VC Web Design rebrands, hires and moves to new home

It's been a busy year for VC Web Design. The Ypsilanti-based website development company has hired a handful of new employees and moved to a newer and bigger office. It is also gearing up to rebrand itself in the next month as Visual Compass Web Design.

VC Web Design got its start four years ago and was the first graduate of Ann Arbor SPARK's East Incubator. Its first projects consisted of building up the online presence for local companies and organizations. It has grown to a staff of 14 people after hiring four employees over the last year. Those new positions include graphic designers, sales/business development and marketing.

VC Web Design first real office was a retail space in downtown Ypsilanti shortly after it graduated from Ann Arbor SPARK East. Last summer it moved to a larger office (700 square feet to 1,000 square feet) in Depot Town a few doors down from Aubree's. The firm made the move to help accommodate its growth and choose a ground floor retail space to help further its business.

"The move was as much for the location as it was for the space," says Vince Chmielewski, president of VC Web Design, adding the increased foot traffic and visibility helps drive up business. "Having a presence helps us," he adds.

VC Web Design is growing thanks to its expanding portfolio of work developing websites, videos and web applications. It has been doing videos for Eastern Michigan University about the university’s research efforts. Much of VC Web Design’s web applications work is creating apps for businesses to use in-house, such as new websites and web applications for Knights Steakhouse in Ann Arbor.

"We're doing a lot more projects like that," Chmielewski says. "Part of it is the Agile process we use. People seem to like that."

Source: Vince Chmielewski, president of VC Web Design
Writer: Jon Zemke

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