Software Solutions for Engineers
Hi. I am Brian Cumming and am a fellow engineer.  As a former MEP firm owner and how things have changed! I remember life before email when the fax machine was the best form of communication! That was back when schedules were realistic.   Little did we know that email would take over and create this world of instant information and "want it now" expectations.   Now we are expected to design buildings in 1/3 time time from just 10 years ago!

The amazing thing is that most engineering firms are trying to use Outlook and Spreadsheets as their information management tool.   They think that because Outlook handles emails and personal calendars, it helps their employees manage all the design standards, project information, schedules, budgets, and everything else.

To build a successful engineering firm (and stay sane doing it), your company  needs the right software to manage all this information and allow people to access and share so that you can serve your "want it now" customers.  The software needs to interface with Outlook, but work the way architects work.

We offer 4 solutions that every engineering firm should have:

Must Have #1 - A Great Looking, Customer Driven Website  

Most engineers we talk to don't realize that everything has changed in the way people find and select an engineer.  It used to be all word of mouth and formal presentations.  If you are recommended using word of mouth,  a prospect still checks your website (and your competitors)  before contacting you.  It is a prequalification process.  Home, Commercial, Government, and Design/Build Contractors all use this method. Only if your website is acceptable in their mind will they consider calling you.

Yet many engineers don't have professionally designed websites - not optimized for the people looking for architects, not optimized for today's search engines, and not designed to get lookers to call.   Usually their websites are designed by some young engineer from some low-cost template who doesn't know how to design a website to get business. It may look great, but does it bring you business?  Is it all about you - or your customer? Are you in this situation?

We offer a service that can help depending upon your situation:

  • Situation A: Your website needs modernizing - We will apply our online marketing expertise and design a new website that are optimized for search engines and project a modern, professional firm and entice people to call or submit a request for you to contact them.  You can still edit and add to this website, but we will have designed it to bring in business.
  • Situation B: You have a great-looking website, but don't get many leads from it - We provide a website consultation to review your website and insert the missing pieces that bring leads.   Combined with our Online Marketing Strategy system, you get several leads per week.

Must Have #2 - Online Marketing Strategy to Constantly Bring In New Business (for a low cost)

People looking for engineers are using the web - Period.  Word of mouth still works, but it is a slow way to build a thriving practice. And people still use the web to see other engineers's websites. The last couple of years I owed my MEP firm, I got 30% new business from leads my website - from clients I had never heard of.  In the year I sold the firm, I got over $200k in fees from my website and a great firm gave me an offer to buy my firm so I could focus on software.   All this because I had a system to get people to find my website.

Most engineering firms I talk to have so-so web-sites, and not much business is flowing in from them.  Usually, they were designed by some young employee that has no idea about the vast ever-changing expertise of search engine marketing.   And the firm suffers because of it.

 We offer a service that brings new leads weekly - for a low cost.   Our website lead generation system WebLeads will bring constant leads for new clients and projects.   Our combination of SEO experts and industry experts will bring in leads constantly.   All for a low, monthly fee that is a no-brainer.

Must Have #3 - Intranet - A internal website for your employees only to organize it all

How fun is it to maintain your company standards, AIA standards, master details, checklists, employee manual, weblinks and 1,000 other things - all while being profitable on projects?   Have we got THE solution for you!   A modern, web based, database-driven website, designed especially for the Architecture firm, that provides a system that your everyone in the office can share. 

  • Web based so no hassle - The group contributes all the content
  • Syncs with Outlook (thanks to Microsoft)
  • Highly secure and permission driven
  • Low monthly fee that pays for itself daily

Must Have #4 - A great Project Management System that Works with Outlook and Quickbooks

Your world is projects.  If you do not have one, you need a professionally written  database software application to help you manage information.  We have over 100 architects and engineers using OfficeGT nation-wide.   When filling out a timesheet in OfficeGT, your employees get to post their time seeing the same engineering task list as in the schedule.  Imagine what that one feature does to keep everyone on track.  And there are many, many more features designed to make the small architectural office more efficient and organized.

"I Guarantee that if you add just one of the three "Must Haves" above, your firm will grow and prosper faster and more organized. "  Brian Cumming, PE

Products and Services for Engineers
Online Marketing Strategy expands your existing website into a powerful lead generation machine that works for you as a very low-cost marketing machine that adds more business to your existing marketing efforts.  Guaranteed to add new clients and projects that will help your firm grow.  Sign Up Now
Architect Intranet
Intranet A/E is a web-based Intranet site that allows architects to have one location to manage office standards, links, project, and other information in the office or on their mobile device.  It includes managing Project Issues like To-Dos, RFIs, Shop Drawings, CA Punch lists.  Project schedules and tasks,
OfficeGT for architect
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SendSave outlook addon
SendSave is an Outlook add-on that saves a copy of project emails to project folders on your server - with the rest of the project files.  Improves efficiency by making emails visible in the project folder.  Lowers liability because critical emails are backed up with the rest of the project files.  More..

Action:  What is Your most pressing need now?

Need new business? - Try WebLeads for 90 days and get new business. Cancel anytime after that.
Need to organize the chaos? Try Intranet A/E for 30 days.  If not amazed, you can cancel anytime.
Managing projects in spreadsheets not working?  Try OfficeGT Engineer for 90 days. Money back guarantee.
Need to back-up emails? Download SendSave and try for 45 days free.