Learning objective: After reading this post and watching all the videos (the videos provide more details than the writing) you will have a complete understanding of what you should be doing to capture organic google traffic from searches that will convert into leads.As you’ll see, search engine optimization (SEO), is focused on providing relevant information to user.What Is SEO & How It Has Changed For ContractorsWatch:SEO is the process of getting to the top of the organic rankings for a search in a search engine.Just a few years ago, when I first started my contracting company(

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https://youtu.be/W0byLxpUL40 In this video, Corey shares with you: [1:14] – How keyword searches have changed across the years and why it should concern you [2:50] – why business owners should shift focus on local SEO [4:51] – a nifty tool that will help you see how your local SEO ranks [6:59] – and how to get maximum placement on Google Local results organically (2 easy steps!) FULL TRANSCRIPTION: I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about Google Local. Google Local is extremely important for trades businesses as the local results show up prominently

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Does the cherished ‘word of mouth’ just happen from doing a good job time and time again?  Most contractors think it does. Be professional, be prompt, make the customers happy, repeat, and the market will talk.  That’s the adage. While it may get you a referral from a customer, when prompted, savvy marketers know there is a strategy behind word of mouth.   Supercharged word of mouth advertising that propels a business to another ‘zero’ on their income statement doesn’t just happen.  Rather, it is the result of strategic tactics to igniting conversations amongst the

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[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] https://youtu.be/Xn0ik7NDMJs [/av_textblock] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” custom_class=”] Get The On Page SEO Webinar (free) Check out this video for a quick run through on how you can verify the results that an SEO has gotten for past clients. That said, I still maintain that the New SEO is No SEO.  There’s no rocket science or magic sauce behind SEO.  Besides for a few technical on page SEO aspects, all you really need to do is consistently publish new content on your website. For help with On Page SEO, I suggest checking

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Traditionally, working in the home service industry has been a high-touch category. To make a sale, you have to generate phone calls, qualify the customer in a phone call, visit the site for an estimate, educate them on all the possible options, calculate a price, and then explain why the pond project they seen on HGTV for $5,000 is going to cost $15,000 and contact the customer again once they’ve gotten other estimates, and interact with them throughout the entire job. However, the rise of technology has made getting quality touches much easier, and you

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KISS.  Keep it simple, stupid. It’s such a well-known phrase, yet many small business owners and web designers fail to follow this simple piece of advice.  Perhaps designers think something fancy and complex is needed to justify their price.  Perhaps business owners want something that doesn’t ‘look’ like a template (just a heads up no one cares if it is built on a template) in an effort to have a website that out shines their competitors. In a study by Google, researchers found that a user will judge whether or not your website is beautiful

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Content is king. I repeat. Content. Is. King. For those that don’t know what content marketing is, the Content Marketing Agency defines it as, “The discipline of creating quality branded editorial content across all media channels and platforms to deliver engaging relationships, consumer value, and measurable success for brands.” If you aren’t using it to spread your brand message, you need to start today. According to DemandMetric, content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates about 3 times as many leads. That’s significant. Since I started my business, I’ve learned a lot about

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Doing business is a constant hustle. You have to build your business, market your services, find leads, convert them to customers, and then you have to do it all over again. In the past, those leads that turned into customers would walk into your shop, buy your product or service, leave, and then you might never see them again unless they came back into your shop. Today? Everything can be tracked, everything can be measured, and you can stay in touch with just about anyone that you meet if you approach it in the right

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Running a business and keeping it profitable is tough. As a business owner, you have to make more decisions on a daily basis than the average person. Between hiring people, finding clients, and setting a budget, it all falls on your shoulders. Of those decisions, some of the most important that you make will be on marketing. No matter how much revenue you generate each year, the U.S. Small Business Administration recommends that you spend around 7%-8% of your gross revenue on advertising if you’re doing less than $5 million in business each year.  That’s not a

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