Reply to: According to FSB, 50% of small/med businesses have no web presence

[DimPrawn]

Bollox to the lot of ya.

I'm keeping my bloody quite frankly fantastic ideas to myself from now on.

Including the one where I spend the next 3 yrs creating a rival search engine to aTW's rival search engine to another rival search engine.

[Charles Foster Kane]

I watched that, and I've been the using hungry house website for a while which is actually very good. But the buffoons seem to completely fail to mention the comments and ratings that user's leave for a restaurant, which is the whole selling point of the site!

[TheFaQQer]

I could even order my chinese/indian meal online and pay by credit card and have it delivered...

Someone watched this week's Dragon's Den...

[tim123]

For example? What businesses won't benefit from having a website so they are found in Google and what products or services can't be paid for online?

Even an undertakers could do it all online.

I could even order my chinese/indian meal online and pay by credit card and have it delivered...

I didn't say that they wouldn't benefit, I said that they didn't sell a shopping cart product.

Think of companies like yours and mine, we sell consultancy services. Even if we sold it in chunks of 2 hours, it still isn't suitable for selling by shopping cart. There are 1000s of companies that sell such services to other companies.

And even in the consumer space, the analogy would be a one man band cleaning service. If I ran such a service I wouldn't want to allow people to make bookings themselves, because I would want to optimise my travelling. A web site couldn't do this.

Then there are companies that sell stuff that requirs a complicated processes. How are you going to bundle that up into a web site?

Many of these companies would benefit from a web site, but they have no need for a dynamic booking service. They are not going to be interested in anything other than a one off feee and perhaps a ten quid a month hosting charge. And there are plenty of people offering this service at the moment.

tim

[lilelvis2000]

Good idea, but no small business would pay £500 if it has a service which cannot be bought through a e-commerce website...Like the services I provide.

More like £10 a month for a presence...still, £10,000 is better than £0. Perhaps £100 for a couple of initial simple web pages. Additional for getting listed on Google and Yahoo. But no where near £500.

Plan B thwarted.

[Pondlife]

You havent actually done anything yet... apart from tell everybody you are doing something.

Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true

It's AtW's personal anthem.

[tay]

I would have done it again

You havent actually done anything yet... apart from tell everybody you are doing something.

[DimPrawn]

These compaines without web presence don't sell "shopping-cart" products.

That's why they (think they) don't need a web presence.

tim

For example? What businesses won't benefit from having a website so they are found in Google and what products or services can't be paid for online?

Even an undertakers could do it all online.

I could even order my chinese/indian meal online and pay by credit card and have it delivered...

[AtW]

That's why they (think they) don't need a web presence.

They already have it in form of online Yellow pages - those who don't advertise there most likely would not need online presence at all.

This was yet another dim prawnic idea...

[tim123]

Dragons Den style numbers.

£500 per month for each customer for basic service giving them a hosted content management system/shop front/shopping cart, some SEO work and a bit of training.

These compaines without web presence don't sell "shopping-cart" products.

That's why they (think they) don't need a web presence.

tim

[AtW]

Birmingham?

I like Birmingham.

[Sockpuppet]

I would have done it again if I knew where I would be today

Birmingham?

[Churchill]

Allegedly. ahem.

It'd be a hell of a story if it was true...

[King Cnvt]

Didn't that bloke who set up the PCG website get £500k for "web services"?

Allegedly. ahem.

[Churchill]

£500K per month without selling them support or upgrades or other add-ons such as full SEO services.

Didn't that bloke who set up the PCG website get £500k for "web services"?