How to choose a digital agency

So let's say you have an idea of an online product or service and you’re looking for a best digital agency to implement it. We'd like to share a few advices on how to find a digital agency that fits your expectations.

Of course, since RubyGarage is a digital agency as well, we will also turn to our experience, but let us emphasize that we are interested to help you no matter what your final decision will be.

First, let's start with a general advice:

• Check the reputation. A serious web and mobile development company owns a portfolio of implemented projects. You should be able to check out these projects and see how they work. Solid digital agencies are discussed in media and participate in conferences and other IT-events.
• Check the way they work. A digital agency may have an onsite developer team or outsource resources for some projects. Check out whether the agency you want to work with has an office and competency of the staff.
• Check the way they’re going to handle your project. An agency may look for specific scope definitions to make the particular job done or be experienced enough to help you bring your project to life from concept to the successful product. Ask them how they measure and guarantee the result, and whether they have a similar project in their portfolio. It’s also a positive indicator if the agency is ready to tell you about the people who are going to work on your projects.

Now these all are pretty obvious recommendations, and it will be no surprise if you find posts telling the same truth on the Internet. However, most people usually solve this problem much more simply: they just ask their friends and colleagues for advice. And if they have worked with digital agencies, they will share their very own and unique experience, which matters more than a general advice.

If you do not have such friends, we’re going to unveil you a few under-the-hood peculiarities you may want to pay attention to when choosing digital agencies.

Focus on technologies

In our fast-paced world it is often very critical to keep an eye after the latest technologies in order to bring the safest and most effective products possible. However, not every web and mobile development firms follows that idea and often prefers to take of use technologies they've been working for a long period of time.

Also, some technologies are offered as open source, meaning using them does not cost a penny to a digital agency (and thus to a client). Turning to such agencies is a good idea if you have a tight budget.

Here at RubyGarage we use exclusively open source technologies and keep an eye on every update, since the more updated is the software, the safer and more reliable it is. We are aware of many different frameworks, programming languages, applications servers and so on. Check out our portfolio to see the technologies we used for each project.

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