Most studios would tidy this part of the story until it fit on a business card. We would rather just tell it, because the whole way we work only makes sense once you know it.
UBE is a Balanga based studio, and the story is genuinely two places, both true at once. The team that builds and looks after your site works from our Balanga office in Bataan, the Philippines, alongside Yoonet. The company is New Zealand owned, and Ben, who runs UBE, lives and works in Dunedin, so that is where the management sits. A Balanga delivery team, a Dunedin base. We do not have to choose one, because that is actually the shape of the thing.
Why an offshore team, said plainly
Here is the part most agencies are cagey about. The reason we can do custom grade work at a price a small business can actually carry is that the delivery team is in the Philippines. That is not a dirty secret, it is the model, and being upfront about it is the only honest way to talk about it.
It works because Yoonet has spent more than ten years doing exactly this: building real teams in the Philippines and pairing them with businesses in New Zealand and Australia. The phrase that runs through everything is our employee, your team. These are not anonymous freelancers picked up for a job and dropped after it. They are a settled team who get to know your business and stay with it. The connection to Balanga is long standing and genuine, not a line item, and that is why the work holds up.
Our employee, your team. A settled team who get to know your business and stay with it, not freelancers picked up for a job and dropped after it.
You do not need a separate SEO company
Most businesses end up with one company that built their website and a different one doing their SEO, and the two barely speak. The developer makes a change that quietly undoes the SEO. The SEO firm asks for a change the developer never gets to. You sit in the middle relaying messages and paying both.
We do both, with the same team. The people who wrote your pages are the people optimising them, so nothing has to be explained twice and nothing pulls against itself. A fast, well structured site is the foundation good SEO is built on, and when the same hands do both, the foundation and the search work are designed together instead of bolted to each other. That is the whole argument for letting us handle the SEO too: not that you must, but that splitting it across two companies usually costs more and works worse.
Looking after it is part of it, not extra
Going live is the start, not the finish. Small updates keep the site current, problems get caught early, and the people looking after your site are the same people who built it. You are never explaining your own website to a stranger who has just inherited the account. It is the same team, the whole way through.
What this means for you
You get custom grade work at a price that makes sense, from a settled team that knows your business, with one point of contact for the build, the SEO and the looking after. The structure behind it spans two countries, Balanga and Dunedin, but from where you sit it is simple: one team, one relationship, the truth about how it works.
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