> Clients not paying invoice IS NOT unique to web development industry! > It is a problem common to any industry where the good/service is > delivered first before asking payment.
Agreed in part. Nonwithstanding that these things are relative to how important a customer perceives a product/service to their business. > > The sad reality IMHO is that few websites make money. Outside of Trade me > > most NZers prefer to buy their stuff at a bricks and mortar stopfront. > > Not all websites are for the purpose of selling physical items or to > directly make money. There are plethora of websites that are web > presence for organisations/companies (including non profit > organisations, yes, some non profit organisations have nice websites > that they paid for). Website is a communication tool, not just for > directly selling stuffs like Trademe. Government websites, promotional > websites, on-line competition websites, informational websites, > on-line magazine, etc. Part of my business involves keeping tabs on the over all state of the NZ webspace. While most of the websites that you or anyone else may be fimilar with are probably doing ok, this forms but a minority of the total .nz space... Let me assure you that the .nz space taken over all is nothing like the top 100 or 200 sites (which account for less then 1%). Total number of .nz hosts = 145,640 at last count (about a month ago). Get the picture? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
