Your professional opinions- Websites for new start ups

[KevF]

Guys,

What are you thoughts on this...

http://www.webcardworld.com/


Many thanks

[JustinP1]

It doesn't sell it to me so far.

The clip art models put me off already. OK, so my name is on the internet - so what? Without SEO no-one will find me anyway...

The tagline is not a great start IMHO - I can get a lot of good stuff I can hold in my hand for £90 plus VAT. It doesn't convince me to chuck that money at something I can't see so far.

[KevF]

Justin,

Thanks for that. Constructive critique and taken onboard...

[JustinP1]

KevF said:

Justin,

Thanks for that. Constructive critique and taken onboard...

What you have to do is physically and blatantly show me the benefits. That would be new business I wouldn't have had and more money for me.

For example:

"70% of clients search the internet first for a tradesman's quote.* *Of course you back this up with a real survey result...

How much business are you losing each month without a website?"



That would sell me the need for a site. Then you solve the problem - my problem is I don't have a site:

"Have you site created and hosted and cash in on new business from £99"


Problem solved. I'll read the rest of what you are saying now.

My next thought is that £90 seems too cheap for me. I would expect a pretty poor result from something that cheap. I would recommend more than one package. The basic one at £99, an intermediate one where you can include pictures of their work, and a top end super duper one with more than one page.

IMHO the webcard idea doesn't appeal to me. People want to move away from Yellow Pages type ads because the internet allows you to 'sell' to a huge amount of clients with a clever layout, pictures of work, testimonials etc. A webcard will always be second best to a website so kind of defeats the object of having it on the internet in the first place.

[jamesuk28]

Already being done by a lot of web design firms

[V8mate]

Quite confusing. At first I thought you were flogging a pile of business cards for £90.

If you have to stop and think/read twice, I'm pretty sure that a web-user will already have clicked 'Back'.

[Scraggles]

looks poor, almost like business cars online, noted that there were no sites mentioned, have they never made any yet ?

seems the whois email is based on www.metalfrog.co.uk who are also a web design company - way too much flash for my liking

their forums have a total of 3 posts

personal opinion is that you would get a better result doing it yourself

[merseyboy]

KevF said:

Guys,

What are you thoughts on this...

http://www.webcardworld.com/


Many thanks

Very Poor and the kind of site not many would trust.

Edited by merseyboy on Friday 17th April 10:26

[roadsweeper]

Potentially a nice concept, but I don't like the website.

There is a typo on the first page too:

"What you know have is a very powerful tool"

[EINSIGN]

Spent 30 seconds trying to understand what it was about and gave up.

[Goochie]

The people you have on the front end of the site look very American. In fact, I'm 100% sure that the builder's hard hat in a non-UK type. For a British company, targeting British companies, surely you should have British people on there.

Also, if you have 3 people on there, why are none of them from an ethnic minority ? The female is quite cute though

I'm just about to set myself up as a small business and possibly just the sort of person you would be targeting. Other than the cute female on your website, why would I use your service and not just design a simple site myself? I can register a domain name, host a site and get a uni graduate to design a good looking site for less than £100.

I could even design it myself.

So given that I cant understand why I want to use your service, perhaps your website doesnt sell the service well enough, or perhaps I dont understand the service you're offering?

The "About WCW" page doesnt look right with it being divided up with part of the page in the box and the other part in the lower left portion. Have you intentionally tried to keep all of the page within a given size "window" ? It looks a bit like you're trying to squeeze too much information into a small space - why not use a larger screen area?

Edited by Goochie on Friday 17th April 16:33

[jamesuk28]

£70 a year hosting in year 2? we offer an unlimited shared hosting package with shed loads of free software and scripts for less than £50 a year. Your offering would be charged at around £15 a year pro rata.