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£20,000 on a website but you didn’t do this:
Expensive website, no opening times. You’ve wasted your money, haven’t you?
▶Play the video: £20,000 on a website but you didn’t do this:If you’ve spent thousands on a website and you haven’t put your opening times on it, you’ve wasted your money. Simple as that. I’d say more, but my phone keeps ringing.
That’s what so many people do. They pay for a website and don’t get the basics right. The dull stuff a customer actually came for, like when you’re open.
The basics cost nothing. That’s the annoying part. You don’t need a bigger budget or a cleverer design to fix them. You just need to put them on the page.
So get the basics right first and watch your website do its job. Everything else sits on top of them. Without them, you might as well be trying to use a piece of fruit as a phone. It doesn’t work.
I know, because I tried a strawberry phone earlier. It didn’t work either.
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if you spent £2,000 on a website but you haven't put your [ __ ] opening times on it you've wasted your money haven't you yeah you just take those kind of sorry hold on I've got a call coming through hello and that's what so many people do they don't get the basics right with their website and the basics cost nothing so get the basics right and watch your website Prosper there's a metaphor coming up in a second after this second thus I'm going to have to ring you back just give me a second you absolutely need to get the basics right because if you're not getting the basics right and here comes the metaphor you might as well be trying to use a piece of fruit as a communication device don't [ __ ] work does it Android no I tried one of those strawberry phones earli it didn't work well