C2IT is blessed to work with great clients across all aspects of our business, and we enjoy the opportunity to highlight them too! Over recent months, we had the absolute pleasure of working with Magnify Learning in building a great new website. We asked Ryan Steuer, founder of Magnify Learning, to share some of his thoughts about the project and working with C2IT.
Tell us a little about your organization – what does Magnify Learning do and how do you serve your clients?
Do you know how today’s students can become passive? Or ever worry about how today’s students will be ready for tomorrow’s challenges, like AI? At Magnify Learning, we help transform schools, so they can create a school culture that produces future-ready students. We do this by bringing Project Based Learning to school leadership teams and teachers. Students are solving real-world problems like 10th graders producing websites for local non-profits, 3rd graders planning our their new playground to serve students of all abilities, and middle schoolers creating materials for doctor’s offices so parents understand the genetic disease their child has.
What makes you stand out from others in your field?
Magnify Learning is the only PBL company that customizes every workshop and coaching relationship we have. Our big goal is to have 51% of schools using PBL by 2051. We can’t do that unless the work we do is sustainable, so we make sure our work fits with all the other initiatives a school has. We are creating sustainable PBL systems in schools and districts, so they don’t need us to be successful. We have an end date for our company. Once we have spread sustainable PBL to schools across the country, they can all train themselves, and we’ll be done with our mission.
Why, in your opinion, is your website an important part of your success? What was your catalyst for having C2IT design a new site for you?
Our website is vital to our success because it is where our future partners meet us. We might meet our partners in a podcast, YouTube video or on social media, but we send them back to our website for more resources and next steps. We reached out to C2IT for a website redo after 8 years of our current website because we needed an extra gear. We needed even better SEO reach with a very clear path for our partners to take the next step. We want our partners to come to our website and see that they belong and then see how we can help them achieve their vision. C2IT has helped us with both of these goals. Our website efficiency is higher than we could ever get on our old platform, and our partner experience call-to-actions are very clear from the first five seconds of a website visit.
From the first conversation, what was the experience like working with C2IT? What did you appreciate about the team at C2IT and how they worked with you?
From the first conversation with C2IT to now post-website support, it has been positive. At every turn, from initial outreach to project management to the technical build, we have felt heard, supported, and valued. During the build, I appreciated the back and forth to make sure the website looked the way we wanted it to as well as suggestions when we didn’t know what we wanted. Now that our site is launched, we love the ability to reach out to the website support team. We have the Pro Client Care Package Plan, so we just send a blog post in, and Jesse has it up by the end of the day, and he selects an awesome photo to go with it. We are still tweaking things as we try out the new site, but the team has been super open to helping us tweak things. Sometimes, I ask for the wrong thing for my website, and I appreciate that the C2IT team thinks through what is best for us and will ask the question, “Are you sure you want to do that?” There have been several times where we change what we were doing based on their suggestions.
Our 4 values are Loyal Partnerships, Attentive Discovery, Economic Value, and Cohesive Teamwork – can you cite specific examples of where you saw these values play out?
Loyal Partnership – From onboarding with Keith and Jon to development with Megan, I have always felt valued as a partner in the work. C2IT is our web team. They care about our work, listen to our desired outcomes, and then help us make things happen. Our work is important and changes the world, so we need high-quality partners. C2IT is one of those high-quality partners.
Attentive Discovery – There are times when we don’t know what is possible or best practice, so we lean on the expertise of C2IT. They do a great job of asking questions and knowing our work before giving any type of solution. We appreciate being known for our work and mission and not just an invoice number.
Economic Value – We are certain to see the return on investment over the coming years from this website build. Two months in and our site is already more efficient than our last site. That compounding efficiency over time will be a game-changer for our impact.
Cohesive Teamwork – Our interactions with C2IT have been seamless from project onboarding to project management to website creation to website upkeep. The C2IT team knows us and our mission.
We know we’ve still got exciting launches ahead, but how do you feel about your new website and the ongoing partnership with C2IT?
We see our new website taking us to a new level of success and impact. With a partner like C2IT, we are confident and clear about our future success. We have a plan for growth through our website processes that we have never had in the previous decade of work. Many thanks to the C2IT team!
Be sure to check out magnifylearningin.com to learn more about Project Based Learning!
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