[RTC List] Phone solicitation for web creation

[Bob Morse]

Dwight,

First, I can assure you we did not give out Tech Conference attendee 
information to anyone. So you getting on some call list from that is not 
possible. For the record, I get 1-2 calls per week for people who want 
to develop a web site for my company. When I tell them that's what we 
do, they quickly hang up. I am also getting lots of  requests from 
companies in India to outsource development work to them.  We don't do that.

Second, yes, of course there are local businesses that build web sites 
and build them properly to get indexed by search engines, and provide 
the other services you/they listed. Just because someone from India 
tells you we don't doesn't make it true.

Dwight Winegar wrote:
>
> For the second time now I've received a rather rude call by someone 
> who could barely speak English, with a company called "Comp U Max" in 
> Lodi, NJ.  He claimed he was a "Web Doctor" and could build site that 
> must needed; yes I build site that everyone can find and see with all 
> web searches; all web browsers. I also connect you with direct e-mail 
> marketing."   Yeah, right.   Last month I had Idearc also calling me 
> telling me the same thing for Smart Yellow Pages.  At first I had to 
> wonder if he got my info from the Tech Conference a week ago last 
> Saturday.   He couldn't really tell me the source of my name and number.
>
> While the focus of the Tech Conference for my session was on Vertical 
> Response and how to do selective e-mail marketing the right way, I 
> would think that when it comes to building websites for people and 
> linking them up with search engines there must be quality people doing 
> the same locally without having to deal with some rogue salesman 
> transplanted to New Jersey from New Delhi.   I thought some of our 
> local web designers, such as "Carson Park", "Morse Media" and 
> "Persechini & Company"  to name a few, could do all of that, but maybe 
> I'm wrong, since the pitch of both of these had been "complete 
> package" that included site creation, maintenance, your own URL with 
> registration, statistical reports, and more; and do it reasonably 
> priced for the independent (less than 5 employees, sometimes just 1) 
> self-employed businesses.   Don't our local people do all of that too, 
> or is it just a portion of the total picture?   These tele-sales 
> people will try and tell you "but they can't do for you locally, what 
> WE can do."   I highly question that, but thought I better verify the 
> facts to see if there is any part of the whole picture missing in what 
> is done locally.
>
> - Dwight
>
>
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