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Marketing for Roofers: How to Get More Storm Damage Leads and Replacement Projects
Marketing for roofing companies requires two separate strategies: one for storm damage and insurance claims (urgent, reactive) and one for scheduled replacement projects (planned, research-driven). Each type of customer finds you differently and needs different...
Angi vs. HomeAdvisor vs. Thumbtack: Which Lead Platform Is Worth It for Home Service Pros?
The honest answer is that Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack can generate leads — but you're paying a premium for leads you don't own, that get shared with multiple competitors, and that cost more per job as your reliance on them grows. All three platforms have a role,...
Google Local Services Ads vs. Google Ads: Which Is Better for Contractors?
Google Local Services Ads and standard Google Ads are fundamentally different products — and for most contractors, the right answer is to use both. Standard Google Ads charge per click and give you more control over targeting. Each has distinct advantages, and knowing...
Video Marketing for Home Service Businesses: How to Get More Jobs with Simple Videos
Video marketing for home service businesses works when it's consistent and authentic — not when it's expensive and polished. A plumber shooting a 60-second video of a completed job on their phone will outperform a stock-photo website every day of the week. Homeowners...
Google Ads for HVAC Companies: How to Get More Leads All Year Long
Google Ads for HVAC companies work best when your campaigns are built around seasonal search intent — not just a single "HVAC near me" campaign running at a flat budget year-round. HVAC demand spikes twice a year (summer cooling season and winter heating season) and...
How to Use Before-and-After Videos to Grow Your Power Washing or Exterior Cleaning Business
Before-and-After Videos: The Best Free Marketing Tool for Power Washing Companies Before-and-after videos for power washing are the single most effective organic marketing tool for exterior cleaning companies. Nothing sells a service faster than watching a filthy...
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How To Help Your Web Designer To Help You
When you hire a web designer or online marketing agency to give your business a boost, it’s all about what they can do for you. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be involved in the process at all. While your vendor will certainly be doing the heavy lifting in...
How to Erase a Competitor’s Lead on Google
If you’re like most of the business owners we work with, you have probably dreamed of having your website ranking on Google’s top positions for several phrases your best potential customers search. But what happens when one of your competitors isn’t just in the way,...
Why You Might Need a Website Audit Today
When we take on a new web design client, or start working with a business owner who wants to take their online marketing to the next level, the first step is almost always to perform a website audit. If you’ve never had one run for your company, it’s essentially a...
What You Need to Know About Local Search Engine Optimization
Most business owners have heard a lot about local search engine optimization (or local SEO) by now, but we meet quite a few who aren’t maximizing their visibility with buyers on Google. In many cases, they simply don’t know how to take the ideas they’ve learned and...
The Right (and Wrong) Way to Save Money on Web Design
Running a business can be tough. It requires a bit of vision, the ability to make tough decisions, and (especially) an eye for saving money whenever possible. That’s probably why even successful entrepreneurs and managers sometimes make big mistakes when trying to...
5 Signs You Need Better Online Marketing Advice
Do you ever get the sinking suspicion that the online marketing advice you’re getting isn’t quite as sharp, informed, or customized as it could be? That can put the average business owner in a bind. That’s because most aren’t experts in the fields of web design,...
What is the Purpose of Your Web Content?
Your website probably has lots of content, but why does it need to be there? Do the words and images on your page exist as filler, or are they helping you to reach your bottom line sales and marketing goals? A lot of business owners, if they were being honest, would...
Is Your Web Hosting Package Holding You Back?
When was the last time you thought about the quality of your web hosting service? If you are like most of the business owners and marketing executives we work with, it’s probably been a very long time. That’s understandable. The parts of your website that you see are...
5 Online Marketing Techniques That Deliver Big ROI
Online marketing is an interesting field in that it’s continually getting more effective while at the same time growing in complexity. There are more ways than ever before to profit from a strong web presence, but it’s also easier to waste your time and money on the...
How to Zero in on the Perfect Web Design Company
If you are a business owner or executive who is comparing web design companies, we know you’re facing a big challenge. A lot of creative companies can seem similar to one another, and there are more choices than ever before. Things get even harder if you aren’t already an expert in online marketing, as you may run into terms and jargon you don’t fully understand.
Have You Winterized Your Business Website?
Is your website ready for the coming months? All around the country, people are making preparations for fall and winter by covering pools, swapping windows, and changing tires. And yet, few business owners and executives are giving thought to prepping their websites...
Is There Life After SEO Success?
Achieving a top ranking on Google for a number of different keywords can seem like an impossible and almost never-ending challenge. Find out about life after SEO Success.
5 Great Uses for Your Facebook Business Page
Most business owners recognize intuitively that social media marketing today resembles search engine optimization a decade ago. It’s an opportunity to build your brand and bring in customers without spending a ton of time or money.
How Marketing Automation Boosts Your Business
Marketing automation has become something of a buzzword in the web design industry lately, but interest isn’t really living up to execution. In other words, even though lots of business owners are excited about the idea of creating automated marketing campaigns, most aren’t actually taking steps to put them in place.
3 Reasons Business Owners Get Unnecessarily Overwhelmed
Does running a successful business necessarily mean you have to be too busy and overwhelmed all the time? We certainly know men and women who seem to think so, even though we also work with others who run profitable companies while remaining calm, composed, and in control of their schedules.
How to Make Better Plans for Your Business
Does it ever feel like your business is adrift? Do you wish you could make stronger plans that brought you closer to your goals or would be easier to follow through with?
5 Ways to Get More Control Over Your Schedule
If there’s one thing most of our web design clients have in common, it’s a desire to get more control over their schedule. Whether it’s an initial consultation or a regular website review, we often meet with men and women who seem to be moving at breakneck speed from one task or appointment to the next.
7 Rules of Business Success That Still Apply in the Digital Age
Most of the time, we post articles to our blog that have to do with web design, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and other related topics. Those are our specialties, after all, and the subjects clients turn to us for advice about.
5 Tricks of Top Web Designers
How do the best web designers approach their work? After years of experience in this field, and dozens upon dozens of successful projects, I’m convinced that producing something special is as much about the process you follow as it is the talent you have. In other words, it helps to have some good artistic instincts, but it’s even more important to embrace the right habits.
4 Things Advanced CRM Systems Can and Can’t do for Your Website
Executing a profitable internet marketing campaign can involve a lot of tedious and exhausting details. It’s no wonder, then, that so many business owners ask us about the value of advanced customer relationship management (CRM) systems like HubSpot and Infusionsoft.
Why Website Audits Are an Absolute Necessity
Most website redesign and online marketing projects begin with an online audit. Clients who have never been through this process often wonder whether website audits are really necessary. In many cases, they would prefer to jump ahead to examining new layouts or making plans for fresh social media campaigns.
What Comes After SEO and PPC?
Most business owners and executives who come to us for web design and internet marketing already know about SEO and PPC. That’s because the majority of companies, no matter how small or large, use search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising to drive targeted customers to their websites.
The One Thing You Need to Succeed at SEO
Business owners often ask me what the secret to search engine optimization success is. I get the sense that they are normally looking for some kind of secret technical tip or tactic, but the answer I provide is a lot more basic: patience.
The Hardest Part of Social Media Marketing
In a big picture sense, social media marketing is easy: just set up profiles in all the major platforms, engage with fans, customers, and colleagues, and then watch the resulting traffic arrive at your website and manifest itself into sales.
Why Google Ads Advertising Works So Well
Most of the business owners and executives I meet with are at least somewhat familiar with Google AdWords advertising. And yet, I find that opinions about search marketing tend to be all over the plac
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