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Rough Works

Rough Works

Take Your Vision From Rough to Refined

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Remote work

1-9

2019

5

Our Offering

We help businesses take the next step with their web presence. Clear brand designs, customers focused web design and efficient web development. We focus on what helps a business improve on existing structure and not suggesting a whole new technology stack. Our speciality is in custom sites but we work with WordPress and Shopify with clients all the time.

Our History

Building small websites with Manufacturing and Trades industries was how Rough Works began; however, over time the vision and scope of clients progressed beyond the humble beginnings. We now specialize in large scale e-commerce, real-estate, law, education, startups, manufacturing and scientific ventures. This background coupled with experience in unique markets like Europe, North America and Asia, have made Rough Works a swiss army knife for clients.

Our Rates

We offer rates that scale for small and enterprise businesses. We do this because we would rather work with clients that we personally enjoy and therefore have access to cool industries and concepts.

Pricing model
  • Hourly rate
  • Retainer
  • Project-based
  • Commission
Budget
  • $5,000+
Geographic focus
  • Canada
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • France
Languages
  • English
Success stories

Challenge

What specific goals or objectives did Rough Works accomplish? - Improving our website SEO - Improving Advertising ROAS

Solution

"RW really helped with an audit of our website to see what really wasn't serving us or what was harming our listings through Google. He helped us track specific keywords and created a list of "best bang for your buck" keywords to go after with our advertising." Peter Kaczan, Marketing Manager

Result

"By targeting specific keywords, the raised overall advertising ROAS from last year's 2.9 to 3.4 throughout Google ads. RW was always on time for meetings and quick with important deliverables. He always came into meetings with a lot of enthusiasm and great data for talking points/ idea generation"

Challenge

- Design, Develop and Deploy a brand new website for Eagle Copters Limited - Keep load times under 2 seconds for all pages - Build a E-commerce store of 2500+ that updates live inventory every 2 hours

Solution

Why did Eagle Copter select Rough Works over others? - High ratings - Great culture fit - Referred to me - Company values aligned What was provided? Full website development from beginning to end, ongoing website hosting/maintenance.

Result

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success? - Top 10% of websites based on site health - SEMRush - Load times under 0.5 seconds across the site at launch - GTMetrix - Organic search traffic up 120% - CTR of Organic Keywords up 12%

Challenge

Transforming a manual process of emailing insurance claims, manually reviewing each claim and manual archiving into a modern solution. Furthermore, they needed a new website design with automation of blogs postings, events and more.

Solution

Rough Works created an automated database which collected all users submissions and organized them for the correct team member. This included a single page design with multi level access based on user role for optimizing bug fixes and utilizing dynamic user data.

Result

This update improved website traffic to 24922 last month (October 2022) by making the website the most important tool for users. The portal currently processes over 500 weekly users through the portal with a customer submission success rate of 99%. The portal page loads in under 2 seconds.

Our clients
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works helped NAI Global grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works helped G6 Materials grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works helped London School of Economics grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works helped Seubert grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works helped DecisionBrain grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works helped MilkJar grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Our awards
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works wins Top International SEO - Canada 2024 award
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works wins Top Market Research - Ecommerce Canada award
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works wins Top Market Research Company - Legal 2024 award
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works wins Top Market Research Company - Canada 2024 award
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada agency Rough Works wins Top Web Developer - Legal Canada award

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