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To the friends of Fat Panda Design, the ones who have stuck around since day 1:

We love you guys, dearly.

To the friends who have joined us perhaps midway, or at some point throughout our journey:

We also love you guys, dearly.

To the people that pretend to be our friends, but only use our time for their personal gain, with no intention of ever giving back credit, references, work, financial instruments, or even simple words of gratitude:

We don’t like you guys very much. You’re the selfish ones that nearly destroyed Fat Panda Design.

The selfish, greedy ones who never wanted to contribute, nearly caused our downfall. But that’s on us.

Thankfully, I decided to cut out the pigs that were taking and only taking, never giving back, to provide what was left of my time to those that have always stuck by our side and have always given back as much as they could.

You guys are the ones that truly have helped Fat Panda Design flourish, and survive for as long as it has.

We are on a new path right now — one that will focus on YOU, our loyal clientele. We just ask that you be patient — this transitional phase is very stressful on us (mainly me, since Mr. Panda just has to fucking sleep and eat bamboo).

Rearranging our entire marketing strategy. Focusing on building a massive email list, that’s engaged. Crafting engaging stories constantly so that all of our beloved Panda fans have new articles to read every week.

It’s a LOT of work for one person.

Add on top of that, every time that I sign a new SEO client (Thank you Uday and Ahlem, you two are AWESOME!), a new web design job (THANK YOU Aaron Dutil, so much, you saved my ass with this job buddy — and you’ve been such a loyal client since the very beginning bro, we truly LOVE YOU), and the rest of the new clients that are starting to come on board.

Starting over isn’t easy, and it’s frustrating as FUCK. But — doing it right is what matters most. And that’s what Fat Panda is going to do from here on out — focusing on what matters most, YOU, our clients, our relationships, our friends ❤

I can’t wait to work with ALL of you and create absolutely incredible campaigns/designs/marketing strategies/and deliver amazing results. But I please, please, please, ask that you just bare with me during this transformational phase that we are currently undergoing.

Not only is Fat Panda Design rapidly changing and shifting it’s entire business direction, but me, Ben, the founder of Fat Panda Design, am also undergoing some incredibly emotional and challenging changes.

I’m currently a little over 6 months in to my heroin recovery (hooray for being clean!), and I thought my ex and I were finally done for good — but after a conversation a few nights ago, we’ve decided that there’s still way too much love and compassion between us to just “call it quits”.

So we are going to go slow, starting with the foundation, work on rebuilding trust, and build up the blocks from there — and see where life takes us.

Overall, though, between my business and my personal life, I’m experiencing one of the most transformational phases of my entire life. And I think it’s an immensely magical, positive, and extremely necessary period of my life.

I just ask that you please have some patience with me, as I am really going through a lot all at once.

That doesn’t mean I’ll blow off your emails for days, or disappear and never finish the work you paid me for, no no no.

It just means that if you could show a little compassion, a little leniency with me right now (I’m barely getting sleep right now as I have SO much going on, and sleeping = the farther I get behind).

Just please show a little love and respect for Mr. Panda and I right now — and I promise to do the same in return, as I always have (and always will!)

You guys know that my clients are my absolute #1 priority in business. Always.

Fat Panda Design being able to keep it’s doors open, grow, and flourish as the years go by, depends solely on how well we treat our clients, and how happy we can keep you. We won’t always do everything right, or always be perfect. We are human, after all (well, I’m human, Mr. Panda is just a fat jerk, but whatever).

The point is, we will always, ALWAYS, try our very best to help out and make the best out of any situation. We want each and every person that hires Fat Panda Design to work with us and feel like they were “part of the team” — we want to leave a life-lasting impression on you.

We want you to remember our brand, and the work we did for you, 1, 5, 10, 20+ years down the road, long after the work was done. We want to create a lasting impression on you, through the quality of the work we deliver, but also, in how we treat you as a client, a human, and a fellow citizen of the earth.

We love everyone equally, and we strive our very hardest to show the utmost love and compassion for everyone that we come into contact with. That’s just the Panda way.

So thank you, friends, for making these past 20 months, quite a roller coaster. We almost didn’t pull through these past few months — but, with a lot of hard work, a ton of help from our great friend and my personal mentor Christian Petrou, and the support of our loving clients, we’ve managed to pull through — and hopefully, we’ll continue this growth pace and succeed in beating our previous months records for the next 6+ consecutive months.

We want growth similar to this shit! Yeah! C’mon, help Fat Panda Design kick some ass these next 6 months!

