On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Warren Cardinal <[email protected]> wrote:
> pretty shitty that google is putting its name, time and resources towards > something geared solely on hurting our small businesses. Not sure I understand your observation that this is "geared solely on hurting our small businesses." Are you referring to our small (web design) businesses or the "Paul's Drywalls" of the world? If you're referring to the former then free for a year and thereafter $6.99/mo--domain and hosting included--is certainly a tough price to beat. But this isn't the only bargain basement price out there. Both GoDaddy (gulp) and Network Solutions (remember them?) offer $4.99/mo packages that include domain name, hosting and templated sites. It should be fairly easy to illustrate to your small biz clients that you get what you pay for with these types of discount services. Hopefully they will add success stories like this hilarious site > www.paulsdrywall.net and less like birds barber shop -- no way is that > site a "free" template site. > Funny, the Paul's Drywall example is a me.com site. See the "Made on a Mac" sticker on the bottom of the About the company page and the iframe in the source code. I doubt the Google/Intuit cabal is hosting sites with Apple. ;-) Perhaps these "success stories" are just about small businesses getting online rather than using their service? That part could be made clearer. Cheers, Art Thompson, Jr Logical Things, Inc design + technology + strategy 512-777-1158 [email protected] www.logicalthings.com - Founded 2000. We design, build and host Microsites, Landing Pages, Eblasts and whatever comes Next. - Need to send large files? dropbox.yousendit.com/logicalthings - Wanna connect? facebook.com/logicalthings linkedin.com/in/logicalthings twitter.com/logicalthings - On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Warren Cardinal <[email protected]>wrote: > pretty shitty that google is putting its name, time and resources towards > something geared solely on hurting our small businesses. > > Hopefully they will add success stories like this hilarious site > www.paulsdrywall.net and less like birds barber shop -- no way is that > site a "free" template site. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Maggie Duval <[email protected]> wrote: > >> These folks have been trolling my clients pretty intensely. Personal, >> in-store visits. Very irritating because I'm having to take serious amounts >> of time to explain to them what this is all about / what's going on. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Chris Stromberger < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> "You get all this free for one year. If you love it, you can keep the >>> website after that for just $4.99/month and the domain name for $2/month. >>> And don't worry, you can cancel at any time." >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Keith Aric Hall <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting. 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