[Terry Villain]

I haven't got a website, twitter, linkedin, fax, facebook. To me it's too impersonal. When most people want to get something done they want to talk to someone now, and suspect you do too?

Am I missing out or is being old fashioned the best way to stay? Do you find alot of your time is being taken tapping away at the keyboard trying to keep all these things together?

[wynne jones]

You're old fashioned.

[derek west]

are you still wearing flares and listening to suzi quatro terry? lol

end of the day mate, if your getting enough work then well done you. if your work load is dwindling then may be you should at least try on some chino's

[Terry Villain]

ha ha, I'm stuck in the 70's and 80's I think. Enough work coming my way, repeats, referrals (alot from carpet retail shops), 'old school' work, take my time and do the job right first time that's my motto.. cuppa and chat with customer!!

[Mike Halliday]

More than likely you are one of the usual trolls who wants to pre-empt the inevable question of 'what's your....'

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Terry

I'm finding it hard to remember what I used to do before I wasted hours of my week on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and umpteen forums - but I managed to stay in business for the last 20 years.

I think a lot of people feel obliged to immerse themselves in social media simply because it seems that everyone else does and therefore they could be missing out.

However, if it ever got to the stage where I was desperate for work, then I'm pretty sure that I would be able to drum up more work by traditional routes such as door to door than I could via social media.

Having said all that, my business does rely on the internet and websites.

[Terry Villain]

More than likely you are one of the usual trolls who wants to pre-empt the inevable question of 'what's your....'

I'm sorry, could you explain?

[Mike Halliday]

Sorry terry, We get lots of the same people who constantly join under different names, usually they use gmail accounts and have no website Facebook or anything else that 'real' people have. They tend to start lots of post as soon as they rejoin

I'm sure you are not one of them, how about telling us a bit your self, whats your company name how long have you been  trading.... A General introduction 

[Terry Villain]

That's ok Mike.

I'm 58 years old and run a small business in Maidstone area, Kent. We cover mostly everything to do with carpets. My sons work with me also. On the cleaning side we just run portable machines and my sons tell me im always experimenting with new cleaning chemicals too much (hence the questions).

I was told about this forum from a mate who is also on here, great resourse but I'm not too sure yet about the natives??

[Carpet2Clean]

Hi Terry

Whats the name of your business ?


Richard & Tara

[Terry Villain]

Hi Terry

Whats the name of your business ?


Richard & Tara

Hi,

Part owner of  Crystal Beach Ltd. amoungst other things

[elliott cleaning]

  A dormant company which retailed in watches and jewelery at some stage doesn't really tell us much

[Simon Gerrard]

Look like he's got the chop from the mods

[derikraven]

I've got a website but people keep telling me its crap, nobody tells me why though. I really would like to know

http://www.carpet-cleaning-inverness-and-highland.co.uk

[wynne jones]

I've got a website but people keep telling me its crap, nobody tells me why though. I really would like to know

http://www.carpet-cleaning-inverness-and-highland.co.uk

I wouldn't say it's crap, but aesthetics aside here are some practical things you can do to make it more likely they will call.

Because your banner image is large you make people scroll down before they actually get any nitty gritty. In fact they are more likely just to click back to google. So make the image smaller.

The main things are (and I don't know why but hardly anyone does this) you want your phone number in biggish numbers at the top.

You also have an offer button at the bottom which is great but you want it at the top.

Maybe you could keep the image but photoshop your number on it too.

If a site gets it's traffic from SEO you preferably want your text above the fold with your main keyword theme marked out ie in bold print.

 

[derikraven]

thanks for that

Derik