Although my main biz site is off the Internet air, I still promo my art with it, but that is a sideline and more for my ego.

Fortunately for me, the clients I work with are on the richest list. It is a very tight knit club and they often prefer personal networking to find what they need.

After 5 years of building my business, I no longer need the Internet to market what I do. In reality they never really found me through Internet searches. I had a freind who sold his company for many millions. He he needed me for something and I obliged. Word got around among his snooty friends and things took off from there.

Now I know this may sound counter productive to what Clayton say’s about keeping on marketing, but my clients, who are very private, prefer that they hear about me from a freind, family or biz associate. They do not search the net for what I do because it is pretty much a proprietary service on my side.

I’m thankful that I do not need to keep up with all the Internet trends and deal with idiot hosts. The idea of not needing to keep up with a website works for me. Although I still use email, that how some clients communicate with me, I do not miss marketing my service on the net.

Guess what? “They” did that in medicine too…
and didn’t pay the doctors for six months
asked us to do things that were not in patients’ best interest
and finally, this co. (which I quit working for in ‘99), was dismissed from the state for the way they treated patients.

I’m putting a website together right now and going with Go Daddy. I like the idea that I can call them and I can understand what the heck they are saying! Their service (so far) is pretty darn good.

One question Clayton: Did Wendy REALLY say F-F-FUDGECAKES?

Thanks.

I was considering using GoDaddy.com to host a new website I’m working on, especially since I’ve had positive dealings with them in the past. Now, the choice is easier.

Recently had a similar experience with Comcast. I live in a rural area by choice… I like my privacy and don’t want my neighbors walking across my front lawn.

Even though we are only 8 miles from a fairly large town, getting high speed Internet is quite a challenge. So, I was delighted when I was told by a helpful “chat girl” on a Comcast retailer site that I could get broadband at a reasonable rate, and the installation would only be $49 (despite the fact my driveway is a quarter mile long).

Got all signed up and paid with a credit card, then up pops a screen to call Comcast to arrange installation. When I called the number, the woman who answered took down my information, and put me on hold. After a minute or so, she came back on and told me Comcast doesn’t offer service where I live!

So, I said, what about this charge on my credit card? “Oh,” she said, “You have to call the Comcast retailer (affiliate) you signed up with. We don’t handle that.”

She gave me another toll-free number which I promptly called. And of course, it had a menu to go through to get the department you want. I pressed the right number, and a recording says, “For Comcast, press 1.” I did, and got a recording to call Comcast directly. Thinking there must be another option, I dialed back, but sure enough, the same thing happened.

Now I’m starting to get steamed. So I called Comcast directly and explained the problem. After another wait, I was finally connected with someone in billing, who actually got the other company on the line and connected me directly. Of course, the affiliate company tried to tell me I didn’t listen for all the options on the menu.

All this wasted about 90 minutes of my valuable time, and I’m still on dial-up!

But where is part 1 ?

I heard one story from a client of mine who was contacted by a local sales person on marketing for his site. Once her associate flew in from Denver they worked on him for 3 hours. Oh yeah, they wanted his credit card number so they could do a test charge just to make sure that he could afford the 2800.00 a month for sending out 3 direct mail packages( a year), optimize his site which no doubt would have been a site set up on their sever and resell him adwords at a discounted price.

Back to the article, really don’t care for Go Daddy. I like Host Gator. They have better prices and they even have live online 24 hour support, and if you have a more serious problem it gets resolved within 24hour or less.

By the way Clayton,

It sounds like Gay Al just may not have liked you, and wanted to associate a massive failure with your company.
There are people out there who would go to such lengths just to show you that they have that kind of power, and then walk away while dusting of their lapel.