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J.C. Harward & Associates Website Launch

Joe Merkley – Your Marketing Maven

Announcing the launch of J.C. Harward & Associates’ new website.

J.C. Harward & Associates is located in Fleming Island, FL.

It’s responsive: Complete website works on any device from smartphones to desktop.

– GOOGLE RANKS FOR THAT!
It’s Secure: All our sites are now SSL: https: vs. http.

– GOOGLE RANKS FOR THAT!
It’s zippy fast, PHP 7.1.

– GOOGLE RANKS FOR THAT!

https://jcharward.com/

Would you like a WOW website? Let’s Chat About it! https://merkleymarketinggroup.com/contact/

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ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Making J.C. Harward & Associates Standout!

J.C. Harward & Associates has also engaged MMG for:

Would you like Internet marketing services? Let’s Chat About it! https://merkleymarketinggroup.com/contact/

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Website Rental… Just Say No!

Website Rental…Just Say “No” #badbusinessidea
#whatwasithinking

Joe Merkley – Your Marketing Maven

When you have your website developed by a company offering Website Rental that uses their own coding and their hosting is exclusive to them, your website CANNOT be moved if you decide to sever ties. Basically, you are renting your website. Considering that Google and other search engines rank for how long a site has been online you will lose all of that online history and have to start over. Even if you are able to take your content, you will have to pay someone to basically start from scratch and build you a new site. With website development a lot of the labor is upfront in site layout and design, so even having your own content the bulk of work for your new site is before content is even added.

Real estate, medical, dental and law seem to be more prevalent industries for “website rental.”

Before you decide to rent from a company that does website rental, check out companies like ours, that offer to finance. At the end of the payments, you own your website and you can do what you want with it. You can take your online history with you… and Google will follow!

PROS

TIME
Minimal work on your end. Generally, after an interview and discovery, the company you hire executes the setup, design, coding, content, and go live

ECONOMICAL
Most sites are built on existing templates so build time is shorter than custom websites.

ACCOUNTING
One bill each month can streamline your accounts payable process.

REP
If you are fortunate, you will have one Point of Contact – that can handle all of your questions & issues

KNOWLEDGE
If they’re serving a niche, they’re familiar with how the dental, medical, etc industry works and they have baked in necessary processes, such as HIPPA compliance

CONS

THAT’S ALL!
You own the text (probably not the images unless you paid for and provided), but not the design and structure of the site, so if you want to leave – you basically have a text document, and framework or design to put it in.

DO YOU SEE ME GOOGLE?
If the company you choose is not extremely SEO educated, your site will likely end up not being ranked with Google and other search engines or ranked very low. Most of the factors that determine the ranking are factors that most people would not know are missing.

I AM PAYING FOR WHAT?
So, you get a bill once a month that says “Website Hosting & Maintenance” what does that include?

Maintenance is a very ambiguous term and maybe you on the companies low tier shared hosting plan.

SO YOU DON’T KNOW!
Chances are your Account Manager is not skilled in the tech area so questions you may have will have to be answered once your Rep contacts Tech Dept and gets an answer for you.

JACK OF ALL TRADES?
Hiring one company that tries to offer many services such as hosting, SEO, content management, and development is generally going to result in mediocre service and results.

We have a team where individuals specialize in their field of expertise. A Team for Development, SEO, Social Media, Marketing…

BOTTOM LINE: Website rental is more of a marketing liability than an asset!

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Being Held Hostage by Your Website Developer?

Joe Merkley

Are you being held hostage by your website developer and you don’t even know it?

Joe Merkley Your Marketing Maven

We have a new law website client onboard and are developing a brand new site for them.

The client’s previous website development company delivered a website that had issues that they never resolved.

The biggest problem our client is facing right now is that the past website development company (we’ll refer to them as Hacks) is holding them hostage and they hold the cards.

Hacks registered our client’s domain name in their GoDaddy account so our client can’t get access.
Hacks created our client’s Google My Business account and client has NO access or control.
Hacks did not give our client access to their website that they had paid for.
Hacks created client’s Facebook page under their account.

WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW CAN COST YOU VALUABLE TIME AND MONEY!

Make sure you have the following items covered:

Control over “Your” domain name in “Your” account.
Access and control over “Your” website.
Access and control over “Your” Google My Business listing.
Access and control over all of “Your” social media accounts.
I have seen this happen way too many times, you have to protect “Your” digital accounts and investments.

What we do:

Client registers and controls “their” own domain name(s).
Clients have full access to “their” websites and even a backup.
Clients have full access and control over “their” Google My Business listing.
Clients have full access and control over “their” Social Media accounts.

Taking The High Road!

If one of our clients wishes to move their account somewhere else, we will help facilitate the move in a prompt and professional matter.

Website Nightmare

Last Thursday I was helping a local business owner through a website nightmare!

A website nightmare that a Merkley Marketing Group website client would NEVER experience!

Last year a local business owner had a new website developed for her business.

The website nightmare:

Website developer unexpectedly died recently.
The Website developer’s wife doesn’t know anything about his business or client’s website.
Website goes down November 9^th, 2017. Apparently the website hosting fee had not been paid so hosting company shut the website down.
Consequently, the website hosting company (Blue Host) will not give her any information, therefore she CANNOT access site.
Client’s domain name is registered with Godaddy.

Especially relevant, is that the ownership and control of her business domain name is under control of the person that developed her first website, so she has no control over her business domain name through.

Therefore, the current domain administrator must transfer “her” domain to her account.

In conclusion, make sure you have control over your domain name(s).

We protect you!

Our clients receive: Website backup and access information so they always have control over their website.
If something happens to me (Joe Merkley), we have you covered.
Clients have full control over their domain names. We NEVER register a client’s domain in our account.
You own “your” website and should have complete control over it, most of all, we DO NOT hold clients hostage.

We Give You Control Over Your Website!

WHAT WE DELIVER

Upon completion of a Merkley Marketing Group client’s website we provide our client with the following important information which allows them full control over “their” website:

Complete website backup included ALL relevant WordPress files and images
WordPress website full administrative access: WordPress Admin url, Username and Password
Extensive new website marketing suggestions which include, online and offline marketing
A sample press release so you can professional announce the launch of your website
A tasklist of all website development items including website search engine submission and Google Analytics setup that we completed

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