Home PC repair business website

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    Hey there! I'm running a home PC repair business in the Bay Area of California. I feel i have the edge because i have very low prices ($30) for work that would otherwise be done for many hundreds. I hope to slowly raise this price as i get more into the field.

    So i created my site (www.bayareapcrepair.com). It's nothing fancy, but when making it i believed that it was enough to get the job done. However after advertising with Google's AdWords, i don't feel very satisfied with the amount of customers I'm getting. I'm paying for rather generic keywords like "laptop repair" "dc jack repair" and so on for people only in my area.

    I have gotten a few customers (~10) but that feels rather small considering that I've payed for hundreds of clicks.

    Do you guys think the site is alright for it's purpose? Anything on it that might immediately put you off? Remember your a person with a broken laptop that's trying to get it fixed.

    Thanks!.:p
     
    mikeads66, Mar 14, 2012 IP
  2. patco

    patco Well-Known Member

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    The design is great and I really like the domain name because it is useful for SEO with your main keyword. I think a quick SEO will help you increase the number of visitors to your website... And more visitors mean more customers. Everything in your website is just perfect. Congrats :)
     
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    Yes you can definitely succeed! But always your clients always needs good service,not cheap price. Cheaper prices will atrract more visitors but not a good repution.
     
    Iboy999, Mar 15, 2012 IP
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    Debustral Greenhorn

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    Is nice page but very tiny, if im correct, i can see only 1 page (homepage)
    It would be very good to offer your visitiors/potencial customers some pictures of your work or you in a work process..
    also u can show results of your work there
    also very good is to show some references (satisfied customes opinions and so on)

    If i were an user with broken laptop, i would access your page through phone or at work (both has full intenet browsers) so simplicity is not needed so much for users, i think.

    About prices, is always good to ask your customers for feedback and set prices somewhere between cheap - expensive.
    Too cheap prices also dont look very good sometimes, especially with combination of no references and things above.
     
    Debustral, Mar 16, 2012 IP
  5. dietcola

    dietcola Member

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    yea nice site - serves the point - you might want to think about some conversion minded keywords - or limiting your ppc catchment area to say 50 miles of where you are - that would lower your spend and yet might improve the conversion you are getting from the ppc.

    you could try a contact us page - after i added one to the site - conversions went up...

    site seems to do just what it needs to - what else would people type instead of laptop repair - might it be worth looking at the spares parts angle? say new screen for such an such laptop - or thinking about upgrades perhaps... is there a cross sell you can offer? printer ink or something?!?! maybe data recovery - students loosing their homework at exam time - they would pay anything to get it back! :cool:


    Good luck
     
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  6. tom.jeraldino

    tom.jeraldino Active Member

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    The site is pretty simple and concise in design. I love the choice of pic in the header, though I suppose you could modify your logo a bit. Upgrade the text itself and add a logo icon, for instance
     
    tom.jeraldino, Mar 17, 2012 IP
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    PathShawN Peon

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    simple, but good, now... i don't know how competitive is your niche so maybe that;s why you are not getting so many sales as you wish, why don't you hire a SEO service? v or offer discounts in your prizes if they refer 4 friends??
     
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  8. mikeads66

    mikeads66 Active Member

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    Thanks! I'm planning on adding a photo page, as well as a way for customers to leave feedback. I already created a youtube channel where i have one video uploaded, i should be putting more videos up soon.

    Many thanks! I'll be adding a contact page/section today. My PPC campaign is already optimized for people in my area.
     
    mikeads66, Mar 17, 2012 IP
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    digiface Greenhorn

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    Its very simple but professional website colors are good and fonts size are good too i think you should have a better logo at top so it will look better
     
    digiface, Mar 18, 2012 IP
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    it's pretty good!
     
    PathShawN, Mar 18, 2012 IP
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    Sorry, I was unable to view your site. It gave my the following error:

    "Website currently unavailable"
     
    MissHeather, Mar 18, 2012 IP
  12. mikeads66

    mikeads66 Active Member

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    Sorry, 000webhost crapped out on me and i had to move the page to a host i trust more. Moved hosts and put cloudflare on it, should be working fine now.

    I'd love to change the logo to something nicer, if anyone knows a good person who can design awesome logos for a reasonable price, please PM me.
     
    Last edited: Mar 18, 2012
    mikeads66, Mar 18, 2012 IP
  13. tom.jeraldino

    tom.jeraldino Active Member

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    Great, that you have already paid attention to essential aspects, as the optimization of the site for your target audience in the needed region.Feel free to ask us for more feedback, if you further need it
     
    tom.jeraldino, Mar 19, 2012 IP
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    Neat and Clean website you have created but to be very frank just remove the header images and also use some RSS Feed and the rest is really good.

    I have one question for you as your business related to Home Pc repair then can u please do me favor to restore my PC's lost data tand it was stored Microsoft Exchange Server as .edb file and now I want this into .pst file .....So please tell me how can I do this ?

    Thanx
     
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    Your website is very informative and having a good contents i really appreciate your hard work and color combination is good
     
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    looks like single page website....
     
    jamuna, May 7, 2012 IP