Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cannon on February 06, 2011, 03:37:24 pm
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Ive realised i spend far to much time watching crap on the tele, Id like to spend my time a bit more constructively.
So ive decided to have a dabble at putting a website together.
Now what im looking for is something free :D, easy to use, and something that with the right work has the potential to do well rank wise.
Any reccomendations????
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You could always try vista's free month trial,if you like it then keep it for about £7 a month.
How's your site doing,is it bringing any money in because i'm thinking of using the same designer to build me a few websites.
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I highly reccomend him Dave, I have another identical site off him targeted toward a different area. Both do well in the rankings and have paid for themselves quite a few times over.
Ill be getting a couple more off Mark myself, I just fancied putting something together myself as a bit of a past time.
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prob not the advice you want to hear and not what others will like to hear either but if you're looking for a past time why not go out the door and get more work? do some leaflet drops, gather a list of companies to ring tomorrow, send some letters etc? that way you'll leave the proffesionals who are trained in this area to do their job whilst you can concentrate on yours.
if a lady come on here and said "i need my carpets cleaned how can i bypass the professionals and do it for free" i bet everyone would say why not get one of us in to give you a quote, after all you're trying to do something which apparently is really hard that requires a professional in to do and you'll waste your time as the carpets wont be cleaned and could even be ruined" same thing but spun around.
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prob not the advice you want to hear and not what others will like to hear either but if you're looking for a past time why not go out the door and get more work? do some leaflet drops, gather a list of companies to ring tomorrow, send some letters etc? that way you'll leave the proffesionals who are trained in this area to do their job whilst you can concentrate on yours.
if a lady come on here and said "i need my carpets cleaned how can i bypass the professionals and do it for free" i bet everyone would say why not get one of us in to give you a quote, after all you're trying to do something which apparently is really hard that requires a professional in to do and you'll waste your time as the carpets wont be cleaned and could even be ruined" same thing but spun around.
Doing all this and more, spent most of this week printing and laminating, putting together portfolio, leafleting etc etc.
We all deserve even just a little time off dont we? :)
When i do give myself a bit time on an evening i normally end up lying on sofa, laptop on my knee watching some crap on the tele.
As i posted id just rather use this time to play about putting a website together, I find it interesting.
Not a case of penny pinching, as ive said ill be getting a couple more sites from DP
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gcs you really are a plonker.
"prob not the advice you want to hear and not what others will like to hear either but if you're looking for a past time why not go out the door and get more work?"
HOW PATRONISING CAN YOU GET - (...but i'm not suprised going off your posting history).
..Just because he said he liked the idea of making his own website as a pastime does not meen he is skint or short of work.I have a few websites,but the website that brings in the most money is a website that i have done my self on my own in my own "past time" and is no where finished.
The website for less than £10 a month has made me over £6000 in comercial work alone since i first designed it less than a year ago.I have just had a enquiry for a deep clean through my website for student accomadation worth well over £10000,i have a come to a agreement with a large cleaning company to put a tender in and i get 10%,so if we get the tender i get atleast 10 grand...not bad for a website done in my "past time"
This week alone i have over £500 worth of domestic work alone just from one website that has only a little SEO and is a long way off being finnished because i am doing it in "my past time!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Moonfruit, £6 a month and about £10 to buy a domain name.
There is a free option, but you get what you pay for.
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try gbbo.co.uk all you need is a mobile number the rest is free
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Hector Mildew??????????? come on you'll have to do better than that Mr.Orme!
Shaun
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You have a website that's taken over a year to finish, is not
yet finished must be a cracker to look at.
And it got you 6 grand of commercial.
£500 worth of domestic in 1 week from a website that isn't even
SEO.
£10,000+ job from an enquiry, you priced it yet?
10% of that is £1000.
Why would you need so many websites?
What do you call yourself on the different ones?
I've had 7 pints how many have you had?
John
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Ok so i missed a zero - £100000 -
... "must be a cracker to look at."
YEP yours is a real cracker,maybe you will finish it in 5 years.
2 home-made websites from vista print -
http://www.jandsccs.co.uk/
www.deepcleaningsolutions.co.uk
"Why would you need so many websites?"
How many websites is that then? (again assuming)
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try gbbo.co.uk all you need is a mobile number the rest is free
Thats the one i was looking at.
Ive seen some pretty good sites created with moonfruit as well.
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Truely excellent post Dave ;D
gcs you really are a plonker.
"prob not the advice you want to hear and not what others will like to hear either but if you're looking for a past time why not go out the door and get more work?"
HOW PATRONISING CAN YOU GET - (...but i'm not suprised going off your posting history).
..Just because he said he liked the idea of making his own website as a pastime does not meen he is skint or short of work.I have a few websites,but the website that brings in the most money is a website that i have done my self on my own in my own "past time" and is no where finished.
