This is an unsolicited testimonial for Crystal Calhoun of www.madetobeunique.com.

My name is Vince Cordi, joint owner with my wife, Maria, of AU Beauty Blue. We live in Sydney, Australia.

After being forced to plan for early retirement due to ill-health, I was given the opportunity to set up an online store selling mineral makeup. Problem was that I didn’t have the time or knowledge to set it up myself. Hence I started “googling” web designers, and was lucky enough to stumble upon Crystal.

One night before going to bed, I decided to send her an email outlining my situation and what I needed from her. It was a long email. But that didn’t daunt Crystal. The following morning when I checked my inbox I saw her reply. It was an even longer email than mine that methodically addressed all my questions and raised numerous possibilities I hadn’t even thought of. I knew then I had found not only a web designer, but an online business consultant.

In fact, it quickly became apparent to me that Crystal was a good person to have on my side. Although she asked me to complete a survey detailing my requirements, I decided to leave the design totally in her hands. It was one of the best decisions I made. Crystal is creative, and as the name of her business suggests, “unique!” She created a great original design that we tweaked together to improve. Crystal is easy to work with and is very focused on customer satisfaction. You can see the end result of her hard work at www.aubeautyblue.com.

Crystal loves to over-deliver. The value she provides is manifold the price she charges. She designed and set up our eBay store, she designed the company logo, the auction template, our business card, and the Facebook fanpage cover. Next, I intend to hire her to create our website. If you are thinking of hiring Crystal, what are you waiting for? She has my highest recommendation.

I started implementing the new template yesterday and it looks great! I’m so thrilled with all of the changes that have been made. I’ve noticed that sales have picked up as well. Not sure if it is a coincidence but I like to think not!

Your new template has tremendously boosted my sales. When I used to sell 15-19 items per day- now sales are more like 35- that rocks thanks to your talent. Best of all – less questions, better sell through rate, and now my auction management software does most of the work for me, so I have family time again- yea. I really want to thank you for that- God bless you!

“Using Crystal to design my website was a great step forward for our business! Even though I was over 9000km away it was never an issue. I found that Crystals deigns to be innovative, creative and professional. After hundreds of emails, asking questions and further advice from a person like me with no previous web design knowledge, I found Crystal to be understanding and patient and very quick to resolve any queries’! It’s the best decision we’ve made in quite some time.

Crystal came up with various ideas that allowed me to choose what I liked best and with her guidance we got exactly the website we dreamed about. Our new presence on the net has substantially increased our visibility, sales and strength in the market place, we believe it’s created more confidence for our customers worried about buying online! Our site is attractive, informative and easy to navigate as well as professionally done.. I highly recommend Crystal from madetobeunique.com.” if you want to gain the competitive advantage and maintain cost effective advertising tool to reach a wider range of customers, No matter what country you are from!! Use madetobeunique.com.”

I probably haven’t told you how happy I am with the way you work and the quality of your work….. Any rate, I really appreciate all you’ve done…. Thanks again. I am really, really happy with the way things turned out! Feedback Left: Quick, Creative, Clever, and a Good Communicator. Couldn’t ask for better.

What can I say, I am speechless… You really surprise me, I never thought it turn out this beautiful.

Email 5 months later: By the way, I got a lots of compliments on my store design. You really did a wonderful job. Thanks so much for everything, Sima

Everything looks sooo nice Crystal! Your work is flawless! There’s nothing I would change. You are a terrific web designer and a great artist. You have injected so much class to these pages. I am so happy that our page is going to look this classy. Your design is going to bring coin dealers web pages to a new level. I am going to be so thrilled to be on top!!! Mark was sooo right about you. You rock!!!

Comments less than a week after the design was put in his store: I have no clue what kind of magic you worked on my store but I can’t keep stuff in stock!!! Your re-design of our eBay store has been a huge success! We use to post stuff for sale and have to reduce the price sometimes within days to get any ATTENTION. We started listing full price stuff this week for inventory purposes only (the type of stuff you post to give the store more volume). I just wanted the store to look a little fuller while we get more items on inventory. Well, the stuff is just selling as it is. Buy It Now or Make Offer? No! People are just buying the stuff, PERIOD!!! Remember the high price items? Gone! The full price sets? Gone!!! I received some inventory on Tuesday, put it on sale; went to get a drink and came back, GONE!!! I look at the sales report? Sales are up more than 100% since Sunday! It is only Thursday and most of our inventory is gone!!!

Crystal, It looks just great, I am pleased, fortunately it appears our taste is the same. The store site is really nice, I love it! thank you.

Comments Concerning Auction Templates: You were so right, listing with the template is SOO easy, it’s almost too easy, I have to watch that I don’t become too complacent.

Responding Additional Comments: By all means you any use any of my comments for your portfolio, Go for it! and what I said is really true, I remember in the beginning my inner concerns about flash and template and etc. but you were so correct it is a snap, this weekend I listed about 40 items and as I put together my system it works so much easier that I find I can actually list more than I could the old eBay way.