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How To Use Twitter With Your Contractors Business

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2011-10-14T17:34:20-04:00

Can Twitter help you to grow your contractor business? It is inspiring to see that Twitter has become more than just a site to promote existing posts and links. Most of what Twitter offers these days is useful information or alternative entertainment in real time.

As you utilize certain marketing ploys to target prospective consumers in your contractor business, it is a slow going process sometimes. There is a specific strategy that leads to Twitter success. It will take creativity! You can’t just simply tweet and upload a video and expect hundreds of prospects to come your way.

You have to know that Twitter ranks according to popularity and trends. The more popular your tweets are or the more re-tweets your posts gets the wider your influence. Twitter incorporates a judgement that a certain post or tweet is worthy of the searchers time. This includes the fave counts, re-tweets, ratings and the kind of comments or mentions it boasts. The problem that you have to work with is how you will be able to keep the re-tweet counts and mention ratings coming? Remember that your tweets will be detailed towards local search and your tweets can be found by a local searcher even if you have no popularity on Twitter. As long as your tweet is relevant to a local searching for a contractor.

What are the advantages of using Twitter as an advertising tool?

Good Money Value. Once your posts or tweets are given that “value” it deserves, they will offer your product or services outstanding exposure and the good thing is, it is free of charge. With the popularity of Twitter nowadays, they will give your posts a chance for success that did not exist before online or off.

It Targets Your Specific Customers. Unlike ads on television, Twitter will only make your posts appear only to searchers who are interested and want to learn more about your product and services. The keywords used in your tweets, mentions, and re-tweets (that you had carefully chosen) will give your products and services the maximum conversion appropriate. You can even post your videos to certain networking sites like Facebook and Youtube. This allows your posts to possibly go viral. Keep in mind viral videos are extremely rare! that should not be your plan and expectation.

Can you make additional income from your Twitter feed?

Traffic You Get To Your Videos. This is the key to increase visibility of your contractor business products and services. You can augment your income by offering expert videos and embedding ads. The basic concept is you advertise in a various ways for the contractor business or products and when that is sold you get a portion from it. As people click the links from your posts, they may click on your ad which is relevant to the topic of the posts.

The truth is... It is hard to make money solely from Twitter, but many people have done it offering a service through their own Twitter page and monetizing the posts to Youtube video channel with Google ads and other blogs. But Twitter is a brilliant strategy to get your contractor business products and services visible to a lot of people in your area that need your services. So, fire up your creativity and make some extra money with Twitter.

3 common mistakes with contractor website templates

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2011-10-06T11:09:44-04:00

The first thing you need to know about free contractor website templates is that it will take you at least 100 hours to complete. So you really need to figure what your time is worth. If you are getting paid $50 per hour to be an electrician or plumber, then that means the website is actually costing you $5000! You should be working for $50 per hour not 20. I was a cleaning contractor for 11 years and I repeatedly saw many contractors make this mistake. They think they are saving money by doing everything themselves, but most of the activities they are doing are $10 - 20 per hour activities. Yes, if you have a cash flow problem, then it may seem like your only option. But you could check into bank line of credit or hire Site-O-Rific to build your website for $150!

The other issue is, unless you are a really good writer, you have no business writing your own copy for your contractor website. Ideally you want the clients that have the most money , right? With the biggest projects. You do not want to work for people that cannot afford to pay you want you want. The one trigger than an educated professional person (a potential client) is going to intuitively have is bad grammar and usage. You need to hire a copy writier and that is really expensive -around $30 - 50 per hour.

The third mistake is to talk all about your qualifications and experience in your website content. You do want to state that on your website, but you do not want to dwell on it. You want to address their concerns, wants and desires. You want get them excited about the work they need or want done. Motivate them to contact you and get the dialogue rolling.

A free contractor website template may seem like a time and money saver, but only if you are not being honest about the value of your time.

Electrician Website Design Essentials

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2011-07-26T16:58:26-04:00

Having effective online visibility for your electrical website is as essential as well as having a well designed website. Since an unattractive business website that lacks graphic design and usability will perform poorly at converting prospective clients.

It is imperative that you understand that your page rank is highly important. One false move can be devastating to your ranking on the search engines. It can shift your competition ahead of you in rankings. There are key elements that need to be in place to assure your ranking for local searches that will bring customers your way.

