Contractors - Update Your Profiles!
Monday, August 04, 2008
The deadline is approaching to update your online profiles with ConstructionDeal.com!
Make sure customers can see you! Your old profile will be deleted soon. Without completed profiles, your business will drop from sight in our Contractor Directory.
We are constantly working to improve our services. With specific profiles for each type of work you perform, we're giving you the chance to advertise your specialties. For example, if your business does roofing, siding, and fencing work, you get to make a profile for each category. You'll be able to enter license, insurance, and details on each of those categories!
Click on Create Profile for each category you've chosen. Describe your business in brief as well as in full detail. Provide any license, insurance and bond information that applies. Finally, tell people about your associations and awards related to your business.
This is a great way to tell potential clients about your business. And it's another way we're helping your business get more exposure!
Update your profiles today.
Make sure customers can see you! Your old profile will be deleted soon. Without completed profiles, your business will drop from sight in our Contractor Directory.
We are constantly working to improve our services. With specific profiles for each type of work you perform, we're giving you the chance to advertise your specialties. For example, if your business does roofing, siding, and fencing work, you get to make a profile for each category. You'll be able to enter license, insurance, and details on each of those categories!
Click on Create Profile for each category you've chosen. Describe your business in brief as well as in full detail. Provide any license, insurance and bond information that applies. Finally, tell people about your associations and awards related to your business.
This is a great way to tell potential clients about your business. And it's another way we're helping your business get more exposure!
Update your profiles today.
Labels: ConstructionDeal.com, Directory
Contractors: Be Found - Internet Usage at Work is Up!
Friday, December 14, 2007
More and more of your potential clients are spending time online while they're at work. Almost a full workday, 7.8 hours per week, in fact. That comes out to 31 hours per 4-week month. It's increased 70% since 2001. *What Does this All Mean for Your Contracting Business?
A lot.
More and more people are searching for what they want online, and they're doing it while they are on the job.
Will they find your services while they are searching? They may be searching for a remodeler, plumber, landscaper, or architect by using any of the search engines. They might click on a Pay-per-Click ad but most look at the "natural" or "organic" search results.
How do you show up in the natural or organic search results? The search engines must consider you an "authority" that can provide the searcher with what they're looking for.
How Can ConstructionDeal.com Help My Company Show Up Naturally?
This brings us to a great advantage of listing your company in the ConstructionDeal.com Contractor Directory. Not only will our thousands of daily visitors be able to view your business on our Directory, your listing becomes part of what the popular search engines are looking for. For example, Google and Yahoo! both search our website every day and will discover your business name in our Directory. Even if you have your own website, it's not as popular or as heavily indexed as our site. If you look at your Directory listing, you'll see that we have put your business name within the URL address -- right after our website address. And it looks something like this:
www.ConstructionDeal.com/ company/XYZ_Contractor
Having your business name listed as part of our website gives your company more power when it comes to showing up in the major search engines. It's possible that, after a while, people may be searching online for your business and find your ConstructionDeal.com Contractor Directory listing before they find your own website. It's important to make sure you include lots of potent "keywords" in your company details page that describes what you do.
As more people are utilizing the Internet to find what they need, you want to do everything possible to make sure they can find your business.
Also, don't forget about our Priority Directory Listing Plan -- this puts your company's Business Card at the very top of the page. Very few search three or four pages down into ANY directory so you can make sure your listing gets seen first... this means more calls directly to you and more work. All for only $199 for six months.
* Source - eMarketer
Labels: Directory, Small Business Marketing
Your Directory Listing is Live
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Thanks to many of our network members who have taken the time to update their listing in our Contractor Directory. We have tips for those who have not had the chance to maximize their online exposure. Thousands of project owners a day are scanning our Directory, looking for your services, and we want them to choose your business.Do You Do That?
Many have signed up to view leads in other categories than the ones they perform. Now would be a great time to check your "Preferences" to make sure you're not listed in a category that you don't do. Avoid calls for services you cannot perform.
A Rose By Any Other Name
Does your company provide more than one service? Probably. Consider a name change for your listing if you do. If your business is listed as "Joe's Painting" and you also do drywall, it's a good bet that you might not receive many drywall job calls. Try "Joe's Painting & Drywall" or "Joe's Remodeling".
Project owners want to know you can help before they pick up the phone.
Capitalization Infatuation
A few of our network contractors do not know where the shift key is on their keyboard to make a capital letter. Others use nothing but all CAPS. Do your business a favor and put your best foot forward. Update your business description, company name, and even your contact name with correct capitalization. To most computer users, THIS LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE SHOUTING AT THEM!
and this looks like joe's plumbing service just doesn't care. don't you think? make sure you capitalize when and where necessary. believe me. and it's necessary. right, joe?
Simply open up your copy of the yellow pages and see if you can notice all the correct capitalization, grammar, slogans, and business information. Present your company well and they just might call you...
Update your listing and find more work. If you're not sure how to do it or you need guidance, we're here to help. Call our Customer Support team at 866-663-4711 and we'll walk you through it. Otherwise, log in to your account and click on "My Company" and "Preferences" and review your listing.
Our visitors are waiting to find you.
Labels: Directory
The Contractor Directory is Live!
Monday, October 15, 2007
All the members of our network are now listed in the ConstructionDeal.com Contractor Directory. It is a free listing and your business may be getting phone calls from project owners who found you on our website. Whether you're only registered, for free, to monitor our services or you are subscribed to one of our premium lead plans, your company is in our Directory.This is the perfect time to log in to your account to make sure all your business information is current and correct:
- Check for spelling and grammar problems
- Fix company names and contact names without capitalization
- Review your listing of categories. If a project owner is looking for your services, you want to make sure you can actually perform the work.
- You also have space to provide a company slogan, a short business description, and an extended description. This is your chance to really sell your company to our Directory visitors.
- List specialties, associations, awards, license and insurance details, and more.
This is another way we're helping provide contractors with even more job leads. This is an opportunity for you to receive exclusive leads from project owners who have chosen your company from our Directory. If you're interested in gaining greater exposure, consider our Priority Listing Plan. This membership plan places you at the very top of our Contractor Directory for a low flat fee that covers you for an entire six months. Many of your competitors may have already signed up and are getting calls that could have gone to your small business.
If you have questions about your Directory listing or you need help filling out your profile, call our Customer Support Department (Mon - Fri 9am-5pm PST) at 866-663-4711 or email at support (at) constructiondeal (dot) com.
And, if you're not even registered with ConstructionDeal.com yet, join today! It's free. You can review how many leads we have in your area, as well as a 60-day past history of job leads. for as long as you'd like. And by registering your company with us, you'll be placed in our Directory at no cost.
Labels: Directory
