Hey guys. So my phone is dryer than a dessert. I’m still needing to contact Tim4, but in the meantime looking into other marketing methods. My plan is to go with yard signs, door-knocking with my wife and handing out cards and/or doorhangers and a card. But i may need more…
I found an SEO guy in my area who comes highly recommended. Unfortunately, also a high price, but he set up a deal if I want it:
Full website design (full meal deal) on wordpress with all the SEO added into the background of the site, and SEO from day one for two months for $3000. The website itself will take 3-4 weeks to complete so if he is offering two months free, I’m essentially getting 5 weeks of marketing with a completed website. After that it’s 1k/month including hosting the site and 1 hr of edits, content adds, etc and all fees. I believe this is taxed though
I was told by him in my city there are 300 inquiries made per month for the search terms he’ll be adding. This doesn’t seem like a lot, but the guy who recommended him is driving about 3 calls per day through his site through this guy.
I’m just looking for thoughts and opinions. Off to buy a truck on CL, so I’ll respond in a few hours Thanks!
The phones for everyone in my area, NJ, have been dead because the weather has been terrible. Once it warms up a little the calls will come in. I don’t know much about SEO but won’t it take months to get Google to recognize any changes?
I personally would re think this decision. I’m basically retarded on the computer and it took me 2 weeks to do a word press site via YouTube tutorial and cost 113 dollars for a year. Seo is another monster but again youtube is your friend. My site ain’t the best but it’s definitely better that spending 10 grand for a year of a website with no guarantee of business. Idk how others feel but to me it seems like you wanna draw organic leads from as many sources as you can. A nice mix of web, in person, referal, direct mail, word of mouth, social media etc.After awhile if you do quality work it will take on a life of its own.
@Racer, what do you mean by “strong?” I assume you mean good prices?
More info: My main thing as I’ve said before is window cleaning but I both enjoy washing more, and recognize there is money in it. That being said I’m not yet prepared for any large scale jobs, and if I hit 1200 in a week I’m happy. I need a perspective shift.
Another thing. They don’t put you in a contract so I could cancel after 4 months and be with a website and 4 months of marketing for 5 grand.
@skedaddle DIY SEO is not hard to learn…if your phones not ringing then you have time to learn. Learn from SEO and tech guys…not power washers. I ranked my site from 5th page to page 1 #1 in about 6 months of kindergarten SEO methods. Most guys on here that want to give SEO advice don’t show up on page 1for their cities.
@Racer, I live south of Seattle. Far away enough to where I don’t drive up there, but near me there are probably like 8 cities that I can easily service, all 50-100k people. I thought it sounded high too but I had no idea what’s a good rate. I tried searching, but couldn’t find specifics and what’s included for those who are using an SEO service.
Yes, this guy was promising front page within 4-5 months and between #1-5 on search results minus ads.
@Patriotspwashing, thanks for the heads up. Looks like it’s time for youtube.
Honestly it does sound like a lot but it depends also on his references. Can he show you a good project he did, where he is ranking on top of google in a popular or semi-popular niche/search term?
A lot of this stuff comes down to trust imo. I’m based in Europe and completely different field of business we’ve had a company charge us a lot of money but they were very professional, fast and we are generally very satisfied with them. But we’ve also had a company for adwords where we did the ads, put in search terms, they just ran the campaigns with little to NO results while also charging us a lot of money.
A lot is based on trust and YOUR OWN RESEARCH.
I did my seo myself. I watched a lot of youtube videos and I read a lot of how to articles. It worked well for me but I’m not in a city with dozens of competitors.
No way! Put $1,000 per month into Google Adwords or Facebook ads. Way better ROI. Get someone to build and maintain for a much smaller amount. Use Nicejob instead $175 per month and they make highly converting sites.