When a visitor first arrives at your website, there are 3 common questions that usually pops into their minds... These are...

What is the site about?
How will it benefit me or solve my problem?
How will I go about this?

It is essential to realize that most prospect customers come to an electricians website site for a visit because they want to buy a particular product as well as inquire about certain services. A Home Page should make it clear what the site’s owner would like you to do there. Your goal is to make your website visitor clear with what your business is all about.

The site’s tabs and navigation should always be in a clear and defined area in your website. It should be clearly worded links and the tabs should give the visitor some area of what to expect and on what to click on. The navigation part on your website serves as a map or road signs that tells you where you are and where you are heading to.

Trust is very important in any business niche. However, you need to study and learn every single detail of your own website. Try to feel like you are a website visitor and feel the look and the function of your own website. Do you like it? If you are hunting for the best electrician website does your design essentials fit in? Do you want to stay at the site longer, do you want to visit again?

A website with a lot of obscurely worded links is nothing but an annoyance to most visitors. You can put links on your website but keep it in check. You should make your website professional and not to appear too spammy since it affects your trust-building capabilities. With a properly designed and coded electricians website you can have a pipeline full of interested customers that can find you 24/ 7/ 365 - even while you watch TV or sleep!

3 Ways To Promote Your Contractor Website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2011-07-06T17:42:58-04:00

Many contractors worry about when it comes to promotion and advertising. They worry about their business’ hosting, email lists, blogs and websites. Let me tell you three major ways in which you can promote your contractor website with a bang!

Aim like a gun. Knowing your market and knowing where to target is definitely a head start! It also means you will seek more information about your customers and your business core as well. It is a good thing to know as much as you can about every aspect of your business.

You will always have the opportunity to isolate your marketing weak spots and seek for ways to turn them into strengths. If you know your business well and your prospective customer, you will be able to promote your contractor business optimally. Staying on top of your customers mind set is essential to the success of your contractor business website.

Get a budget going. You should always have a simple budget for marketing. If you are still getting started with building your contractor website, expect to spend twice that amount again for a year to optimize it. Unless you want it to sit it there with no traffic - and you do not! The problem with low cost budgeting is that you may spend the amount again in redoing the project if it fails. What’s worst are the lost opportunities of customer conversion a badly implemented project may cost your business.

Blog it! Improve your branding by doing a series of blogposts. This will help your marketing pace over the long term. Blogging is a good process for laying out the nuts and bolts of your business. By solving peoples problems related to your contractor niche, you will attract a following. Have your blog feed into your Facebook and Twitter page. You should syndicate your blog through many online web social services. Once you have a decent amount of posts you can contact the local press and have them use your blog as source material for an article on your contractor business.

What your client envisions

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2011-01-16T10:54:35-05:00

One of the key issues with creating a website for an electrician is the gap between what you actually do and what the client thinks you do. We can get so caught up in the details of what we are doing with codes, running cables, voltage drops, grounding issues, box placement and dealing with other building contractors that we loose sight of what the client is actually envisioning.

They are dreaming of the shiny new fridge, the cool and comforting ceiling fan, the entertainment center, the convenience of have the smart controls throughout the house. They never picture bundles of wires in the wall. Well maybe some of the guys do, but not all of them! If you are targeting the right clients with the right cash flow situation, trust me, they are not thinking - 12 or 14 gauge?

If you fill your website with excessive data about wiring, codes, engineering feats and code requirements, they will get bored and turned off from your website and there for your electrical services. Fuel their excitement and make them want those end results even more and they will hire you!

Contractor Website Design Content Issues

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-11-01T12:22:49-04:00

When purchasing a website for your contractor business keep in mind who the target client is. Do not write content for contractors. Write content that speaks to potential clients. All visitors to your site are there to find what they want in a professional. Read full article on contractor website design.

Websites for small business getting complex

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-10-28T10:16:36-04:00

small business website options

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-05-23T18:08:47-04:00

What are your options for acquiring a website for your small business?

When deciding on your business website, take into account these 3 essential factors:

1. Cost
Your upfront charges can be as high as 50% of the total quote value. Don't fixate on the upfront cost to build the website, for one thing you can expect a web designer to also charge a monthly maintenance fee of approximately $25 to $50. Then there is the hosting fee, which will be around $10 or more. See how the monthly fees can add up? Before you decide which approach to take, total all the costs involved and then project them over a five-year period. Bear in mind that because this is your business, chances are high that you'll keep your website as-is for three to five years before you update it in any significant way.