The website for less than £10 a month has made me over £6000 in comercial work alone since i first designed it less than a year ago.I have just had a enquiry for a deep clean through my website for student accomadation worth well over £10000,i have a come to a agreement with a large cleaning company to put a tender in and i get 10%,so if we get the tender i get atleast 10 grand...not bad for a website done in my "past time"
This week alone i have over £500 worth of domestic work alone just from one website that has only a little SEO and is a long way off being finnished because i am doing it in "my past time!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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prob not the advice you want to hear and not what others will like to hear eithe
gcs you really are a plonker.
i guess i was wrong
any way i suppose you're the expert and know that this is always the case. cannon will make a site in his past time for £10 a month and be making the money you've said.
can you quote to me where i said he was skint? you ever heard of a strawman? i simply said why not continue to spend more time doing what he does best and pay a professional to do what they do best. after all that's exactly what we want from our customers. of course you can pay £10 per month for a website from vistprint, just as customer can also go out to s store and rent a crappy carpet cleaning machine. it'll give results that the customer will be happy with so why should they hire us? people on this site want thei customers to think that carpet cleaning is a science that needs to be well paid for, but then treat something which is actually some what a skill like it's the easiest thing going and anyone can do it.
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greeny
i think your missing the point, he doesn't want to build a website to make loads of money, he wants to build a website for fun, if he makes any money from it then alls good and well.
(bit like starting up a football team, you don't do it to win the premier league, its just a bit of fun. and a kick around with the lads.)
and who knows, if he's given good advice as to where to start, he might (over the years) get good enough at it to take it seriously, but until then why don't you just point him in the right direction seeing as you know a thing or 2.
ps... not trying to gang up on you, from what i gather you really know your stuff when it comes to websites. i'm just trying to explain what you missed in his post, he's doing it so he don't have to talk to the wife ;D surely you'll help him now ;D
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Try Yola link below
http://www.yola.com/
Tony
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Mine's finished and earning.
Not the millions that yours is obviously earning though.
But then again I'm a realist.
John
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derek: i get the point, perhaps i didn't put mine as softly as some people like to hear on this part of the forum. note to self: there is a load of girls in the carpet cleaning section so be nice and sweet next time when putting a suggestion out there :D
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derek: i get the point, perhaps i didn't put mine as softly as some people like to hear on this part of the forum. note to self: there is a load of girls in the carpet cleaning section so be nice and sweet next time when putting a suggestion out there :D
Plonker >:(
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gcs, being a girl and obviously easily offended by harsh words I'll put this nice and sweetly.........I think you need to work on your grammar a bit......I think you mean "there are a load of girls..." Not " there is a load of girls....". If you're going to be insulting, at least say it correctly! :-*
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I guess me and gcs will have to agree to disagree what "past time" meens.
I am just sick of people asking for advice only to get some high and mighty holy than thou smart arse reply.What's even more annoying is they have not even read the question correctly making them look like a real todger jockey!
"But then again I'm a realist"
I can assure you one thing i am not is a liar,lucky yes,liar no.
Any way is does not matter how much commercial work you get through a website if you can't close a deal.I qouted 2 jobs from the website in january one for £1800 and the other for £950 and i have not had any contact back,so i am a realist ;) .....i can't win them all.
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Try Joomla (www.joomla.org)
It takes a bit of configuring but has loads of add ons (polls, feedback forms etc) that can be bring in business.
It's worth a look if you have a couple of hours spare.
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It takes a bit of configuring
Mark, I think you are the master of the understatement. :D
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Garry,
I agree, it is rather hard to comprehend at first, but if you persevere you can get there in the end.
Perhaps One.com are worth a look.
My colleague Martin has just created a site for free using templates from www.One.com.
The basic domain registration (£10 plus VAT) comes with free hosting and he has managed to do this without any prior experience.
www.truespirit.org.uk - have a look at the extremely brave men on the site. Martin is involved in this project being an Iron Man triathlete himself.
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I've always liked 1&1, almost idiot proof and seem to rank well, it's not free but at under £10 month it might as well be.
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try gbbo.co.uk all you need is a mobile number the rest is free
Surely this cannot be Mike Orme , as he thinks "low moisture cleaning should be banned"
that is what it says on his site, mind you his site is made from gbbo.co.uk .
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I've always liked 1&1, almost idiot proof and seem to rank well, it's not free but at under £10 month it might as well be.
I use them. Granted it's template which likits what you can do and how it looks but it does save me
1. Having to learn a new language
2. Relying on someone else to run it at a cost.
The cost bit doesn't really bother me, it's the reliability bit that's the problem when someone else does it. I had someone start doing a new revamped site for me, then he disappeared off the radar. Thankfully I hadn't handed over the all the details / codes etc.
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try gbbo.co.uk all you need is a mobile number the rest is free
Surely this cannot be Mike Orme , as he thinks "low moisture cleaning should be banned"
that is what it says on his site, mind you his site is made from gbbo.co.uk .
Nope sorry, I actually only do LM cleaning.
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Sorry Wynne , my mistake
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Hector if you want lagitamacy why not show yourself?
I remember Jim Neal was asked questions like this and he 'became a real person', there's no need for a witch hunt but anyone with no profile and a name that is quite frankly stupid, it's a bit like that Wynne who has a link to a hampshire japanese car website, just can't take his posts seriously, perhaps it's time to ignore him.
Getting silly again.
Shaun
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Is it not spelt Victor Mildrew?? ???
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ahhh its clicked! I know who old Hector is ;D wink wink :-*
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I think perhaps you may not........ Tiger ;)