Digital Content Marketing Award for MyOnlineToolbox
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Enhance Your Company Image
While Boosting Traffic to Your Website
by Being Your Own Programmer

Grow Your Business With More Quality Leads

A website is a critical component to your marketing, both from an image perspective and also a lead generation opportunity.
Background

Many companies, such as A. Leigh Construction featured here, have been successful when doing their own website programming. This is not as easy as it sounds and MyOnlineToolbox warns you to be careful when making this decision. You need to really have an interest and commitment to updating the website and addressing technical challenges when they arise. Some are successful for a short time and then simply lose interest. Others are able to maintain the same enthusiasm to maintaining the marketing as they have when first building their marketing.

A. Leigh Construction took the approach to learn a little about marketing and website SEO through the Basic Class and Advanced Class. They also had a Marketing Plan to help guide them for their long term marketing objectives.

Disclaimer: Certain operational details are omitted to protect the contractor’s business strategy.

Areas Served for Remodeler Website Programmer
Marketing Strategy

A. Leigh Construction had a very rudimentary website, with no focus. The isolated their services and also isolated their service areas. Isolating the service areas was not easy since there were about 20 locations they are willing to go to. However, you need to visit their website to see the ones that matter most.

Website Strategy

The goal to boost traffic to a new contractor website begins by creating as many new pages with different content. A. Leigh Construction has a unique ability to articulate what they do and MyOnlineToolbox guided them how to build their story. They never looked back once a template was organized. We began by creating a file structure where A. Leigh Construction would first organize all their pictures into groups based on the service or location. Then all images needed to renamed for Search Engine Optimization. Stories were told and then the new website was created.

Getting started is a one-time effort, but maintaining the effort as time passes is a tougher achievement.

Remodeler Website Programmer with Featured Projects
Low Volume High Quality by Website Programmer

Since 2018, by doing their own programming, this contractor has been able to consistently attract low volume, yet high quality opportunities. The engagement rate shows the majority of new visitors find the search results to be applicable to their searching. More important is, once a visitor finds the website, they stay around for about 50 seconds. This is an astonishing accomplishment for a remodeler who is doing their own programming.

Tying Everything Together

Combining Education and Strategy was important to get this contractor in the right direction with their marketing efforts. In this case, the owner’s words make the impact that many can envy.

“Our business was struggling to make a profit, but MyOnlineToolbox has helped us learn to upgrade our image and grow our business tremendously over the past 3 years. The phone is ringing more often and we are seeing better quality leads for larger projects. So much so that we are finally able to draw a reasonable salary and have net profit at the end of the year. We are on target to double our sales in 2022. There is a lot to know about Marketing & SEO but they do a great job providing you with the basics so you understand the plan. They make it very easy to implement changes and add content to our website in the proper way to build organic traffic. Contracting is very competitive. MyOnlineToolbox education will definitely help you stand out!

Amanda Jeffrey, A. Leigh Construction, Virginia

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Absolutely. But there are many ways that we can do so depending on where you are in your business growth.

You must be a student of both the Basic Class and Advanced Class for us to assist in any capacity.

Some people are building their own website on their own and want simple guidance. Some people have a website that doesn’t seem to be performing well but perhaps can be salvaged with just some entry level marketing guidance. Some others have a nice start so they desire to turn it up a notch with the next level of marketing guidance. Others are looking to work with a dedicated construction- oriented website company and we can guide you in the right direction too. However, our approach is so different since we don't just give out names for many reasons, and mostly because programming companies tend to target specific types of contracting clients based on size, complexity and investment for marketing. We don't want to waste your time or their time if it is not a right fit. It's like saying you want a car but have not stated you are looking for a Kia, Ford, Mercedes or Lamborghini. Yes, they all may get from point A to Z, but there is a big difference and we can help you best decide.

Then there are those who are looking to have a thorough plan in place that encompasses a strategy for your services, locations, competition and growth. These companies, subject to our interview policies, engage us for a Strategic Marketing Plan that includes both the Education Classes as part of our Diamond Marketing Engagement.

The Basic Class topics ensure the foundation of your marketing efforts help specifically your website itself. So many times people (owners and programmers) build a website they believe will bring them leads only to find out much later that the Search Engines are bypassing them entirely. We look to ensure you understand enough so the structure of your site looks to not only provide a text and graphical representation of what you do, but also enough so the search engines can understand what you do in order to be ranked for search placement.

The Advanced Class topics take it one step further by expanding on topics that are either extra for your website, or perhaps externally supporting your website. Testimonials are one example where they can help both your site for fresh content or consumer rankings depending on where they are obtained. Mapping, Video and Facebook Social Sharing are external topics that also can support your rankings.

Both the Basic and Advanced Classes combined are far less expensive to Lead Generation companies who mostly focus on short term opportunities while the classes are designed to guide you to ongoing long term quality reputation and direct to your website opportunities.

Too many owners, programmers and social folk create a very short-term solution regarding their marketing efforts. Yet this is one of your most critical components to long term success. Too many view a website passively while we are so much more successful when a businessperson realizes that marketing is an important aspect to any business, and the website is a piece of marketing.

A simple analogy is deciding on a pen, paper, word processor or even chalk, none of it matters if you do not know how to write.

It is hard when someone really doesn’t believe in marketing, so that is the challenge that is hard for us. But once you realize that while there may be shortcuts to getting found online, the smart move is to position for quality opportunities over a sustained period of time. That requires just a limited amount of marketing and website education.

We intentionally like to ensure you know the difference of products we sell (available anytime by anyone) and service we provide (under certain circumstances).

We sell Marketing Education Classes, both Basic & Advanced. They are perfect for company owners. They greatly help programmers who are good at website development but are not good at website marketing which is an entirely different subject matter. They work well for social marketers who may be proficient with technologies such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube but they are not proficient with industry specific topics.

We provide a consulting service, on a limited basis, and after we talk to you for those who are looking to be very strategic with their Marketing Planning. This includes reviewing existing websites and all the Branding and SEO topics that surround the website. Sometimes an existing website can be upgraded and sometimes a brand-new website will be needed. Sometimes we can use your same resources and sometimes we need to replace the existing resources. You must be ready to participate in this endeavor.

Technically everyone needs a plan in some fashion or then you have no way of organizing the process for success. Going through the Basic & Advanced Classes could at least reduce the risk of avoiding the most common mistakes when launching a new website.

Most desire to get a website going as fast and inexpensive as possible. Many will feel intimidation for the extra time and money required or even perhaps there is simply no understanding about marketing and subsequent strategies.

The answer is Yes you should have a Marketing Plan. No, you do not need a Marketing Plan but you will make better strides by taking our classes.

The Basic & Advanced Classes will at least give you a stronger direction to enhancing your own branding, website development, or working better with your website programmer. In other words, the classes can help supplement your Marketing Planning by clearly understanding the direction you need to go.

Simply agree to take a short time to learn these industry specific Brand Marketing and Website SEO principles.

So many get a MBA for business without knowing what type of company they will be a part of. Many of the first things they learn is marketing topics. Yet many contractors go into business first and skip this step all together. All you need to do is realize you skipped an important step to growing any business and realize there are some classes just for your type of business to bring you forward, inexpensively and without much of a time commitment.

All our testimonials are mostly designed to help inspire you to further educate yourself. .

It all begins with you being excited, not intimidated and willing to give up just a few days to learn a lifetime of marketing benefits.