Hey all ... check out my new article ... Essential elements for a floor dealer's website ... works for an installer's site, too. Hope it helps some of you kick it up a notch. See the Columns section at the top.
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Stephen Perrera Posts: 823 Since: 5/27/2008
2/26/2009 3:01:38 PM
Nice article Kathy. Someday I will do one. Hopefully this summer when the kids are out of school. My thirteen year old is taking web classes and is running and building his teachers website. I might have to pay him though. Ha ha
For now I use flickr to show people my pictures of jobs. It helps alot.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13772863@N08/
Plus what else is amazing is that I get more calls (double) from my craigslist ad than my DEX ad. Hmmmm I like having a prsence in DEX, makes you seem more professional than not having a presence there.
News papers may be a thing of the past, one in my town and numerous others are going bankrupt.
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Kathy Andes Posts: 40 Since: 10/30/2008
2/27/2009 8:06:30 AM
Stephen,
That's a good idea to use flickr in the meantime ... before you have a website.
Interesting about craigslist getting you more work than DEX. It goes to show that folks go to their computers before they go to the yellow pages.
In fact, I wonder if before they went to craigslist they just did a search for "installers + location" ... that's where having a website will help you. When you get your website done, hopefully you will show up near the top of that list if you've done your SEO rightly.
Having a web presence is more and more essential for any business these days. People go to the Web first.
