I am interested to know what contractors with web sites think about — what their pay back is on them. cost versus income….? I just started one with a gallery of past jobs and a running pictorial of my present job. my client loves it. It seems cool – but it takes a lot of time to maintain the present job portion. feedback?
rip
Edited 12/22/2003 10:38:49 AM ET by ripvw
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What's your site?
Post a link to your website and let us check it out.............
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
The question is how do you market your web site?
In a 100 years you probably won't get a single customer that find your web by googling on "remodelers Podunk, USA".
But if you have it on your truck and on job site signs and it is someting eazy for people to remember such as JBRemodeling.com and not something like http://www.sbcglobal.net/~joe_blow/construction/remodeling/gallery.htm then people going by a job site for the 5th time might start thinking about having some work done and check out your site.
we have our web site on our trucks and I have seen people write the url down while waiting at a light.
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I maintain that the best dollars spent on advertising for a small business is a website, along with the url on the truck, on the business card, and in the phone book.
The truck/url is probably the most seen.
But I think that if the dollars paid per dollars returned were figured out, the phone book/url would probably win.
You'll get a lot of looky-lous and tire kickers from the truck, and/or business card/url. But when people pick up the phone book, they are more serious.
In any of those cases, having the website makes a ton of difference. The difference between handing someone a business card, and sitting down with them and showing them a portfolio.
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quittintime
my web site is: http://www.cannonbeachconstruction.com feedback??
harold... nice site... we started the same time as you ....'75..
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore