"The people on those threads often sound like they can't wait to get away from their customers."
Great point obviously. Some people are bad business people plain and simple.
A good business person is totally separate from a good programmer or a good anything.
A good business person knows how to make a buck and most certainly knows how to treat a customer (or a lead, see below) and how to encourage more business.
An actual email from a contractor we found (who paid adsense for the lead this was for a joomla upgrade we were looking into as a favor) after a back and forth string of similar conversations:
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"Honestly, their site is completely outdated. Whoever built it put no love into the project. For what they do and the audience they are trying to target, they need a more professional image. Additionally, their content is NOT content. It is images that Google cannot detect. No one can find them on the net if they were looking for such a company because Google can't read images of text. Their security is at risk as well. We found at least two weak areas that were patched with the upgraded versions.
Tell them we would do the complete rebuild/design for $10,000 if they provide all content in text format."
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We weren't the people who did the site and we weren't the people who embedded graphics and while the points are valid the tone and the approach is way off. I mean how did this person know that the person writing to them wasn't the fuck up? Ooops.
"The people on those threads often sound like they can't wait to get away from their customers."
Great point obviously. Some people are bad business people plain and simple.
A good business person is totally separate from a good programmer or a good anything.
A good business person knows how to make a buck and most certainly knows how to treat a customer (or a lead, see below) and how to encourage more business.
An actual email from a contractor we found (who paid adsense for the lead this was for a joomla upgrade we were looking into as a favor) after a back and forth string of similar conversations:
--------- "Honestly, their site is completely outdated. Whoever built it put no love into the project. For what they do and the audience they are trying to target, they need a more professional image. Additionally, their content is NOT content. It is images that Google cannot detect. No one can find them on the net if they were looking for such a company because Google can't read images of text. Their security is at risk as well. We found at least two weak areas that were patched with the upgraded versions.
Tell them we would do the complete rebuild/design for $10,000 if they provide all content in text format." ----------
We weren't the people who did the site and we weren't the people who embedded graphics and while the points are valid the tone and the approach is way off. I mean how did this person know that the person writing to them wasn't the fuck up? Ooops.