What % of your business comes from your website?

[BradD]

What % of your business comes from your website?

Of that What % is paid advertising (like google adwords) ?

and

What % is from Organic?

If organic

How many of you use some sort of (SEO)

Do you do it yourself or do you pay someone?

 

[jcooper]

What % of your business comes from your website?

75-80% of new clients are internet.

Of that What % is paid Advertising

(like google adwords) ?

Not much if anything.

What % is from Organic?

Mostly organic or local listings

How many of you use some sort of (SEO)

You better be... Or you wont get found.

Do you do it yourself or do you pay someone?

Myself, if you learn how, it's a skill you will use the rest of your life.

 

[Royal Man]

The internet is just a passing fad. Don't put your time and money into it.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I agree with Dave, it's a fad and it will never last.

 

[Royal Man]

I agree with Dave, it's a fad and it will never last.

I'm waiting for the next great thing to come along. I'm not going to follow the crowd and rush into the internet.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Advertising on the back of cash register tape looks promising!

 

[Derek]

up through the end of 2012 - less than 1 %...still paid the bills and kept us comfy enough.

this year might be 10%+ if SEO works.



if it get's really crazy, i see a double wide in my future.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Yellow pages, a full page of coupons is where the real money is at. That and flyers where you punch out a rolladex card....hard to beat!

 

[Mikey P]

My numbers are much like JCoopers but with a heavy Yelp in influence

 

[Royal Man]

Don't forget going to shopping centers at night and putting flyers into the shopping carts and flyers at Walmart on windshields can't be beat. I also put business cards on the Rug Doctor carts and I took the muffler off of my van to draw attention while I drive and it turns really heads and opens drapes of client's neighbors.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Well I hate to one up you but I took the side doors off my van so you can see the TM as I'm out and about town.

 

[ruff]

With 20,200 posts, how is it possible for you to be up and about town?

Now back to the Dave & Richard show

Tell us more about your best $$$$ producers

 

[Desk Jockey]

Guess I better do some work today....back to payroll!

 

[Beeks]

comical thread, but i too am interested in this question, as i currently get NO work from my organic listing, (first page yahoo and bing, cant get past 4th on google) and am looking to do something about it.

 

[Shane Deubell]

I was just thinking about this.

Want to go all electronic and completely ditch print, so expensive at our sizes. Working on a plan now.

 

[BradD]

Thanks JC and Mickey.

Does anyone else have some real numbers or even close guesses?

 

[carpetcleaner]

I get aprox 1/3 of new business through my website and google maps. I don't show up on the first page of a general carpet cleaning search of my area, but I'm first on google maps - whatever the map is called on the top of Google's result page.

I made a free site through Quickbooks which included 1 free year of hosting and haven't done any SEO. I signed up for any free referral/review sites that I came across - like Yelp. I made a Facebook page and signed up for LinkedIn.

 

[floorguy]

i am at the 1 year mark of having a site....and i am not the greatest at tracking like i should (on paper, its in my head though)

anyway through most of last year...april-nov it was generating an avg of about $500 a mth...not huge, but a starting point...some were commercial in there as well...

very little SEO in comparison, and had someone else do it...and did a great job...also helped out on the whole places issue...

over the winter it went all but dead...and now in spring it is back up...

had a few price shoppers that never called back...

over all been happy.....

now i just need to work on the stuff on my end...

 

[Shane Deubell]

Thanks JC and Mickey.

Does anyone else have some real numbers or even close guesses?

Varies between $30k -$50k a year.

 

[Royal Man]

Varies between $30k -$50k a year.

That's all? I don't believe in the internet. But, I would think you should be able to pull more than 50K in your sleep.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I'm kinda waiting for Al Gore's next invention.

 

[Royal Man]

I'm kinda waiting for Al Gore's next invention.

His new invention is the same as the rest. Exploit crises (Manufactured and other wise.) And reap the benefits $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ It's like those that live off of floods and other mayhem inflicted on others. "Cept the flood guys have to do real work.

 

[WillS]

For my carpet cleaning company about 80% comes from our website. 10% referrals and then 10% other advertising.

 

[Shane Deubell]

That's all? I don't believe in the internet. But, I would think you should be able to pull more than 50K in your sleep.

Not in Buffalo, we are balkanized ....

I have to cover 12-15 towns plus all the various keywords, about 1/2 of the way through right now but its a real pain over the short term.

 

[trojancarpetcare]

The internet is a good tool but i habe always wondered if it will ever go away.

 

[Ron Werner]

Only about 5% for me, but quite a few reference it from other sources. So it influences a lot of clients.
Most of mine is still repeat and referrals

 

[Royal Man]

The internet is a good tool but i habe always wondered if it will ever go away.

That's right!! Forget the internet. I'm going to phonebook covers, paper maps and shopping receipts for all my advertising.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Don't forget movie theater previews, that brought in a gazzillion for us. In fact I think that where most people decide on a cleaning professional, sitting there waiting for a movie. ig:

 

[Royal Man]

Don't forget movie theater previews, that brought in a gazzillion for us. In fact I think that where most people decide on a cleaning professional, sitting there waiting for a movie. ig:

I go to the movies just for the ads. I did get a internet job once. I think they mis-searched.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Psssst don't tell anyone but bus benches....they are the bomb!



I've heard of the internet but out here smoke signals are still popular and very effective. We use blue smoke for our company colors.