How NOT To Start A Web Design Business….

Spamming and lying plain and simple.
Ripe claim to be “Ireland’s Leading Web Design Company”…. Ok. By what measure?
Their >own website is a template Monster one.
They haven’t won any awards.
Although they claim their site is XHTML 1.0 Transitional it isn’t. If you’re going to claim to be a leading web design company I’d have thought validating your site would be a good start.. But what would I know ….
From an SEO perspective a quick glance at the page titles tells you how expert they really are.
Now don’t get me wrong.. I have no issue with competition, but selling yourself as something that you obviously aren’t is a bit much.
When you couple that with the forum spam that they’ve been posting all over the place over the last few days you would have to ask yourself…
So what have other people being saying?
Over on boards.ie they spammed a couple of threads, while on IWF they came up a couple of times
Tom Doyle ripped into them, however, and did some digging into their spurious claims… They’re making the same kind of claims that I see in our sector regularly.
“You’re all being ripped off”
“You shouldn’t pay more than X” (where X is probably below cost if you have staff to pay)
But what really gets me is the claim to be “Ireland’s leading web design company”.
I know a lot of web designers and developers who run rings around these guys, but they’d never dream of making that kind of claim
I guess time will tell, but if past experience is anything to go by, they won’t last