I wrote about this in a prior post, but there needs to be a clarification and the product I recommended last time has been upgraded so I am posting this again.  It’s important to your business – if you want your prospective customers to find you online.

10-15% of all online searches today are done on cell phones and other smaller screened devices.  Your businesses web page will not show, or if it does, will not be easy to view on most of these devices.

What that means to you is that you are loosing out on potential business when a prospect cannot find you and your home staging services when they do a search unless you take steps to make your sites, “mobile ready.”

There are inexpensive solutions that have recently been brought to market if you are even the least bit tech savvy.  You will need to know how to access your server and upload items to it if you have a web page.  If you have a wordpress blog, which is my top recommendation for most home stagers, you will simply need to acquire, upload and activate a plug in.

Alternatively, if you are dependent on a third person web master you want to have a discussion with them sooner rather than later about making your web or blog site, “Mobile Ready.”

Costs for setting up a site so it is mobile ready will vary by provider. I have heard rates ranging up to $300 and more.  On the other hand, if you are or know someone who is tech savvy you can get one or the other of the following tools for much much less.  One reason why I encourage business people to learn the basics of web management so they can save themselves some of these costs. One tool is for web sites. The other for blogs.

For Web Sites
Mobi Connects for Web Sites

For Blogs:
Mobi Connect Plug In for Blogs

In the coming months and year of two the number of people searching online via their cell phones is going to mushroom. If you are mobile ready, you will have a distinct advantage over your local competitors who are not.

Make the move now, and be ahead of the curve.

Setting up a web page is only the beginning to online marketing. Now you need to get it seen by potential customers. This used to be challenging in many markets, but there has been a big change in what matters. Today, what matters is being seen on the Google Places Page, and you don't even need to have a web site to do that. (although you should.) The good news is that its free, and if you know what you are doing, you can maneuver yourself to the top listing in many markets. That's one of the skill sets I bring to the table. If you would like to get your Google Places Page properly set up send me an email at enetwal@gmail.com and put "Free Initial Evaluation" or something similar in the subject line. Be sure to include your current web site and contact info.

Have you tried to look up your website on your cell phone?

Probably not nearly as classy a site as when seen on your laptop is it?

As soon as possible you need to convert your site so it looks good on phones, after all almost half of all searches to Facebook for example are now made by cell phone and most other sites are nearly that high as well.

Things keep changing, don’t they.

Click on the image below and you will be taken to a great new very inexpensive tool that will help you create mobile phone ready sites. Your site will then be visible on iphones, android phones, ipad and widows mobile devices and more.

Look for the video area and watch the four videos.  It really is easy to use, but then I play with this techie stuff all day every day. That said, it’s not very techie at all, and you could double your sites exposure in your market place. And since most other homestagers in your area are probably not mobile ready, you may find yourself one of the few your prospects can even find.

Mobile is growing rapidly, and if you want to capture more than your share of that market, this is you quickest and easiest way to lean the ropes and give yourself an advantage.

Or you can click this link: http://webtrafficdominator.net/links/2732

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Setting up a web page is only the beginning to online marketing. Now you need to get it seen by potential customers. This used to be challenging in many markets, but there has been a big change in what matters. Today, what matters is being seen on the Google Places Page, and you don't even need to have a web site to do that. (although you should.) The good news is that its free, and if you know what you are doing, you can maneuver yourself to the top listing in many markets. That's one of the skill sets I bring to the table. If you would like to get your Google Places Page properly set up send me an email at enetwal@gmail.com and put "Free Initial Evaluation" or something similar in the subject line. Be sure to include your current web site and contact info.

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