Retired Climber

3 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

franglaiselagage.com

I've had a look at the site, but can't work out if you are serious or not. Do you think the site is in any way optimised? You don't even have an SSL certificate and Google are about to kick you in the backside with the new UX based update. Who do you host with? It's slooooooooow. 

2 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

www.franglaiselagage.com

 

Any good?   

 

Stuart

Can't get the link to work. 

10 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

I call the 'Web masters' because it is all a dark art to me.

  Stuart

It doesn't need to be a dark art. SEO is little more than getting a few basics right and then writing for your audience and giving them answers to questions they have. Writing massive long articles nobody is going to read is a mistake; the search engines see thorough such nonsense these days. Offpage SEO is also fairly irrelevant to tree work businesses. Do a reasonable job of the on page basics and you can't go too far wrong.

29 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Why? It is simply a record of our previous work.

I don't blog, I'm neither confident enough to commit myself to blogging nor sufficiently wordy nor needy enough for the work a blog might generate to write a blog in the first place.

I had one web master who said people don't linger on pages long enough to read shit and another told me to write several 1000 word essays on my work. 

I simply refer clients to FB saying "look at June 2020, we did a similar job to yours or August 2019 3 birches pruned, this is what I can deliver"

 Stuart

 

I wasn't directing my post specifically at you. Yours is a sensible use of the platform. I was referring really to people who think they need to 'post' on a regular basis as a way of attracting clients. 

If you are posting on Facebook to get work you fundamentally misunderstand how to use social media to promote a business. 

Also, as Steve mentioned in an earlier post, get them to your site to read more; never send them to Facebook (or anywhere else). 

There's good money to be made if you can sustainably get those levels of views. I haven't had a YouTube client for a while but last time we were working on earning about a quid per 1000 views. 10 million views would be worth 10 grand, give or take. Even one popular video per month would make someone a wage. 

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Could be phototropism caused by the large tree that’s throwing shadow in the picture.

What time of day was the photo taken?

Agree. It's growing away from the shade of whatever was behind you when you took that photo. 

14 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

I’m sure I can be forgiven the odd mistake! Have a nice day
 

 

Wow, that is chav-tastic. I bet there's an option for a matching Louis Vuitton changing bag. 

Yep, have a great day. Enjoy the sunshine. Still bloody cold out though. 

18 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Beautiful blue skys here today. Couldn't be nicer to mark lockdown ending. Taking the Bentley convertable out for a spin.

Haha; I'm not sure you should be allowed, if you can't spell Convertible? 😀

Can't offer any assistance; I'm knackered just thinking about it. Good luck though. 

Where in Hampshire are you? Can you give a rough idea of your day rate with the Mewp? 

You'd surely need some kind of academic qualification. Let's face it, NPTC tickets seem to give some people the idea that they are then 'fully qualified' but how much do you really need to know to get those tickets, pretty much nothing. 

Apparently one of the most often photographed trees in the country. 

If I had any Marmite I was going to make a sandwich and post a picture. Ironically, we haven't got any in the house; there must be some kind of shortage I don't know about. 

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

My Marmite posts were anything but tongue in cheek!

 

This is about as serious as it gets and has taken precedence over trying to fix machinery this morning!

And now I'm replying to you when I'm supposed to be doing lunch for my children; this is getting out of hand. Let's just agree that you're a weirdo and get on with our lives. 

7 minutes ago, roboted said:

I was talking about me.

You've lost me. I thought you posted a tongue in cheek reply, so I posted a tongue in cheek reply, then you felt the need to explain a tongue in cheek reply, even though every post of the past half dozen or so were 'tongue in cheek'. 

Is that how you see it? Shall we just forget either of us posted anything and go do something in the sunshine instead? 

7 minutes ago, roboted said:

"If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious:"

Thanks. I know what I was doing. 

1 minute ago, roboted said:

At the risk of creating controversy, 8 jars is not panic buying.....It's forward thinking 🙂

People were saying the same thing about 300 loo rolls and 3 gallons of hand sanitiser not so long ago. 

