Lots of reasons.  Not everyone needs a fat site.  Thin sites can be faster, easier to maintain and more effective. In 2018, 58% of all websites were accessed from a mobile device.  Mobile users really don’t like clicking on little menu buttons with their big fingers.  So they scroll with their thumbs. They scroll and scroll. And scroll. It’s navigation by thumb.  And — of course — you can only do that if everything you need is on one page.  So, since that’s the “writing on the wall,” that’s exactly the kind of website we’re going to design.

Happy Cow makes really great 1 page sites for tiny businesses. That’s what we do.  And we are very focused about it.   But we also are a part of the GXHQ Constellation of Marking Properties, which is just a flowery way of saying we’ve got sister companies that have the flexibility to do just about anything for any size organization.  For example, the Express Business Network can make just about anything for small businesses (3-25 employees).  So if we can’t do it — they can!  Use them for your larger site!  Contact Express

For more information about our sister companies and all the other things we do, visit GXHQ.us

What weird name?  Ha!  Our founder has been making creative products for a long time, and generally puts a copyright line somewhere in his work.  On this website, for example, you’ll find it at the bottom of this page, in the footer.  This practice did not escape the notice of his small children, and as soon as they could write, they began copyrighting their work too.  Only they invented the name “Happy Cow Syndicate.” But what does it mean? Who knows?  They couldn’t explain it either.  He’d ask, and they’d just say, “Moo!”  But what a great name for a company!  And here we are.

“SO WHAT?” you may ask.To which we say, “Americans need real work too.”  We understand the market forces that compel American companies to seek lower costs by outsourcing labor and production to developing economies. We understand tax code and its myriad implications. We understand market capitalism and the drive for higher margins and lower costs. We are businesspeople too, after all. And we also understand the tremendous value American out-sourcing is to the industrious people in developing economies who — by being sourced to –are able to improve their lives, help their families and increase their own personal opportunities, all without having to leave home.

But we also believe that we have a primary responsibility to our own community and to our own economy. We believe that we are part of a complex system, and that our own countrymen are not so prosperous that they no longer need the kind work that we can provide. These are our sons and daughters, our friends and our neighbors. They live here, with their families and their dreams, and they need opportunity too. The kind of opportunity that comes from supporting local economies, and the magic that happens when money is circulated throughout the community. So when we do the math, the money we save by outsourcing overseas is simply not worth the opportunity cost of not circulating it right here.

And so we choose to buy American.  The people we hire, the vendors we use, the partners we have. Perhaps we will be less prosperous because of it. Our costs may be higher, as will our price.  Perhaps our margins will be lower. Maybe, even, our business will fail. We will take those risks. We consider it an investment in our community — an investment in America — and her people. Because at the end of the day, we think that’s what small business is really all about:  Community.

We hope you agree, and will join us in supporting American small business, and the men and women that keep it going.