per hour.

We will also create metatags containing keywords and description content and place them on the pages invisibly so that search engine spiders and robots can find your website easier.

Upgrading, Updating and Maintenance

Even the best websites get outdated with the passage of time and changes in your fast-moving business,you need to refresh your website on a periodic basis to prevent visitor staleness and boredom.

We provide updating and maintenance services at $ 75 per hour. You may purchase a contract for eight hours of service in advance, or $600, prepaying this with a 10% discount, or $ 540 net to you.

In the alternative, you may learn how to perform these updates yourself, if you prefer. We teache these skills at $75 per hour.

We shall provide a time estimate for this contract based upon the initial project definition by the Client. If, at a later time, Clients directs that the scope of the project be expanded, we will provide an adjusted requotation to handle the increased workload, obtaining Client approval before proceeding.

Domain or URL Names--How And Why To Get Your Very Own Name

We strongly recommend that businesses on the Internet obtain and use their own domain names--example: www.ibm.com

If you do not use your own domain name, you will have the appearance on the Internet of a minor league business playing in the Major Leagues. If you do not get your own name, the name arbitrarily assigned to you will be far too long and very hard to remember.

Here's an actual example of one of our clients who, at first, refused to get his own domain name, then obtained a name later. His original Internet name/address was:

http://www.servnettech.net/naturalmarketplace

His updated address on the Internet became:

http://www.healthfix.com


Domain name registration costs $70 to use a name for two years. You will also pay a $99 fee for the Internet Service Provider to handle this name registration function and set up your hosting account.

Of course, this URL name is renewable after the two years for prices then in effect. With muliple name registrars now instead of one, and with the registration cost coming down from $100 to $70, there is no reason to expect an increase in this cost over the next two years. No money is ever paid to us for a domain name.

If you change Internet Service Providers within the two year period ,the new Internet Service Provider may charge you a fee to transfer the domain name.

You will also pay the Internet Service provider directly for the on-going hosting of your site, typically $35 to $50 per month. We not an Internet Service Provider and, therefore, does not host websites.

Our Payment Terms

One half of the total estimated amount is due upon the signing of this Agreement. The other one half is due upon project completion, as evidenced by posting the complete and approved site on the Internet at the client's domain name address (URL).

We own these materials until the final payment is made, transferring ownership rights to the client. In the event of default on the final payment, we continue to exercise and enjoy 100% ownership of this intellectual property, the client having forfeited any and all possible claims of ownership by default. Client default also results in forfeit of all previous payments made to us.

Special 10% Pre-Payers Discount

If you pay your professional fee fully upon contracting signing--rather than half-up front, half upon completion--you earn at 10% prepayment discount.

Payment Mechanics

We accept cash or checks from local business depository and credit line accounts written on financial institutions with geographic presence in the St. Petersburg, FL.

Any other check not meeting these criteria must be certified.

All payments are U.S. dollar demonimated, and no payments may be made in any foreign currency, as we do not wish to deal with exposure to currency risks.

Make all checks payable to "Alquist Enterprises"

Use of AOL Primehost, Earthlink and Other Large National Remote ISP Firms.

We strongly recommends the use of Digital Bay Net in Clearwater, FL to host your website. There are also any number of adequate local ISP firms.

While local ISP firms are reasonably efficient to work with, experience has proven that large national ISP firms are 100% automated, have no local presence, and have 800 lines staffed by newly-employed, unseasoned incompetents.

If any client insists upon using one of these large national ISP firms with no local presence for hosting, we charge an additional FTP fee of $150 to the Client.

We have wasted six to twelve additional hours dealing with these firms over 800 lines, and if you insist upon using these firms, we must be compensated for the extra time involved.

Liquidated Damages

In the event that a client stops working with us for any reason as a website is under construction, any refund request for money back shall be denied, and any and all monies paid to us shall be retained as "liquidated damages." Client waives right to make any claims to the contrary.

Acceleration of Balance Owed

In the event that a client fails to meet its as per the production schedule contained in the contract, or should client fail to make final payment on a time basis as defined in step four in the Production Schedule, or if the client simply loses interest and refuses to continue to work with us on his website, or if a client wishes to switch website creation vendors prior to our completion of the client's project, we, at our sole option, may declare default on the contract and accelerate the remaining balance owed--due and payable immediately, notwithstanding whether or when the website may or may not completed in the future.

Possibility of Bartering

On a case by case basis, we may agree to barter rits services in exchange for products and services provided by the client. However, we may decline a barter arrangement in advance for any reason.

We will value products and services of both parties, using the undiscounted, published retail prices of both firms. Our client will provide written documentation certifying the existence of barter credits at an agreed upon value.

Should the value of our services exceed the value of the barter credits, the client shall pay the difference by check or cash upfront.

Should the value of the barter credits exceed the value of professional services, we shall grant the availability of future services at no charge, as specified by a letter from us.

Contract With the Client

1._______________________________________by signing this contract becomes a Client of Alquist Enterprises.

2. We provide a wide variety of professional Internet services previously-described in this document at fees which are stated herein.

3. We offer a "satisfaction guarantee," meaning that your website will operate without problems, provided that the Internet Service Provider has been suggested by us or is deemed to be capable by us. If your website has any operating problems attributable to us, we will correct any such problems within one week of notification by the Client.

4. Should any legal action arise, the Choice of Law is the State of Florida, even for clients outside of the State of Florida, as this contract is governed by Florida law.

5. The total contract amount in this case is_______________________.

6. Payment of funds to us and provision of professional services by us to client. In the absence of a written contract, am oral agreement shall constitute a valid legal contract pursuant to Florida law. Terms and conditions of any such oral contract are exactly similar to this written contract.

7. The Client and WebsiteXpress agree that this amount is for the following services, as described:__________________________________

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___________________________________________Client of Alquist Enterprises



___________________________________John J. Alquist/ DBA WebsiteXpress

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