Clue....www.murraysystem.com.............please spread the word

Hi, Randy! 

I'm glad to see that your website is up & running at last!

Here are a few things that I noticed when I visited http://www.murraysystem.com :

On your homepage's horizontal menu bar, the link for "Affiliates" is
misspelled as "Affilitates." Another typo that I noticed: on the "For
Business Owners" page, "achieve" is misspelled as "acheive." There are
numerous minor errors in punctuation and grammar throughout the site.
Although these may not be noticed by most folks, there are a few
nitpickers like me who will wince when we see 'em.

Most of the items on the horizontal menu bar on the homepage can be
accessed only by logging in, which requires registration and payment.
For a first-time visitor, this may seem rather off-putting. Although
you obviously need to have "members-only" material on the site, it
might be better to offer more freebies on this homepage menu bar,
since it's probably the first thing that a new visitor will examine.

I wish you great success with the site. I hope that Google Answers
will continue to be a resource that you can rely upon for assistance.
You are one of our most frequent customers, and many Google Answers
Researchers have come to view you as a friend.

Very best regards,
pinkfreud

thanks for the kind words pink...you are great...any way you can get
some of the others to critique the site...i did pay someone to proof
site but apparently she didn't do  good job..i'll do it over...randy

Hmm..

Not so sure about your definition of marketing

- mine is cruder
  In the short term you have some sucking product - so move it
  In the long term find out what the punters want and give it to them

And the origins:
  In the USA in the 1950's it became obvious that one person (the CEO)
could not keep an eye on everything, so they invented the 'Marketing
Department' that had cross divisional access and control :-} .

I quite like the idea of not wasting time on dubious prospects, making
them self qualifying is sensible.
Once that was described as deliberately p*ssing off the punters you
don't want, they'll be a waste of effort or trouble if you close them.

I suggest that you get rid of the AX Control on your home page, and
put 'Home' on the subsidiary pages menu - right above testimonials
(not just at the bottom of the page). Also remove 'Home' from the home
page or even better stick it in the menu and make it clear that that
is where you are.

Also sort out this:
   Randy at Trefalga Square in London on a trip to consult with Lyods of London 

It is Trafalgar (as in the sea off Cadiz) and Lloyds as in that rather
disreputable British institution that piled risks onto suckers about
15 years ago. Nodding Dogs and Names.

I'm not sure that I would be willing to spring $975 from my wallet on
the basis of that website, although I suspect that by the time you
have got someone to talk to you on the private line, that they will
see the benefit of having a 'Vanity Published' booklet with their name
on the jacket.

Not a bad idea - educate both punter and salesman to the level that it
is a no brainer.

Is Patrick LeMieux for real ?
- If I were called 'LeMieux' I would get a name transplant

Randy... and all this time I have been watching the
www.randymurray.com web site to see if it is up yet!

does frde-ga work for google?

What makes you think that ?

i don't think that..i don't know...that is why i'm asking....actually,
instead of being pissed off at your comments, they are the same
concerns i've had for several days....its obvious i was right to be
concerned and i will take steps to correct what's wrong...there is no
excuse for misspelled words..i paid someone to proof it and obviously
did not do a good job....the definition of marketing is correct and
its anyone's right to change it to anything they want...in fact, i
used the same definition in three different classes at the university
of georgia...management, finance, and money and banking and used the
definition as the definition for all three and was never
questioned...so anyone's interpretation can be considered
appropriate....i do not understand the language you use though...help
me out...what are punters...also, the first mention of the term
marketing was alfred sloan many decades before the l950's and i'm sure
you know who he is....its sort of like the word investment that was
invented by a man named jay gould during the us grant
administration...well, i've used up my twenty minute lunch
break....good luck to you...

Inline - but watch carefully > used as my reply (inversion) :-

i don't think that..i don't know...that is why i'm asking....actually,
instead of being pissed off at your comments, they are the same
concerns i've had for several days....its obvious i was right to be
concerned and i will take steps to correct what's wrong...there is no
excuse for misspelled words..i paid someone to proof it and obviously
did not do a good job....

>Something went wrong - use double blind checking 

the definition of marketing is correct and
its anyone's right to change it to anything they want...in fact, i
used the same definition in three different classes at the university
of georgia...management, finance, and money and banking and used the
definition as the definition for all three and was never
questioned...so anyone's interpretation can be considered
appropriate....

>I reserve the right to use my definition.
>'Marketing' is a con word - the concept is sound, but the content has
been hollowed out and replaced with PR and wasting advertising budgets

i do not understand the language you use though...help
me out...what are punters...

>Ask a Brit.

also, the first mention of the term
marketing was alfred sloan many decades before the l950's and i'm sure
you know who he is....its sort of like the word investment that was
invented by a man named jay gould during the us grant
administration...well, i've used up my twenty minute lunch
break....good luck to you...

>Made me dig a bit - Alf P Sloan was a GM Fuehrer 
>- at that time my Uncle ran the advertising for Lord Nuffield (Dorlands agency)
>  Morris would say: "I hope you know what you are doing young man" 


I reckon I've sussed what you are up to 
- using new technology to use the old methods

Heh - get that monochrome picture of you on your front page changed
    - If you must look like Fester from the Adams Family - do it in colour
(Seriously the black and white .. just looks wrong - it jars with the rest)

If you are doing what I think you are doing, then, provisionally, Good Luck

Fred...

I'm very disappointed in your "comments" to Randy. You come off
sounding rather rude...

Randy...
Frde is NOT a GA Researcher, so pay no heed.

Steph53

HE IS RUDE BUT THAT IS TO BE EXPECTED FROM THE ENGLISH....ACTUALLY, I
LIKE SOME OF THE BRITS, THEIR DRY SENSE OF HUMOR IS TERRIFIC..MABEY MY
FONDNESS FOR THEM IS WHY I DRIVE A BENTLEY, WEAR SUITS FROM SAVILLE
ROWE, SHOES FROM LOBB, SHAVE WITH THEIR RAZORS AND SHAVING CREAME, 
EAT OFF  THEIR CHINA , AND SHIP IN DOVER SOLE FROM HARROD'S......I DO
THINK THIS PERSON THINKS I HAVE SOME UNDERHANDED OBJECTIVE AND I DON'T
KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT HE'S ENTITLED....THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME
SOMEONE HAS BEEN RUDE TO ME AND WON'T BE THE LAST...I HAVE A PRETTY
THICK SKIN.....THANKS FOR THE DEFENSE....

I think 'direct' rather than 'rude'

That was my intention.

'Punter' is UK slang for client or prospect. 
I expected someone else to chime in with that.

I would be seriously surprized if you did not have a plan within a
plan, actually I would be disappointed.

If it is what I think it is, then it is probably benign - even
beneficial to the punters.
In which case good luck.