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Re: Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords

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Would you trust any company that has to outsource the creation of a 'coming soon' page?

If it cost $1,000 to do it in-house and $5 to outsource it then that would definitely increase my trust and comfort level regardless of whether I was a customer or an investor.

Your thought process, while diligent, would never be applied by a customer, and rarely by an investor.

However, neither would gojomo's.

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Would you trust any company that has to outsource the creation of a 'coming soon' page?

If it cost $1,000 to do it in-house and $5 to outsource it then that would definitely increase my trust and comfort level regardless of whether I was a customer or an investor.

You would need to be paying your web devs something like $3000-$12000/hour for a 'coming soon' page to cost $1000 to do in-house.

Re: Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it cost $1,000 to do it in-house and $5 to outsource it then that would definitely increase my trust and comfort level regardless of whether I was a customer or an investor.

Your thought process, while diligent, would never be applied by a customer, and rarely by an investor. However, neither would gojomo's.

I agree. I should have added the caveat that "if an investor or if a customer knew how you were handling this aspect of your business".

Fact of the matter is that customers and investors only see these kinds of expenses in very summary form if at all. So it's generally impossible for them to make a decision based on this kind of information.

On the other hand the total expense picture is always a factor in pricing and investment decisions and this one would play a small part in that.

However, a manager that was spending $1,000 for a launch page he/she could have deployed for free or maybe even $5 a month that manager is probably having problems with other aspects of expense management and this would show up in the final pricing and investment picture.

Re: Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords

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Tried to click on the 'register now' link, and waited about two minutes for something from 'engine27.woopra.com' to load, and got impatient. The page never loaded.

I don't want my potential users to have this kind of experience.

I would have been a potential customer, but no thanks.

Re: Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it cost $1,000 to do it in-house and $5 to outsource it then that would definitely increase my trust and comfort level regardless of whether I was a customer or an investor.

You would need to be paying your web devs something like $3000-$12000/hour for a 'coming soon' page to cost $1000 to do in-house.

Good point gojomo. Sometimes it feels like they are making that much but a coming soon page shouldn't be all that big a deal to put together.

Re: Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it cost $1,000 to do it in-house and $5 to outsource it then that would definitely increase my trust and comfort level regardless of whether I was a customer or an investor.

You would need to be paying your web devs something like $3000-$12000/hour for a 'coming soon' page to cost $1000 to do in-house.

OK. OK. I got a little carried away with my cost estimates.

But, you have to understand some of the developers I've worked with over the years. No question they would have that much into before the darn thing worked right.

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