Comments on Customer Chaos: Business Owners: Here's the Truth About Building Y...

Phil,Submit your site for a Key Page review and I'...

2008-12-30T14:43:00.000-08:00

Phil,

Submit your site for a Key Page review and I'll review it this month on a ConversionCast. http://budurl.com/pc3c

If you can tell me the following, it would be helpful:
1. What does your business need the Web site to accomplish?
2. Who would be an ideal visitor to your site?
3. What is your one-sentence value proposition? What makes you the right choice for telemarketing?

--Brian

This was really interesting. I just opened my own...

2008-12-29T19:37:00.000-08:00

This was really interesting. I just opened my own telemarketing company and have a basic $75 5 page site. Where do I go from here???

www.beyondthegatemarketing.com

Phil Higgins
philliphiggi@aim.com

Truth about building your website, first 1. Pla...

2008-11-09T20:34:00.000-08:00

Truth about building your website, first
1. Plan
2. Choose the hosting and domain name
3. Design and build
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Tanyaa
SEO

Hi Brian--Very solid advice, and a good move to be...

2008-02-09T12:20:00.000-08:00

Hi Brian--

Very solid advice, and a good move to be controversial in your post...there are a lot of shamans doing search marketing. As you said, people are flawed, and in the marketing trades, they are flawed predictably. Unfortunately, business owners tend to DIY, meaning they are navigating these waters for the first time, or at least infrequently. Having a pro at marketing manage the process makes SO much sense.

Deborah, this is exactly why I wrote the post. My ...

2008-01-27T06:35:00.000-08:00

Deborah, this is exactly why I wrote the post. My job is to put people into buckets, and sometimes that means generalizing too much, which I have done here.

But it's an effective process.

Brian, You have summed up the past 9 years of my l...

2008-01-27T05:47:00.000-08:00

Brian,

You have summed up the past 9 years of my life in this post and I have to thank you for it. I really thought there was something personally wrong with me, that I was somehow genetically predisposed to choosing autistic web developers. I now know I am not alone or going crazy.

I am going to forward this post to every Internet entrepreneur I know.

Deborah

I guess I was trying to start a fight. SEO is the ...

2008-01-24T20:17:00.000-08:00

I guess I was trying to start a fight. SEO is the most cost effective way to market your Web site. Everyone needs an SEO expert. I'm just trying to gird business owners for the wide variety of strategies and promises.

Thanks for the comment.

Are you TRYING to start a fight? Well, good job, t...

2008-01-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

Are you TRYING to start a fight? Well, good job, then. :-)

Seriously, though, you're right about the web designers and most of the SEO companies. It's nearly impossible to 100% please a business owner, his staff, his customers, AND the designer. It just doesn't happen.

There's nothing like bringing in a knowledgeable consultant get everyone thinking about profitability rather than just aesthetics.

One thing about SEO. If we do SEO on 50 websites and they all move into the top 10 in Google...are we still guessing on the 51st one or have we figured out a pretty good system that works for our clients?

PS. Chicken parts are sooo 2007. Matt Cutts posted about that like 3 months ago. Most "white hat" SEOs have switched to crystals and tarot although you can still find a back alley entrails guy if you really need one.