I know of dozens of companies that have been ripped off over here by web design companies and so called "
SEO firms", I think alot of people may have lost trust by paying over the odds for a site that could have cost them next to nothing if they did the work themselves.
This is a good point that has been brought up and I also would like to hear more from other agents experiences.
Budget is another thing that becomes a stumbling block, you have to sell it to the agent, but they need examples that it works and they are going to make the money from it - from my experience it works and I have saved Estate Agents thousands and thousands of euros per year from using my services.
Some of the companies that I do work for only have me as their ONLY over head along with taking clients out...when you used to spend thousands on other staff, offices, print media, exhibitions, branding and so on.
Basically, there is only one way of producing the business that is really important to agents and that is through the web, okay and also collaborating with others.
It is okay having an all singing and all dancing fancy site but it needs to be seen and
SEO is the most important thing to generate the business that your site requires.
Too many don't have a clue, but that is fine with me, the less that know and want to know about it is less competition for my clients.
Great thread Matt...Probably the best so far on the forum.
Keep them coming...
