On A Personal Note.... [RE-wrenches]

[Jim Hartley]

Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Please turn your decoder ring back into Michael.  Everyone else, we will
> have to go to secret handshake #14 Mod B until we are sure Jim isn't 
> with us
> any more.

Sorry.  I'm still here.  ;-)   I have not been banned.  All I will say 
further on this is that, yes, Michael caught me.  But he was very 
gracious in relating his observations.  He was also right in calling 
things to my attention.  I haven't a problem with that at all.  I wasn't 
even thinking about the mayhem that might be caused by opening this 
place up to - whatever.
> 
> Seriously though...
> 
> You have hit upon a good point about web site issues.  I am not happy at 
> all
> with mine even though we get compliments and even a lead or two from it. 
>  We
> did it totally in house after purchasing Front Page.  I rely upon my 
> part
> time secretary/office manager to put it together.  Unfortunately the web
> page is only as good as the time I have to spend on figuring out just 
> what I
> want from it then tell her what I want.  It takes her about 4 minutes 
> then I
> figure that's not really what I wanted and we take two steps back.
> 
> Travis

Well, personally [again!] I have reservations about the internet as a 
primary selling tool, particularly where the product is a complex 
technology and your potential clients may not be so well informed on it 
all.  I rather prefer to use the internet more as an educational tool to 
help people make more informed decisions.  That in itself is a
complex task as, I'm sure, everyone is well aware.  That's why 
publications such as Homepower are succesful.  People want to become 
better informed especially when it comes to investing considerable money 
into something.

Further, the whole webpage thing requires continual modifications and 
many of us don't have the time to focus our efforts on that exclusively. 
 So, we just try to maintain.  My webpage is still needing a bunch of 
things done with it to achieve the results I want.
I'm like you, Travis.  I do the best I can with it but I STILL have to 
make a living doing other, less creative things mostly.  There is the 
virtual reality and then there is THE REALITY, doncha know. 

By the way, thanks for not hitting me.  I might have lost my ring from 
the impact.....
> 
> ----------
> >From: Jim Hartley <grail at inil.com>
> >To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> >Subject: RE: On A Personal Note.... [RE-wrenches]
> >Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2001, 2:41 PM

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