“The guy you referred me to for a website build was way too expensive!” Me: “wait, how much does he charge now?” Friend: “$1,500” Me: 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ This is why I don’t like doing referrals. $1,500 is a totally reasonable price for a great site…

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When you have an existing website and you launch a new site there is a lot more than just "design and build a new site" that goes into it. Do you have all the scripts your previous site had? Are you running ads? Did the URLS change? Did you have conversion tracking setup? Did

Never expected to see these two sentences so close together.

I just came across possibly the best example of SEO on a local site I've ever seen. This site rakes. 100k visitors/month competing against Zillow, Redfin, Realtor etc. etc. Ruby Homes. 4 agents. As he says on the site "there is a 100% chance you found us through an online

I’ve been raving about Shead to anyone who’d listen (literally no one) since the final four. He was the best player in the tourney before blowing out his ankle. I couldn’t believe he wasn’t projected as a first rounder. Too small. Not a good enough shooter. Blah blah blah.

We've been running a local SEO campaign for this client for ~6 months. I didn't want to rebuild this site. It's a pain we were already managing the site and we make little to no money on web builds. But about 3 months in I told them "look your website, even though its

It’s entirely possible that I’m the best golfer on the planet that plays this golf ball (I’m a -13 handicap). I ask for these every year at Xmas.

And this is why open source (wordpress) remains undefeated.

I saw a post about a guy building a simple iOS cal tracker app. I have the coding ability of a first grader but I've been wanting to build a simple cost estimator tool for a window installer we work for. Came out shockingly functional, with decent UX. Lets you choose window

Excuse, the poor-mans photo. This is a service area business. 1/ Even if you use a service area, your hidden address is what matters. We moved the address that's all that changed in 12 days. 2/ Service area businesses are worse than a physical location but they do get some

Would love to connect with agency owners. who are some of the best that you use? who should I connect with? Maybe will create a small exclusive peer group of talented agency operators Tagging some of the best agency owners I know to start off this thread Justin Abrams

Local businesses greatly underestimate how important their primary category is. I flipped this businesses' primary category from "Wine Store" to "Liquor Store". 10 minutes later this what their coverage for liquor store near me looks like.

In 2013, we started My Local SEO which turned into Salt Water Digital courtesy of some lame legal letter saying we couldn't use the name. We created this banger of an Infographic in our first year. At the time, we literally had four clients and they're all on this graphic 😁.

I hate running digital marketing campaigns for brand new businesses.... Everything takes longer It's far more work They can't really afford digital marketing Business failure rate is incredibly high Reality often doesn't meet expectation. In the HVAC space everyone is

If I had to give anyone a bit of advice about starting a local business. Don't be the sixth company in a single building offering one type of service. You'll never show up on the map pack, find another location.