We’ve been using IFA Portals for over a year now and we are delighted with the level of service that they have offered us. The team are very knowledgeable, responsive and helpful – they remain in good contact and inform you on a regular basis.
The functionality of their Content Management System is excellent. It is very straightforward to use, robust and very customisable. IFAPortals, quite selflessly, have no problem allowing you to create your own true identity and remove all references to them as the “backroom boys”. Even if you have very basic knowledge of HTML or CSS, you can quite powerfully steer the website in any direction you like. Meanwhile, IFAPortals will help you to ensure that it remains compliant and is suitable for viewing by the general public.
Although we use the website primarily to reinforce our branding and status, we have had a lot of success using it to distribute our weekly client newsletter and other useful literature. We now use it directly in meetings to help our clients calculate pension shortfalls and future tax liabilities – the clients love the calculators – the animated flash-based content is full of colour and it really helps to engage the client.
For small businesses who are creatively minded and have a very basic knowledge of how websites function, I would highly recommend this package to them. Do not make the same mistake our company made and attempt to build it internally or use your own Content Management System. It’s not worth worrying about the compliance. More importantly, it is not profitable. IFAPortals will give you enough flexibility to create your own look cost effectively, so just outsource it.
Jonathan Savage, Research Analyst
Venture Wealth Management Ltd
6 April 2009