About Us

Mission Statement

JellyNeck Solutions, Inc is a web solutions company in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. We provide affordable, custom designed websites to small businesses around the country. Our mission is to fill the gap between small and medium sized businesses by providing tools that would normally be too costly to the small business owner.

Our Philosophy

We serve Small Businesses--not medium, and certainly not large.

There are plenty of companies that offer wonderful web services to help their clients achieve great success. You can pretty much get anything that you want when you have a whole agency serving you. However, it all comes at a cost. And that's typically why only medium and large sized companies can afford them. But with small businesses accounting for 99.7% of all employer firms (source sba.gov), it hardly seems fair that these services are only attainable by a fraction of businesses.

What about the small business owner? What about the dog walker? The entrepreneur? The mom and pop store? The person that was let go from their job and is now pursuing their dream (or just needs something to get by until the next job comes through)? Sure, there are plenty of companies that cater to the small business owner, but they usually offer a product that's far inferior to something that a larger business can afford. Why shouldn't the small business owner be entitled to the same features that a larger company can afford?

It's time to level the playing field.

We're a small business too. And our mission is to fill the gap between small and medium businesses by providing tools that would normally be too costly to the small business owner.

One major reason why web sites are so expensive is because of the cost of custom web development. We should know. JellyNeck Solutions was launched by a web developer. Development is usually necessary when integrating a website with a database. And as you are probably aware, most websites are pretty much useless without a database. Without it, they are just plain, boring, stagnant pages that slowly fade from search results (along with revenue). Many web designers provide affordable websites, but don't allow the client to maintain them on their own. This forces the client to have to pay the designer for updates. Other designers are forward-thinking and use off-the-shelf CMS's like WordPress, Joomla, etc. And they can usually find plugins to extend functionality (making the site more like their higher-end counter-parts). However, it takes time (and money) to find, setup, and configure these plugins. And worse, what happens when no plugin can be found? Well, one has to be developed--thus adding to the cost.

So there lies the dilemma (well, more like a catch 22). Websites help generate revenue. But it costs money to build a quality website that generates revenue. And it's difficult for the typical small business owner to afford the expenses of a quality website. Thus, they are left with an inferior website, and less revenue.

This is where we come in. In order to address this inequality, we have chopped out the cost of custom development by integrating that functionality into the web platform itself. Think of it as built-in plugins. Will it do everything you throw at it? No. But it can tackle almost anything that you want it to do. That's our secret weapon. That's how we can charge less and give more, and do it in less time. There is no compromise in quality. It's simply technological innovation stepping in and helping out the little guy.

JellyNeck Solutions will design and build your website, complete with the content and functionality you want and need. Then with the aid of our proprietary CFMS (Content & Functionality Management System), you have the ability to not only maintain the content by yourself, but also add additional functionality. All while keeping at or under budget.

History

Fresh out of college in 1997, CJ Jelinek moved to Chicago to pursue various freelance real estate marketing projects, mostly comprised of photography, print graphic design, and light web design. In the next few years, as the Internet started to blossom, work shifted to primarily web design and development. By the early 2000's, the Real Estate Platform was born, allowing websites to be built for real estate agents at an affordable price, with competitive features. As time went on, and as the housing market took a downward turn, the primary client shifted from real estate agents to small business owners. And in 2008, the business was incorporated as JellyNeck Solutions, Inc. At around the same time, the Real Estate Platform was revamped to include features unique to small business websites. It was then that the Small Business Platform was born. Since then, it has undergone numerous upgrades, the addition of new features, and a rapid growth of business as a result of the platform.