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Mike Dragosavich, founder of Spotlight Media, shares how his team scaled from a small magazine publisher to a full-service marketing and web development agency managing 400+ websites and 100+ clients.Mike explains how Cloudways helps Spotlight Media deliver enterprise-level hosting solutions to small businesses — without the enterprise price tag.From performance and speed optimization to responsive support and scalable infrastructure, Cloudways enables their team to build, manage, and grow client websites with confidence.
[music] [music] Hey, I’m Mike Tragovich with Spotlight Media in Fargo, North Dakota. I started this business [music] 15 years ago. Started as a small magazine publisher. Now we still publish magazines. We have a marketing agency [music] and a full-ervice web development agency. We’re now over 400 websites built. We have nine publications and we have over 100 marketing and advertising [music] clients. We have a team of about 30 and 20 contractors. And we’ve learned to really rely on software [music] and services as well. And so what’s really kind of cool is when I was playing football for the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL, I built my first [music] website in the hotel room. So I’ve always loved web development and we are very passionate [music] about that. Now, what’s key to us is that we help a lot of small businesses and it’s very important that we find enterprise type solutions [music] for them because they don’t have the huge budgets. And that’s what’s really great about Cloudways. Cloudways not only is affordable, but wow, it feels like you’re [music] working with a Fortune 500, biggest type of company you can at a really good rate. And what that means is they have great features, [music] great service, and everything you would need to be able to customize a hosting package for [music] every single client that we work with. Now, as we grow, and we continue to grow, we also need a [music] provider like Cloudways where we can grow with them, and that’s been great as well. But here’s the best part. I’ve been with hosting providers [music] for years. No one has ever treated us like Cloudways. The service is unbelievable. We have a Slack channel where we go on there and we can get answers in real time anytime we want. And they’re not only just answers in a reactionary way to help us solve problems. They’re helping us create solutions, [music] helping us learn how to scale our business. And now we’re scaling our business around Cloudways. And that’s [music] pretty special. With all the different software programs we use, I can honestly say this is a [music] not just a software program. It is a full solution. So, we’re getting into now [music] trying to stay ahead of AI, trying to bring in more advanced features to our clients, and that’s what Cloudways really comes in handy. We talked about speed [music] today and coming up with different ways to make sure mobile, desktop, everything is super fast, [music] even on super complex sites cuz we all know for SEO purposes, that’s huge. What we’re doing now [music] is we just keep working with them every day, asking them open-ended questions, learning about every single feature that they have, every add-on, and we’re building our business around it. [music] That’s pretty special. And thank you to Cloudways. What a great team. What a great company. Wouldn’t do [music] it without them.
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