Cherie, I’ve just visited the website you are advocating, and I’m afraid I agree with David. There really isn’t very much information there at all and, I’m sorry to have to say this, but it appears to be all style and no substance. As you say, it is early days for the site yet, but one way you can get round sparse information and engender visitor confidence is by citing the experience of the people involved with the organisation. The easiest way to do this is by including mini-biographies of the people who will be doing the work. Emphasise their strengths and experience, the major companies they have worked for and with and the quality of the service they will be providing to prospective clients. Another way to gain a quick win is to include some general information about project and programme management. It needn’t be in any great depth, but it should be suffucient to convince prospective clients that you know what you’re talking about. Of course, this can take time to produce and get on line, however, one way to speed up the process is to find appropriate information on other sites, rewrite it to customise it to your own methods of operating and publish that. One source you may find useful is Office of Government Commerce’s section on Programmes and Projects. If you get your colleagues to look around then I’m sure that they will be able to come up with plenty of ideas of their own. Chris Oggham

Cherie

No, I would not agree. Equally you could say that your website does not encompass the range of services that others do. But it is not only that, the content of the site is facile, there is no real information, no USP, no track-record, no client list and so on.

These are some sites just off the top of my head, I haven’t done any real research into the multitudes of consultants in the UK market though:
www.projectplanning.co.uk
www.trett.com
www.hillintl.com
www.navigantconsulting.com
www.jrknowles.com
and not forgetting www.driverconsult.com

I appreciate that there does not seem to be many planning/programming consultants in Ireland (from my very brief Google search) but your website is far from exceptional - in fact, did any of the replies to any of your multiple postings produce a positive response? I am happy if you wish to promote your business but it is not a good idea, in my opinion, to make unsupportable claims. Best to start low key and exceed expectation rather than over-sell and disappoint.

David

Really Cherie?

I guess that must mean you have not seen many (any) other P&P websites owned by fellow planners or otherwise.