About Cleverly Creative

Cleverly Creative is a company designed to give businesses owners and designers the tools and skills to create powerful online businesses. We're the only company that can offer all the essential tools of building an online business in one place from one central console. We're essentially 10 companies in 1, saving you time and money.

Our Vision

To enhance peoples lives through technology. Making difficult things easy, making complicated things simple, and making expensive things cheap. So far so good, we don't plan on stopping any time soon.

Statement of Values

1. Helping Designers and Business Owners

We're here to help people, specifically those that build websites and online businesses. We do that by sharing the technology we run our business on with designers and business owners like you. We also like sharing what we know about creating successful businesses on the web. That's why our support team sometimes gives advice on things like email marketing, search engine optimization and web usability, that can help you be successful on web. We're passionate about two things: Web Designers, and Small Businesses, and we're proud to let it show..

2. Keep it Simple as Possible

The web is pretty complex, and not many people understand it. But making things too easy makes it less powerful. We want to give you all the power of the web, as simply as is possible. That doesn't necessarily mean your Grandma can use Cleverly Creative - but we think that together, we can teach her to, given a few days. We're about streamlining the complex stuff so that anyone can understand it- even your most technically challenged business owners.

3.Honesty over Pride

If it looks like bug, smells like a bug, its a bug. We'll tell you like it is, no excuses from us.

4.“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”- Chinese Proverb

We're about building relationships, not just making a sale. That's why we invest our time into educating our customers and partners - to teach you how to make the internet and Cleverly Creative a successful part of your business. We do that with our webinars, training videos, forums and training manuals - all dedicated to helping you succeed. We're geared up and excited to educate anyone who needs to know or wants to listen.

5. Success shouldn't cost the earth.

Many top-tier business solutions like ours cost the earth and don't deliver. Or they are just so complex you need a team of consultants to help you get it going - at $200 per hour each, that's an expensive proposition. We believe in providing you great technology, built to help you and your clients succeed, at an affordable price.

We love our work because what we do creates meaning. We make our mark in the smile of an empowered designer and a successful business owner.We are about changing the world, one business at a time.

Who is this Horace Guy?

About 5 years ago, Horace was looking into starting a new business, online. As an accomplished businessman he started thinking about what he was going to need to be successful. A website was the obvious starting point. It had to be easy enough to add and change content - because websites live or die on the basis of fresh, useful content.

Next, Horace needed a way to manage leads and customers. You need to be able to react quickly to new leads and follow up on old ones. Then, marketing. Email marketing to be precise. A permission based list of people who are receptive to hear your message is priceless. And don't forget - online shopping. Selling goods online is a great way to cut out the middle man and reach your customers directly. Pretty Easy Huh! Well not exactly!

So, checklist in hand (Horace's a pretty organized sort of guy) he went looking for something to do all this and he found Content management systems, Customer Relationship Management systems, Shopping carts and Email Marketing solutions. So he signed up to all these services and downloaded what he needed to download.

OK great, he thought, let's get started!....Or not.

Horace got frustrated. He realized that remembering multiple passwords, learning multiple systems, and completing multiple tasks became a pain because there’s no time to actually focus on his business. Have you ever tried driving a car with very bad alignment? Every time you try to go straight, the wheel is taking you more to the right or left, but it gets where your trying to go but just takes longer and more frustrating. Horace felt the same way about his business. Then it all clicked! Why hadn’t anyone come up with the system that has all the solutions in one central location that Horace was looking for?

With that thought Horace rolled up his sleeves and decided that he was going to solve this little problem. Not just for himself, but for the other businessperson who didn’t have to go through the same frustrating problem that Horace went through. He named his new company Cleverly Creative, which hit the scene in 2005. "My goal was pretty simple bring businesses a database that helps them understand their customers behavior, create a quick action response time and communicate with them from one central location. That's what Cleverly Creative is all about, no more having 10 different systems to do everything you need to be successful, ONE SYSTEM, ONE PRICE. Now that's an Online Business!"