Comments on: IA, SEO & UX: $500 Won’t Fix This Mess

By: Eric Berg (erx)

Eric Berg (erx) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:37:12 +0000

I think they call it Karma? Many lessons to be learned.

I think more than half my job is breaking down the set in stone thoughts then re-educating on the discipline they hired me to help them in. Sometimes you just have to tell the king that he has no clothes…reactions vary.

By: Adam Audette

Adam Audette — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:41:00 +0000

Frustrating, sad and all too common! I can related to this, Kim. Sometimes you just can’t break down the wall of ignorance.

Really looking forward to our session next week at SES. See ya soon.

By: Heather Villa

Heather Villa — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:52:42 +0000

I run into this same problem with clients all the time. They want to hire you for your expertise, but then tell you how wrong you are in your assessment of what needs to be done to accomplish what they are supposedly hiring you for. That’s not to mention the fact that they want it done for pennies. Thanks for sharing. It’s good to know that other fields of expertise experience the same things.

By: Craig Tomlin

Craig Tomlin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:58:16 +0000

LOL, nice post Kim.

Seems to me that the company already received way over the $500 in terms of this post full of sage advice. It’s good there are experts like you out there who can guide ‘smart’ companies, that know they need to pay for expertise, that want to use SEO to help their web sites! That company missed out.