The primary purpose of this post is to see if creating a CollegeWeekends.com blog might make sense. I have learned recently that web crawlers seem to love blog posts and creating a blog for your company and updating it regularly can do wonders for your ranking with search engines. So anyway I am writing this post to see how the search engines will treat it.
Recently we hired a web developer as an independent contractor to start on the complete redevelopment of the site. We are really excited about this guy, and hope that he will blow our socks off with the first couple of projects he has been given. It is my hope that he will indeed knock our socks off and then become a permanent member of the team.
This issue alone has caused my teammates and I a lot of grief. Some of us are strong believers that in order for CollegeWeekends.com to be a success it is important that we have a talented developer as part of the team. On the other hand there is the argument for hiring a web development firm to handle the creation of the site and then hire IT help to handle problems as they arise.
I am a member of the first team. I want to have somebody who goes to bed at night thinking about CollegeWeekends.com and how to make it better, not some team of robots that is treating our company and our business model as if we are just another line item in a long list of things to do. None of us have technical skills and all though I have a strong concept of how I want the site to perform I want somebody who knows about all the available technologies and all the opportunities on the web to direct the development. After all with out the Internet we have no business so we need somebody who lives and breathes the Internet to architect our site.
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1 comment:
Gordon, It's always tough to decide who to bring on board, who to contract out, etc., etc. I've seen small bites of equity used effectively to incentivize contractors. I've also seen personal relationships be the key motivator for an independent contractor to work hard. If they are recommended to you by someone that is important to them, they tend to want to do a quality job. Sounds like you might be past this point with IT help, but it pops up consistently with young and growing companies, at least, in my experience. Best of luck.
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