Brilliant Directories

As of yesterday, we needed a directory site platform that is fast to build, stable and customisable. Brilliant Directories covers those requirements. Time saved. We also love the notion of professionally managed hosting and the support framework offered ( and attested to by so many positive reviews).

All site builders go through, whether pro or newbie, the process of evaluating which platform & theme will work best for them and their clients. If not a repeated setup - it becomes time consuming, costly and often - frustrating.

We have yet to build and deliver a site that doesn't reward our clients many times in excess of its creation and delivery costs. We fully expect this platform to save us time - likely 20+ hours of high value labour - and - get us to market up to 3 weeks earlier, bringing forward 3 weeks of income. It starts at a premium cost, but the value offered in us deploying a site using Brilliant Directories is a "no-brainer" as it pays for itself quickly.

At this stage we can only highly recommend Brilliant Directories as a worthwhile option in B2B setup and a good value proposition. For individuals wanting to monetise their site - which is why a directory is built... avoid the many learnings, frustrations and pitfalls of wordpress (or other content management systems) and go with Brilliant Directories.

It is now slightly more than a month since I signed up for the Full Licence Directory Package. As I am progressing through the set up of my directory and after many frustrating moments, I am now beginning to get a grasp of the features of your directory script and should soon launch the directory. I must say that overall my experience with Brilliant Directories has been very positive for the following reasons:

A) I can see that you guys have put in a lot of effort in your business model and are putting in more effort to make the directory even better.

B) I can feel a palpable enthusiasm on the part of most members of your staff who are ever keen to resolve the issues that we face. Sometimes in their enthusiasm they tend to rush to address the issues we face without first fully understanding them. I have raised this issue before and believe it will be addressed by your management.

C) The directory comes with fully usable legal documents on Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Although these documents may require a little tweaking here and there, overall they address almost all the issues a directory owner would potentially face. This is great considering that to purchase such services outside would cost a directory owner as much as or more than the cost of the Brilliant Directory itself.

D) The directory contains many features many of which I am yet to fully explore but from a superficial observation of these features and considering the observations I have made in a), b) and c) above, I would confidently say that your price is extremely competitive.

Even before I have launched my directory I am already feeling very grateful for all that you guys have done and offered. I will certainly do whatever I can in promoting your business in the future.

I hope Brilliant Directories will continue with their excellent service after the launch of my website.

Before signing up with BD, I contracted on- and offshore developers to create a custom site using Drupal - PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Both contractors over promised and under delivered. The coding and files were crap! So I bought a Wordpress theme that had some of my required functionality and hired a developer to configure and style the theme with some plugins. The developer didn't understand the theme, causing me to lose more go to market time and revenue opportunities.

Therefore, I quickly severed the ties with the WP developer and spent a few months trying to grasp the theme authors' development logic. ARGH! Their logic wasn't logically. My trying to configure the site and get all the plugins fully functional drove me NUTS! So I searched for a directory software, found BD, spoke with Dennis, got my 30+ questions answered, and was convinced BD can meet my site and business goals. Now I'm in the process of configuring and branding my site and hope to launch soon.

My 4 star rating is because I'm still getting acclimated to the software's capabilities as a paid member. Plus, a few times I had to re-configure some sections because the system didn't save my entries or took too long to save, which may have timed out. Or perhaps it's re-populating my saved content from the demo site and it's just a matter of my clearing my cache.

But so far so good.