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People still look at websites? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by livinginalonleyworld@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I own a couple businesses, and one which is a niche construction business is taking off. As in it is growing so fast I may need to actually hire full time employees… which I also dread.

Yesterday, I received two phone calls and both asked if I had a website. To keep costs down, I have not had a website built, but I guess that needs to change. On the other businesses, the websites are built but no one looks at them from the monthly emails I get on who has been to my site. Now, people are looking for this business.

For those who understand, I’m in that growing stage where I need to spend money to grow, but I don’t want to risk the spending in case something may happen. Websites, needing to upgrade my business apps, ordering large amounts of supplies and employees.

I guess I’m just taken aback by how odd people have been due to a lack of websites when I have never had anyone really look before. Which now I’m up at the witching hour doing estimates, invoices, and now checking on at least a static website maker.

I have heard of GitHub, but does anyone recommend any other static website making types? Any help would be appreciated.

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[–] kiamori@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A really good website for a small construction company is going to be in the $1500-3500 range. The number of estimate requests and project consultation requests it will generate will pay for itself 300 fold.

Dont fall into the website builders trap, in the long run you will pay way more in fees for a crappy website. Your time is much better spent being a GC then messing around with a website builder that will never get your to the top of search.

Contractor services is one of my firms niche markets and we have good data on this. You should be getting 3-5 requests a day via your website in a town of 200k with average competition in the GC business.

Find someone local if you can, its totally worth having a good website.

[–] QueenLunaDomina@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

CARRD! one-page websites (but you can create the illusion of multiple pages lol) for free or $19 of you want extra features. $19 per year!!

For THIS POST & their needs, it sounded to me like he's looking for something simple and low cost. No e-commerce, local business so they're not trying to outrank worldwide competition so it's probably ok to forego some of the seo & optimization features, at least for now.

With carrd, they can do a nice homepage, list of services & prices, contact form, about page, links to social... in about a day for under $25 😬

https://try.carrd.co/k1yvrllk

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