Nadia Majid
Well-Known Member
Apologies ...i will remove my response ..didn't mean to cause offense.
Had a professional website built and still no business, help
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Apologies ...i will remove my response ..didn't mean to cause offense.
Nadia Majid
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oh god!! apologies again... thank you for explaining ..i really thought i offended you .....
hard to understand the tone behind words when its written down..
Beautybumblebee
Well-Known Member
I did my website myself, www.moseleyhaven.co.uk it links to my Facebook page too. I strongly recommend leaflets, I got 90% of my bookings when I first started from going out and leafletting through houses by me, you can be selective on the roads etc too.
Make sure your website contains key words and is linked up to google so it is easily found through search engines.
I contained the area I live and work in in my business name so its one of the first beauty businesses to pop up when searching for treatments in that specific area
hope that helps somewhat
all the best x
Make sure your website contains key words and is linked up to google so it is easily found through search engines.
I contained the area I live and work in in my business name so its one of the first beauty businesses to pop up when searching for treatments in that specific area
hope that helps somewhat
all the best x
I did my website myself, www.moseleyhaven.co.uk it links to my Facebook page too. I strongly recommend leaflets, I got 90% of my bookings when I first started from going out and leafletting through houses by me, you can be selective on the roads etc too.
Make sure your website contains key words and is linked up to google so it is easily found through search engines.
I contained the area I live and work in in my business name so its one of the first beauty businesses to pop up when searching for treatments in that specific area
hope that helps somewhat
all the best x
Thank you.
I've been thinking about getting some leaflets. I've heard Vista are good. Can you recommend anyone? x
Tan Eraser
Active Member
Hi vanilla,
I'd recommend updating your copyright notice on your website to 2017 as it is still set as 2015 and can be another thing that makes people think you are no longer trading.
Also when you say you are paying a monthly fee, how much are we talking about? You should only be paying £2 - £3 a month for hosting.
Jamie
I'd recommend updating your copyright notice on your website to 2017 as it is still set as 2015 and can be another thing that makes people think you are no longer trading.
Also when you say you are paying a monthly fee, how much are we talking about? You should only be paying £2 - £3 a month for hosting.
Jamie
topaz1
Well-Known Member
Hi Vanilla
There are lots of things that you can do easily to improve your website many of which you could do your self if you can get into your website back office. I agree that you need to post to your Facebook page more often as people will often check out both to see if they want to visit you or not.
You need to use your own photos not just company stock photos. For tanning you can definitely take before and after photos. You could also take brow shape photos to. Ask all your clients to like your Facebook page, ask them to write you a review. People like to see social proof. All of your online media should work together and support each other with links to each other. Happy to help you with more advice if you like. x
There are lots of things that you can do easily to improve your website many of which you could do your self if you can get into your website back office. I agree that you need to post to your Facebook page more often as people will often check out both to see if they want to visit you or not.
You need to use your own photos not just company stock photos. For tanning you can definitely take before and after photos. You could also take brow shape photos to. Ask all your clients to like your Facebook page, ask them to write you a review. People like to see social proof. All of your online media should work together and support each other with links to each other. Happy to help you with more advice if you like. x
Hi Vanilla,
My day job is around website building, web design and development and if I can share one piece of advice is learn to maintain it yourself, and know exactly what you are buying. You may be paying only for the hosting in which case updating the content is your side of the bargain. There are so many resources online. Get to know your cms and use it. You site is your digital calling card. Social media is great for interaction but the site is the front of your store.
My day job is around website building, web design and development and if I can share one piece of advice is learn to maintain it yourself, and know exactly what you are buying. You may be paying only for the hosting in which case updating the content is your side of the bargain. There are so many resources online. Get to know your cms and use it. You site is your digital calling card. Social media is great for interaction but the site is the front of your store.
redlottie13
JUST BE NICE
Hey all I'm in the same boat...I built mine through weebly (pretty easy) i get a lot of enquires through Facebook but not my website!
