Potential startup in there based on his form to ask for feedback - i.e. people pay to get feedback early on in their startups. Someone connects businesses with feedback people.
Startups, your landing page sucks
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#32Potential startup in there based on his form to ask for feedback - i.e. people pay to get feedback early on in their startups. Someone connects businesses with feedback people.
http://www.feedbackarmy.com
One of the suggested questions you could ask (when I last looked) was "What does this site do?" The examples page gives you a pretty good idea of how it works.
Re: Startups, your landing page sucks
#33Everything in a startup is a trade-off.
When faced with "build product" vs "prettify website" what would most people here do?
Seems like a lot of folks here are making assumptions about what's most important to a given startup at a given time by looking from the outside. I'm sure in some cases they're right but not necessarily all.
Admittedly for 'launching' at a conference I'd assume an informative website would be a priority but what do I know?
Re: Startups, your landing page sucks
#34Our landing page is suffering from the same disease - anyone willing to help us out, we're missing a marketing person in our team :)
I think if you had a marketing person they would be slapping you for letting your site remain down for an hour while you have people interested in checking it out :D Any idea when it'll be back up? I'd like to check it out.
It's up now, although this is still temporary - will be changed in a week or so, for two reasons:
- we pivoted into WordPress market because talking with our prospective customers revealed a real need for a real-time WP support platform
- we changed our name to Codeable, because Carmivore didn't position all that well (the new domain will be codeable.io)
We already have 40 contractors (hand picked, invited) that are on standby (while we prepare the legalities to be able to process payments online).
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#36What's some good examples of well put together landing pages then?
I second this, is there a good round-up somewhere with great examples with awesome interactions?
Simply Google "website landing pages inspiration" you'll get a ton of great lists to comb over.
Also tyler-b's comment should help you focus on the important features of a landing page
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#37The irony here is how bad the press42.com landing page is; your value proposition is pretty unclear with your one sentence. Try working on your own landing page before dishing out criticism, (not to say that what you said isn't true).
Plus: - They don't link from the blog to the site from their logo. Marketing 101 here, folks. - Here is their pitch: We allow startups to get the right exposure to media while bloggers are able to filter the stories they get. Huh? - Thier tagline: The matchmaking platform for startups and bloggers Unless the business is aiming at selling to bloggers, this line is not quite clear. - I have to click on an image of a bu…
Hey, fair point, so, I'm a huge believer of positive feedback, so what are your suggestions? What parts don't you understand? How would you rephrase it? Very open to suggestions :)
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#38The irony here is how bad the press42.com landing page is; your value proposition is pretty unclear with your one sentence. Try working on your own landing page before dishing out criticism, (not to say that what you said isn't true).
So how would you rephrase it? Open to suggestions :)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault." - Cervantes There's only two sentences on the press42.com home page, but despite such brevity, I had zero trouble understanding their value proposition.
I think you are the exception to the rule. I could guess what I think it means, but I shouldn't have to.
How would you rephrase it? Would love to hear suggestions :)
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#40"kudos to the other French start-ups for finally realizing that the world doesn’t speak French"
Pardon, but I don't believe there is a language the world speaks.
"three companies out of the sixteen had their webpage in their local language"
Does the author mean that thirteen of the websites were in English, and is complaining about the remaining three being in a different language? Would the author hold the same standard to English-first websites to translate them in to a variety of other local languages? If not, what an astonishingly self-centered perspective.