So with social media being a big thing these days, how many of you use it for advertisement , aswell as having a website and a Facebook page I find a lot of business interest starts from Facebook , I don't have my van wrapped yet so I find a lot of work comes from either recommendations , Facebook adverts or my website , how do you promote your business and services 

Edited January 16, 20179 yr by MrHappy

I do twitter for work, Its generated 2 leads but no business I'm aware of

General Google searches get me work 

 

Sign up to all free advertising listings , you automatically get put into searches , cheaper than paying , but you got to keep on it if you got time 

I've done a few paid adverts with Facebook I find the great thing regarding this is you can customise how far you want the advert to go I.e ,miles from your business locatation , I've had a lot of customers messaging for prices and asking for visits and a few jobs from it , which is great I find, I've never tried Twitter, might look in to that one, the other thing I think is good with Facebook is the review section , allows my previous customers to share there opinions about your service , I have just started my company up on Google aswell so hopefully I'll come up for searches , I'm struggling to understand how to get your name to show up more when there is a search done through Google, any tips on that one ?

Just told you , sign up to the free indexs and local directories and slowly your name will get picked by Google it's not as good as paid but gives you easy presence on the web 

Ok cool , will have a look in to it thanks 

I don't do social media.

My opinion is it can work if you have someone looking after it full time, if you want low maintenance don't bother.

 

Advertising on the internet is a whole ball of SEO and a half decent website.

Just having a website is enough if people wish to find you.