Re: Do you have a business, service or hobby you'd like to promote?
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- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:44:41 -0500
kj <kendallfjames@xxxxxxx> wrote in article
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* wrote:
The idea is to get both and let viewers decide what is worthwhile and
what is not. The website has tools that allow you to post your web
address or email on your homepage which presents an opportunity for
professionals to collaborate on projects, be hired for projects,
establish a following and position yourself as an authority in your
respective field.
IOW, and in answer to my question, NO MONEY!
For a local, professional shop to find a new customer on the vast World
Wide Web, is like finding a needle in a haystack.
What is the potential of a participant being within reasonable driving
distance of a technician who might answer a question for them?
Pretty slim, so the participating professional would be, essentially,
working for nothing - no reward, no new business, NOTHING!
OTOH - the shade-tree hackers can swap old wives tales about miracle oil
and fuel additives, dangerous ways to short-cut repairs, and discuss to its
death the intangible merits of using nitrogen over compressed air in their
tires.
I have people come from 200 miles away, but I am a unique specialty,
performance fab shop.
I cannot imagine someone driving 200 miles for a water pump repair - or
worse, having a non-working car towed that distance.....so you had better
be attracting participants from within a few miles of a professional's shop
if your proposal to increase his business is to work.
Based on the vast area - both U.S. and International - in which people that
I regularly deal with on the internet reside, I doubt if that will be the
case.
I don't believe I have ever dealt with anyone on a forum that lived within
20 miles of my shop.
Those who have, could probably count that number on both hands with fingers
left over.
There have been a few people here who proposed the acquisition of customers
by participating on their particular websites, but I haven't seen any
testimony as to it working.
One guy wanted to list "moonlighters". Who, in their right mind, is going
to list their name and contact info on a wide-open site that the IRS can
simply pluck at will to find tax cheats working under the table?
Last time I looked, he still had the same five people registered as he did
several months ago, and there have been only a couple of "service requests"
posted on his site in the same time period.
My own customers obviously already consider me to be "....an authority in
my respected field..." especially since many come over 200 miles to me.
I am also somewhat selective as to who I will work with. Listing my
services on your website opens me to long, wasted, periods on the telephone
explaining to people that I do not want to work with them for a number of
reasons.
We already have a mix of professional and amateur posting here, providing
both excellent professional advice and shade-tree hacker mis-information,
and viewers can decide who is right and who is not.
What is different in what you are proposing????????
The concept of driving a local business with a link on your website is NOT
realistic.
The truth - were you to admit it - probably leans more towards you trying
to attract a number of "professional and amateur", "automotive-oriented",
participants discussing auto service and repair so you can pitch the
automotive aftermarket advertisers with "exposure" on a "technically
oriented" automotive website.
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