Talkspot Certified Designer Program:

Benefits of Certification

Upon approval of your certification, you will receive the following:

• A $1,000 credit will be established wit Google Ad Works for you to promote your web development services.
• Talkspot will provide free leads for customers in your area seeking website development services.
• First year hosting and domain costs for your first 5 Talkspot website developments will be waived.  (Charge your customers as appropriate and receive 100% of all associated margin from reselling the service.)
• Talkspot will designate you as a Regional approved designer for your area and place you on their site.
• Set discounts on Talkspot hosting and tools use licensing.  (We believe our current rates to be competitive and often times below rates of our competitors.)

Note: There is no charge for certification training.  Other than access to training, no program benefits will be delivered until your certification process is completed.

Certification Process

• Complete the Talkspot Certification Application
• Upon acceptance, you will be invited to attend a set of training classes on tools, SEO utilities, hosting options and support systems. (Approx. 4 hours)
• Submit a website built using the Talkspot toolset for review.  This can be a site built for a customer or a "proof of concept." (This will take a lot less time than you might think to complete.  Website set-up with Talkspot is fast and easy.

Required Skill-set

• Some experience with CSS, HTML, XML, Flash, and JavaScript.
• Competent with graphic manipulation tools like Photoshop
• Good communication skills and customer relationship acumen

Details:

Talkspot is seeking designers who will build their own business using Talkspot tools and hosting services purchased on a wholesale basis based on leads delivered by Talkspot and any other costumers generated by the program participant. This is not an offer of employment.

Certification and participation in free referral programs is good for one year from date of completion. Continued support after this time will be based on your success as a Talkspot Value Added reseller.  If you are making an effort to build the business – we'll continue to work with you.

There are no hidden fees, you won't be asked to sign lengthy contracts or deal with us exclusively. This is not a pyramid scheme, "get rich quick scam" or plot to spam your email account – we promise.)  We're just looking for quality designers with and interest in working with us in a win-win cooperative relationship. 

If his sounds like you – please apply today as we have a limited number of training spots available.

About Talkspot:

Talkspot.com is a web tools and hosting services company targeting small businesses & non-profits entities and enthusiasts in key enthusiast markets such as owners of high-end personal watercraft and equestrian and canine owners/breeders.  

Talkspot owner CEO Ken Williams previously founded software publisher Sierra On-Line, Inc. in 1979, building the company from start-up to an international leader in pc software development and publishing with over 1,000 employees worldwide.  He left Sierra when it was acquired by Vivendi Universal in the late 1990's.

Ken started Talkspot in 2005 with his son DJ and a small team of talented developers and designers. Since launch, Talkspot technologies have been used to build and host over 5,000 business and consumer websites for customers in over 20 countries. 

Talkspot provides a wide variety of web tools to designers and consumers, including page editors, transaction tools for ecommerce, bulletin board and blogging tools,  Flash-Based photo galleries, map display and charting tools, automated polling, powerful email and newsletter functionality, blogs, video, music and more.