2. Delivery time
It can take weeks and into months to get a professional quality website designed by a reputable web designer. Especially if you are not willing to pay 5k for your small business website. You will get bumped down the list pretty fast if all you have is a few thousand. You will not even get a call back if you only have a few hundred dollars to get started. Be wary of template sites that claim to be fast. It will only be as fast as you have time to build the website. Since a high quality business website template is going to run you at least $70 and your time is worth how much? Probably more than $10 an hour. You may find yourself without the time to donate!

Regarding your business goals, consider that cost and time are inseparable. Small business owners are generally used to wearing several hats and doing almost every task themselves. Delegating or outsourcing jobs seems like a waste of time or money. However, you can become obsessed with DIY. Only choose the DIY-way if you whole-heartedly enjoy doing all the work yourself, and saving money is not the reason you do it yourself.

3. Quality
Your content must be unique and original to get anywhere in the search engines' ranking battles. Custom-built websites do well in originality, but can be overly-designed with no attention to SEO requirements. Website builder templates do a fairly good job of structuring the behind-the-scenes coding for SEO, but then you have to write your own website content. One thing I see frequently online that absolutely drives me nuts is a good business boasting weakly-written content on its website. If you are at all uncertain about your abilities to write confidently and expertly then have the sense not to do your own writing. Hire a professional writer or partner with one. You will not catch errors that others will find glaring.

Site-O-Rific provides solutions for all of the above vital issues for your small business website.

Small Business Website Solutions

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-04-29T11:26:25-04:00

Learn about the pros and cons of hiring a freelance small business website designer and the small business web design solutions.

Business website builder: pros and cons

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-04-19T16:30:36-04:00

Is a generic business website builder the best way to go with your small business?

Almost every small business owner has played around with a website builder online. If you have not, you may want to try it. It is one option for creating a business website for your small business. Let's examine the pros and cons of an automated website builder.

Here are the pros of using an online business website builder

3 approaches to small business website development

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-04-06T09:52:53-04:00

1) DIY using online website builders.

Some people like to do everything themselves. You may be one of them. I admit, I am! However, as much as I rationalize that being a DIY-er saves me money, that is rarely the case.

Look at it this way.

Have you ever tried to save money on food by growing your own vegetables? Beans, basil, and broccoli? Growing food takes time. Especially if your goal is to grow enough to feed your family. Saving money growing your own only works if you do not apply any value to the time spent doing it. If you were to be honest and add up your time, you would realize why we evolved from the hunter-gatherer stage to horticulture, to agrarian, to farming. Factory framing, like it or not, is more efficient and therefore more profitable.

You grow your own fruits and veggies for better reasons than saving money. For one thing, it's fun. Gardening is therapeutic and stress-relieving. You can enjoy picking a ripe cherry tomato and popping it into your mouth while you're outside under the blue sky. You and your family can eat fresher food than can be found in the grocery store. And because gardening is hard work that yields long-term rewards, it leaves you feeling deeply satisfied.

DIY web design, like DIY anything, is similar to digging a garden. There are many rewards. However, saving money is not one of them. Neither is saving time.

If you are a chronic DIY-er with time on your hands, time to design and build your own small business website, then you should do that. You are probably in business for yourself because you value creating a certain quality of life. That goal requires maintaining a steady flow of business. A website can greatly help with that steady flow.

But if you are building your own website, there's a good chance you're spending thousands of hours that could be spent earning money instead.

2) Hire an independent web designer, either locally or online.

Hiring an independent web designer will cost you anywhere from $500 to $5,000 dollars for a nice business website design. This option can be difficult on the costs side of the equation, and a bit of wait as well. You will have to pay 50% upfront. Count on waiting for up to six weeks until your website is up and running. You do get a more refined website design, and a great deal of customization. Typically, your website will validated behind the scenes.

DIY sites, on the other hand, are usually a mess behind the scenes in the deep code the Internet uses to crawl and display your website. One false move with the code or tags and your website will not be searched correctly and you would have no idea why, so no idea how to remedy the situation. A bit scary.

3) Use Site O Rific. Get the best of both worlds.