That’s our big challenge! But, the ultimate goal will always remain: to deliver the most incredible products, services, and experiences to our clients, and to make each experience completely personal, individualized, and 100% memorable.

We also want to increase the amount of client websites that we secure, maintain, and protect on a daily basis.

Simply said, we want more clients on our monthly maintenance plan; which is an absolute steal in terms of value.

Starting at $100 (USD) a month, you get the following:

• 3x Daily offsite backups (encrypted), with a 10-day rolling period (meaning we save the last 10 days of backups, in case you forget something and want to roll back say 5 days — you can do that with us). Your data is important. It took a lot of time to build, design, create, organize, and enter all of that data that your website contains and displays to the world. It also probably cost you quite a sum of money — so if you don’t have a smart backup solution in place, you’re risking all of that work and spent money. Don’t risk it — hire us to implement your backup solution, because we actually care about your data and protect it.
• 3x Daily security scans — websites, especially eCommerce sites, are increasingly becoming the targets of highly sophisticated automated attacks. They break in, take control of your site, turn it into a spam bot, hack your sensitive client data (including payment and personal details), and can completely leave your business crippled. Hiring Fat Panda Design to secure and be your site’s “watch-panda” is the smartest move you can make — it makes so much more sense to be PROACTIVE, instead of reactive, right? (I had a client who got hacked, her site was down for 2 weeks so she lost roughly 10k in revenue, and it cost her $600 + additional labor costs to get the site back up and running — and I gave her a big discount). Spend the money upfront, when it’s cheap, and protect your data. Because when you get hit and you’re not protected, it’ll cost you a hell of a lot more.
• All theme, plugin, & core file updates as they are released — this is EXTREMELY important, but often overlooked — Updates are released for a reason, and most of the time each update includes a patch for a security flaw/vulnerability that was exposed. These flaws can be potentially disastrous: for example, remember the Panama Papers leak, the biggest document leak in history? It all started because the companies website failed to UPDATE their Revolution Slider plugin — they were running an outdated version. So for f*cks sake, hire us to make sure your updates are applied AS SOON AS THEY ARE RELEASED. Also, trying to manage updates yourself can sometimes be disastrous — as sometimes updates do “break” websites. This is why hiring someone (like us!) to manage your site is important — because if an update does break your site, we fix whatever caused the break, reapply the update, and ensure all is working smoothly. At no extra charge to you — just one of the perks of being one of our maintenance clients!
• 24/7 site monitoring, including spam comment filtering — we constantly monitor your site to ensure it’s “up” and running — so you’ll know right away if your site is experiencing any sort of outage/downtime (you would NEVER experience any downtime if you had your site hosted with us, though ;) — also something else you should consider!)
• 24 Hour Email Response Time — you can contact us with any inquiries regarding your site, and you’re guaranteed to receive a response within 24 hours or less, even on weekends, holidays, etc. Our client are REALLY important to us, so we strive to ensure you’re taken well care of whenever possible.

Signing up for our monthly maintenance plan is the best possible way to show yourself and your business that you love and care about it’s success and health. Do you want to succeed? Our maintenance package helps ensure your long term success by mitigating any potential risk factors that you face in the world of online business — so be smart, and give yourself some serious peace of mind. Hire Fat Panda TODAY to handle your website’s management — you’ll be SO happy you did, and you’ll also help us achieve our goals of growing — simply click the link (or this text) and you’ll be taken to our website contact form — just send us a message saying “YES, I’m ready to secure my website and protect my business, because I’m SMART! Sign me up.”

Or you can email me directly at Ben@FatPandaDesign.com with the same headline ;)

$100 a month will be the best investment you could ever make in your website and ultimately your business — prevent your business from going through a hack, corrupted data, complete meltdown, data theft, or even being sued by clients for mishandling their information. $100 a month could save you a hell of a lot more in the future, and will definitely let you rest easy at night, knowing Fat Panda’s got your (digital) back.

What are you waiting for? Hire Fat Panda to protect your business now!

Our website monthly maintenance package is the SMARTEST and most cost effective way to protect your website and business from being hacked, losing sensitive client and personal data, and potentially being sued by clients (if their data was stolen in a data-breach, post-hack). Hire us to protect your website NOW, and don’t risk another day out there in the jungle unprotected.

We love you all. Thank you for trusting and loving us thus far — we hope you continue to support us as the years roll by :)

And now, it’s time for a very long, Panda nap! (2+ days awake = zzzzzzz)

❤

Ben + Mr. Panda

Fat Panda Design

Ben, aka Fat Panda! You can add me on Facebook if you’d like.

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