Web site value

[Mike McCarty]

There has been some talk recently regarding the value of a web site. Here's a recent good news story.

About two weeks ago I got an e-mail from a man (stranger) in another city. This man got the idea to give a portrait of his wife and granddaughter to his wife on her birthday. He searched the web and came upon my site.

He detailed that he had compared my paintings to others he had seen, checked out my prices (according to him they were all pretty close), and decided to present his wife with the idea on her birthday, which was in a few days. In a subsequent phone conversation I assured him that we could work through the distance barrier and make this happen.

In a few days I got a call from his wife, we arranged that I would travel to their home and take photographs of herself and their granddaugher.

I have since accepted the commission, made the trip, took the photographs, and collected the check. All this from a stranger in another city who found my website. I have yet to meet this tasteful, enlightened man.