SKT Themes – Best Design, Better Support

Startup Name: SKT Themes

Tagline: Best Design, Better Support

Elevator Pitch: A consulting company recruited me in Noida near New Delhi after I passed my MBA. Within a year, I was promoted from Management Trainee to Assistant Management Marketing. I used to handle clients’ requirements, sales, proposals, and initial pre-sales.

It was a consulting company, so the scope of work was limited.

My next company was a website designing and digital marketing company based in New Delhi. It was recession time of 2008-2009, so our project manager had left the job due to nonpayment of dues. The company owner asked me if I can manage the web and SEO projects for the company. Even though I was hesitant, initially, I did agree.

This is where I learned the skills of managing teams and how to deliver the result to the clients. So from sales, I had moved to project management in my second job.

Salaries were often delayed during my time in the company since the recession period was challenging as new projects were concerned. This was when I decided it’s time I started my own company.

I came back to Nagpur and started Shri Krishna Technologies in January 2010. At that time, WordPress as a CMS was very new, and people used it only for blogs. We used to get a lot of projects designing and developing corporate blogs for existing websites. We were also one of the top developers on Elance for WordPress in 2011.

As WordPress grew from a blog site CMS to a complete website CMS and Joomla wasn’t moving faster, we developed our skills more into WordPress, and with more projects under us, we were very comfortable using WordPress for all our projects.

It was easier to manage for clients, and the learning curve was significantly less, so a simple manual was used to do the trick, whereas Joomla took a lot of time for the customer to understand and get under the skin.

Target Market: Web Design, Internet company

How will you make money?: By Selling WordPress themes

How much capital have you raised? 10-50k

Founder(s) Name: Shri Sinha

Website: https://www.sktthemes.org/

Twitter: @sktthemes

City/Country: Nagpur/India