any advice please help

[wheelie]

Hi all,
We are currently looking towards promoting our business and looking for our own clients locally. Up to now we have only worked with
established competitors taking overflow work from them. Problem is work is now scarce from them, due to expansion and monopolising. To cut a long story short we are now competing with major national players, who no longer require our services. We pride ourselves on quality of work and reliability, but have no experience of sales, marketing etc.
We use our website as a source of information and refer all contacts to it, as it is our only 'salesperson'.
We urgently need feedback on the website, on the promotion of the business as a whole and help with sales. In fact any comments at all will be appreciated. Be as critical as you like as long as comments are constructive and not personal. LOL.
Oh forgot to mention we are skint.
Thanks in advance.
Simon
www.wheelie-ads.co.uk

 

[Romperstomper]

Hi Simon,

I've had a wee look and my first comments must be that I found your front page really slow to load. Your image image389.gif is about 350k and image357.gif is about 40k and on my machine with a broadband connection this took about 30 seconds to load. If you have a 56k modem, you might have time to make a cup of tea before the page finished loading.

On my machine no matter what page I try I find that the buttons are slow to load. The quotations page was really slow and I expected to get a page telling me how to receive a quote, i.e. an estimate but it is full of statements and you don't who said them. Were these quotes from someone important? (Also note that "Quotation's" in the title of the page should be "Quotations", i.e. no apostophe..... it would be a shame if the same mistake was made in six foot high letters.)

I've received valuable advice from the posters on this site, I'm sure you will also... I would guess that their first comment will be to remove or reduce your image sizes.

regards

Romperstomper

 

[Eagle]

Hi Simon

If you're serious about the business, you really should employ the services of a professional web designer.

 

[top-click]

Hi Simon - I have to agree with the previous posts that your site needs a little attention - there are quite a few suppliers out there that supply templates that you could use to look a bit more slick - sometime ago I used www.1and1.co.uk - they are very cheap, and you don't need to be a techy to redesign your site.

On the promotion and sales side I undertake PPC campaigns for a few companies - If you want/need to know more please let me know.