How important is a professional website
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- dbloc
This company is on LivingSocial today. who the hell would trust a company that can't even afford a semi-professional website and just sloppily puts something up. especially a company that you are putting your life in their hands. Funny how many companies don't really think the online appearance is a big deal.
- albums0
I expect them to be professional skydivers.
If I want to skydive, I'll pay a professional.
If they want a "professional" website, they'll hire a professional.I find this true with auto & motorcycle shops as well.
the nicer the site, the more expensive the service, the worse the site, the better the labor. I'd rather people specialize in what they do. I have several friends with their own businesses. A few have hired me a few have not. I heard this weekend, "We're wanting to hire you to do our site & marketing, but we need to put the money in other places now." I hadn't even brought it up, so I just gave them advice and told them to hit me up whenever.
Overhead keeps some quality companies / retailers / service providers / shops etc. from marketing themselves as they would prefer to.
- dbloc0
Hmm. you're probably right. I still don't trust a skydiving company with a wix website.
- doesnotexist0
i just went to the galapagos with these guys:
http://wantexpeditions.com/their website sucks. the trip was fucking amazing.
- The homepage is not that bad.Maaku
- not bad actually....at least it's not a wix websitedbloc
- where do you draw the line then? it's pretty bad imo.doesnotexist
- albums0
think about what wix does for them...
no designer $$$$
no update difficulty $$$
no hosting $$
no url $
can i see & read it? yes
do the forms work? yesdoes it work? that part is to be determined. so far it's looking like a no for you. I feel like you would think it was a bad website but acceptable if it were to employ a technique such as domain masking / forwarding wherein though the site resides at wix, it would display at comforting-url.com not unlike c@rgo and krop portfolio sites.
to me, the biggest wonder is how you found that long url in the first place
considering the physical overhead they're paying for; planes, hangars, fuel, parachutes, equipment, pilots, flight school, etc. it's a wonder a site cost so much, but the jumps are so inexpensive.
- < you forgot that it looks sloppy and unprofessionaldbloc
- they don't claim to be professional designers, so i understand it. I expect to see the professionalism when i'm therealbums
- there. you seem to need to post in this thread: http://www.qbn.com/t…albums
- dbloc0
found the URL on LivingSocial
http://www.livingsocial.com/citi…
- albums0
I have a bigger problem accepting a coupon for life threatening services than I do having to read a bad website for information.
All you need of most any company website is contact information, location, and hours of operation. It's how things go on the phone and in person that would make me decide whether to go through with it or not.
- randommail0
The best quality produce I can buy comes from a local farmer's market.
They don't even have a website. And it's no big deal.
- but how to you know what's for sale? and who likes it on facebook?monNom
- ********0
i think if you are selling something or have a ton of content it is important to have a well designed site for your brand.
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edit:
i think if you are selling something online or have a ton of content it is important to have a well designed site for your brand.
- albums0
I used to buy pipes from a head shop with a dirt floor. was that shit professional? hell no, but the pipes were cheap. I can think of 4 of them in different homes right now.