Ok so I built a website.....will they come?

[Tiamat]

Ok, so I corrected the gramar and fixed the picture to the smaller one.

[Tiamat]

will put more photos tonight. I'm making all of the goodies today that are on the website so I can take photo's and post them.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
you do realize that this is a yahoo-provided ready-to-use theme, right?

Doesn't matter. Better than yours. More standards compliant, too.

Tia > you. Get over it.

[Tiamat]

Thanks she was hot and when I used to look alot like her which is strange since I'm adopted. But that was in my skinnier days. I made the changes you guys suggested and I think it looks alot better.

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by MarkG
Tia,

you're off to a good start!

Thank you. I know it's a cookie cutter but it does the basic stuff. and I moved around stuff and created another page and shortened that one like you said. It looks better to me. Thanks for the advice.

[FrostyBoy]

If I ever pass through Austin, I'll be grabbing a few for certain!

Just make sure you pass on the recipe to your relatives, I probably won't be passing by for a while.

[Japher]

My advice:

A) Get rid of the "I'm a new company just getting started" bit in the contact info on the home page. First, you are not an "I" if you are a "company". Always talk as a "we". Second, no one cares if you are new, old, or somewhere in between... All we care is that you will deliver. Thirdy, the puns are annoying, though fun here.

B) "About Us"; poorly written, IMO. Write it more like her intentions are being carried out "despite", not "instead". Think about this, it makes sense.

C) Services; Don't advertise your award winning pie as your "mainstay", it sounds like all you really sale (and all that you are good at) is your buttermilk pie. Instead state it like this; "We offer many delicious baked goods. Included in this is our award winning buttermilk pie, guaranteed to become a staple at your table." Or something. It shows your specialty without short selling your other dishes. Not to undersell your offerings, maybe have some "testimonials" about your other offerings.

I would flaunt your winning, but not to the extent that it takes away from your other goods.

D) Get yourself in a better light. No offense, but you have the "mom is baking me a pie look" and that is great for your business, but I don't think it is a good as it could be. I like the personal touch ("here's who is making your yummies") but I want it to be more homey. I hope that makes sense; a more Betty Crocker moment over a "I got an award" moment. It can be as simple as a home taken pic.


There you go Tia, some honest feedback. I think it's great, in general, and that you'll do well. I am coming from an MBA standpoint, and am thinking about marketing and image and the like. You, personally, have a great appeal that I think will help your business go far and I would like to see it do so.

[Tiamat]

Thanks. See I knew my gut was right. When I first did the stuff I wrote it as we and then I thought but it's just me but that makes more sense.

[Tiamat]

Ok so I took your advice on some things changed most of it around. Added a picture of me and the girls with the grandbabies since my girls are the ones who will be helping me. under the family owned and operated thingy. Will edit and post pictures of the items tomorrow.

Now see what you think.

[Wiglaf]

I think your expectations for your visitors are a little... high given the thread title. Unless you take that apron off.

[snoopy369]

I'll toss in my comment Other than fixing a few things like having the same picture twice in a row (the picture of the pie in the contest), I'd primarily suggest that you sell your 'individual' pies in groups of 2 or 3 minimum order ... $4 for a single individual pie is probably not worth your time, while $8 for 2 or $12 for 3 probably is. (I imagine it takes a lot longer per pie to make 3 individual ones on different days than 3 all at once, right?)

By the way, if you want to see a page done by a group of gals in a similar position to you (I think this is like 3 young 20-something girls who just up and decided to make a baking company), see http://sugarblisscakes.com/Home.html
Similarly simple design, and similarly simple menu (lots of flavors, but I imagine they're all very simple to do).

They 'advertised' by getting one of the big lunchtime buildings in downtown Chicago to let them sell individual mini cupcakes in the foyer (where like 3 or 4,000 businessmen and women walk through every lunchtime) for a reasonable price ($2.50 for a regular cupcake or $1.25 for a mini). Very easy to get people into your retail store (which they hopefully finish opening sometime soon...) or get catering orders by addicting folks for a month or two to your treats in small bite-size bits. Don't know if Austin has buildings like that (financial district office buildings with several sit-down lunch restaurants or semi-nice-fast-food-type restaurants on the main floor) but if it does, worth thinking about.

[Tiamat]

Yup austin does have lots of business like that. Husband and boss have told me that I need to pair down the number of pies I offer, but I think we need some variety. But they are thinking about just getting started that it's easier to make one type of pie en mass then it is to make a bunch of different ones.

I was thinking about some type of consession truck and convert it, rent one or two parking spaces downtown on the corner of congress that way you catch all the business people.

Wiggy the name stays. The purpose here is to capitolize on the publicity that is going to be coming out around the pie and since it's named Betty Lou's Buttermilk Pie and that is the way it will appear on the Driskill's menu then Betty Lou is going to have the name recognition. And those are pictures from me winning the pie contest. So they stay. I added some of me and the girls and this afternoon I will add some pictures of the goodies. But the apron stays since the Driskill hotel is giving me a monogramed one. Apron is part of the schtick.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Damn it. Now I'm hungry.

Don't suppose there's any chance of getting some of those shipped to Utah...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Tiamat
Thank you for doing that Jag but how do I do that on my own in the future.

The way I do it is:
(1) Highlight the web.address of the site to be linked to.
(2) Right click and then hit copy.
(3) Go to the site, thread and post where you want the link to appear.
(4) Hit the "http://" button
(5) The first pop-up box is where you write what we'll see (e.g. "Link to my website"). Then hit "okay"
(6) The second pop-up box is for the address and annoyingly comes with a "http" already in it. Back space over the pre-installed "http" and then hit Control-V, which will paste whatever you've copied into the box. Then hit "okay."
You're done.

[Asher]

Leave it to a lawyer to enumerate a six-step process to typing a link.