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	<title>Comments on: Now I&#8217;d like your help</title>
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		<title>By: FionaC</title>
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		<dc:creator>FionaC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Small thing but big thing... finding this site really offputting legibility-wise. Light grey on bright white. And small point size. It hurts. Not friendly. Meanwhile peteashton.com - much easier on the eyes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Small thing but big thing&#8230; finding this site really offputting legibility-wise. Light grey on bright white. And small point size. It hurts. Not friendly. Meanwhile peteashton.com &#8211; much easier on the eyes.</p>
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		<title>By: Susi Oneill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susi Oneill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Generally, I think your blog is the greatest advert for your work Pete - and it is very strongly presented so that&#039;s the main thing that will get people understanding what you do and how you think. 

In terms of the &#039;promotional copy&#039; pages - there&#039;s a lot of mention about blogging, so you may want to think more about outlining other services you offer, in the form of 3 or 4 bullet points with a short description.  In tandem, you should include some short case studies of successful projects you&#039;ve delivered against the different headings of services you offer.  A lot of creative agencies do this.  Describe the organisation, the problem, what solution you implemented, what the smiley faces result was and a pretty pic.  Also I want to see more web links and screen grabs to the sites you&#039;ve set up orgs you&#039;ve advised.  

In &#039;How I work&#039; you may want to think about &#039;products&#039; rather than general services.  Could you offer a &#039;fixed prize package&#039; that includes a phone or face-to-face conusltation and a 20 page diagnostic report, or 6 hour technical set-up service?  This is the way people will be thinking in a recession - set a high price (they think &quot;he must be good&quot;) discount it to buggery (&quot;wow it&#039;s a steal!&quot;).  A package can frame the discussion/negotiation with a potential client.

Maybe also mention things like social media surgery for the no-budget people, or say you offer special rates for start-ups, non-profits, community orgs (consultancy is a big put off terms for those with tiny pockets).

The hard sell isn&#039;t you - but you can find more of a middle ground, which can be the basis of your &#039;real world&#039; brochure...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Generally, I think your blog is the greatest advert for your work Pete &#8211; and it is very strongly presented so that&#8217;s the main thing that will get people understanding what you do and how you think. </p>
<p>In terms of the &#8216;promotional copy&#8217; pages &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot of mention about blogging, so you may want to think more about outlining other services you offer, in the form of 3 or 4 bullet points with a short description.  In tandem, you should include some short case studies of successful projects you&#8217;ve delivered against the different headings of services you offer.  A lot of creative agencies do this.  Describe the organisation, the problem, what solution you implemented, what the smiley faces result was and a pretty pic.  Also I want to see more web links and screen grabs to the sites you&#8217;ve set up orgs you&#8217;ve advised.  </p>
<p>In &#8216;How I work&#8217; you may want to think about &#8216;products&#8217; rather than general services.  Could you offer a &#8216;fixed prize package&#8217; that includes a phone or face-to-face conusltation and a 20 page diagnostic report, or 6 hour technical set-up service?  This is the way people will be thinking in a recession &#8211; set a high price (they think &#8220;he must be good&#8221;) discount it to buggery (&#8220;wow it&#8217;s a steal!&#8221;).  A package can frame the discussion/negotiation with a potential client.</p>
<p>Maybe also mention things like social media surgery for the no-budget people, or say you offer special rates for start-ups, non-profits, community orgs (consultancy is a big put off terms for those with tiny pockets).</p>
<p>The hard sell isn&#8217;t you &#8211; but you can find more of a middle ground, which can be the basis of your &#8216;real world&#8217; brochure&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Martin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d totally whack a contact form at the bottom of both of those pages. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/ is a great plugin for this. Just a huge text area and a space for name and email is always good, sometimes people want to send you an email but by the time they&#039;ve copied the address, opened up mail, thought of a subject, then started writing, they&#039;ve forgot what they were doing in the first place. 

I really like that both pages really nail what it is you doing, but It might be useful to have one of those awful case study type things, like X came to use and wanted to do this, I look at what they needed to do then we did this, Y has happened because of it and they love me because I&#039;m great. It might be useful to point people towards a real project and say &quot;we did this&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d totally whack a contact form at the bottom of both of those pages. <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/</a> is a great plugin for this. Just a huge text area and a space for name and email is always good, sometimes people want to send you an email but by the time they&#8217;ve copied the address, opened up mail, thought of a subject, then started writing, they&#8217;ve forgot what they were doing in the first place. </p>
<p>I really like that both pages really nail what it is you doing, but It might be useful to have one of those awful case study type things, like X came to use and wanted to do this, I look at what they needed to do then we did this, Y has happened because of it and they love me because I&#8217;m great. It might be useful to point people towards a real project and say &#8220;we did this&#8221;.</p>
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