Indus Net Technologies (Hire-a-Designer.com is an Indus Net Technologies brand) has been selected as the #1 IT SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprise) in India 2008 by Duns & Bradstreet in a glittering Award Ceremony in Mumbai on 30th September 2008.
Indus Net Technologies has also been prominently placed among the Emerging SMEs of India publication, which was unvieled on the same day.
We would like to thank our 5000+ clients who put in their trust in us (even though 90% of them have never met us) and the team which delivered and fulfilled every promise that Indus Net Technologies made.
PM: I've learned a lot in my eight years as an Internet Entrepreneur not least the negative and positive effects of good and bad developers.
My first developer did nothing in 3 months then stole my domain name; the second did a fair job for about 5 years and then gave me a month notice to find someone else as he was retiring.
PM: In researching for a third I came across a lack of professionalism, arrogance and over-priced bids to carry on our work where our previous developer left off. I knew I wanted to outsource so I would not have to deal with some of the human resource, tax, emotional and cost issues that can come with employees.
My goal therefore was to find a company:
I short-listed Indusnet because I read a blog written by their CEO Abhishek Rungta in which he wrote about how he was trying to help his local community in India, for me that helped with the trust issue. With regard expertise and experience I asked for references and they gave me five to speak to and more if I wanted them. I spoke to all five and they confirmed that Indusnet were capable of taking on my project. As for feeling comfortable with them, although they offered to meet me in the UK, I wanted to meet them and see their facilities for myself. I flew out to Kolkata in June of 2007, made my presentation and before I left 5 days later I had the company I was looking for at the right price.
PM: It hasn't always been plain sailing, we have had our issues. On one occasion, within a few months of hiring them I returned to India to help get a project back on track after the wheels had fallen off. However, rather than being a negative, this incident proved to me that I had made the right choice and, this was what impressed me most about Indusnet. They took full responsibility of the issues that had befallen them and didn't try to shift the blame or charge me. They put right what went wrong and that's the key. Nobody, however good they are, will get it right 100% of the time but how many will put it right at their expense without fuss or threats of a lawsuit. Indusnet came through and proved that I was in good hands.
We don't have many issues but, when we do, we have always worked together to resolve them. I make heavy demands on my developers so things will go wrong at times.
PM: I have a great website, decent revenue and an excellent relationship with Indus Net. My research has paid off and would not hesitate to recommend them to others.
PM: In 2009 we invited one of our Kolkata developers to come and stay with us as a reward for his efforts rather than me go to spend another week getting bit by mosquitoes and risking my life in their yellow cabs. The young developer had a great time in the UK but when we went to check his room after he had left we found that he had taken the instruction to "get inside the quilt" literally and must have spent a whole night unpicking the stitching to actually get "inside" the quilt. We should have said "get under" it.