? About Websites/Business Plan

[scrub]

I understand nothing is wrong with gmail. Just a suggestion from folks like you that know more about this sort of thing. I'm really very new to the web side of detailing. I thought it was a good idea and I felt I should share the knowledge passed on to me. Hopefully no offense was taken. :angel

 

[googledude]

No offense what so ever! Like I said any criticism is good in my book, gives you a much broader perspective on things. I was just explaining my reasoning. On my next round of cards I more than likely will put a 'x.tspdetail.com' address on them, but for now what I have works just fine as well, as I have LOTS of cards left. Most of my business is simple here anyhow, almost all through references. I like it that way, I don't intend on doing advertising besides the cars any time soon as of now. I get alot of my business from the marina I detail at during boating season. These are all people who have their mobile homes (trailers) at the marina campground as second houses, party all weekend every weekend, and have power boats that they cruise around on, so you can imagine the cars that they also drive and the money they are willing to pay to detail them. I like to get thier friends and peers (other stay at home wifes with rich husbands, lol) as customers through references.

But anyhow enough rambling, I thank you again for your input as I always enjoy feedback.

Mark

 

[ndnguy]

Why not just have Gmail grab the emails from your site addy? I do this with my hotmail account and my website.

Person emails somename@mywebsite.com and then it gets sent to my hotmail email. POP and STMP or something like that... you should have similar options. I converge all my emails into one, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to have multible emails this way.

 

[Jngrbrdman]

That's a good idea, but in my case my domain host has a really sucky email system. Sometimes it will be a few days before the email arrives. Gmail is a little flaky sometimes too, but it is more stable than my domain email or even Hotmail has been. Plus Gmail isn't on everybody's corproate spam lists yet, so emails tend to actually arrive more often than not. I'm not in the business where my email address is going to make or break the deal. I don't think many of us are. I have never once gotten an email generated from my business card. Most of the time they call me or visit the website and email me from there. ...or maybe they are emailing me off the card and I'm just not getting them. hmmmm... lol

I'm not posting this picture for advertising purposes, but rather to give you an idea of how I laid out my business card.