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Old 11-05-2008, 04:12 PM   #21
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$125 a month seems ridiculously pricey for maintenance of a website of your size. We are a Marketing firm so I would know! hahaha. But here are my suggestions. Chances are, your town doesn't really know about the website. If you do any other advertising, drive everyone to visit the website if that is the route you'd like to go. Maybe you can do an e-newsletter that links to your site and send it out to the community or you could do a small direct mail postcard series that would let people know about you as well. A website on its own cannot generate revenue at first. You have to make sure that whoever designed it for you put in plenty of keywords linked to it for search engines too. I would have to know the size of your hosting in order to suggest what I think the price may be. Please let me know if I can help.

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Old 11-05-2008, 05:22 PM   #22
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the 125 includes designing the website, hosting it and email, seo, and some other options for marketing pieces postcards, door hangers etc..
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Old 11-05-2008, 08:30 PM   #23
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It does take time to get intot he search engines and you need to start listing your site in various directories. Do you only work in YOUR town or is there a nice decent sized metro area near to you? Target the metro area through your site. Also put your address in the signature like mine, that helps alot with website ranking.

Too informative? It can only be too informative if it is hard to navigate. Always remember that. The only time there is too much information is when it is cluttered. If it's organized, it's worth more than gold.
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I'm thinking of doing radio and pushing website that way. I'm sure my town is too small to being in big results. I am on yahoo local and google . We actually sold a condenser change out from yahoo local freebie add.
Lisa, don't do radio to promote the website. Call me, let me give you some ideas. ok!
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Old 11-06-2008, 08:49 AM   #25
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the 125 includes designing the website, hosting it and email, seo, and some other options for marketing pieces postcards, door hangers etc..

You can get almost all of that for free or a lot cheaper with some other sites. If your site isn't that big you can find free hosting - some places will offer a free email with it or not charge much extra. Do they charge you extra for the marketing pieces? Printing can get pricey.
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