At the art show in Millenium Park an
artist had the coolest Steve McQueen Pop Art posters on earth. He
also had the Ramones, and a whole bunch of lesser mortals, and I
wanted a bunch for gifts. Trying to travel light I planned to just
buy them on the website later and asked for a card. No website on
the card, so I asked, no website. You've probably figured out by
now you did not get a really cool pop art poster from me for
Christmas and now you know why. No website.
Equally hard to swallow is when someone doesn't have
a grown-up email address. How are you supposed to hire
spoiledbitch69 or ilovecrack @gmail or @yahoo? How can you take
someone seriously that claims they can make your company website
number one in the Google rankings when they have a @hotmail
address?
It's hard to imagine a company without a website.
It's hard to imagine one without their own email.
It's getting harder and harder to imagine anyone
without their own website and email. Any one, as in person. Yes, a
Personal Website. Not Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube or even
Archive.org, a website.
It wouldn't surprise you that an actor or actress
would have a personal website, or that a musician or band would, or
a model, or politician, and they're just people looking for work,
just like you.
Resumes get printed on fancy paper, people wear
clean clothes to interviews, sometimes they even shave or cut their
hair hoping to get an advantage over the other applicants. Why not
have a website?
Websites are dynamic, you can change them at anytime
from anywhere. If you want someone to have your current resume,
educational information, and community achievements get a website.
It doesn't have to be all that great to set you apart from those
that don't have one.
Wix.com will
give you a website for free. It has gobs of types to choose from
which include Portfolio and Resume.
Wix isn't going to give you a really real website
for free, it's a tease to get you to buy the full blown package,
but you can stop at free and still have ten times more than you do
now, which is zero.
A Wix website is going to have a long goofy name
which won't look cool on your personal business card, and it won't
give you matching email addresses that make any more sense than
gmail or yahoo, not in the free version.
If you want a really real website WebHostingHub.com or JustHost.com can
set you up for about $100 a year, they promise you from $2 to $5 a
month but that's what the French call boolsheet. For $100 you get a
domain name (the part that comes after the www) that you choose and
the means to build and manage your site. You'll be able to create
email addresses with your domain name after the @ just like
@gmail.com does.
Can you do that yourself? Sure. Would you want to?
Probably not. It's a one time thing that takes learning
things that you'll never use, unlike Algebra. Have somebody
do that for you, it's a one time thing that takes about an
hour. Once you have a website, like this one www.nancyphillips.info all
you have to do is change the words.
Wix website, really real website, or not, that's
your call, and that's Cocktail Talk.