Site O Rific websites are inexpensive and feature a quick turnaround. You get a high quality, professional website just like a custom-built design. We have made it possible for you to receive your website in 48 business hours, all with very little effort on your part, so you can spend your time building your business, not building a website.

Get a high quality website for less than 10% down. Website design, maintenance and hosting all for an affordable monthly fee.

Site-O-Rific -- Removing the long wait and fixing the money drain. It's better than an online website builder.

How necessary are Twitter & Facebook for my small business website?

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2010-01-08T20:46:35-05:00

Websites for small business are getting increasingly complex. No longer can your web presence just be a postcard disguised as a website. Your small business website must be socialized, and quickly. You may be able to hold out another year, but not much longer. It can be hard to keep up, it seems like information technologies have sprouted a mind of their own. They're evolving at a warp speed. In America, the technology leads the culture.

Potential clients demand to chat with you. At the very least, they want to get your answer within minutes. They want to sign up for your Tweets and view your Facebook profile. They are getting more use to websites that have video, audio, widgets, a lot of interaction. I know it can seem a bit crazy, all this transparency and immediacy. You're a seasoned service provider--a professional contractor, not a gizmo-crazed uber-geek who has to keep up with every move your friends make.

But let's not pass judgment too quickly. The new technologies can benefit your bottom line too.

Consider the incredible potential in all this multimedia. You can answer an inquiry within minutes, giving you a decided advantage over your competition. Have a few days of no work between jobs? You may be able to pick up an emergency call on Twitter or Facebook.

Youtube can provide you with an excellent tool to showcase your skills and work history. These days, you can shoot decent footage with your phone (go figure) and the quality is good enough for the web. Take footage of your jobs as you do them. Take shots of the finished product as well. Build up a real-time portfolio.

LinkedIn and other networking sites like it can help you build a professional network to help grow your business. You can expand your network with other non-competing contractors, such as professionals working in complementary trades, or those outside your region.

Twitter can keep your current and potential clients keep up-to-date. They can view your special offers, your Youtube videos, your work schedule and your professional advice.

Facebook reassures your clients that you are a real person who offers quality work and takes responsibility for the work you do. This can give a significant edge to the honest tradesman over all the shoddy operations out there.

Socialize your web presence and increase your business substantially.

Site-O-Rific can socialize your website for a fraction of what other web designers charge.

Socialize your small business

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-12-28T16:41:53-05:00

Think of search results as your bread and butter online. If your Web site ranks highly, you stand a great chance of catching the eye of new customers, 24 hours a day. If your Web site doesn't rank well, people searching for your service won't even know about you.

Google and other search engines are focusing more and more on semantics in their search results.

What does this mean for you, as a small business owner?

It means 3 key things:
1. In order to be well-liked by Google, your Web site needs to socialize.
2. You need to post original content on your Web site.
3. Frequent updates. Nobody wants to linger at a Web site reading yesterday's news.

Site O Rific makes it easy to incorporate Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Google Maps into your small business Web site design. Connecting with these social networking sites is a very good way to ensure that your Web site will be highly valued by the search engines, not just at this time, but for years to come.

DIY sites offered through hosting companies, such as flyer and business card companies, may be penalized for including elements and tags in the design that are duplicated thousands of times across the Web. Many people are not aware that these free Web sites are not specifically designed to rank highly in the search engines, or coded to help ensure that your business does well online. Instead, the focus is on getting customers to purchase hosting and marketing materials.

Site O Rific makes it easy for you to have a blog or vlog embedded into your Web site. Interactive, update-able features reassure your prospects (and the search engines) that someone is actually at home behind the wheel of your Web site.

Get the most affordable Web site design online and be ready for the socialized future of the Internet.

Affordable Small Business Website?

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-12-03T18:32:43-05:00

Affordable small business website design is a rather nebulous term for many. What is affordable? I have built website that are a bargain at $5,000, considering they were built for a multi-million dollar company. That is pocket change to them. But a small town plumber is probably thinking in the range of $500- $1,000 tops. Our goal is to blow that plumber away with the option to get into a small business website for $150 up front and a reasonable monthly payment. I think we have finally got the balance right.

Casting off for an affordable custom website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-06-18T21:53:27-04:00

Building a small business website is like fly fishing. You don't expect to catch a fish the instant you cast your line. In fact, you're not in a big fat hurry for the trout to bite. They can take their sweet time skimming around just below the surface. Your lucky lure will do the trick soon enough.

