Special thanks to Cheryl Paynter. Cheryl is the Director of Hotel Operations for D.P. Murphy Group, owners of Stanhope Beach Resort & Conference Centre. She said some great things about SiteValet. My two favourites are this one from the video:

We operate hotels. We don’t understand the technology of websites.

And this one, which unfortunately didn’t make the cut:

I don’t know why anybody in this business would build a website from scratch with something like SiteValet available.

Thanks to reporter Steve Bruce and his producer Tracy Lightfoot for inviting us and pulling this together.

Comments, thoughts, questions. Would love to hear from you in the comments section below.

I received an email from my Dad today:

Dave: Just checked out the Butler’s Cottages site. It’s better than 99% of the tourist sites that I see. The pics are great quality—any visitor to the site would be impressed. Great!!!

Again, maybe not purely objective, but my Dad’s a pretty straight-shooting guy. He would have just as easily sent me a note letting me know what could be better. As a startup entrepreneur, my focus is usually on what’s wrong or what could be better. It’s nice to get small reminders about the things you get right.

They came to SiteValet hoping to get a website back up quickly. A few days after contacting us they were back online with a much better site than what they had. And for the first time they had their own URL: www.butlerscottages.com

When Brenda started to create her site, I received this in an email:

You and your group have really done a great job on this whole project – me doing a web page is not something that anyone, including myself, would ever have imagined.

Thank you SO MUCH Dave for your help and support – we are very pleased with this website – so much better than our previous one – we will definitely be staying with your company

Thanks again and let me know if you need anything else from us !!

And then, after we got their site published yesterday, she sent me this:

I saw the website – it really looks nice – thank you so much Dave. We are more than pleased with your help and with your SUPPORT – thanks so much. I never, ever, dreamt that I would help to create a web site.

You can certainly use statements from me for your blog. I was thinking that we would write something on it ourselves but by all means – anything that we can help you with in your endeavor with this new business of yours we are willing to help out.

So, once again, thanks – you really did help us out .

Always fun to receive those emails.

I love playing with this. It so cool. Just as you think of something you want to add to your site you can easily go in and do it.

I should actually be doing other work instead of playing with this.

Great to hear. And I’m not so sure that “playing with this” (i.e. adding content to his website) is a poor use of Scott’s time. We’re finding a lot of folks are hesitant to dive in, thinking it’s far more complicated than it really is. Using SiteValet to create and manage your site is really very easy, and the best way to see that is to signup and play around with it.