Would you at all mind advising me (sorry op to jump on your waggon)
www.giingerhairboutique.com
Please be gentle with me
Would you at all mind advising me (sorry op to jump on your waggon)
www.giingerhairboutique.com
Please be gentle with me
BannerPenguin
Well-Known Member
You may want to pay to get rid of the weebly advertising and the font is unreadable.
If you keep an eye on my blog you may see some marketing tips over the coming weeks
- https://www.penguinmedia.co.uk/blog/
redlottie13
JUST BE NICE
You may want to pay to get rid of the weebly advertising and the font is unreadable.
If you keep an eye on my blog you may see some marketing tips over the coming weeks
Is it really?....Thank you
I will do x
The font is difficult to read. Also, there's quite a few grammatical & punctuation errors. I know nothing about where you work from your website. Am I stepping into a luxury boutique salon, or a rented chair in a barbershop? If I don't know as a customer, than I can't know if it's a 'me' kind of place. Besides the products you use, there's nothing in the copy that tells me how or why you are better than your competitors. Are you promoting your site? Is it top of search engine rankings? Listed in online directories? I also wonder if having 'ginger' with two 'I's makes it hard for people to find the site.
Hope this helps! [emoji5]
Hope this helps! [emoji5]
redlottie13
JUST BE NICE
Thank you
Yeah I thought this but it was the only way around having a website ending in ( .Co )
I was avoiding the kind of place I am due to being in limbo ....However things are clearer now so I'll add that info and as for the search engine I have no idea would it be worth adding myself to directories ....Silly question does that improve my search ability ? (I'm the world's worst computer techy...Sorry )
thank you for the comments
pbfhpunk
Active Member
I think a question to think about is if all your info is on FB and your getting visits and customers to FB, then why pay for a website? This is normally the opposite of what I'd suggest, but I would spend more time at the moment building up your FB page. FB serves to have real life reviews and comments, people will also tend to look for it for special offers.
I had a friend I worked with on her dog grooming business, she'd had a site for a year and got no messaging through it and looking at the stats less than 100 visitors over a year -all her business came through recommendations and FB. We redirected her domain to her FB page and created shareable content, so pictures of all the dogs before and after and shared them with the owners so it appeared on their feed and upped her customer base that way.
The first site (Vanilla Bean hasn't had anything posted to FB since March 2016 - coupled with the out of date copyright on the site I'd wonder if you were still in business.
For the second, I agree with what others have said on here re: readability and errors you also don't seem to have a link to social apart from instagram at the bottom.
I'm a Digital Marketing Manager and freelance Digital Specialist
I had a friend I worked with on her dog grooming business, she'd had a site for a year and got no messaging through it and looking at the stats less than 100 visitors over a year -all her business came through recommendations and FB. We redirected her domain to her FB page and created shareable content, so pictures of all the dogs before and after and shared them with the owners so it appeared on their feed and upped her customer base that way.
The first site (Vanilla Bean hasn't had anything posted to FB since March 2016 - coupled with the out of date copyright on the site I'd wonder if you were still in business.
For the second, I agree with what others have said on here re: readability and errors you also don't seem to have a link to social apart from instagram at the bottom.
I'm a Digital Marketing Manager and freelance Digital Specialist
SuperStarSalon_Kirks
New Member
Depends on how hands on you want to be! If you just have someone build you a website it's a long shot that it will immediately start getting you new clients in unfortunately.
I was sent this recently and it's got all sorts of ideas in for doing things yourself http://www.growmysalon.online/offer , but it just takes time. There lots of similar ideas around on this forum too, or you can pay someone to do things.
Really does depend how much time you've got. If you have the time then give something like the marketing plans I tried a go... they actually work too! Definitely a bonus haha
I was sent this recently and it's got all sorts of ideas in for doing things yourself http://www.growmysalon.online/offer , but it just takes time. There lots of similar ideas around on this forum too, or you can pay someone to do things.
Really does depend how much time you've got. If you have the time then give something like the marketing plans I tried a go... they actually work too! Definitely a bonus haha
The design is lovely but you want your homepage to be, let's say short and sweet. Maybe an image that represents your work, a one liner about your services/business and you contacts. Reserve your text to your about page or long winded descriptions for your bio. Hope it helps!
