We Raise Digital:
The epitome of post-covid freelancing success

It's a tale as old as 2020. When the pandemic hit, Richard Burrow began rethinking his career. And with over a decade's experience as a Digital Marketing Consultant for a south-west agency, he decided it was time to go it alone.

For the past 4 years his consultancy, We Raise Digital, has been raising clients' online presence with a medley of marketing services – featuring WordPress web creation at the forefront of his arsenal. And Fasthosts have been with Richard every step of the way, supplying him and his clients with our trusted hosting services.

So when he decided to join our Partner Programme, our very own Matthew Harvey was more than happy to guide the process.

Reliable hosting for his client base

We Raise Digital attracts a range of clients who rely on a hosting service they don't have to think twice about: I work with a lot of professional services firms. They can be quite demanding and are keen to ensure reputation. I also do lots of work with charity and community groups, so a robust fully available service that is stable, secure and maintained is really important.

Naturally, we opened up our selection box: The WordPress hosting package was brilliant for my offering. With Matthew steady on the tiller, Richard seamlessly migrated his customer websites to Fasthosts... and the rest is history.

The live uptime monitoring always comes back great, which allows me to set a fair price point for hosting. In the past I've put a number of customers on a dedicated server, and when it went down, they all went down together – Fasthosts WordPress Hosting is more manageable and resilient.

As such a strong advocate for our WordPress hosting product, it's no surprise that Richard naturally settled into our Partner Programme...

The perks of partnership

Richard is particularly fond of our single sign-on customer management feature, which helps him securely manage all of his customers with ease. As well as giving me a broad overview, it's especially useful for billing, simplifying invoices and saving me a huge admin headache.

As a Fasthosts Partner, by default, Richard entered our referral scheme which rewards him for business growth – and helps us build our client base. In other words, everyone's a winner! Before We Raise Digital hit 20 clients, every referral he onboarded to our WordPress hosting solution earned him a 5% discount on Fasthosts services, as well as £30 credit. Now that he's grown, that's upgraded to 10% and £40!

The cost savings help, especially as I choose to pay annually, so the discount becomes significant. This allows me to be competitive in terms of the price I'm quoting to my customer, which helps lock in that long-term relationship.

Premium product, personal service

Green, secure and fast... three key characteristics of our WordPress hosting packages that we see as a given, but Richard uses to help win more business.

Fasthosts' proactive approach to security not only reassures me that my accounts are protected, it helps me strengthen my proposals with absolute reassurance. I'm very transparent with my clients over using Fasthosts for this reason. As well as the fact that they offer brilliant page speed and have a fully sustainable data centre.

Yet under all the bells and whistles that help Richard provide first class work to his clients, it's the service he receives from Matthew and the Partner Support team that he values above all else.

For general questions, the Partner Support team is great. But I'm the first to admit that I can bring knotty problems to Matt, but I always feel confident in doing so because I know I can rely on him to find the right contact and get the problem solved quickly. This kind of relationship is often anonymous with other firms, but that name-to-face experience is one of the main reasons I'm happy to recommend the service.

Partner with us today

Richard looks forward to growing his client base further as a Fasthosts Partner, and we’re proud to reward him as he does so!

Want to get in on the action? Benefit from unbeatable page speeds, quick, green and secure hosting, 24/7 support, and single sign-on customer management tools – plus scalable discounts and rewards. Find out if you’re eligible to join our Partner Programme today.