Website Design Is Dead

[taterpeeler]

Simple answer here. Take advice from those that did it and can show you. Never take advice from someone who tells you how to do it, but can't use themselves as an example.

If I want to tell you how to sell insurance in Arkansas, I better have done it already. If I want to give you advice on website building, I better have a damn good one myself....right now!

bueler.... bueler... bueler

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Did you see him at halftime?

 

[Pangaea]

You don't need to spend 20K to rank for long term care insurance...

John has a point, you could do it for far less.

I'm also inclined to agree, web design sucks...

 

[YouGotMyMoney]

wow P i thought u were dead

 

[Pangaea]

Like I believe what any insurance agent posts on the net about what they make.......hahahahaha....

Simple answer here. Take advice from those that did it and can show you. Never take advice from someone who tells you how to do it, but can't use themselves as an example.

If I want to tell you how to sell insurance in Arkansas, I better have done it already. If I want to give you advice on website building, I better have a damn good one myself....right now!

wow P i thought u were dead

Close... Europe.

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[ksigmtsu]

Lol did you move to the Isle of Man or something? I keep joking to my wife that we're going to do that.

 

[ABC]

I have not even be able to get proposals for web site design.

 

[adamhawley]

I couldn't agree more with the original thread. Like many people on this forum, I know a lot about insurance and marketing, but not so much on web design.

Recently, I left agency sales management to start a new company, (Zipsurance) and I've done a lot of learning the hard way. (That isn't all bad though, right?) We're actually going to completely scrap our current graphics and customize a WP theme. It's already in the works, and SO much better. And, now that we know and have hired the experts, we plan on helping agents customize WP themes and host for them.

Thanks for starting this post! It needs to be discussed.

 

[ltcadviser]

You don't need to spend 20K to rank for long term care insurance...

John has a point, you could do it for far less.

I'm also inclined to agree, web design sucks...

I didn't spend $20,000 to rank for long term care insurance. I spent hardly anything. I only spent big money on my website design, plus I screwed up by going over budget.
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B4 this thread ends up in the fight club...

If your gonna publicly post what you paid for anything, you got to expect some ridicule.

With that being said, if all he got was the website designed, no content--no seo--no links, then I'd have to agree that he overpaid.

I don't think I overpaid. Go to page 1 of Google. Put yourself in a consumer's shoes. Click on my site, and the 5-6 others. Please tell me if you like any site better. I will take honest feedback.

Who cares if a site costs $13,000. I made $14,000 from the site since Monday. Today is Wednesday.(Either that, or I made it from my knowledge and experience.) But at least the site brought the clients to me.

If the site is boring or cluttered maybe I don't get anything.
I know I couldn't have picked out fonts, colors, photos.
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You can advocate whatever you'd like and I'll do the same.

If they guy made $20k off his site, it's more than a little blog site. I get that you are figuring out wordpress and you like it and I can also appreciate that you don't like to see agents getting ripped off, but without seeing what that $13,500 site looked like, I think you're playing fast and loose with the facts. If that guy gave someone $13.5k and made $20k in the first 30 days the site was up, everybody won. At that kind of a price, it's a lot more complex of a site than what I think you're giving it credit for. Now if he shows us all the site and we find out it was a poorly executed wordpress theme, then that's a different story, but he seems more savvy than that.

Let's not forget, you started this thread and titled it "Website Design Is Dead". I doubt if that will ever be true.

Josh, I don't know how complex the site is. It was built on Ruby on Rails and it has a Content Management System that is awesome to use. And I can update everything very easily. From a consumer viewpoint, I guess it is clean and professional looking---which probably translates into leads----way more than I can handle so if anyone is an LTCi expert call me!! I've been coming home at midnight every night.

Josh, I would appreciate your feedback on the site most of all.
Crabcake Johnny needs to work on his site before he can really criticize anything. Thanks. www.LTCPartner.com.

 

[Pangaea]

I didn't spend $20,000 to rank for long term care insurance. I spent hardly anything. I only spent big money on my website design, plus I screwed up by going over budget.
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I don't think I overpaid. Go to page 1 of Google. Put yourself in a consumer's shoes. Click on my site, and the 5-6 others. Please tell me if you like any site better. I will take honest feedback.

Who cares if a site costs $13,000. I made $14,000 from the site since Monday. Today is Wednesday.(Either that, or I made it from my knowledge and experience.) But at least the site brought the clients to me.

If the site is boring or cluttered maybe I don't get anything.
I know I couldn't have picked out fonts, colors, photos.
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Josh, I don't know how complex the site is. It was built on Ruby on Rails and it has a Content Management System that is awesome to use. And I can update everything very easily. From a consumer viewpoint, I guess it is clean and professional looking---which probably translates into leads----way more than I can handle so if anyone is an LTCi expert call me!! I've been coming home at midnight every night.

Josh, I would appreciate your feedback on the site most of all.
Crabcake Johnny needs to work on his site before he can really criticize anything. Thanks. www.LTCPartner.com.

I wasn't addressing your design costs as much as I was the argument [which I don't think was yours] saying that cost isn't necessarily associated with success (especially if you have your own in-house seo team or happen to be a fairly astute IMer yourself). If it worked for you it worked for you and that's all that matters...

Hmmm... I think I have a new keyword to target though.