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We have taken some heat over
the years from self proclaimed professional websites that say we
are not professional.
Now, when you have a multi
million dollar back end, a decade of proprietary programming,
registered trademarks and copyrights and an IP portfolio a mile
deep as well as having paid millions of dollars in affiliate
commissions, you might think it is hard to say we are not
professional. Yet, these angry webmasters still do.
On one level it is upsetting
to have people not like us, on the other hand, we understand why.
We have created a multi
million dollar system and we sell it for $20 a month.
How can anyone compete with
that?
They just can't. They can't
write a back end CMS for any one customer and spend 10 years and
tens of thousands of hours writing code, adding graphics and
creating help pages and videos.
So they do what comes
naturally, tell everyone our system is not professional.
If you are not as
pretty as the model next door, you can become her friend or
just sit back and be jealous and talk about how she is stupid
and too skinny, too tall or whatever.
The fact is nobody
likes to be outdone, nobody likes competition.
So we have to battle daily
with these webmasters cutting us down and trying to convince
people that our product is somehow less than professional.
That somehow going to a
discount host like hostgator, 1and1.com, Bluehost or others is
somehow better for you even though they don't have any of the
tools we offer.
That somehow a plan website
with nothing, no way to manage it and no way to add more features
is better than the features that we offer as part of our standard
package.
They tell customers that
somehow not having 7 day phone support is better. That being on a
host that does not even monitor their website uptime is better.
But wait, you can pay them for
support and but website monitoring from another company all for a
few dollars more.
Are the going to give you
unlimited support for $20 a month? Server monitoring, high
availability websites or a dedicated secure server to process
credit cards?
Are they going to help you add
pages, build pages and manage programs for $20 a month?
They are not going to do that
because that would mean they are working for nothing and this is
about them making money, your money.
They don't understand how we
can make money at $20 per customer per month including the
hosting.
So lets see how we do
that:
We manage our
own servers
We own our own
data center
We own our own
software
We have a huge
customer base
We have lots
of money to spend
We are
successful
Unlike the webmasters that
call us unprofessional we don't have to use outside services to
host our websites, so we make money on the hosting component of
our business.
Unlike the webmasters we run
our own datacenter, so we can manage our costs and pass on those
saving to our customers.
Unlike the webmasters that
have to use other peoples software often paying licenses or
paying for programming changes, while we write and own all of our
own code so we don't have the added overhead.
Unlike the webmasters that
build 20 websites a year we build that in a week, so we can
charge less and offer more.
We also have more experience,
because we built and mange more sites in one year then they will
every work on for anyone in their lifetime.
It really is not that
complicated.
If you go and pay a mechanic
to work on your car you might pay $1,000 or $2,000 for a days
work. But the guy that built the car only gets $200 for a days
work. And it only takes 2.5 hours to assemble a complete new car.
That is right, 2.5 man hours to assemble an entire car while the
mechanic just charged you for 2.5 hours to change your spark
plugs.
If the mechanic built the car
it would take 1 or 2 years and cost upwards of $200,000.00. That
is a real number because there are people that do build cars for
a living and charging $100,000 building a customized car is no
big deal, so building one from scratch is even more expensive.
But you can go to Ford, GM or
Chrysler and buy that car for one tenth of that or just $20,000.
It is always cheaper to buy
from a manufacturer than an individual.
The same is true of websites.
It is cheaper to use what a
large company has built than by hiring a webmaster to build
everything from scratch. And in most cases, ours will offer much
much more than anyone could ever build even at a million dollars.
Now mechanics don't get mad at
Ford when they can sell a new car cheaper than the mechanic can
fix an old one. But webmasters do get mad when we can provide a
better website for less.
It is just them trying to
survive.
Unfortunately they have
put themselves on the FTC watch list as being one of the top
10 worst industries for scams, fraud and over charging. Image
that? The webmasters that call us unprofessional are in an
unscrupulous industry and the US Government is warning
everyone that they could be ripping you off.
As business owners it is up to
you to decide what is better and what is professional. And based
on the number of customers we have compared to each one of those
independent webmasters, people are choosing us.
It really is that simple.
Webmasters just can't
compete, they don't want you to know that you can build a website
without them, and they don't want anyone to think that what they
do is easy. But it is easy.
At one time people could not
drive their own cars. That is true, you needed a driver to drive
a car. It was difficult to start, expensive and needed constant
maintenance.
But as time went on, people
starting leaning to drive themselves and look at us now!
Well, it was only a matter of
time before webmasters became obsolete.
It has happened to everyone
and now it is happening to them.
So they can go on strike,
protest and blame the president for exporting jobs or tell people
that our product sucks. But in the end, we are winning and they
are struggling to survive.
One funny thing I always get
is when people ask what I do. I say, "I own a website
company", and then they as "What is my regular job?".
People are getting used to
everyone being a webmasters.
My insurance agent is a
webmaster, my car salesman is a webmaster and my friends are
webmasters but the all need jobs to pay the bills. So how good
are they at being webmasters?
Now you tell me, who
is the professional?
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