We don't say it enough, but I want you to know we are very grateful for your loyal support of Gutensite over the years. You make our world go around.

Through these recent economic hard times, we've labored to keep our costs low so that Gutensite could be affordable to even the smallest business and organization. And we're proud of the fact that we've been able to tailor packages that fit every budget. We plan on continuing this commitment, while still finding ways to innovate and make improvements to the CMS for the benefit of everyone. But it takes money to pay talented people to do cool things, so we have to make sure we charge enough to cover our costs, thus the new prices publicized on our website.

We have made the price increase for all new clients effective immediately: Pro ($95), NPO ($85) and Webmaster ($55). But for existing clients, there will be no price increase until March (and not billed until April). And even at that point, existing clients will get a "Thanks for your Business" Discount of $5/mo for the next full year to soften the effect of the increase.

Reason for Price Increase
We are an old fashioned business, grown organically over time, funded out of our own shallow pockets without any external investment or borrowed money. It's actually pretty amazing that we've been able to accomplish all that we have with this simple business model. But thanks to our loyal clients (you), together with a focus on quality and a good work ethic, we've built something fantastic.

Our long term plan is to make Gutensite into an industry recognized name for professional websites, with added features, improved usability, and solid coding. To do this we need to help more clients discover what Gutensite can do for them so that we can increase our profitability to fund these goals. Most of Gutensite's costs are fixed and with more clients the profitability increases so that we can then afford to invest a lot more into the development of great new Gutensite features and industry innovations.

But we have a little way to go before we have enough clients to support full-time designers and developers that work on Gutensite alone (currently we split our time between paying custom work and non-paying Gutensite development). So in the meantime, we need to find ways to increase revenue to keep up with market costs, without adversely undermining our clients.

We will be increasing prices slightly to compensate for inflation and cover the cost of development work that makes things better for everyone. We believe that a small price increase, is affordable for all our clients and also very competitive. We provide a great service to all our clients, with unique design skills and powerful flexibility and functionality for websites. Even our most expensive package is less than what most people pay for a monthly cell phone plan, and yet the website is such an integral part of doing business and presenting a professional face to the world.

For all the effort that goes into providing these sites, we hope you agree that the value is worthwhile. If so, through your continued patronage, together we will make Gutensite even better in coming years.

Thank you,
Chadwick Meyer