Fredrick

Garage Rick here. My earlier post about websites and marketing is supposed to be helpful information. I am disclosing how we found a complete system that works for marketing our site and business. We mainly design homes and we publish some information about garage tips. That site is a small part of what we do. There are many ways to find business and the leads you are looking for, and to get your company name to the right target audience. If you want to go to sitesell directly, just type in their company address directly into your browser. That will bypass us and you will see the exact information that i am talking about. My point is that this is a system that is working for us and not anything more than that. I was not expecting that type of response to the information i was sharing. If you want to delete the post that is okay with me. Rick www.garagetips-101.com

Hi John, We went with SiteSell for our website and marketing of our site. The main reason we went with SiteSell is that we could get every tool available for a website and all the marketing we would ever need. I think we have a link on our site into the SiteSell software in the right column of the page. It probably says powered by SiteSell or Affiliate link. We found that we could build our own site with all the technical details left to the SBI technical people. It is what we call a block builder system for the folks who have the time to do it yourself. We happened to have enough time to do our site, so we started up April 14, 2011 and registered the domain name and we are 5 1/2 months into building our own marketing system that has put us in the top 1% of websites in the world. If you go over to Alexa.com you can input any website address and see how it ranks in the US and Worldwide. I think this morning our garage tips-101 site was at 49,000 in the US and around 320,00 Worldwide. That site we built attracts around 13,000 page views per month. Each month we climb up over most of the other sites, simply by following their system. Fred and I have created around 70 pages to our website so far and we are winning for around 40 keywords on our site. Eventually we will hit #1 on Google, Yahoo, and Bing for all of our keywords. Anyway, we found that after years of messing around with other website software and the piecemeal approach, it was a giant spend with little return on investment. We had our house plans up on a different system for 18 months and we wasted 18 months and plenty of money on other systems. Anyway if you are handy in the website building, they sell that package as a software bundle by the year or you can hire SiteSell to do it for you. Anyway it is the only system we use now. Check out our home page and hit the link into sitesell or sbi and see if that type of system works for you.

The garages that i have built have been both insulated and uninsulated. The main factor was what the owner intended to use the garage for. The last garage build i did was an unattached garage 24 X 60. We insulated the walls and ceiling and then installed 1/2 inch 4' x 8' structure board (plywood) with strands, just like you would install drywall over your studs with the cut outs for the windows and outlets. We finished the lid (ceiling) with ribbed steel panels (white). The owner uses the garage as his out door woodworking shop. Below the concrete slab is radiant heat pipe with a water heater and controls that run the whole heating system. Very efficient way to heat a garage or workshop.