ecommerce: October 2007 Archives
Getting a high quality website designed and developed is not cheap. If you want it done properly you will need to deal with professionals and professionals do not come cheap.
A lot of people may find the competition being run by a multi-million euro shopping centre an insult. Blanchardstown Shopping Centre (on the outskirts of Dublin city, Ireland) are running a competition to get their site revamped.
A couple of things about the way they're running it strike me as odd:
A lot of people may find the competition being run by a multi-million euro shopping centre an insult. Blanchardstown Shopping Centre (on the outskirts of Dublin city, Ireland) are running a competition to get their site revamped.
A couple of things about the way they're running it strike me as odd:
- The prize money is only 1000 euro. You wouldn't expect to get a small brochure site designed for that money these days
- The competition is sponsored by Bank of Ireland. So they're only paying out 1000 euro and they're too cheap to even pay that themselves?
Vodafone have relaunched their Irish site.
The new design is clean and fresh.
The only quibble I have is that the shop is much harder to access, as you now have to lie to gain access to pricing ie. if you don't lie you get caught up in an intricate loop of questions before they'll let you near the products.
While I can understand the need to guide people to the right product package this is taking it too far as people who already know can no longer gain access to simple pricing!
The new design is clean and fresh.
The only quibble I have is that the shop is much harder to access, as you now have to lie to gain access to pricing ie. if you don't lie you get caught up in an intricate loop of questions before they'll let you near the products.
While I can understand the need to guide people to the right product package this is taking it too far as people who already know can no longer gain access to simple pricing!
Today is fast becoming "spam Monday"
So far this morning I have received unsolicited bulk email from three Irish companies:
The Monster email was particularly bad, as the person who sent it obviously doesn't know how to send mass email properly and included all the recipients in the CC field
I'm submitting the lot to Spamcop and any other blacklist I can think of
Has anyone else been getting this junk today?
So far this morning I have received unsolicited bulk email from three Irish companies:
- Fota Island resort
- Monster's Irish office
- Golden Spiders
The Monster email was particularly bad, as the person who sent it obviously doesn't know how to send mass email properly and included all the recipients in the CC field
I'm submitting the lot to Spamcop and any other blacklist I can think of
Has anyone else been getting this junk today?
