15 free ways to expand your online presence
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15 Free ways to
expand your online presence&
How to get a free website.
FREE LISTINGS
WHY?• 61% of global Internet users research products
online.
• 60% of all organic clicks go to the organic top 3 search results.
• YouTube has become the 2nd Largest Search Engine – bigger than Bing, Yahoo, Ask & AOL combined.
Can you be found?
• Do you have a website?
• Are you listed in local search engine results?
• How to develop traffic?
Google Places
What does it cost?
FREE
&
One weekend (if you have no idea how to use the internet, otherwise 1 day)
What should it really cost?Lowest: Free (minimum should be $6.99 - $12.99 a year)
Highest: $1,500 a year
Average: $100 - $200 a year
Without any professional website design.
Professional design $2,000 – 10,000
What do you get?
• Branded E-Mail address• No more @yahoo or @gmail
• Website • Templates
• Local search listings
• Increased credibility
• Increased visibility
Hosting Sites
• Network Solutions
• Go Daddy
• 1 and 1
• WIX
Cost: $2.99 - $19.99 a month
(includes 1 domain name)
$9.99 / Month
“Word of Mouth”
And in 2010 ….
WOM + Internet = Social Media
Social Media• Pros:
– Free
– Helps in SEO
– Opportunity for people to talk and share
• Cons– No guarantees
– Difficult to track
– Opportunity for people to talk and share
• It’s Free
• It’s Easy
• You can share:– Photos
– Projects
– References
• You can give people an easy way to provide word of mouth marketing for you.
Other Options
• YouTube
• Many other sites
* If you do not have content to share or have someone dedicated to interacting these probably won’t help you.
Other Options
You can use a program to automatically update LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, when you update only one of them.
If This Then That : http://ifttt.com
You just have to link the accounts and it will do the rest automatically.
Where do you want to be?
LOCAL!
FREE LISTINGS
Local Listings - Google
Local Listings - Yahoo
To add a local listing follow the links below:1) Google Places
2) Bing Local
3) Yahoo Local (see bottom of page)
4) Insider Pages
5) Yelp
6) Angies List
7) Super Pages
8) City Search
9) Facebook Pages
10) Google +
11) Linked In
12) BlueBook
13) eLocal.com
14) JPCL
15) Contractors.com
Communities / Forums / Blogs
• Wordpress or Blogger.com
• Linkedin – Groups
• Roofing Talk
• Contractor Talk
• Roofing.com
• Roofers Coffee Shop
Domain Names
• Network Solutions
• Go Daddy
• 1 and 1
Cost: $6.99 - $12.99 a year
Thank You
You can download this presentation at:
www.whyreplace.com/pdfs/15_Free_Ways_2015.pdf