This program is brought to you in coordination with Melrose Park Chamber of Commerce & Community Development and Custom Direct, Inc.
Welcome Melrose Park manufacturers!
Is your website driving business growth? Here is an outstanding opportunity to obtain a robust, fully-funded, FREE, website through the Cook County ARPA Website Development Initiative.
Our WordPress Website and eCommerce Website programs provide extensive design expertise with proven, highly successful website development results.
Quick Overview: What is the Cook County ARPA Website Development Initiative?
Through the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant funding, initiatives have been developed to support the manufacturing industry within the United States.
Custom Direct, Inc. has been a top performing ARPA Resource Partner for over 5 years — just last year alone, in one program, we delivered over $6.47 million in bottom-line impacts for 9 Illinois manufacturers.
Our research into the digital presence of Cook county manufacturers reveals the key project for these manufacturers to consider is the ARPA Website Development project, which is a fully-funded initiative, meaning the website development project is completely free.
How do we get started?
Complete the form on this page, or reach out to Nancy O'Leary at oleary@customdirect.com to get your application started!
A Website Development plan to:
- Assess Existing Resources
- Recommend Design, Content, and Navigation Aspects
- Implement the Recommendations in Website Development
The DELIVERABLES of this program include:
- Assessment identifying existing resources and content gaps
- Review of on-page SEO and list of recommended changes
- Provide template options for choice in overall site layout:
- Single page site with 5 hot key navigation sections
- 5 navigation pages
- Sitemap
- Development of WordPress website
- Utilizing company brand colors, fonts and logo
- Includes pages/sections: Home, Product/Services, About, Contact, up to 5 additional pages accessed through links, and an OPTIONAL page (based on content available), select one:
- Resources (not to exceed 5 entries)
- Blog (not to exceed 5 entries)
- Gallery (not to exceed 10 images)
- Initial SEO with keyword content recommendations
- Add conversion goals to Google Analytics
- Mobile responsive
- Online user video training
- Basic RFQ form and calls-to-action
- Webinar-based training
A 3-Part eCommerce Website Upgrade Development Plan to:
- Assess Existing Resources
- Recommend Design, Content, Navigation Aspects, and Cart Functionality
- Implement the Recommendations in eCommerce Website Development
The DELIVERABLES of this program include:
- Assessment Report identifying existing resources and content gaps to be supplied by client specifically in terms of products/services to be available for purchase online and provide a Content Guide for client content creation
- Review payment and shipping options for choice in overall eCommerce functionality
- Credit Card Processing Plug-in Options:
- PayPal
- Stripe
- WooCommerce Payment
- Shipping Options:
- FedEx
- UPS
- USPS
- Credit Card Processing Plug-in Options:
- Development of WordPress eCommerce website Utilizing company brand colors, fonts and logo
- eCommerce functionality upgrade
- Sitemap
- Navigation Updates
- Products Page Updates - Up to 10 simple products configured
- Shopping Cart
- eCommerce functionality upgrade
- Add conversion goals to Google Analytics
- Mobile responsive
- Online user video training
- Webinar-based training
Contact Us
Ready to learn more. We can help your through the application process. Either fill out the form or call Nancy O'Leary at 630-529-6063 to get started.