2 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Delivery spot booked for tomorrow!

 

Min spend £40

 

8 jars booked! They only seem to have the 250g not the 500g 😒

 

Make up the difference in red wine!

 

Now that really is AT at its best!

 

@Big J your pension pot just took a hit 😂

For anyone with any doubt that @kevinjohnsonmbeis a bit of a strange chap, he goes and panic buys Marmite. Any further suggestion that Kev is anything other than odd should be immediately struck from the record. 😀

The 80 % is the amount the employer gets, not the employee. Loads of companies are topping it up so many staff on Furlough are on full pay. 

23 minutes ago, doobin said:

The 100k is made up of a BBL of which I've spent 35k, and finance on three excavators and a dumper. I'm pretty chill about that, as my fairly realistic table of values has all my equipment at over 160k. I've always believed in buying kit to make the job easier and as a store of value. Most importantly though, I have the skills and contacts to use those assets in a variety of ways and industries to create a wage for myself.

The house is maybe worth 350k in the current overheated climate, I was just happy that we were offered a mortgage before lockdown and managed to find somewhere before the offer expired and also before prices went even more mental. Can't see self employed people getting many offers in the near future. It's a nice house and somewhere we both want to live for a fair few years yet, so I'm pretty chill about that too. My only 'regret' would be not fixing the mortage for ten years (went five), but who knows what else the government will pull out of the bag to try to prop up the housing 'market'?

 

I can't really do much other than try to ride out the coming crash with my skills and tools, I'm not at the point in life of having much spare cash, especially after taking on the mortgage. Timing has never been my strong point 😜

This is exactly why I said everyone's situation is different. Sounds like you've got it pretty much sorted (for you), but that wouldn't work for me. Around our way you can't buy a house for 350 grand that you'd want to live in. In fact, you couldn't buy anything; even the old ex local authority houses on the edge of the village go for about half a million. The average house price on our road would probably be getting on for twice that.

I won't be selling our main residence, but have other property to sell. We don't have a mortgage or any loans / credit and don't live a flash lifestyle so we are pretty much recession proof. If I can leverage an advantage from a situation I will. In fact, that's pretty much my day job. 

I can pay all of our household bills by working 2 days per month, but then you've got big expensive toys to play with all day, so I'll have to admit defeat; you win. 

3 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

Yes, but if you don't want to move and can pay the mortgage, you are in a better position to negotiate term, as the bank needs you to keep paying for them to ever get their money back. Whereas if your asset is worth more than the debt, if times get tough they can simply sell it from under you, take their cut and give you the change.

 

I knew a farmer who had an annual overdraft of over £1M, the bank loved him, Christmas cards, visits from the manager etc. After foot and mouth he had several £1M's in the bank. The bank lost all interest in him.

I agree with what you are saving, and from that perspective you are quite right. However, it doesn't make it a good position to be in. 

1 minute ago, skyhuck said:

Nope. 

He probably is now. Anyway, we are going to be argueing semantics if we continue with this. There is a certain perverse logic to the statement, but that doesn't mean it's not a stupid thing to say.

No matter how you look at it (unless you are skint and are trying to win a cheap point against the bank) owing 150 grand on a 100 grand asset isn't ideal.

The point will become most apparent if the borrower wants to move (presuming the property is the primary residence). 

2 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

Someone once told me, "if your house is worth £100K and you owe the bank £50K, the bank has you by the balls, but if your house is worth £100K and you owe the bank £150K, you have the bank by the balls" 😬

I bet the source of that little gem was skint. 

2 minutes ago, doobin said:

I owe the bank 100k plus another 200k for the mortgage. Any advice?😬

Not really. Level of debt doesn't really tell us anything. If you owe 200 grand on a 5 million pound house you are in a very different position to someone who owes 200 grand on a half million pound house. 

It would be rather narcissistic of me to think i know how to run your finances better than you do.