Comments on: Getting British Business Offline http://willans.net/blog/getting-british-business-offline/ The Portfolio and Blog of Hull-Based Web Designer & Developer Simon Willans Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:16:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sasha http://willans.net/blog/getting-british-business-offline/#comment-14 sasha Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:24:25 +0000 http://willans.net/?p=126#comment-14 Not biased by any chance are you?! lol Not biased by any chance are you?! lol

]]> By: Ben http://willans.net/blog/getting-british-business-offline/#comment-13 Ben Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:23:43 +0000 http://willans.net/?p=126#comment-13 Got to agree with the points you’ve made here. I attended last night’s event in Edinburgh and, as an online marketing professional, found the whole thing painful & misleading. They suggested that you shouldn’t really need to pay more than £750 for a full e-commerce website & you should aim for keyword rich domains - http://www.edinburgh-cartered-account.co.uk – being the example they used on the evening, rather than the company name. They also made the process of signing up & creating your website look very difficult, I use Google Sites all the time & was lost during the demonstration. Hope you don’t mind me linking to my post but I think this is just a bunch of misinformation and is not really helping British Business to thrive in the digital world. http://www.attacat.co.uk/brain/getting-british-business-online-or-just-filling-google-bts-coffers/ Got to agree with the points you’ve made here. I attended last night’s
event in Edinburgh and, as an online marketing professional, found the whole thing
painful & misleading.

They suggested that you shouldn’t really need to pay more than £750 for a full
e-commerce website & you should aim for keyword rich domains -
http://www.edinburgh-cartered-account.co.uk – being the example they used on the evening,
rather than the company name. They also made the process of signing up & creating
your website look very difficult, I use Google Sites all the time & was lost during
the demonstration.

Hope you don’t mind me linking to my post but I think this is just a bunch of
misinformation and is not really helping British Business to thrive in the digital
world.

http://www.attacat.co.uk/brain/getting-british-business-online-or-just-filling-google-bts-coffers/

]]> By: geoff blair http://willans.net/blog/getting-british-business-offline/#comment-12 geoff blair Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:23:03 +0000 http://willans.net/?p=126#comment-12 I do think this is a good idea if the woll is’nt being pulled over our eyes. I do think this is a good idea if the woll is’nt being pulled over our eyes.

]]> By: Lois http://willans.net/blog/getting-british-business-offline/#comment-11 Lois Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:22:27 +0000 http://willans.net/?p=126#comment-11 I think this service might be helpful as a gateway to show small businesses that getting online is not hard but i think its impact is going to be minimal. the gbbo initiative is not offering anything new a free domain and a year`s hosting is not much as for the webbuilder most hosting companies offer this free of charge , i remember we started offering this free back in 2006 . The problem with automated webbuilders is its difficult to be different everyone knows how ineffective templates can be and i think one pitfull of the whole plan could be small businesses trying it for one year and seeing little or no gain and abandoning the whole idea where as if they had better professional help they could have got better gains. I think this service might be helpful as a gateway to show small businesses that getting online is not hard but i think its impact is going to be minimal.

the gbbo initiative is not offering anything new a free domain and a year`s hosting is not much as for the webbuilder most hosting companies offer this free of charge , i remember we started offering this free back in 2006 .

The problem with automated webbuilders is its difficult to be different everyone knows how ineffective templates can be and i think one pitfull of the whole plan could be small businesses trying it for one year and seeing little or no gain and abandoning the whole idea where as if they had better professional help they could have got better gains.

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