The lure of your website must grab the attention of potential customers. Like the fishing fly, it needs a few feathers. However, an affordable custom website may seem as unattainable as a big fish. Many professional web designers set their fees high, a maneuver that can prevent a small business owner from bagging a custom website he or she can brag about.

One way to cast out for the big catch is to build your own website using a DIY program. However, it takes time. There's the inevitable learning curve. Meantime, you've got to run your business.

An affordable custom website is a good trick, right? Yet, it's a trick that isn't as hard to pull off as you might think. Our job is to make it easy for you. Don't let the big one get away.

Your website and the downtown pizza parlor

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-06-12T17:48:55-04:00

How is a pizza joint like a website? More to the point, when it comes to building an affordable business website, what can a brick-and-mortar business teach a small business owner?

Downtown, next to a furniture shop with crystal chandeliers is a pizza place that's always swamped. The harried hostess can be cranky. The wait-staff bring plastic plates, and prehistoric Grateful Dead memorabilia line the walls. The pizza's good, not exceptional. Yet customers with and without dreadlocks are always milling around the entrance, anticipating an open table.

Starting as a small business four decades ago, this pizza joint remains a town favorite. And for a good reason. It knows what its customers want (pizza with organic ingredients), and it delivers (to the table). It knows that a few bricks in its walkway are loose, and that the turbo hand-dryer in the washroom could blow nail polish clean off. However, it can pile sun-dried tomato, garden-grown basil and fresh mozzarella on crisp garlic bread in the most mouth-watering combinations.

It knows what other successful small business owners know about setting a consistent tone and sticking with it. Keep this in mind when you build your business website. Merely listing your services isn't good enough. Your customers want to believe that by hiring you, they're going to get the best service available.

Your business website should communicate competence (good pizza), and satisfaction (you deliver). And bear in mind that it's okay to show some pizazz. Every small business has a personal style -- don't be afraid to show yours

Website for Cleaning Business

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-03-11T20:48:50-04:00

Site O Rific has built over 200 affordable websites for cleaning businesses. Our custom websites are expertly designed specifically for your cleaning business to get the optimum results you need. We can design cleaning business websites for house cleaning, office cleaning, carpet cleaning and window cleaning. Your cleaning business website will be delivered in 48 business hours. All you do is fill out one simple form. Site O Rific is the most affordable web design service for cleaning professionals. Learn more-

Site O Rific is perfect for professional associations

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-03-23T16:08:20-04:00

Site O Rific was designed from the ground up to be all about the service professional. This makes our website design service ideal for professional associations.

Associations can include Site O Rific as a part their membership benefits. Site-O-Rific is an outstanding deal association members. For only $24.95 per month they receive a professional website worth well over $2,000.

Site O Rific is also an excellent deal for the association owners. It pays high recurring monthly commissions. A typical contract is for 3 - 5 years. This means the association could be receiving monthly commissions for years to come.

Commissions range from $84.88- $304.44!

Site O Rific also brings value to membership services, resulting in more sign-ups and sales. Site O Rific has increased memberships (on average) by 11%, which, as you know, is significant.

Receiving a high quality business website in 48 hours for $24.95 per month is a powerful carrot to get business owners to join the association.

If you are affiliated with a professional association, please let us know if you would like to discuss this opportunity further.

Site-O-Rific Affiliates Earn High Commissions

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-03-16T14:02:11-04:00

Press Release: Site-O-Rific Affiliates Earn High Commissions from Website Design Service Targeting Contractors

Affiliate Program: Targeted Niches

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-02-24T15:19:51-05:00

Our product is a targeted niche. You know exactly which businesses to pitch, and who to contact that wants a custom-designed website. Targeted niches result in more easily-made sales. You can target specific businesses that need a web presence -- and provide them with an affordable, custom-designed website in less than 48 hours. All they do is fill out one easy form. This service sells itself.

You can target electricians, plumbers, roofers and cleaners-- practically any building trade contractor. We will be adding more niches down the road so you can expand into other building trade niches. We can custom build websites for any contractor that exists.

Join the one of the best run and highest paying affiliate programs on the Internet.

The truth about custom

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-02-06T18:08:29-05:00

Many web designers give much bravado to the fact they build your business website from scratch like a fine table as if they are a master wood worker. The fact is 90% of what makes up any website is html code. And 90% of what makes up any usable website design is exactly the same.

