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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@schestowitz if the people employed by these small businesses do not have the resources or inclination to answer the telephone or update their independent websites, what makes tech folk think they are going to be any more responsive by some other method?

I might be old fashioned but I consider a business that regularly updates its own website and responds by email or telephone to be one that is well run and likely to stay around (not someones hobby/lifestyle project they walk away from)