Not quite. While you do get access to me for a year, Sentinel is - different from your usual retainer in a few keys ways…
- -Firstly, most retainers cover x days a month, whereas - Sentinel is always-on. Constant monitoring and - realtime alerts mean I get to work whenever I need to, not just the few days - we pre-agreed.
- -Secondly, with traditional retainers require that you find work for me to - do. With Sentinel, I go looking for problems! You input is zero, while - I coordinate myself and reach out to you when you need it. Low input; - high output.
- -Thirdly, with a regular retainer, if you don’t use me one month, you still - have to pay. That’s just how retainers work. With Sentinel, you’re - always guaranteed a baseline of deliverables every month and each - quarter.
- -It really is like having me on staff, but with none of the annoying - paperwork.
- -To the right company, no. But unless you’re a company - turning over several million dollars a year online, Sentinel probably - isn’t the service for you—you simply wouldn’t get the benefit from it, and - that’s fine!
- -For context, Google Analytics 360 costs $150,000 per year for the - monitoring alone. Sentinel comes in at way under half of - that cost and comes with my expertise, 24/7.
- -I recently calculated that a high-end retail client of mine loses over - $380,000 per year as the result of just a 100ms slowdown. Sentinel - represents just a 15% investment for safeguarding 85% of that - revenue.
- -As Sentinel is a lot of involved and constant work, I limit - the number of clients at any one time to five. This means I’m not - spreading myself too thin, and that clients who are so invested in and - committed to site-speed are never left under served.
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