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130 Orders Per Year. What’s the Limit? [TemplateMonster Customer Case Study]

TemplateMonster is proud to have customers who have been with us since the foundation. Our next interview from the series of TemplateMonster customer case studies shows that there is always a way to attract new clients and keep them coming back, even if you have been working in your business niche since 1997.

Name: Timmy Yu
Occupation: Developer
Location: Hong Kong
Audience: from multination corporations to small, medium enterprises to individuals
Site: timway.com

Timmy's company has been with TemplateMonster for over a decade now. The total number of downloaded themes for 2016 makes up more than 130 already, and that's not the limit. Every next time a client requests to build a beautiful and professional website for any business niche an extensive collection of TemplateMonster's websites templates comes in handy.

TemplateMonster: Tell us a couple of words about yourself/your company. Where are you located? How big is your team? For how many years have you been in web design?
Timmy Yu: 24/7 person-to-person support. All-rounded web solutions, from e-commerce, website development, web hosting, email hosting to server colocation. SEO professional. Trustworthy and reliable.

Located in Hong Kong, with a passionate and dedicated team covering sales & marketing, programming, technical support, product development. Well established since 1997.


TemplateMonster: Do you commonly use ready-made website templates in your work or create custom designs as well? (In case you develop custom themes, in what cases do you opt for ready-made solutions?)
Timmy Yu: We tend to use ready-made web site templates with a certain degree of customization.

Here are several examples of the themes that Timmy Yu used in work, with the examples of finalized sites.

Case 1 (WordPress with instant quotation system)

Original TM theme: Museum Responsive WordPress Theme

Finalized site: www.speedprint.com.hk

Case 2 (Woocommerce as online product catalog)

Original TM theme: Outdoor Furniture WooCommerce Theme

Finalized site: richford-group.com

Case 3: (Opencart selling vintage American fashion)

Original TM theme: Men's Clothing Store OpenCart Template

Finalized site: www.workwarehk.com

Case 4: (Opencart selling baby products)

Original TM theme: Infant Clothing Store OpenCart Template

Finalized site: www.shopababy.com


TemplateMonster: How much time does is normally take you to create a website based on a theme? How long does it take to launch a custom-made project?
Timmy Yu: 4-6 weeks on average. No. of man hour varies on the complexity of the project.

TemplateMonster: What's an average bill for a theme-based website creation? How much does it cost to launch a custom-made site?
Timmy Yu: Price varies a lot depending on complexity and project scope. It starts from US$250 and can reach over US$4,000.

TemplateMonster: How long have you been with TemplateMonster? How can you evaluate the results of our collaboration? What do you enjoy the most? What should be changed/enhanced?
Timmy Yu: We have been with you for over a decade. The collaboration has been very successful, offering our clients a very diversified template choices and solutions.

We particularly enjoy being able to show our clients with a white-listed template library, where our company could have a certain extent of customization in the back end panel.

Would be even better if we could allow clients to search for template according to template color (i.e. “Choose a color to search:” on your main site)


TemplateMonster: What is your audience? What niche do you target? Do you target foreign markets or prefer working with customers from your country only?
Timmy Yu: Our audience ranges from multination corporations to small medium enterprises to individuals.

Locating in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and occasionally in Australia, Canada, and the United States.


TemplateMonster: How do you attract new customers and keep them coming back?
Timmy Yu: We offer reliable and ultra-speed connection, optimized SEO setting and timely customer and technical support. We have very promising renewal business and referral leads.

For how long have you been with TemplateMonster? What type of themes do you like the most? Do you want to share your case study at MonsterPost? Email marketing@templatemonster.com and we will reach you for an interview.