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Vortex Digital | Iowa City Web Design Since 1996

Vortex Digital Business Solutions Winner of the 2020 CBJ Best Website Developer in the Corridor.
Winner of two 2020 Graphic Design USA Awards.

There is no substitute for Experience.
Our principal, Jonathan David Sabin has been in Advertising, Marketing and Visual Communications since 1973.
Our Art Director, Molly Martin Reeser has worked in Graphic Design for Print and Digital since the 1980’s.
Our three full time Web Developers have Degrees in Computer Science and Web Design from UI and Kirkwood and have been with us for 8, 7 and 6 years.

Our job is to create a Lead Generation and/or Sales Machine that performs and is targeted towards your ideal clients with strategic Design, wire-framing and UX in mind. Your website is your online business portal, it should look and feel like your Brand and reflect your genuine benefit driven offering.

Every image and word must be crafted to reflect your highest vision.
This can only be accomplished through custom design and the an impeccable attention to detail.
We dive deeply into the heart of your passion and relentlessly pursue the highest edifice of design, SEO, and SEM best practices.

We are Vortex Digital Business Solutions.
We would be honored to help bring your vision to the world stage.

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“The Vortex team has been terrific to work with! We are very pleased with our new website. Jonathan & his team are very knowledgeable and have great ideas for our business. We would highly recommend Vortex to anyone needing website and business solutions.”

Michelle Lamkins, J and J Real Estate

“When people see my site they gush about how beautiful it is!

They say it looks like YOU! And that’s because I had the Vortex team hold my hand throughout the process and I came to them with great advice from Jonathan Sabin about what to bring to the table. It made my site reflect me! And I love it too.”

Dr. Tanya English, Quantum Healing

Reputation Management

Introduce your business in a professional manner on the digital marketplace, managing online reviews, and placing relevant information on aggregators.

Social Media

Vortex does all the admin work for you by creating email marketing accounts and automating your organic social media posts. These tools allow Vortex to implement long term marketing strategies with reduced project management costs and increased ROI w/o overpaying for digital marketing!

Email Marketing

Vortex creates email templates and devises the most effective methodology to deliver email marketing to your audience. We use best practice techniques to help retain your readers long term.

On-Board SEO

SEO is the process of increasing a site’s visibility and ranking in organic search results. Websites that have well-developed SEO easily convey what they’re all about to Google, resulting in higher rankings in search results.

Pay Per Click Advertising

In-depth market research to develop keyword lists and write unique copy that helps your business get ROI on search engine advertising.

Analytics Analysis

An in-depth report with statistics outlining weekly results of advertising, website traffic, bounce rates, and more! Vortex also prepares a unique executive report summarizing your results.

Bronze Package

Strategic Planning Meeting, Asset Acquisition

SEO + Digital Marketing Audit

Market Research

Automated Weekly Reports
- Social Media Engagement
  - (Weekly Social Media Impressions, Likes, Shares, Clicks, Social ROI)
- Google Analytics Reports
- Conversions Report

Writing Ad Copy
- Up to 4 Unique Posts on any/all platforms, up to 10 social media accounts
- Posts can be duplicated across platforms for no additional costs

All platforms are included:
- (Twitter, Facebook/Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Youtube)

All posts include:
- Uniquely crafted copy/text
- 1 free internet image/graphic
- Image SEO
- As many images as client would like, provided they already have images or would like to purchase Add-on Adobe stock images or would like commercial photography services

1 Blog Post / Month
- 300-400 words maximum
- Free internet images/graphics (clipart) + Image SEO

Account Set-up:
- Setting up social media accounts if necessary
- Creating Hootsuite and Mailchimp Accounts
- Linking social media to Hootsuite
- Linking website to Google Analytics
- 1 Email Template Creation/Month

Tweaking/Debugging

SEO: (One page of website SEO a month)

$297 Per Month*

*Note: Three Month Up-Front Payment Required
Prices do not include the costs of subscriptions or ad budgets

Diamond Package

All Bronze tier benefits are included

All Silver tier benefits are included

All Gold tier benefits are included

Google Ads:
- Keyword Research
- Writing Ad Copy
- Ad Extensions & SEO
- Account Set-up
- Tweaking
- Google Ads Report

Fully Serviced Google Ads and SEO campaign management with an account exclusive dedicated team.

$1497 Per Month*

*Note: Three Month Up-Front Payment Required
Prices do not include the costs of subscriptions or ad budgets

Gold Package

All Bronze tier benefits are included

All Silver tier benefits are included

Paid Social Media Advertising:
- Market Research
- Writing Ad Copy:
  - Up to 12 Unique Posts on any/all platforms, up to 10 social media accounts
  - Posts can be duplicated across platforms for no additional costs
  - All platforms are included:
    - (Twitter, Facebook/Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Youtube)
- - All posts include:
    - Uniquely crafted copy/text
    - 1 free internet image/graphic
    - Image SEO
    - As many images as client would like, provided they already have images or would like to purchase Add-on Adobe stock images or would like commercial photography services
  - 1 Blog Post / Month
    - 300-400 words maximum
    - Free internet images/graphics (clipart) + Image SEO

Reputation Management:
- Google Business Places
  - Creating/Optimizing Google Business Places
- Yelp + Aggregators
  - Account creation or maintenance
- Website Review Page Creation
- Monthly Executive Report

Print Services:
- Can choose one of the following print options a month
- 1 design hour to design any one of the options
- Printing/Shipping costs are paid by the client
- Unlimited # of prints
  - Postcards
  - Business Cards
  - Flyers

Business Consultation Services:
- 1 Business Meeting a month

$1097 Per Month*

*Note: Three Month Up-Front Payment Required
Prices do not include the costs of subscriptions or ad budgets

Silver Package

All Bronze Tier Items are included

On-Going Market Research

- Weekly Reports:
  - Executive Summaries and Breakdowns included with reports
  - Social Media Engagement
    - (Weekly Social Media Impressions, Likes, Shares, Clicks, Social ROI)
  - Google Analytics Reports
  - Conversions Report

$797 Per Month*

*Note: Three Month Up-Front Payment Required
Prices do not include the costs of subscriptions or ad budgets