Re: another semi web site shot to hell?

Hello Frank,


BTW, how would you rate your own website? Doesn't look like a
brilliant marketing instrument to me. Don't even want to think
about the lost in sales you suffer from that ;) Of course there
is no point in telling a deaf person to listen up.

What's wrong with it? It's plain and simple. No need for fluff. That web site is only there for initial information. Anything beyond it needs a chat on the phone or in person anyway. And no, you will not find a "sorry but you don't have a flash player installed" message on any web site of mine.

It's not that it needs Flash. But I doubt if people can find it,
and how long they stay on your site and if it brings you new
business. Some projects descriptions with some pictures would
be nice. Don't have to be detailed, just some brief information.
The impression I get from your website is that you do only
paperwork, paperwork and paperwork. That impression is wrong.


Yes, I thought about some pics, schematics etc. The one problems most consultants have is that they aren't allowed to do that. Often they aren't even allowed to use a successful relationship as reference. One of my current contracts with a large company goes as far as prohibiting the disclosure of the very existence of that contract.


The first link 'Services' is an insult to the visitor. After reading
a list of services on the home page, one is directed to a more or
less identical list of services.


Good point, thanks. Got to do something about that.


The second link, "Where can Analog Consultants..." gives me a
dull page with a long lecture. It is unreadable, as it prints
too wide, all over the screen from left to right. After reading
the first paragraph, I feel lectured, and what hangs is that I
probably have wasted a lot of money, and am facing a redesign
from scratch.


What browser are you using? It doesn't do that with Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and my copy of IE. Re redesign I just want to be honest. About half of my assignments begin when it's really too late from a biz point of view and require a redesign of crucial parts or of the whole thing. Something that was clearly avoidable had they called me or someone else in half a year earlier. There are a few sad stories there.


Skip reading the 2nd parapgraph (I already lost interest) I'm told
that something has worked in the past and that there is an
oppertunity for my own engineers to learn something. Yawn.
Have to stop reading, because my neck starts to hurt from
all that turning my head from left to right. If I continue,
my head might unscrew itself and fall off.


Ok, can't understand the neck thing but one of the fears many clients have is that a consultant does his or her thing and then the company is hooked for life. Because none of their engineers is "in the know" afterwards. I don't work that way. But I could give you some horror stories where others did that to clients and I had to pick up the pieces. Or whatever pieces they had. Undocumented reems of assembler and so on.


Rolling down to the bottom, still feeling lectured and that my
own thoughts aren't much worth, you say "If you think that
analog consultants might be the answer....". Sheesh!


Well, sometimes they are the answer. Even when the problem appears to be SW or FPGA related. That's why I give example and those are cases that really happened. Got to have a punch line but you are probably right, I may have to think of a better one here.


I could go on for hours and hours. This web site does not
invite customers, it scares them away. In that respect it
is indeed brilliant.

Stop ranting about dollar calculators and hire a consultant
yourself, this time for your web site ;) He won't advice
Flash - no worries. He'll make a nice sober design that does
you justice, that is inviting, that is not lecturing, that
looks trust worthy, that can be found etc.


I might try that again. When I tried before everyone absoultely wanted to convince me that the site needs frames and all that stuff. Which I don't want.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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