Zach Wiesman

Business/ Industry
Religious, Missionary, Church, Non-Profit

Background/Approach
Zach is a not a normal high school graduate.  Most High School graduates start a job in a trade, go to trade school to learn a skill or head off to college.  Zach heard a different call.  God called on Zach to serve in the missions field right after school.  He answered this call by serving with an organization in western Wisconsin.  This organization focuses on serving other students and children, providing them with a way to find Christ in a non-threading, friendly way.  As a new missionary, Zach needed to learn many things, including how to raise support and provide regular updates to his supporters.  The traditional approach is to meet with people face to face and write letters for updates.  Considering that it is 2008, Zach wanted to balance tradition with current technology by asking if we could provide him with a website to display background on his missions, photos from his missions, and a blog or diary on his missions.  With a website, Zach would be given a way to share his ideas and missions with more than those he could sit and talk with, face to face. 

Solution
N.E.W. Results, LLC approached this project by first interviewing Zach to determine what he wanted and who would be viewing it.  It is important to make sure the customer’s audience is taken into account to ensure the website will be used.  There is nothing worse than a website no one visits.  Well, actually, what is worse is a website that doesn’t provide its owner with the intended results. 

In this specific project, Zach was not new to computers, but he was new to websites.  He needed us to provide him with direction and ideas.  He told us that he loved basketball and his favorite color is black; that he wanted to share his ideas, write about each mission, and share photos; that he wanted a way for people to keep up to date on his progress in real time, without having to wait for a hand-written letter.  We came up with an idea to create a simple, classy, and clean website  utilizing industry standard tools to minimize cost and maximize consistency and output.  We didn’t develop the blog tool or the photo album software, but we integrated them into his website, so it was seamless and functioned in a way that people could easily navigate and use. 

Results
Zach ended up with a website that provides him with a way to communicate with words and pictures.  Communication leads to trust.  Trust leads to support.  Zach states that he is extremely grateful for Jeff and for N.E.W. Results, LLC for creating a website that is so easy to use and update.  Family and friends enjoy being able to easily get into the website and read and view what Zach has been up to while he’s learning at missions schools and on trips half-way around the world.  Jeff continues to give Zach support and updates with ways to improve his website.

No matter what age you are, what industry you are in, or place you are in the world of technology, Jeff at N.E.W. Results, LLC can help you put your ideas into motion and get results.