Are you across the marketing basics for your building company? Take a look at this collaboration between BuildXact and Tradies Get Online and see which ones you’ve ticked off the list – and which ones still need some work.
Firstly – if you do good work – you deserve the best customers. So make sure you spend time marketing your building business so it can attract the right ones.
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My first slide talks about the importance of having a responsive website. One that no matter what device someone is on – your website is slick and loads quickly. Don’t fall into that trap of buying a website for mobile and a website for ipad… and a website for PC’s believe me. I’ve heard some serious war stories.
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Your homepage banner shouldn’t slide !!! Yeap – I hate Sliders. Choose one images and use this – it’ll create a brand imprint. Also if you’re going to use text – make it dot form – at this point someone is searching you out and discovering what you do, so make it quick and easy for them to understand what you do – and quickly.
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I really wanted to showcase how quickly you can ask for someone to make a booking.
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You should be booking a photographer every quarter to follow you and your team around. Those photos can be used to make forms less intrusive.
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Make sure your number is click to call and at the top of the website 24/7
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Make sure your calls to action are human – no one gets excited when they click a ‘submit’ button.
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Never leave a customer hanging – make sure you have a Call To Action at the base of every page.
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Don’t be afraid to ask for more. Include what you need to provide the very next steps.
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This is our Apply Form. We add it to all our websites on the Xcelerate System as we need one place to capture and measure our lead generation.
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Make sure your social media icons are at the base – not the top of the website.
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Linkedin Is SO un-tapped. Get on it! Those high flying corporates are about to drop some cash on a builder – make sure it’s your company.
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Make sure you setup Instagram correctly. Use my cheat sheet!
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If you’re going to use Facebook – make sure you jump into those Community Groups – Facebook shares these over the news feed more than any other feature at this minute.
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Setup Google My Business! It’s the best free tool on the planet.
We use a tool which connects your website with your listing so people can see the legit reviews in the flesh.
https://www.google.com.au/business/sign-up/index.html
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Make sure you customise your calls to action – here’s another example.
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I can’t stress enough how important photos are. Push your developer to show off your work in a clean functional way.
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If you want to rank for a service or location – you need a page on it.
The image in the centre of Slide 23 shows the difference between Adwords and SEO
BONUS!
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html
FAQs- Listen to your customers – when they ask a question – add it to your FAQs page.
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