So why pay premium money for a custom website when they are going to spend 20- 40 hours (of your money) building the nuts and bolts of the website exactly the same way they did for the previous 100 websites.

I know of no web designer that actually builds a website from scratch-- for one simple reason. That would be a really huge waste of time and effort! They say they do-- so they can charge top dollar--and then they go ahead and pull up the templates in Dream Weaver or Front Page.

We actually built our own templates and customize the last 20% of the build. That is what makes your Site O Rific website totally unique while also saving you a ton of money. Save yourself a wad of cash and a chunk of time.

Let Site O Rific do it instead. We pass the time savings on to you!

Electrical contractor website design

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-02-01T18:46:30-05:00

Affordable electrician website design: In this new and weird economy that we find ourselves in-- a website for your electrical contractors business is a neccesity more than ever. So is getting a website designed for a reasonable price. The days of web designers charging 5k- 10k+ for small business website design are probably long gone. No one gives you more bang for your buck and understands better what being a service professional is all about than Site O Rific.

Internet marketing in 2009 for service pros.

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-01-19T13:08:53-05:00

In 2009, cost effective Internet marketing will be a necessity. The days of casually cruising for clients or just putting in a Yellow pages ad are long gone. As many as 80% of all potential clients out there turn to the Internet first, before looking into the Yellow Pages and newspapers. That is up from 60% in 2006. That is a huge increase!

The small business owner and in this case the building trade professional or small business contractor will need to be aggressive and techno-savy with your marketing just to survive. The economy is in a shift phase and it will never resemble the past familiar form, the form of newspaper ads and phone book ads.

Small business website design must adjust to the market and offer affordable business website options, but I seriously doubt most designers are up to this challenge.

Well, we could not have been better with our timing, by offering extremely affordable and fast small business website development for building trade professionals, you have a tool that actually makes the modern day reality of marketing easier!

Roofing business website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-01-12T13:37:05-05:00

When designing a website for your roofing business keep in mind that your website needs to be optimized for the web to be seen in local searches. You can explore this blog for how that works and what you need to do. In these tight economic times it is vital that you be seen online, but you already knew that didn't you? Learn why you need a website for your roofing business.

The first question that comes to mind once you get that realization is, what does it cost? Well, we encourage you to call around in your area to see for yourself what the typical price of a roofing website is. You WILL be shocked at some of the quotes. There is just no way you can justify spending $3k- 10k+ (up front!) on a website under these tight economic circumstances or any circumstance!

There are alternatives. Design your own business website and spend over 100 hours creating a business website that will not even be optimized for the web search engines. What is your time worth? what do you charge per hour? $50 per hour +? That means you will spend $5k of your own time!

Or try out Site-O-Rific risk free. What is the total cost of a Site-O-Rific website? $750! Do you have to pay it all up front? no, only $150 up front and $24.95 per month.
If you are in need of a roofing website for your roofing business, then you have come to the right place.

Plumbing website design 2

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-01-10T19:41:30-05:00

Plumbing website design 1

In these turbulent economic times, it is critical for your plumbing business to be seen online. It is the most cost effective way to get seen by more and more people that are staying home. Your service is a necessary one and that does help you to weather the storm so-to-speak with a recession.

One aspect of a recession that can help your plumbing business is to have a website that is easily found on the Internet. More people stay home and surf the web in hard economic times, because it is a distraction and it is practically free to do so. So when someone is online surfing and a pipe breaks, the first thing they will do is to look for a plumber online. They will search for you and find you if you are ready!

peruse our plumbing business website design.

Happy New Year

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-01-01T19:37:00-05:00

Affordable business website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-12-19T18:26:41-05:00

What is an affordable business website? Clearly that will vary quite a bit. Affordable to a Fortune 500 company is not affordable to a house painter or electrician. That's stating the obvious is it not? Then why do web designers charge a standard rate for a website regardless of who is purchasing it?

I had a craftsman that makes patio furniture tell me that they were quoted $10,00 for a simple business website with a small check out system involved. I said, well that is the going rate, but they are not looking for you as a client. they are looking for the client that can pay the most. It's a numbers game. They figure they have to do the same work regardless of who is buying.

