Are you part of a local network Group?

As the Atlanta home inspector’s wife, I often go to several different networking groups per month.  And this is the thing that I noticed about doing all of this.  I meet several people at these groups, but I never really really find out what all they do.  I know a lot of realtors also and work with several of them on a regular basis, but I got to thinking, do I know what their specialty is?  One of the reasons that I got to thinking about this is, this past week we had a client that had a need for a structural engineer, an electrician and a termite guy.  Luckily I knew just the guys to help with two of the items and I knew who I could call to get the third item handled. 

Another thing that got me to thinking about this was another story.  I went to lunch with a couple of lady friends over a week ago and one of them was saying something about the fact that she needed to find someone to help with her website, they have one up but it is nothing to brag about.  Well she continued to talk about this problem for several minutes and I finally asked her ” do you not know that I build wordpress websites?”  The look on her face was priceless, no she didn’t know and yet we have been friends for quite a while.  All she knew about me was that I do the marketing for our home inspection company.

How many people do you know and how can you begin to build your own network of people who you can recommend to others?  It is simple, start with those people that you use on a regular basis, add them to a reference sheet and if nothing else be prepared to hand it out to those clients who have questions.  People don’t forget those people who help them out on a regular basis.  You can be the “Go To Person”!

If you need a great website built be sure to check out some of my wordpress websites I’ve built, this website and several others have been built or maintained by me.  And several have great google rankings.  Don’t know what I mean by Google Rankings check back soon, I’m going to be doing a post on it also.

Atlanta home inspectors wife says “Staying in touch = More Business!

There are so many different ways to stay in touch now days, including different social media platforms. Even large Fortune 500 companies are jumping on the band wagon of Twitter. Now days you have to stay in touch with the consumer and you have to do it online and offline. I love Facebook and and Ping.fm to stay in touch online and of course email is still an option!  Are you using all the tools out there to keep you in touch.  Are you connecting with your clients and their friends on Facebook?  Are you posting video testimonials on YouTube?  Are you blogging about your day and your business on your blog?   Do you send out Thank You notes to your clients, referral sources and those you meet? These are just a few of the places that you can get connected through.  Put something to use today, you’ll be glad you did. 

I am the wife of a busy Atlanta home inspector and I do most of the marketing for our home inspection business.  I am constantly online learning about SEO, social network marketing, blogging, Google adwords and anything relating to the internet.  I teach classes and tele-seminars about blogging and social media.  I am part of an Internet Success Marketing Mastermind group and love helping people in general.  You can follow me on Twitter and on Face book.

The Atlanta home inspectors wife shares how to do a link

As the Atlanta home inspectors wife, I have been blogging and marketing for over two years and I know how much time I have spent trying to learn how to do the simplest things when marketing online.  I put together this video that is not that great, but gives you a quick glance at how to do a link in a blog post. 

 

Check back often to learn more about linking, blogging and online marketing.  Call me or check out my services page for information on how you can get one on one personalized help today. 

“Are you advertising here? If not… You should be!” says the Atlanta home inspectors wife

As the Atlanta Home Inspectors wife I love learning about the latest technology, tho YouTube is not new or even remotely new.  As our primary marketing person, I look for different ways to market our business without it costing us an arm and a leg, and in today’s market, we all need cheap.  One of the best ways that I have found is to do our own YouTube Videos.  I found the following press release just the other day that confirms my ideas that YouTube is huge.  YouTube is now one of the largest places being searched on the Internet.  Are your clients able to find you there?

 Press Release

 

There is always great information to be found

As the Atlanta Home Inspectors wife I do a lot of research online and I love ActiveRain for valuable information.  One of my friends, Michael Thorton, wrote a great article  about  an application called Nearby Tweets.  From the best I can tell it looks like a pretty cool application that you can find the local folks with.  I’m planning on going over myself and checking it out.   You should also head over to Michael’s blog as you never know what you are going to find there.  He shares some amazing pictures and some thought provoking messages. 

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