What does a website design/seo firm look like?

Question

HI to all,
I am a website designer and partime seo / sem in Australia.
Currently I am working from home and thinking of moving into
an office soon.
I was just wondering if anyone can give me feedback on where
you work from.
Do you work from home?
Do you work from an office?
Advantage / dissadvanges from one or the other.
If business seems to be going well from home should I spend
the extra $ to move into an office and hopefuly improve on the
business image.
Also I have hnever been into website designers or seo office,
what's there? Chairs, Desk & Computers, or is it set up like a
retail store?
Do your customers come to visit you? or do you visit them?
Any comments or feedback is greatly appreciated.
Mal

Answer 1

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:38:08 -0400, "P@tty Ayers ~ACE"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Win Day" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:24:08 -0400, "P@tty Ayers
~ACE"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Win Day"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>> I'm a consultant, not a manufacturer. For
the most part, consultants
>>>> go to their clients.
>>>
>>>And I'm neither of those. But of course, no web
developers/designers are
>>>manufacturers. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Do you create a product or provide a service?
>>
>> If you feel that you are creating a product, then
you are a
>> manufacturer. A custom manufacturer, perhaps, but a
manufacturer.
>>
>> My business model is such that I provide a service.
The end result is
>> a website, or an addition to or improvement of a
website. But I
>> market myself as a consultant.
>
>For the record, the word "manufacture" definitely doesn't
mean "someone who
>creates a product"; it has a much more specific
definition: "The process of
>making wares by hand or by machinery especially when
carried on
>systematically with division of labor" [Merriam-Webster].
It doesn't make
>sense to apply the term to web design. Just keeping the
verbiage straight
>here. :-)
>
We're going to have to disagree on the definition of
manufacture.
There are more meanings to the word. In its simplest form, it
merely
means to make.
Dictionary.com:
2. the making or producing of anything; generation
5. to work up (material) into form for use
American Heritage Dictionary:
1. a. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished
product,
especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
2. To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner
Online Etymology Dictionary:
something made by hand
WordNet:
1. the organized action of making of goods and services for
sale
Kenerman English Multilingual Dictionary:
to make, originally by hand but now usually by machinery and
in large
quantities
My point is that there ARE firms who are absolutely mass
producing
websites. These are the folks who offer the "one from column
A, one
from column B" sites, sometimes Flash and sometimes HTML.
Minimal
labour, minimal customization - and these sites are most
definitely
marketed and priced as commodities.
It all comes down to what the business does and how it is
marketed. Do
you make and sell a product: a website? Or do you sell a
service?
My company sells a service. From all appearances, yours sells
websites.
Not sure how we got on this track from what the office looks
like.
Win
Win Day, Wild Rose Websites
http://www.wildrosewebsites.com
[email protected]
Skype winifredday