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- Antique Phone Becomes Mail Organizer
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A bit of post-holiday fun today - a quick writeup on transforming an antique phone into a mail organizer.
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- Have We Forgotten Manners?
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If you (or your clients) are selling products online, are you taking the time to simply thank your customers?
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- 8 Years Experience
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Roughly eight years ago I bought myself a welder. I was restoring the 1950 Bantam Jeep Trailer I had purchased and it needed a new floor and some other things welded up. The costs for hiring it out were roughly half of the cost of a small 110V MIG welder so I figured it was time to make the investment in a new tool and new skillset.
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- Potential Client Red Flags, Part 2
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Over two years ago now I wrote a post entitled Potential Client Red Flags, wherein I listed 6 situations that, if they come up while talking with a potential new client, might possibly lead to me passing on the work.
I re-read that post this morning and have a few red flags to add.
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- No More Church Sites
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Hey Folks -
Just a quick announcement.
As of today, Boyink Interactive will no longer be providing quotes for church website projects.
This decision comes after much deliberation and realizing that in six years of being in business I have talked with literally dozens of churches and have only ended up doing one site.
One.
As conversion rates go, that’s abysmal. And not at all what my experience has been for projects coming out of the business world where my success rate is much higher.
And yes - it usually boils down to an issue of price. I’m just not able to build sites with the level of design, content and functionality that churches are after for the budgets that I’m seeing churches come in with.
Don’t get me wrong - I still have a passion for seeing the big “C” Church use the web in better ways than in the past. But it’s clear that the way for me to have the most influence on getting the Church there isn’t to build better websites for a large number of (little “c”) churches. So rather than attempting to hire myself out to find fish for churches, I’m going to focus on teaching to fish instead—which currently will be through the Building a Church Site on ExpressionEngine series on Train-ee.com.
If you represent a church and are seeking a web designer or developer, I’d suggest registering and posting in the Godbit Forums for some leads on help.