But that is a weird way to approach it. Because you can automate many of the design processes, reducing the time it takes to do such a simple site. this way you can create a small business websites for the small business owner that cost under $5000.

Site O Rific has taken this to an extreme with $750 websites that are as good as anything up to $5,000. No kidding, just call around locally and see what they offer. The $750 website (if they have one) will be really embarrasing! And with Site O Rific, you do not to pay 50% up front, only $150. It's a win win.

Why do web designers charge so much?

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-11-22T10:53:32-05:00

I think what your average web designer charges for a small business website is within reason. They are designing web sites from scratch and trying to build a business that is based around a serial linear billing model. They have to maintain a steady stream of customers and they typically have to be ready to design for anything and everything that comes their way. All of that takes time and creativity and that means that the expense of the business website design goes up.

That also means that a lot of small businesses get left out of the loop. It is hard for a micro business (sole proprietor) to spend $2- 5k for a static business website. We fully support the typical model for independent web designers. We just wanted to try something different that we were in a unique position to try (being retired building trade professionals) and create a business website design service for building trade pros that offers affordable high quality business websites and fast.

Making a small business website is specialized work.

Plumbing website design

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-11-19T16:44:54-05:00

When designing websites for professional plumbers it is critical to get the message across entailing all of the various important issues surrounding up-to-date code and safe plumbing. Plumbing website design also has to have a strong call to action and get your experience and credentials across in a professional manner. Learn more about why you need a website for your plumbing business.

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Window Cleaning Website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-11-14T10:11:27-05:00

If you are a professional window cleaner and in search of an affordable website for your window cleaning business, then you have come to the right place. Site O Rific specializes in web site design for service professionals such as window cleaners as well as other service pros like plumbers and electricians. Your window cleaning website will be delivered in 48 hrs for a fraction of the cost of a custom website and all you have to do is fill out one simple form. You do not have to build the website yourself, we do everything! Please read more about our window cleaning website service.

We have built hundreds of cleaning websites over the last 4 years and we are retired cleaning professionals ourselves! We know how best to design your cleaning website to get the right response and get you work 24/7/365.

We also throw in the Suze & Ev Method for starting a window cleaning business as a bonus!

Contractor Website Design Costs

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2009-04-06T16:04:31-04:00

If you are a general contractor and are in need of a website design for you contracting business then your first concern is going to be cost. Typically contractor websites cost between $750- $1500 for a 5-10 page website. If you hire a freelance web designer you will have to pay at least 50% up front and often times the whole amount before delivery. So you want to know the terms of payment along with the total payout amount. Also keep in mind that there will be a monthly hosting fee on top of that. Learn more-

Creating a business website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-10-09T13:54:12-04:00

Let Site-O-Rific create a business website for you, so you can spend your time running your business. We create business websites that are optimized for the Internet. We know how to write a business website that calls for action from your prospect. This is our specialty. If you were thinking about creating your own business website, take a moment to see what we can offer for a fraction of the time and cost of doing it yourself.

Electrician website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-09-24T11:54:22-04:00

Are you an electrician? Are you in need of a web site for your electrical contractor business? An electrician's website must be optimized for both the Internet search engines and the potential client (web site visitor). It should convey a clear message and ask for a specific response from the visitor. It needs to be professional in its appearance and in its language. It also must be properly coded to be found in the search engines for your location. Learn more by test driving our electrician websites. Learn more about an electrician website.

Design your own business website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-08-26T16:18:58-04:00

Design your own business website and turn sweat equity into a valuable resource. But there are trade offs people! Are you already familiar with web design? Do you already know how to use web design software? Do you have a good design eye? Many of you do have a good design eye, because you do creative design work as building professionals.

If you are going to start from scratch and design your own website, it will take huge amounts of energy away from running your business. Now if you enjoy doing web design as an escape from doing your electrical or cleaning work, well then it can be a huge advantage to design your own website, if you have no money to invest.

See why Site O Rific has made it easy for you to get a small business website, so you can spend your free time fishing, going to a ball game or a concert instead of adding yet another skill to your roster.

Small business website pricing controversy

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-08-07T16:09:51-04:00

Small business website development pricing is like anything else in the sense that it is, can and should be all over the place. People can get quite righteous about what something should cost. I get web designers quite upset with my aggressive pricing. They claim it lowers the overall expectations. I have heard this logic my whole life and yet I don't see how the LeCar was the ruin of the BMW or that the local open mic has toppled entertainment billionaires, there's more of both in my opinion.

