Comments on: Moonlighting, Pilates & Regulation

By: Brittany

Brittany — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:02:02 +0000

I can relate to this article.I tried setting up an online health supplement store only for my hosting account to get it suspended.Ive spent thousands on website promotion and even hired a professional SEO but not its all gone.Also my friend got his site hacked by a keylogger.Security is important guys.

Cheers

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:22:42 +0000

Ah that is so cheeky, I can’t believe the developer did that! Why would he make it deliberately hard for her, surely if more people visited the site it would benefit him too and she would recommend him! Some people….

By: Tola F.

Tola F. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:09:17 +0000

Very interesting site, and I definitely feel your pain!! It can be so frustrating for a new starter to have that many issues in the way of their business, like they don’t have enough problems as it is!

Also I just tried going to the website and my virus scanner detected a trojan house or something, so I suggest you have a look into that or Abbie does…

Cheers!

By: DavidBlizzard

DavidBlizzard — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:36:12 +0000

We work with a lot of small companies and it’s amazing how the least expensive part of the online process, the domain name, can waste so much time and cause so many issues. There is no excuse for a company registering a client’s domain name in the hosting company’s name. We see it all the time and the client and the new host get stuck in an uncomfortable situation when they move hosting. You have to tread lightly and put on the smiley face or you risk losing the domain name. We have seen names held for ransom.

By: Sarah Goodwin

Sarah Goodwin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:26:50 +0000

@Sam I love your store! I’m sure Abbie would appreciate a referal for future development work (What a small internet )

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:17:24 +0000

I got to end of the post before I realised that I know Abbie – she teachers Pilates at our store! I know some good developers in Leeds if you need any help!

By: Sarah Goodwin

Sarah Goodwin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:45:29 +0000

Result! The developers are moving the site to a different server to try & resolve the email issue and the domain name is being transfered. That’s the big two issues potentially resolved.

By: Sarah Goodwin

Sarah Goodwin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:11:16 +0000

@Lynda thank you for letting me know, I will check on what’s hapening.

By: Lynda Lippin

Lynda Lippin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:18:33 +0000

And today her Pilates in Leeds site is not responding at all! Which may be a good thing as perhaps she is migrating?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:25:14 +0000

My blood temp went up a bit just reading the story. I’ve worked in similar situations. Often, the “design on a dime” approach ends up screwing the small business owner, even when the designer was well intentioned.

What I hate to see is the designer who charges $2500 for a decent looking website but doesn’t understand the importance of getting the page title right. I’ve only been in working in the SEO/SEM field for 10 mos or so and have no programming background at all, it only took me a couple of months to learn what the most basic but important issues were.

Like you, I know take a tremendous satisfaction in helping small biz owners by educating them to some of the basics.