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  1. New Member Introductions
    Hey everyone, my name is Ben. Just signed up today and thought I'd introduce myself and see if there's any way I can help some business owners get more leads (won't be selling or pitching you a thing). A bit about me, I'm an Australian, living in Canada for the past 7 years. Qualified...
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  2. New Member Introductions
    Hello everyone, From 1980 - 2005, I owned and operated a licensed General Building Contracting company in the San Francisco Bay Area. My work included residential and light commercial remodeling and restoration projects. As the years passed, I spread out into the public work sector. By 2005...
  3. Marketing & Sales
    What marketing efforts are bringing you the most business? Is it your website? (PPC? Or SEO?) Direct mail? Yellow Pages directories (online? book?), print advertising, or what? I'm guessing/betting/gambling on putting more $$ and effort into SEO in 2011 to put our website in front of more...
  4. Websites and SEO
    Sometimes It's hard to see if you got all the details for a good SEO. Can you help me? http://keithmillerconstruction.com/ I can't have more than 5 pages so I did what I can. Thank you, Sikiu
  5. Websites and SEO
    I have two websites, #1 is my master website and I have it set up as followed: 1. In the header I have the (6)specific cities we serve and Same Day service. 2. I also have a page per city (City name + Service EXAMPLE Phonix Plumber) that we service and that page is specific to the city. 3. On...
  6. General Discussion
    Yelp Filmed our business I have decided to throw our lot in with YELP. Upgrading from a free listing to a featured listing is $300 per month plus $50 for a video from Turn Here video. The idea of a featured listing is to improve exposure; by making sure your business visible for a category...
  7. Websites and SEO
    My company has recently started a website. The web site company tried to convince me to purchase the SEO package. From my own research, I do see many people recommend this. But none was guaranteed. Anyone have a website that actually see a significant results? Increase in traffic or sale...
  8. Websites and SEO
    Hey, I posted this awhile ago but the site went down. I thought that this would be useful to some of those who are still building backlinks to their site. Its a free online tool that automatically posts backlinks to your website. All you do is enter your www*yourdomain.com, Keyword_2 in that...
  9. Marketing & Sales
    I didn't find this list by myself; it was at the end of Seth Godin's book "Meatball Sundae". (the book was approachable, interesting and short) http://adage.com/power150/ Good stuff for your news reader. Given the readership of Advertising Age, I was surprised by the number of SEO feeds listed...
  10. New Member Introductions
    Hello Everybody, I've had quite a few of our contractor clients tell us that we needed to check out this website and to get involved with helping contractors out with their websites & seo questions. So, here I am... Websites and seo can be a pretty big undertaking if you don't know which...
  11. Websites and SEO
    been a little while since I last posted something and was doing some research tonight and found something I thought I might share. Seems that the general opinion out there is that you "Must" have relevant backlinks in order to rank high in the search engines. Now I disagree with this thought...
  12. Marketing & Sales
    Ok, so I would have posted in this Google Places tutorial.... But this really is so powerful that I felt it needed it's own thread... We all know that citations are SUPER important in ranking your business in Google places.. Here is one of the things that I do that will in most cases get you...
  13. Marketing & Sales
    I've noticed lately and I'm sure you guys have too, that Google Maps has recently made some changes. I see a lot of competitors have details from other sources, i.e. angieslist, judysbook, dexknows, etc. Is this something you have to do manually or does google pick up on these automatically...
  14. Marketing & Sales
    My friend Joe is a General Contractor in Ft. Lauderdale and used a local contractor marketing firm to boost his presence on the internet. I was wondering if anyone could check out their website and services and give me some feedback on it.
  15. Websites and SEO
    Interesting article about where you may want to solicit your customers to post reviews of your businesses. It discusses the top review sites that feed Google's posted reviews on GMaps. It does give their methodology and it looks sound...
  16. Marketing & Sales
    Signed up last week with adzzoo to get myself found on the web. Did I make a mistake? I have the funny feeling I did. Anyone else ever used them?
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