Darren Slaugther finished up my site today. I have a bit of work to do myself but Im happy with the results. I specifically requested Darren to keep the site as simple and clean as possible while using multiple services such as custom homes, roofs and additions. The logo which I provided is bugging me but it's my fault. The F is wrong. Anyway, any tips would be useful such as title tags and how to check meta tags. In the coming days Ill upload any post I have and hopefully continue to grow our online traffic.
For those still on the fence about hiring someone to do your site, go ahead and jump down and contact one of the great providers here. I went with Darren for a few different reasons but I was equally impressed by Carl and Steve. I work with my brother and had to first convince him that the world had indeed moved online, so I created a site myself the best I could. I started seriously working on things in November of 2012 after reading lots of stuff on this forum. Six months later things started slowly trickling in from our efforts online. Each month things pick up a little more. In the last six weeks we have received 3 request for quotes on Custom Homes 7 roof quotes and a Garage that we turned down because we never seem to get them as well as a few other smaller things. I only post these numbers because they would never have happened without making an effort online. You can not afford to not be online and I would even say you can't afford to not hire a professional at this point. Don't think of the options as word of mouth vs a website or social media. Think of the options as word of mouth digitized with a website and accelerated with social media or being constrained by word of mouth alone.
Now to catch up with everyone else in content and use of wordpress. I can hardly thank you all enough for the information you have provided here over the last few years. I was to the point of thinking seriously about a career change because I hated the way things were going. When I decided to give our website attention over a year ago we were doing installs for Lowes (worse decision ever) and chasing work all over the state. I was miserable and Im sure everyone who worked with me was as well.
For those still on the fence about hiring someone to do your site, go ahead and jump down and contact one of the great providers here. I went with Darren for a few different reasons but I was equally impressed by Carl and Steve. I work with my brother and had to first convince him that the world had indeed moved online, so I created a site myself the best I could. I started seriously working on things in November of 2012 after reading lots of stuff on this forum. Six months later things started slowly trickling in from our efforts online. Each month things pick up a little more. In the last six weeks we have received 3 request for quotes on Custom Homes 7 roof quotes and a Garage that we turned down because we never seem to get them as well as a few other smaller things. I only post these numbers because they would never have happened without making an effort online. You can not afford to not be online and I would even say you can't afford to not hire a professional at this point. Don't think of the options as word of mouth vs a website or social media. Think of the options as word of mouth digitized with a website and accelerated with social media or being constrained by word of mouth alone.
Now to catch up with everyone else in content and use of wordpress. I can hardly thank you all enough for the information you have provided here over the last few years. I was to the point of thinking seriously about a career change because I hated the way things were going. When I decided to give our website attention over a year ago we were doing installs for Lowes (worse decision ever) and chasing work all over the state. I was miserable and Im sure everyone who worked with me was as well.
I didn't take offense. I mean I didn't make it after all. This was the input I wanted. Im not concerned about the size of the site because I knew what I was getting with that when I went into it. Im more concerned about things like page titles. Thanks.
