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Straight talk on why contractor sites don't get calls, and what actually books the work.

Salem Tent & Awning Ran on a 2013 Website. Here Is What Replaced It.

A shop in business since 1890 had a website nobody had touched since 2013. What was broken, what replaced it, and how long it took.

Builds

Before You Cancel Your Old Website Host, Find Out Where Your Email Lives

Cancel the old host first and your company email can go down with the website. Here is the order that keeps both running.

Site Basics

Six to Twelve Months Is Not a Plan

When somebody tells you results take six to twelve months, ask what will be different in week one.

Local Search

Pull Up Your Own Site on Your Phone Right Now

Most owners have not looked at their own site on a phone in months. Seven in ten of their customers only ever see it that way.

Site Basics

The Lead You Just Paid For Went to Two Other Guys

You paid for that lead. So did the two other contractors who got the same one.

Getting Calls

Whose Name Is on Your Domain

Two questions worth asking before money moves: where does the site live, and whose name is on the domain?

Site Basics

What $3,500 a Month Actually Buys

A plumber asked what the retainer gets him. The answer was local pack visibility and authority building.

Site Basics

You Are Right That a Nice Website Does Not Pay You Back

The Ferrari with no engine objection is correct. Here is the part it gets wrong.

Site Basics

Every Referral You Get Googles You First

The referral does the hard half. Your site decides whether the other half happens.

Getting Calls

The Customers Who Knew Your Number Are Aging Out

Referral networks do not break. They thin out, one customer at a time, and nothing tells you it is happening.

Getting Calls

Why Your Website Isn't Getting You Calls

Your work isn't the problem. The site standing in front of it is.

Getting Calls

The 3 Places a Contractor Site Quietly Loses Jobs

No missed call, no voicemail. Here are the three walls a ready customer hits and leaves.

Getting Calls

A Prettier Website Won't Fix It. Here's What Does.

The problem usually isn't that your site looks cheap. It's that it was built to be looked at, not to book work.

Site Basics

How McMinnville Contractors Show Up When Someone Searches

Showing up in the search comes down to two things, and neither requires outspending anyone in town.

Local Search