Hi Ivan

While it's true that you don't need an advanced website to do business, having a website is one of those tick-boxes you mentally check when evaluating an unknown business associate.

Personally, I balk at the idea of doing business with someone who has no website, or shows up disheveled, or hands out home-made business cards made on an inkjet printer, or even uses an aol email address for their business. These are the things I can see, and they are presumably indicators for the more important things I can't see. (Similar to the restaurant rule – if the bathroom's dirty, the kitchen's worse)

Perhaps I'm closing off potential relationships with excellent business men/women who don't invest in superficial appearances, but until I do business with them, it's all I have to go on.

Stony Grunow

www.citrusconsultants.com

P.S. — I think Joseph Stiglitz won the Nobel prize in Economics for his work
that included claiming that the main purpose of gaining an MBA is not
to learn skills but to prove to potential employers that you are the
kind of person who can gain acceptce to and survive an MBA program. I
don't have an MBA and I don't specifically value them, but I know if
someone says, "Wharton MBA" than they are smart and capable of working
their ass off.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM, milosh z <[address removed]> wrote:

ivan

believe or not, very often you don't need an advanced website to
promote your business efficiently. even though in some cases, it does
help.

the best deals are closed via personal connections and based on
previous work done, where you really don't need a shiny website of
your own.

cheers
m.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Ivan Markovic <[address removed]> wrote:
> Jack,
>
> I would suggest that you spend some time designing a web site that better
> promotes your services and your company. In my opinion the current site
> which appears to consist of the default install statement:
>
> "It works"
>
> is possibly over optimistic, or simply a leap of faith too far.

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