How to Start a Website for Your Painting Business

After running a very successful direct mail campaign I started my own website. What started out slow in the way of response grew over a period of 2 years, to the point where I can envision not doing direct mail in a few years.

First I am not telling you to create the site yourself. But you need to think about what to say. Starting a website for your painting business begins with your web design. What I mean is that you need to think about what it takes to reach the people in your area. You will want to advertise by mentioning the areas local to you that you want to service. After all it won't do you any good getting calls from across the country, so you will want to confine your region. Of course having photos is very good. Then telling what you do in your business is necessary.

After you have started to firm up your thoughts go to the keyword link and research the most popular keywords that are stimulating click through to the keywords in your niche, and use these keywords in your content. You will want a page that you can ask questions, like what their name, address, email is and what is the age of the house? (I want to know if there is know if there is lead paint in the house). I like to ask if the customer ever had experience with a contractor and what kind of experience did they have. What did they want out of the paint job? This page can be set up with an automatic email back to you.

Once you begin to firm up in your mind what you want in your web site then contact http://www.freelancer.com, this is a site where people contact where people can outsource their web design work to a professional web site designer for a fraction of the cost because these designers bid on your site work. https://adwords.google.com: keyword tool

Next, you are probably thinking that this will cost a fortune; fear not, I paid under $100 for a website builder to create my site. And I am currently paying $3.95 per month for a hosting plan. Be prepared for some new experiences, and if you do a good job picking good keywords and content, you will have a good response rate. Once the site is up and running you will see how little effort it takes to have customers call you or email you.

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