The low price makes it sound like you’re an amateur playing at it not a real professional.

The “Act now!” schtick always comes across as BS used car salesman pressure tactics.

Your market is wildly oversaturated and nothing you’ve stated here would make you stand out in a good way.

Monthly recurring fees are awful and everyone hates them. It’s also not a standard way of charging for the industry so it again makes it sound like you don’t know what you’re doing.

You’re focusing on people in an industry where having a “good” (whatever that means) website is not a competitive advantage, and specifically people who’ve shown they don’t care about their website.

I’m not seeing any value proposition for your prospective clients. If their website is “better” how will that make them more money? Do you have any data or numbers or way for them to calculate an RoI that would offset the inconvenience and risk of switching vendors to a brand new single person company with no track record?

It basically seems like you’re trying to solve a problem your prospective customers don’t care about in a way that makes you seem unreliable and offers them no concrete reason to want what you’re selling.

Another correlation is that those owners claim to be taking responsibility and want advice, but any advice that implies they might be doing anything wrong is immediately shot down defensively. And they also always refuse to actually post any hard numbers.

It’s so funny how the owners that come here with staff who hate them all claim to be paying top of the market with amazing benefits and they’re a really great place to work. Real epidemic of amazing jobs with wonderful bosses (according to the boss of course) filled with disconsolate malcontents.

If you have a spare $300k and want to give it as a gift that will never be repaid maybe. As an investment? Lol no.

If you have a spare $300k and want to give it as a gift that will never be repaid maybe. As an investment? Lol no.

I think the bigger problem here is that you’re “horrified” and “shaken to your core” because of a single mildly negative comment on Facebook. That’s… not ideal.

Setting aside how unproductive it is to invest any time or emotional energy into something so minor, in practice essentially all benefits are unequally applied.

Paying insurance premiums for dependents is much more valuable to the person covering a spouse and kids than to a single person. Covering parking is much more valuable to the person working at the downtown location where it’s $600 a month to park in the garage than the person working at the satellite office with the huge free parking lot. Commuter assistance is more valuable to the dude living in the exurbs who takes two locals and an express bus to get to work than the dude who lives five minutes away and walks.

And the business paying for your internet is more valuable the more your ISP charges. So what? The benefit is the same (business pays for internet) even if the relative value is different.