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[Bob Elliott]

So you are going with the sober Bartender angle...OK

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by lvass

By choice!

Bad choice! Get a site! Many inspectors get 80%+ of their business online.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by lvass

If you guys want to insult someone for trying to help, go do it some place else.

Leah, no one's insulting you! I'm sorry if my comment came off like that. Your comments are greatly welcome. We were just suggesting you get a website. It's the cheapest marketing tool you can possibly buy and has the best return on investment by far.

[William Warner]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Leah, no one's insulting you! Your comments are greatly welcome. We were just suggesting you get a website. It's the cheapest marketing tool you can possibly buy and has the best return on investment by far.

Agreed!

I didn't see insults posted. Just helpful suggestions. In this day and age, a website is a VERY important part of your market in my opinion!

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by lvass

Webpages are fine in cities, but where I'm at, my business depends on word-of-mouth, business cards I've passed around and NACHI inspector finder. So, a webpage would only cost me money.

I would bet somone in Cortez has a computer.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by lvass

Webpages are fine in cities, but where I'm at, my business depends on word-of-mouth, business cards I've passed around and NACHI inspector finder. So, a webpage would only cost me money.

Leah, a website will cost you about $300 a year. That means if you get a single inspection off of it, you've paid for the site for the entire year. We have MANY inspectors in Colorado with sites with us. Now you're definitely in a rural area, but there are still a lot of little towns with 1000 people here and there. At the least, set up a free site with InterNACHI.

Or, I'll give you a site on our service for free for a year ($300 value). If you don't get any inspections off of it, then don't continue it next year. I won't take any credit card information or anything so you don't have to worry about being auto billed.

Even though you might be in a small area, by having a website, if you have any competition when someone goes to find out more about the inspector, they will find out more about you through your site. Then you'll be the inspector they book.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by lvass

Everyone has net and computers, but the real estate agents, NACHI or the word-of-mouth gets tapped first. You folks are the only ones who have asked me for a website.

You know, the Native Americans all died out at Mesa Verde due to poor internet marketing, don't you???

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Ok good. Looks like the version of IE7 that Jeffrey and Robert's has a bug regarding negative margins. Really strange, trying to find a way to work around it.

Interesting, because I remember going to his site in the past, and not having any issues with it. What has he changed to create the issue?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

He just changed templates last month and worked with Mike Merino on the new site. I'm trying to work around the bug. I found it documented online, darn IE.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

He just changed templates last month and worked with Mike Merino on the new site. I'm trying to work around the bug. I found it documented online, darn IE.

Good thing you weren't bored, huh?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by jjonas

Good thing you weren't bored, huh?

LOL. You know me, I had nothing else to do We have quite a few others using this theme but Russ really has his site customized a lot.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Looks like you got it licked, Dominic!!! Looks good!

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by jjonas

Looks like you got it licked, Dominic!!! Looks good!

Thanks for checking. There was code in there that was supposed only affect IE 6. Looks like it was carrying over for some reason.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Maybe a drawback of accepting upgrades, and not a clean download???

[Dominic J. Maricic]

I always wait a few awhile to upgrade my main machine. Too many upgrades tank in the first few weeks.