How many businesses get their first website wrong? Friday, 1 January 2010

Some folks would think it sad me sitting here on New Years eve writing a Blog, but what the hell, the snow is a foot deep outside, the Hogmanay celebrations are all cancelled and the TV has been out because our satellite is covered in snow!!
I was just wondering how many businesses get their first website all wrong?  my own first site although it looked ok was a disaster really, as at that time I was a total newbie it was my first website on my first PC and the web guy I went to see about my holiday cottage site just bombarded me with jargon. I remember he persuaded me to eagerly buy 4 domain names like this: selfcateringholidaycottagesonscotland.com he told me the keywords in the name would bring me lots of business! He also did a nice tune that played whenever the homepage was open, and I couldnt even turn it off yuk yuk yuk. I will give this some more thought and continue the post tomorrow. On second thoughts I think I will have a break tomorrow!

Hunt for partners Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Lots of work coming in and there's no sign of recession in my office! But since my founding freelance partner Steve has quit doing any more work for me it has put a lot of pressure on me as a one man workforce.
So the hunt is on to find good freelancers to take on all the stuff he used to do for me but doesnt now.
SEO and SEM work is more or less unaffected by his departure, as he did techie stuff mostly.
I am grateful that Steve has promised to continue support for existing major clients.
What I need is someone who can do technical site assesments and site fixes for clients not requiring new websites, but maybe just site upgrades for the bulk of my small business clients mostly involved in tourism.

Bucking the Trend Shedding Clients Monday, 12 January 2009

I must be the only business in the UK presently shedding clients but with more SEO work coming in and it becoming more and more involved if good results are to be achieved for clients, then something has to give.
I often get emails from India based companies with 60 or 200 staff touting for work, but the standard is pitifully low on my experience and there is always subttle language barriers.
My office is just too small to house staff! and i really dont want an office in town so i keep small and specialised. Do what I do best, shed the rest.
Personal contact with clients and an intimate knowledge of their business is what I like in order to enthusiastically work on building their online reputation. This has disadvantages of course for clients in that it costs a bit more than the run of the mill India based SEO. But hey, whats money when one can afford to shed clients!