Comments on: Newbies running an Internet business http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/ I see, I hear and I feel. And then I blog it. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:03:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25489 mooiness Fri, 25 May 2007 13:07:31 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25489 BigZapher: nice one, brutha! :D BigZapher: nice one, brutha! :D

]]> By: BigZapfer http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25485 BigZapfer Fri, 25 May 2007 12:55:40 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25485 Designer: Hi, I’am the graphic designer here, I’ll be making your website, I’ve made a few of them so you should listen to me and my experience, it well make things easier for every one. Client: You don’t know what your doing, I know everything. Make some thing that looks good but do it really fast, like in 5 mins Designer: Right, I’ll just get a quick brief off you then. Client: Can’t be assed, make something that’s exactly what I want but you’ll have to sort it out yourself because I can’t be bothered to give you five minutes, for a proper brief. Designer: Can I at least get a logo. Client: Can’t you just copy it or draw it yourself ?…. (After the first design) Designer: I think that’s want you need, based on my experience and research of your company. Client: That’s crap, I don’t like it for no real reason other then you got it right the first time, so quickly, which means I didn’t get my money worth. I also don’t have anything constructive to add but do some more designs and I look at them when I feel like it. (Several designs later) Client: hmm, I think I like the design I came up with in the first place, your new stuff is no good, use what I made originally. Designer: Could you come a bit closer….. (hudoken-upper cuts client) :) Admitadly most clients where pretty good, although there where some that I would like to get my hands on Later man. Designer: Hi, I’am the graphic designer here, I’ll be making your website, I’ve made a few of them so you should listen to me and my experience, it well make things easier for every one.

Client: You don’t know what your doing, I know everything. Make some thing that looks good but do it really fast, like in 5 mins

Designer: Right, I’ll just get a quick brief off you then.

Client: Can’t be assed, make something that’s exactly what I want but you’ll have to sort it out yourself because I can’t be bothered to give you five minutes, for a proper brief.

Designer: Can I at least get a logo.

Client: Can’t you just copy it or draw it yourself ?….

(After the first design)

Designer: I think that’s want you need, based on my experience and research of your company.

Client: That’s crap, I don’t like it for no real reason other then you got it right the first time, so quickly, which means I didn’t get my money worth. I also don’t have anything constructive to add but do some more designs and I look at them when I feel like it.

(Several designs later)

Client: hmm, I think I like the design I came up with in the first place, your new stuff is no good, use what I made originally.

Designer: Could you come a bit closer….. (hudoken-upper cuts client)

:) Admitadly most clients where pretty good, although there where some that I would like to get my hands on

Later man.

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25370 mooiness Mon, 21 May 2007 10:28:55 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25370 dreymer: hahah monkey tail! dreymer: hahah monkey tail!

]]> By: dreymer http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25367 dreymer Mon, 21 May 2007 10:14:47 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25367 LOL. Reminds me of my dad when he first got his email. Friend: So what's your email? Dad: It's C-K-S.... umm.. monkeytail hotmail dot com. Friend: Monkeytail? Dad: Yeah, it's that funny curly sign thing LOL.

Reminds me of my dad when he first got his email.

Friend: So what’s your email?
Dad: It’s C-K-S…. umm.. monkeytail hotmail dot com.
Friend: Monkeytail?
Dad: Yeah, it’s that funny curly sign thing

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25332 mooiness Sun, 20 May 2007 13:22:53 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25332 Patrick: oh I have a bad personal experience with Smartyhost too and yet they remain in business. Like any industry, unfortunately there are bad eggs in the IT industry too. Patrick: oh I have a bad personal experience with Smartyhost too and yet they remain in business. Like any industry, unfortunately there are bad eggs in the IT industry too.

]]> By: Patrick http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25331 Patrick Sun, 20 May 2007 13:16:29 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25331 On the other hand though, we (me and the Mrs) have had some amazing....stunningly woeful experiences with webhosts. Ipowerweb (who deleted 2 years of work and then chastised us for not having an "index.html" page when we asked where did our stuff go), Smartyhost (rude ignorant and a total waste of money. I for one want a host that is open on weekends. It was not unusual for them to have a site failure on a Saturday and not have it fixed until Monday),and Acehost, (we offer the sun moon and planets....why are you not happy with this handful of dirt?) spring to mind. I don't think there is a helpful or even intelligent being between the three of them. On the other hand though, we (me and the Mrs) have had some amazing….stunningly woeful experiences with webhosts. Ipowerweb (who deleted 2 years of work and then chastised us for not having an “index.html” page when we asked where did our stuff go), Smartyhost (rude ignorant and a total waste of money. I for one want a host that is open on weekends. It was not unusual for them to have a site failure on a Saturday and not have it fixed until Monday),and Acehost, (we offer the sun moon and planets….why are you not happy with this handful of dirt?) spring to mind. I don’t think there is a helpful or even intelligent being between the three of them.

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25321 mooiness Sun, 20 May 2007 07:56:13 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25321 rn: exactly and they are the worst to deal with because you are trying to help them but they can't be arsed themselves. indra: it's up above, #11. rn: exactly and they are the worst to deal with because you are trying to help them but they can’t be arsed themselves.

indra: it’s up above, #11.

]]> By: Indra http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25323 Indra Sun, 20 May 2007 07:50:39 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25323 hmm.. I was sure I posted a comment after my first one.. did it got marked as spam? I didn't recall typin anything that can be marked as spam.. hmm.. I was sure I posted a comment after my first one.. did it got marked as spam? I didn’t recall typin anything that can be marked as spam..

]]> By: rn http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25319 rn Sun, 20 May 2007 06:01:51 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25319 my favourite ones are no 2 and 3 - the "I've built it, so why no response" and the "too hard but lazy"... when I talk to these kind of people, it's not that they are IT idiots. They are just idiots... and they manage to blame others for everything! haha my favourite ones are no 2 and 3 – the “I’ve built it, so why no response” and the “too hard but lazy”… when I talk to these kind of people, it’s not that they are IT idiots. They are just idiots… and they manage to blame others for everything! haha

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/comment-page-1/#comment-25317 mooiness Sun, 20 May 2007 04:58:35 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2007/05/18/newbies-running-an-internet-business/#comment-25317 Indra: that's very well-trained indeed, especially your mum! Indra: that’s very well-trained indeed, especially your mum!

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