The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:10 am**

Hi everyone. How many of you self-employed lot have your own website? (and no, I'm not going to try to sell you one!)

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:36 pm**

Hi steven
are you thinking of having a website?
definite advantage
LLL

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:41 pm**

mine will be live tommorow or the day after...

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:35 pm**

One day I'll get off my ass and build 3 sites.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:50 pm**

Yes, we've got one, have had for 4yrs+

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:51 am**

Had one for years works well :O

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:44 am**

90% of our work comes from the websites

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:57 am**

local patios and driveways wrote:90% of our work comes from the websites

How do you know that? When someone recommends a company to me, or I see a company sign/van on site I am likely to look at the website and then contact them by email. However can you claim it was the website that did it?

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:03 pm**

I have just created a website for a flat we are renting out. I used sites.google.com that is free to create the site, and then used 1and1.co.uk to host the domain name, .e.g http://www.bewickcourt.co.uk/ total cost per year is under Â£5.

The hardest part was working out how to turn off menus/side bars etc. on sites.google.com as it assumes you wish to create a multi-page site. Writing the text and creating the photos did take the most time, but the content always take longer than the easy IT bit. (But I am a computer programmerâ€¦)

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:29 pm**

ringi wrote:
local patios and driveways wrote:90% of our work comes from the websites

How do you know that? When someone recommends a company to me, or I see a company sign/van on site I am likely to look at the website and then contact them by email. However can you claim it was the website that did it?

Because i only advertise via the website, no sign written vans, no local papers, even stopped leafletting. The other 10% is either recommended or have just started trying mybuilder like dngroundworks (i seen you on there too dan) but when that generates work its given to me direct so its not calculated in my 90%

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:35 pm**

I think more then 10% may be recommended that then finds your website.

Are you paying for lots of AdWords etc to drive people to your site?

local patios and driveways wrote:
ringi wrote:
local patios and driveways wrote:90% of our work comes from the websites

How do you know that? When someone recommends a company to me, or I see a company sign/van on site I am likely to look at the website and then contact them by email. However can you claim it was the website that did it?

Because i only advertise via the website, no sign written vans, no local papers, even stopped leafletting. The other 10% is either recommended or have just started trying mybuilder like dngroundworks (i seen you on there too dan) but when that generates work its given to me direct so its not calculated in my 90%

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:44 pm**

LPAD, ive just closed my account with my builder, they were sending me leads and i was pricing against 10 other contractors - no chance of winning

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:56 pm**

DNgroundworks wrote:LPAD, ive just closed my account with my builder, they were sending me leads and i was pricing against 10 other contractors - no chance of winning

10 others? I was under the impression it was 3 that get shortlisted. Im going to quote ten jobs, if i get one or two then i may carry on with it

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:57 pm**

ringi wrote:I think more then 10% may be recommended that then finds your website.

Are you paying for lots of AdWords etc to drive people to your site?

local patios and driveways wrote:
ringi wrote:

How do you know that? When someone recommends a company to me, or I see a company sign/van on site I am likely to look at the website and then contact them by email. However can you claim it was the website that did it?

Because i only advertise via the website, no sign written vans, no local papers, even stopped leafletting. The other 10% is either recommended or have just started trying mybuilder like dngroundworks (i seen you on there too dan) but when that generates work its given to me direct so its not calculated in my 90%

I do my own seo, i get my links out where i can, i dont crosslink with any other sites, my natural listings are very good purely on the sites merits alone.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:02 pm**

my mate fred the spread rang me about a job on mybuilder
270 blocks to be built as a boundary wall
Â£8 to go on the shortlist
I told him to put a price in off Â£500 labour
he didnt even get on the shortlist
waste of time in my opinion
full of cheap as chips wasters and chancers
LLL

The Brew Cabin

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