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re: Building A Business Website
Posted on 11/3/23 at 3:57 pm to FLTech
Posted on 11/3/23 at 3:57 pm to FLTech
quote:Google ads are a soul-crushing money pit for nearly all small-to-medium businesses.
100000000000000000000000000000000% recommend NOT spending a penny with Google Ads.
If you're in a market that lends itself to publishing unique, interesting content on your website you can probably get lots of website visitors for free.
For example, a buddy sells training courses for a niche industry and gets tons of organic traffic with his "how-to" pages.
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Posted on 11/3/23 at 3:59 pm to BentonTiger7
Those look amazing. Great job.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:01 pm to BentonTiger7
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Never said it would be hard to find. Just saying there is still an effort that has to be made to find my business and contact me.
How far do you travel from home base to do builds?
If already answered disregard Ill catch up.
Thanks.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:02 pm to BentonTiger7
Do you use an allentown?
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:04 pm to BentonTiger7
Wix has very good website tools. You can make a professional high end website on there.
Check out Wix. Not expensive at all. You need good quality photos taken with good lighting.
If you use video they provide seamless hover features that allow a visitor to go straight to your videos if you have them on You Tube or Vimeo, etc..
Very easy page hierarchy that automatically allows to to have multiple search tabs on home page. For example pools, saunas, etc. hover over pool tab and the drop down menu appears.
Too hard to explain but check it out. Easy and straightforward. Beats the he’ll out of website providers like Network Solutions that come with domain and emails stuff already.
Check out Wix. Not expensive at all. You need good quality photos taken with good lighting.
If you use video they provide seamless hover features that allow a visitor to go straight to your videos if you have them on You Tube or Vimeo, etc..
Very easy page hierarchy that automatically allows to to have multiple search tabs on home page. For example pools, saunas, etc. hover over pool tab and the drop down menu appears.
Too hard to explain but check it out. Easy and straightforward. Beats the he’ll out of website providers like Network Solutions that come with domain and emails stuff already.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:06 pm to Swamp Angel
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margin which may look good until you consider business property ownership or rental, vehicles with associated maintenance, taxes, and repairs, business license and insurance, workers comp, and all the other stuff associated with running a business with all the ever-increasing government fees on everything.
what in the world did you just type. you blabbing to the wrong guy on costs on work comp, gl and "business license" for pool construction.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:12 pm to BentonTiger7
For your website, use professional photos. That can make a world of difference. Keep it clean and declutter the website. No unnecessary info.
Lots of high quality photos of different locations will make a massive world of difference.
Create a company email and maybe a separate phone number to sort thing all the potential riffraff.
Lots of high quality photos of different locations will make a massive world of difference.
Create a company email and maybe a separate phone number to sort thing all the potential riffraff.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:13 pm to KosmoCramer
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Let us know how many leads you got from this free advertising
why do you care so much? you're literally melting because the guy asked about a website for his business.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:20 pm to Tridentds
quote:Website builders are yet another recurring fee that ads zero value unless you have a way to drive visitors to the site and convert them to sales.
Check out Wix. Not expensive at all.
For some businesses that's easy. If you're a successful restaurant you'll get traffic by creating pages called "Zippy's Take-Out Menu" and "Book a Table Online at Zippy's".
But most businesses have no clue how to drive traffic to their websites and convert that to sales.
ETA: on exception are those sites designed to make existing prospects feel better about your business: people you already know can Google the name to see pictures of pretty pools you've built.
That's not bringing you new leads but it can help move some prospects further down the sales funnel.
This post was edited on 11/3/23 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 11/3/23 at 5:50 pm to BentonTiger7
Geocities is what you seek. 
Posted on 11/3/23 at 6:05 pm to WB Davis
OP asked about website. If you drive traffic it needs to land somewhere.
We use product releases and Linkedin posts to drive traffic to website. We routinely hit 1000 + views on LinkedIn videos, Some of our videos hit 2000+. Videos often go over 18 hours of views. For a 1-2 minute video that means video was watched 18 hours in total. We do product videos. We don’t do shitty posts about some dog dragging his arse across the carpet. We don’t comment on anything political. Our Linkedin is 100% business related.
It’s a combination of things but a nice clean organized website you can do yourself with photos, graphics, and videos is the starting point. Figure out the best way to get traffic there and the website provide information and holds their attention. Our web page works hand in hand with other things we do. Without the website it would be extremely tough to have meaningful engagement.
If OP makes $10k on a nice pool that is 30+ years of website hosting fees. 30+ years on 1 single sale.
Acquisition cost of a sale via a website is virtually nothing.
We use product releases and Linkedin posts to drive traffic to website. We routinely hit 1000 + views on LinkedIn videos, Some of our videos hit 2000+. Videos often go over 18 hours of views. For a 1-2 minute video that means video was watched 18 hours in total. We do product videos. We don’t do shitty posts about some dog dragging his arse across the carpet. We don’t comment on anything political. Our Linkedin is 100% business related.
It’s a combination of things but a nice clean organized website you can do yourself with photos, graphics, and videos is the starting point. Figure out the best way to get traffic there and the website provide information and holds their attention. Our web page works hand in hand with other things we do. Without the website it would be extremely tough to have meaningful engagement.
If OP makes $10k on a nice pool that is 30+ years of website hosting fees. 30+ years on 1 single sale.
Acquisition cost of a sale via a website is virtually nothing.
This post was edited on 11/3/23 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 11/3/23 at 6:11 pm to BentonTiger7
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I mean I didn’t list any contacts or even my company name lol
Fair.
What did each of those pools cost?
Posted on 11/3/23 at 6:59 pm to Chad504boy
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what in the world did you just type. you blabbing to the wrong guy on costs on work comp, gl and "business license" for pool construction.
It's rather obvious that you're an hourly employee and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 8:18 pm to moneyg
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What did each of those pools cost?
From a little under $70k to about $110k on those. Top was most expensive and bottom was cheapest.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 8:21 pm to BentonTiger7
Do you use IG to post pics of your jobs on?
Just use google ads. You really don't need a website unless you will use it as a blog or something. But google ads will get you seen more than a website.
Just use google ads. You really don't need a website unless you will use it as a blog or something. But google ads will get you seen more than a website.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 8:25 pm to OweO
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Do you use IG to post pics of your jobs on?
I only use Facebook right now as that’s been more than enough to get me 30+ pools a year. The last two months or so things have slowed a lot so I’m looking into more ways to be seen.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 8:28 pm to WB Davis
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on exception are those sites designed to make existing prospects feel better about your business:
This is the main thing. When someone is looking to spend $70k to well into the $100k+ range I want them to be as comfortable as possible with their decision. I could be wrong but I feel that some of the people looking to build the higher end pools may be turned off if they can’t find an actual website for my business.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 8:31 pm to jizzle6609
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How far do you travel from home base to do builds?
Typically an hour and a half from Shreveport/Bossier.
Posted on 11/3/23 at 10:24 pm to BentonTiger7
Shooters shoot I suppose until the chicken shite deletes it lol
Posted on 11/3/23 at 10:44 pm to BentonTiger7
Check out ServiceHawk in Hammond.
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