promoting services thru website ...

**ChimpMaster** · 24 February 2006, 10:44

I don't but apparently it's a pointer to being a "real business" (referring to IR35 etc).

So it's a good idea.

I wanted one but then I decided that I was no good at creating one.

**thunderlizard** · 24 February 2006, 11:57

I have a website but I don't really promote it, or use it to get business. It's just there because some people can't cope with the idea that a business might not have a website.

**darmstadt** · 24 February 2006, 12:02

I have one but I don't really promote it. I also have to be careful with it here in Germany as it counts as advertising and could make me self emloyed and not a freelancer which then means I have to pay more tax. It has brought me work though, including some lucrative contracts with CA.

**expat** · 24 February 2006, 13:10

Originally posted by madhippy

Do you chaps have websites to promote your contracting/consulting services?

I'd assume one wouldn't get much work that way anyhow ...

Was thinking of sticking a page or two together ... not sure what to stick on ... care to post URL's for inspiration?

I've had one for years: it's just a classic CV put onto a static web page. I do get a lot of calls from it. None ever from clients directly, only agents. And quite a few of them reveal that they either have an out-of date copy or even have never actually seen it themselves (as in, calls about a contract in France when it says in large red bold print at the top centre* that I will not work in France), so I suspect there's another level of parasxxxx symbiotics here who search for CVs online and sell them to agencies...

* wasn't it Germaine Greer who asked, "right in front, in the centre, what's so hard to find?"

**threaded** · 24 February 2006, 14:49

I have several. All really really bad. Gets me loads of business. I don't claim to be a master marketter, so it makes no sense to me.

**stackpole** · 25 February 2006, 09:57

I don't have one. Waste of time.

**bogeyman** · 25 February 2006, 13:57

Originally posted by threaded

I don't claim to be a master marketter

Blimey! That's a first!

What else are you crap at Threaded? The public want to know.

**Churchill** · 25 February 2006, 14:31

Originally posted by bogeyman

Blimey! That's a first!

What else are you crap at Threaded? The public want to know.

Well 'e can't flamin' drive for a start!

**bogeyman** · 25 February 2006, 14:37

Originally posted by Churchill

Well 'e can't flamin' drive for a start!

Ha! Well I hope you put his premiums up after that old puppy!

promoting services thru website ...