So today I was looking around for various companies to potentially work with for a project as I don’t currently know anyone that fits the bill 100% and figured it wouldn’t hurt to see what is out there. I visited a site which had a fairly newer company but they seemed to emphasize how much experience they have had in other industries. A good sign I suppose huh? As usual, I tend to look at the company bio pages to read a little more about the people in charge. At first it seemed fairly standard. However, on the navigation there was an “About Us 2” which seemed to be another page.
When I clicked on that there were so much more staff members to the point where this looked like a large and established company. However, all of the bios didn’t have links to social media sites but rather had links to sites like Wix. I then immediately realized what happened. Apparently, the business was using a template to create their site and this staff page was a default one where people usually use it as reference on what the site can look like. It is not meant to be published as is publicly.
So that got me thinking, do errors like this cause you to immediately write off companies? It’s almost the same scenario as seeing a document drafted by a lawyer having spelling errors where many people would say you can’t trust lawyers that produce errors like that. Then there are others who will just see it as a minor issue that happens to everyone at some point. To think something so small can have such a huge impact on whether or not someone chooses to do business with you huh?