<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karoly Negyesi</b> <<a href="mailto:karoly@negyesi.net">karoly@negyesi.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:53:30 +0100, Gunnar Langemark<br><<a href="mailto:gunnar@langemark.com">gunnar@langemark.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> Boris Mann wrote:<br>>> My friend Troy Angrignon wrote what I consider to be a great post on
<br>>> the 18 levels of *mental* evolution that people/companies/clients go<br>>> through in thinking about their websites.<br>>><br>>> See <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/19/955532.html">
http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/19/955532.html</a><br>><br>> Excellent read.<br>> :-)<br><br>Let's see some fallacies.<br><br>"I'm sure getting a lot of complaints about my site from people using
<br>other browsers and other machines" -- _sure thing_ I have yet to see a<br>client who came to me with this. Despite hard data many clients still<br>think IE is the world.</blockquote><div><br>
Sure...but they get complaints if their site doesn't work in Firefox.
Clients don't care (meaning it has to work in *their* browser, even if
that is Mac/IE 5.2), but they do if they get calls from customers or
potential customers saying "your website looks broken". And that may
not even make them get a new website, it will just make them frustrated
with their previous website designer.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">"Hey, let's start blogging!" -- well, I am really living in a different
<br>part of the world, but a businessman making this decision... I see this as<br>a huge leap (or impossible leap)</blockquote><div><br>
A businessman who would like to get high ranking in Google (SEO) will
run a company blog (for the companies that this makes sense for) and/or
appoint someone to blog. I realize this is much less prevalent in
Europe, but that's because many of the tools, marketing, etc. have been
in English. Blog and you get more traffic to your website, it's that
simple.<br>
<br>
If you are not working with your clients to explain and consult with
them on these issues, you are doing their web presence a disservice.
These certainly are much softer skilled types of activities....nothing
to do with technology at all, really. And hey, I know quite a few
people that make good money blogging for other people...ghostwriting,
essentially.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Boris Mann<br><a href="http://www.bryght.com">http://www.bryght.com</a><br>Vancouver 778-896-2747 / San Francisco 415-367-3595<br>IM <a href="mailto:boris_mann@jabber.org">boris_mann@jabber.org</a>
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