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Meetups in my local area (Sydney) is what works best for me.
Startup / Coworking places like Fishburners (here in Sydney) are also a great place to network.
Up0I agree with Dave and his comment above … the tradesmen search niche is a touch one. There are already many established players in this market – so you need to be good to make it. Is your site finished … I noticed that several of the services I checked had “example service” and no listing. Also agree with one of the previous comments that the site looks dated (just being honest, sorry). Better examples of design are ones line OneFlare and ServiceSeeking … take a look at them https://www.oneflare.com.au as examples of sites that look modern and fresh look and feel. These guys obviously have invested time/money in high-end web designers … so use that to your advantage (as “inspiration” and to know what the current design trends are) when thinking about a web design for your site.
Up0I’d be careful about promising things that you may not be able to deliver on:
http://www.seorankup.com.au/services/
It says on that page “Rank First” …. are you guaranteeing that? what happens if a clients doe not “rank first” … are you going to give a refund?Up0I’d be thinking about your target demographic …. luxury bedding = homeowners with time and money to spend I’d say. For me I’d take a walk around areas with high disposable income and concentration of … Mosman comes to mind, has lots of large house.
Maybe also have a look at some of your more successfull competitors and the suburbs they’re located in – think about is there room for both of you to operate ?Up0Have you thought about providing some examples of guitars that you’ve made + indicative prices. If you put a range of differently prices examples (from cheaper options right through to your top end products) on your website … thats going to give potential clients an “idea” of what your prices are like … and is likely to weed out a fair percentage of tyre-kickers.
Up0you can certainly do that … using a combination of HTACCESS and 301 Redirects.
You will need to get hold of a competent Web Developer though – as you will need to make sure its done PROPERLY otherwise it could backfire dramatically.
e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7910740/redirect-all-pages-of-one-tld-to-anotherUp0I’ve used most of those sites in the past too … for me, the trick is to be able to screen the time-wasters quickly – because there is going to be alot of them. To be fair, that skill does take practice though. Being able to quickly screen responses and delete/ignore them is important, because THERE ARE some genuine customers (and suppliers) to be found on these forums … you just need to wade through alot of substandard options to find them.
Up0For me, the passion for owning/running my own business comes from a few sources:
- family time — I have a young family, and a big desire to be there for them during this time while they’re growing up. Being in the office working for a boss 9-5 doesnt offer me that flexibility, as I do have running my own business.
- office politics – I hate office politics. Running my own business means I have more control over who I choose to do business with.
- earning potential – my earning potential was pretty much capped whilst in the office environment. Whilst working for myself I have the uncapped potential !
- building a future for my kids – I hope to build a business that I can leave for my kids (should they choose to follow in my footsteps). Its a very uncertain world out there, and in my mind, having a business to step into for my children is an excellent Plan B !
Up0Hi Tom,
I’d try a couple of the online job sites – e.g. guru, gumtree (local).
I think you’d have a good chance of finding someone decent there, especially if you already have some Techy people in your organisation who can sift through the good/bad applications. (You’d be surprised that there are in fact some GOOD applicants on these types of sites – alot of duds for sure … but there are indeed some hidden gems in there to be found if you dig around)
Hope that helps
James
