Lohre & Associates, Inc.

Retail Design Institute is a professional association made up of design practitioners, trade partners, educators and students, operating domestically and internationally. We originally engaged Lohre & Associates for a website using Wordpress and they exceeded our expectation. Next, they recommended and helped us integrate MembershipWorks for managing members activities (in addition to a job board and member directory); and Evalato, our competition platform. Thanks to Lohre's training and ongoing support of each platform's unique features, we can easily get new members on boarded; manage event registrants; quickly get a new competition up and running (to collect entry fees); and easily post news to the website, which is the organization's information hub. These three tools have helped us reduce time-consuming data entry and reporting -- a huge help for an organization made up of volunteers. MembershipWorks allows our local leaders to manage memberships, events and communication within their region. Lohre helped us customize our annual international design competition -- using Evalato's submission and evaluation platform -- which is one of our main revenue streams.

It's a challenge to create a new product that can help save the world from plastic when you're up against a commodity that has been around for years. Lohre & Associates have been extremely responsive in helping me with my websites (SunSugarFarms.com and SustainableProduceContainer.com), keeping plugins updated and in getting good visibility for the sites. And they've helped me create drawings when Illustrator became too challenging for my limited experience. The experts at Lohre are not the cheapest in town but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for!