shovelheadrob wrote:Looks a quality website & easy to find your way around, work looks top quality & I will be speaking to you later this year about some work. Only criticism would be to agree with Will on the lack of landline & address. If you weren't know to me through the club it might put me off.
Rob, the reason there is no land line is every one now uses mobiles so you can talk to me any time during the day you would only get a answer phone on land line, i'm not finishing until 8/9pm.
There's no address because, 25years ago i was self-employed and got timewasters all the time just wanting to look around, with no intention of having work done
Ashley I have a landline and pay £1.60 a month for call divert and all my company calls come straight to my mobile and if I want to call someone I use the company phone so they don't get my mobile.
A landline makes a lot of people a lot happier to deal with you.
Just my two cents
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shovelheadrob wrote:Looks a quality website & easy to find your way around, work looks top quality & I will be speaking to you later this year about some work. Only criticism would be to agree with Will on the lack of landline & address. If you weren't know to me through the club it might put me off.
Rob, the reason there is no land line is every one now uses mobiles so you can talk to me any time during the day you would only get a answer phone on land line, i'm not finishing until 8/9pm.
There's no address because, 25years ago i was self-employed and got timewasters all the time just wanting to look around, with no intention of having work done
I completely understand the reasoning behind the address and that is OK, but as Anton said for a few quid a month you can have a landline diverted to your mobile, it's all about giving people confidence to actually get in contact in the first place. Once they've seen your work it is no longer an issue. When I had a workshop I only had a mobile phone there, but I used my home phone landline as a contact, then it was either answered by my other half or an answerphone would tell them I was out and give them my mobile. It's all about giving a sense of security to prospective clients. The older generation are generally the ones with more disposable income and also less likely to call a mobile.
You can't have too much power, only a lack of traction!
Cracking web site Ash !
Well done & good luck, looks like you already have pleanty work on.
I only put my mobile no on my adverts, I have a landline no but rarely answer it, it ring loads but all non profit making calls so of know interest to me.
I also now keep the gates of my yard shut & only open them when someone phones me first, this stops 'randoms' just coming for a poke about, lost delivery drivers, scrap monkeys/thieves, salesmen & wombles from generally wasting my time & stopping me from working.
I agree with dave, if they wont phone a mobile, they wont spend on there car, & yes emails from unknown people are a pain, If I was going to have work done on a car, id phone first & sus the person out rather than send an email or worse a bloody text message
Hmm, just my two pennies worth but I recently sold a car through Autotrader. I put my mobile number on as contact and had about 7 enquires , nearly all of those were text in varying degrees of english but all along the lines of "is the car still for sale". TBH this was a lot better to deal with than phone ringing at inconvenient moments and alowed me to get back to them with odd queries in my time without them feeling to have to commit to coming to view . Thumbs up to text from me as its totally impersonal- answers questions - and a guy from Wales drove all the way to buy it
Another thing , I don't do much cold sales calling now but now and then I'll turn over an an old stone. Walked through the door and the buyer was woman about 25 - place was busy , she said can you email to make appt. Used to be come back another day now believe you me its all email Twitter , arsebook. Thought the email was just a fob off but she did get back to me.
Talking about arsebook - just interviewed 3 people for a job fulltime - yeah you can find out a lot about them when my office manager searched for them putting their names in Arsebook that they don't tell you - my gain their loss. I realise there is a place for it but I need a lot more convincing. My life , my privacy.
you would only get a answer phone on land line, i'm not finishing until 8/9pm.
