It’s our job to be prepared for whatever your sales prospects look like 3 months out, 6 months out, 9 months out. With proper preparation, your sales will not take a hit, and hopefully, they’ll prosper. So what does...
GETTING MOVING LEADS UPDATE: “EXPERIENCE”
Who said they’re not in the Holiday mood in Palo Alto? Just after we began explaining E-A-T to you in our newsletter last week, Google goes and changes it! You see why SEO never stops…because Google never stops! Here’s...
HOW TO KILL LEADS FROM YOUR WEBSITE PART 3
This is our third article in a series of three on killing website leads. We have already covered: Stale Google Customer Reviews and Weak Content. This week: MOVING LEADS KILLER PART 3: Unoptimized Google Business Profile CLAIM IT: Your...
HOW TO KILL LEADS FROM YOUR WEBSITE PART 2
As we said last week, when you work on optimizing as many moving company websites as we do, you begin to see some patterns. Among these patterns is what moving companies are doing to diminish the performance of their...
HOW TO KILL LEADS FROM YOUR WEBSITE PART I
When you work on optimizing as many moving company websites as we do, and have over the past decade, you begin to see some patterns. Among these patterns is what moving companies are doing to diminish the performance of...
THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN
All the bellyaching and complaining is not going to change a thing. If you want low-cost moving leads, your website must have traffic which means it’s got to be on the front page of Google for some set of...
BUSINESS SUCKS, NOW WHAT?
It doesn’t take a degree in Economics to see what is happening to your business right now. In brief, the Federal Reserve has kept the interest rates at almost zero since the housing crash of 2008. They first needed...
TELL GOOGLE YOUR SITE IS POPULAR
Believe it or not, for as much of a monopoly as Google has, they still are striving to display the most highly relevant and high-quality search results possible. So their engineers have written code to determine in thousands of...
STORAGE PAYS THE RENT
It’s no secret home sales are slowing down. So are the listings. Prices are still sky high and most people with 2% mortgages don’t like the idea of selling now and moving into a new home where they’ll be...
“TRUST” AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOUR SALES
There are pretty much no secrets anymore, I think that we can all agree on that. So, where does that put you in managing your moving company? One bad move…one broken mirror, one chipped dining room table, one dent...
WHAT SHOULD A MOVING LEAD COST?
We all know that keeping the cost of a moving lead well under $100 is your goal. But is that possible? Should moving companies be budgeting more? Here’s our take on it: LEAD COSTS VARY BY INDUSTRY: Business Products...
How to Survive the Moving Company Sales Slowdown – Summer 2022
By all accounts, it has not been a big sales summer for moving companies. We hear things like: Worst May ever (in over 15 years). Tepid. Blah. Sharp drop-off in the middle of July. You probably have your version...
SNIPPET IMAGES ON GOOGLE
We all want our search results on Google to stand out. We all want our websites to appear on Page 1 of Google. How this is accomplished is what SEO Marketing is all about. How it’s done would take...
VOICE SEARCH
You may be among the millions of people who own an Amazon Alexa, a Google Assistant or other “smart speaker”. I say millions because Amazon sold 65 million Alexas in 2021 alone and Google has sold over 52 million...
THE BREAK-UP OF GOOGLE?
As you may know, Google is facing serious pressure in Congress as well as the EU about alleged anti-competitive practices. As part of the proposed solution, it faces the prospect of spinning off its ad business to a third...