Re: FLASH: OT: Convincing people of Flash

[Paul Kilgour]

Michael,


Without seeing your proposed new company site it's difficult to comment.

Though I have looked at the current one and it is very static.


Bosses can be very resistant to change. Marketing managers - in my

experience (apologies to any on the list) tend to be 'Yes' men, and *rse

lickers. They'll watch their own back whilst getting ready with the knife.

They are scared to make changes because if it all goes wrong it makes them

look bad, though they will attempt to pass the buck as far as it will go.

This is my experience of working with Marketing Managers. Others may be

different.


He/she is probably thinking 'If it aint broke. don't fix it'.


I agree with John Brzys, you should put a really cracking presentation

together. Take your boss through it gently. don't frighten him/her off with

the latest fully flashed up sites - if you do that, you've lost.


It may be that your company's site just needs a little flash pzazz, though

nothing 'in your face'. Some of the best sites I've seen in the past have

incorporated flash so well, that you really don't know it's there half the

time. But you would if you took it away.


Finally, remember one thing. When your boss eventually decides to go with it

it'll have been his idea. He'll get all the glory for your hard efforts! I

never new a marketing person that didn't take full responsibility for

everything that worked out well, then claimed they must have been 'on

holiday' when a bad decision was made!!


If it's a no go situation, then as someone else on the list said, try

looking for a new position to further your web/flash career. You're probably

worth it!


Regards,


Paul.

--

"There are few problems that can't be solved with high explosives."





> So I redesigned the corporate website on my own time, and without informing

> the company.  They'd only just changed the site recently, and would not

> have gone for changing it again so soon.  However, like most Irish

> companies, our website seems to be stuck in the early 90s.

>

> So I used Flash4 and the existing content to make it look more exciting.

> I showed it to the marketing manager, who spent most of the last month

> looking at our competitors' websites to see how we're doing.

>

> He took one look at it, and started talking rubbish about "bullet points"

> and animated gifs.  He then alarmed me by showing some of his 'favourites'

> which consisted solely of the standard corporate fare (menu on the side,

> loads of text, links all over the place).  I tried convincing him that an

> F4 demo would show us off a lot better, but he wasn't listening.

>

> How do I go about convincing someone that Flash is "where it's at", as

> opposed to a fly-by-night thing only geeks appreciate.

>

> Or am I wrong?

>

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> Because I'm worth it

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