[stuartb]

Thinking of building a website for my business. A friend thinks it will be a pointless exercise and won’t get me any new customers. I’m not sure. Question to people who have one already - do they generate new customers at a reasonable rate or very very rarely?
Thanks
Stu

[Smudger]

Wouldn't be without mine - generates a fair bit of work - usually the high end stuff like commercial cleaning ( brick cleaning and roof cleaning ) got us into some big housing maintenance companies

and we recently did a 25k leaflet drop - the web saw a huge influx of visitors and enquires for services

Darran

[Splash & dash]

We get 20-50 enquires per week  average from ours not all leads to work as don’t need anymore so I turn a lot down but I think an on line presence is important in this day and age  especially if trying to build a round . Our website only costs a very small seo  annual payment Nathaniel Jones at Avondhu internet services did it years ago and has just updated it I would thoroughly recommend him excellent job at a reasonable price . 

[stuartb]

Thank you very much for your replies. I really appreciate it guys. Excellent incentive to create a good web presence. Any tips?

[Smudger]

Get a professional

Not jones is pretty good but not sure he hasn't moved onto other stuff

Darran

[Splash & dash]

Get a professional

Not jones is pretty good but not sure he hasn't moved onto other stuff

Darran

He’s still doing them as he updated mine last week , I phoned him and within the day he had done it , very quick and efficient and he didn’t evan charge me for it well impressed .

[jonboywalton75]

+1 for Nat Jones
I built a free one which brought some in, i pay £30 a month now, absolute bargain.
Winding down towards retirement now but I just take best stuff on, refine my round and sell other work off
Easier than slogging at my age.
Got a job to price on Wednesday, probably £2000 job as a one off, may get it every. 6 months or so.
I'll just sub contract out to other windies and will earn good money for probably half a days work.
Without the website, nada
My free website which is still up generates hardly a bean nowadays

[jonboywalton75]

+1 for Nat Jones
I built a free one which brought some in, i pay £30 a month now, absolute bargain.
Winding down towards retirement now but I just take best stuff on, refine my round and sell other work off
Easier than slogging at my age.
Got a job to price on Wednesday, probably £2000 job as a one off, may get it every. 6 months or so.
I'll just sub contract out to other windies and will earn good money for probably half a days work.
Without the website, nada
My free website which is still up generates hardly a bean nowadays

Job turned out to be over £3000.00
Yearly
We'll see if my quote wins