Comments on: Growing Business in a Walled Garden http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/04/30/growing-business-in-a-walled-garden/ Gary Barber rants on user experience, and the controlled chaos of the Web Industry Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Guy Park http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/04/30/growing-business-in-a-walled-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-13123 Guy Park Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:23:52 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/?p=1348#comment-13123 Could not agree more with you on that one Gary. It is constantly amazing how people say they know it but they don't exercise it; as mentioned in the 'Lessons to learn'. Makes you wonder if people are just saying they know out of fear of not knowing and looking the fool. Fantastic article. Could not agree more with you on that one Gary.

It is constantly amazing how people say they know it but they don’t exercise it; as mentioned in the ‘Lessons to learn’.

Makes you wonder if people are just saying they know out of fear of not knowing and looking the fool.

Fantastic article.

]]> By: Wendy http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/04/30/growing-business-in-a-walled-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-13120 Wendy Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:36:23 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/?p=1348#comment-13120 YES. Recently a Perth craftsperson has set up a business page for their crafts to help him sell more products. The Facebook fan page is the ONLY place he advertises online. I am not interested in "becoming a fan" of his craft (but I was interested in bookmarking it for potential future gifts) but because it was a Facebook page I just rolled my eyes and decided to let it be. From the text on the page, he used Facebook for his business because it is what he knows. He doesn't need to code, and putting up a gallery of his work is easy. But he can't do transactions through the page, and IMO setting up a free Wordpress, Blogger or Posterous site would give him comparable ease of use, and allow ANYONE to view his products. I also hate when people email me through Facebook when they have my real email address (and it's also on my profile). I tend to respond with a few extra weeks of lag to any FB email, because I hardly ever visit the FB website. I just stream status updates from friends who don't use Twitter through third party aps. *pant pant pant* Ahhh, that feels better. Rant over for now :P YES. Recently a Perth craftsperson has set up a business page for their crafts to help him sell more products. The Facebook fan page is the ONLY place he advertises online. I am not interested in “becoming a fan” of his craft (but I was interested in bookmarking it for potential future gifts) but because it was a Facebook page I just rolled my eyes and decided to let it be.

From the text on the page, he used Facebook for his business because it is what he knows. He doesn’t need to code, and putting up a gallery of his work is easy.

But he can’t do transactions through the page, and IMO setting up a free WordPress, Blogger or Posterous site would give him comparable ease of use, and allow ANYONE to view his products.

I also hate when people email me through Facebook when they have my real email address (and it’s also on my profile). I tend to respond with a few extra weeks of lag to any FB email, because I hardly ever visit the FB website. I just stream status updates from friends who don’t use Twitter through third party aps.

*pant pant pant* Ahhh, that feels better. Rant over for now :P

]]> By: Nathanael Boehm http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/04/30/growing-business-in-a-walled-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-13118 Nathanael Boehm Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:27:55 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/?p=1348#comment-13118 Good point. The web at large has no terms and conditions and no business model so no chance of the rug being pulled from under us. If people properly analysed and documented their business requirements for launching out onto social networks and the like I doubt it would say "Jump on the latest hype bandwagon" but that's exactly what everyone is doing and it's going to come back and bite them on the arse. Good point. The web at large has no terms and conditions and no business model so no chance of the rug being pulled from under us. If people properly analysed and documented their business requirements for launching out onto social networks and the like I doubt it would say “Jump on the latest hype bandwagon” but that’s exactly what everyone is doing and it’s going to come back and bite them on the arse.

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