We Provide That Personal Touch
Founded in 1998, Web Strategies has been providing clients with innovative technical consulting, design and development. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with personal service. We listen to your needs and work with you to create a robust solution that is fresh, engaging and meets your business goals.

You need it? We can build it!
We work with a select partner network of professional graphic designers, programmers and hosts that will ensure that your online solution follows best practices and conveys your vision and message. Our developers work in a variety of languages allowing us to build exactly what you need.

Beth J. Bates, Owner
Social Media and Online Marketing Strategist

Beth Jackson Bates is the owner of Web Strategies Internet Solutions, LLC and a jack of all trades in the web world. She consults with small to mid-size businesses and nonprofits on social media tool selection and strategy and helps her clients find effective ways to leverage these mediums to meet business and marketing goals. With over 14 years experience in web development and marketing, Beth enjoys putting a new twist on traditional web technology. She helps her clients not only choose the right tools, but helps them understand their needs and how the tools work to fulfill those needs. She specializes in web development and how social marketing can help businesses expand their reach through their website.

Beth started her career developing small websites and quickly moved into managing custom software development projects. She has worked with companies like USA TODAY, where she was a three-time Jewell award winner, and the National Museum of Natural History and has ten years experience working with associations and nonprofits. With marketing technology at its height, she is now focusing on social marketing and what that means to business owner and/or executive director.

Beth founded GoodDogz.org, Inc. in 2003 to help fill a void in the animal welfare community. GoodDogz.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to educating potential dog owners on dog selection and care and supporting the efforts of rescue groups. We believe that by assisting with good dog-owner matches, we’ll give each family the best opportunity for a life-long relationship with their new dog and help to keep dogs out of shelters. She currently serves on its board of directors as president.

Beth actively blogs for WeTV.com about animal welfare and guest blogs for Pivotal Brands about social media and for TechSoup’s Nonprofit Commons about how nonprofits are using virtual worlds.

Beth is excited to listen to your ideas, discuss possible solutions and manage your development team until your project is launched. She can also provide training, documentation and other special requests, just ask!

Whitney McKim, Personal Assistant

Whitney Claire McKim has over seven years experience providing administrative support in various industries.  Being exposed to a variety of industries has made her a very adaptable individual ready to take on any task or project.  Organization is one of her strongest suits, and she is able to maintain multiple projects and calendars with ease. Whitney obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.  Her strong background in research and writing has greatly helped her with client research and with navigating the Internet to find reliable, well-supported sources.

In addition to administrative support, Whitney is an autodidact in graphic and web design basics and photography.  She continues her self-taught education through books, webinars and web tutorials, focusing on HTML, CSS, and Joomla! and is beginning to dabble in learning to program for the iPhone development platform.

Whitney first connected with Beth through GoodDogz.org several years ago. Whitney has supported GoodDogz.org and their mission to find forever homes for homeless dogs and support rescue organizations.  Whitney and her husband, Steve, are both very active in the Northern Virginia dog community.  They own a Dalmatian and a Belgian Malinois and compete with the Beltway Bandits in NAFA Flyball.