90% of website designers price their services way too high for your typical plumber, electrician or window washer business. They see the design they do as an art, which I fully support, so find clients that support your art form. I'm here to help building trade professionals get high quality websites for their business at affordable prices, it's the American way!

Web design pricing.

Welcome Window Cleaning Pros!

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-08-18T20:03:52-04:00

Welcome window cleaning professionals from the Window Cleaning Directory. Please feel to email us with any questions you may have. Please take a look at our window cleaning website designs.

website designs for electricians

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-07-28T17:18:20-04:00

It has been allot of fun designing website for electricians! I think it is because the image potential for the website design is so rich. There are plenty of abstract images of electrical devices that can be used to make an aesthetically pleasing website that makes electrical work look as cool as it actually is.

The response from the electricians has been great too. Many of our clients love that the sites look cutting edge, artistic and warm, instead of dated, institutional and cold. The response for the electrician is much better! The potential client feels more comfortable with the job at hand if they can see the artistry involved. They also feel more relaxed about hiring an electrical contractor that has a sophisticated looking website design and takes pride in his/ her image.

House cleaning website design

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-07-26T14:37:02-04:00

Looking for house cleaning website design? You need a website for your cleaning business, but where do you begin? Do you hire a web designer for $2000? Is it worth it to pay that much up front? Do you build your own website with an online website builder? Should you spend that kind of time, more than 100 hours building a website? Are you a good designer and writer?

There are allot of questions to answer!

The two options above are viable and reasonable options for getting a cleaning business website designed for your business. Would it not be nice to get a custom built website design for less than what the DIY services cost? The best of both worlds. You get an affordable website design, fast and all you have to do is fill out a simple form.

Site O Rific specializes in fast and affordable cleaning business website design! We have built over 100 websites for cleaning professionals through our affiliation with the popular Suze & Ev Cleaning Business Method. You can now purchase your own custom cleaning business website directly from Site O Rific. Our cleaning website designs are sophisticated, affordable and fast.

You will receive your business website in 48 hrs!

You can test drive our house cleaning website designs for yourself live on this website. We have designs for house cleaning, office cleaning, window cleaning and carpet cleaning businesses.

Electrician Website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-07-21T18:41:01-04:00

Site O Rific now offers custom website designs for electricians. If you are an electrician and you need a professional website for your electrical contractor business, then Site O Rific is for you. Your electrician website will be custom built and designed to get the optimum response from your online prospects. Your website will be fully optimized for the search engines and expertly written to get a call to action from your visitor.

Electrician websites are often poorly designed because the web designer does not know the language to use for your building trade. your Site O Rific website will be expertly written and designed to get your message across clearly and effortlessly.

Electrician websites are no longer expensive! Site O Rific websites are beyond affordable, they are a steal! your Electrician website will be delivered in 48 hrs.

stay tuned for more information...

Got a hundred hours?

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-07-06T19:02:26-04:00

It can be fun to build your own small business website, I have done it many times using online website builders and it will save you plenty of money, as long as you don't count your times as being worth much of anything! It will take you allot of work to build your own website, so plan to spend all of your off time from running your small business building your website. If you do not have allot of spare time outside of the daily routine, then you might want think twice about building your own website. If you build your website at a rate of 2- 3 hours a week, it will take you many many months to get your business website done.

Cost Effective Marketing

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-07-01T19:07:41-04:00

A website will promote your cleaning business 24/ 7/ 365 for a fraction of the work other marketing tools require.

Small business Website Development

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-06-25T17:40:40-04:00

Small business website development Site-O-Rific style. We only design for the building trade service pro!

Is your cleaning business website optimized?

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-06-23T18:42:28-04:00

Is your cleaning business website fully optimized for the search?

Cleaning business website

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-06-16T16:07:24-04:00

A cleaning business website is a must for the cleaning professional. Your cleaning business website will help brand your image, convert looky-loos to satisfied customers and build the foundation for future growth and profits. Let's start with branding.

Small business website development evolution.

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-06-14T19:11:17-04:00

Small business website development evolution Part-1.

Small Business Website Builder

questions@site-o-rific.com — 2008-06-07T21:12:12-04:00

Small business website builder: DIY?