{"id":179,"date":"2010-07-22T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2020-04-03T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:11:51","slug":"how-to-screw-up-your-business-quickly-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/how-to-screw-up-your-business-quickly-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Screw Up Your Business Quickly &#038; Easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend whose web designer has screwed up his site badly. My friend been unable to capture leads, the lifeblood of his business, for almost 3 weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>At any time this would be frustrating. In this economy it borders on deadly.<\/p>\n<p>The designer didn&#8217;t work out how the lead capture system would be implemented in the new site he was putting up.<\/p>\n<p>He just put up new pages without the capture forms or tracking system the old site had, then merrily went on his way.<\/p>\n<p>A lesson for all business sites &#8211; make sure your web designer not only understands, but has a mapped out plan to transfer your sales or conversion system over along with everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Right now my friend is appropriately frustrated and angry. He&#8217;s been betrayed by a supposed professional who has basically crippled his business for what will probably be at least a month when this finally gets completely resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The designer keeps getting it &#8216;fixed&#8217;, yet never actually delivering. He keeps &#8216;forgetting&#8217; one thing or another, never getting the job across the finish line. While it&#8217;s too late for my friend, learn from his unfortunate experience. It could save your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend whose web designer has screwed up his site badly. My friend been unable to capture leads, the lifeblood of his business, for almost 3 weeks now. At any time this would be frustrating. In this economy it borders on deadly. The designer didn&#8217;t work out how the lead capture system would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"content_audit":[110,105],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing","content_audit-audited","content_audit-outdated"],"modified_by":"Jonathan Cook","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"content_audit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_audit?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}