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Our New Client | RGS Crawl Space Insulation

RGS Crawl Space Insulation

We are proud to announce that Allshouse Designs is maintaining a new website for RGS Crawl Space Insulation. For this website we used the WordPress CMS platform. Which is a very dependable platform with end less capabilities. We have integrated Jetpack by Automattic Inc., the creators of WordPress. Jetpack has a ton of great tools and most of all, it will put your blog posts with in reach of other WordPress bloggers. Bringing more users to your website. With our website management service package number two plus running at full bore. It will be fun to watch RGS grow.

RGS has opted into our digital marketing service. With this service we will be managing monthly Google ads, the official RGS Facebook page and adding blog posts to their website. With our experience and dedication, the Google ads will bring leads to our custom built landing pages. Landing pages are very important when using click ads. We have built the landing pages with the sales funnel concept in mind. The entire funnel is automated. To achieve this, we integrated a scheduling system that makes it possible to easily schedule a free crawl space evaluation service with out leaving the website or make a phone call.

RGS Crawl Space Insulation has been around long enough to deliver a great service and are down right good people.

We are very grateful to provide this sort of service to small business. Here at Allshouse Designs believe that you should shop local to support and make your community strong.

If you have any questions about our services that we provide. Please request a call back from us and we will be happy to help you reach your business goals.

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The Race Car at Evergreen Speedway

Wow! Have we been busy? As most of you already know, we have been working on getting our Race Car ready for the races, which start this coming weekend at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, WA.

If you have seen any of the Racecar Series Videos, you know that we have been working on fixing massive vacuum leaks throughout the intake system. We also found that the engine’s head needs work, so the head was removed and now sits at our local machine shop to be cleaned up. In the meantime, we have sense replaced the rear differential with a limited slip differential. There was gearing issues in the old one that was ultimately hindering our lap time.

After having fixed the rear end, our track time has improved slightly but until we get the head work done, the intake and carburetor setup changed around. The track time won’t be where it should be.

The Race Car for Evergreen SpeedwayBefore the painting of the Race Car for Evergreen Speedway

We have done some cosmetic work. The car now has a face! We put the nose on the car and have made adjustments to fit the old hood as well.

There is still a lot of work to be done, however, we need to get the wheel lug pattern corrected so we can run 8” wheels for maximum grip around the track. The car also needs that all important paint job and decal placement.

Our driver, Jon Roberts AKA Fozzy, has been great to work with through the entire process and we are excited to see what will come of this race season. His knowledge is incredible, as you would expect from a 2 time NASCAR champion in the Mini Stock Division at Evergreen Speedway.

Episode 5 of the racecar was shot in 360 degrees to give you an interesting look into the car and the process of fixing our issues. Jon and Alec discuss some of the issues and what we are doing to fix them. It has been a fun process of filming and editing for this video and we hope you all enjoy it.

Our sponsors for the car are building. Big shout out to Spunks and Sound Advice! Look for their logos on the car along with Allshouse Designs.

Stay up to date on the racecar by visiting our YouTube channel! We will keep you all up to date and will be posting video of the races for the entire race season. Stay tuned for more and while you wait for our next post, head over to YouTube and kill some time with our great videos.

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Allshouse Designs and the Race Car

The Race Car with new door panel

It has been a busy week of getting things wrapped up here at Allshouse Designs. I completed work on a simple informative website for Canyon Park Veterinarian Hospital.  It has been over 20 years when Dr. Vaughn purchased the business, when the city of Bothell and the internet was a lot smaller then it is today.  Even if you have a well established business in your community, a digital presence is really non-negotiable in today’s day and age.  These are some of my favorite types of projects, I love seeing well established local business searchable online!  We also spent some great time with Jon prepping “The Race Car” and making the next video.   

First and for most, I want to thank all our new followers to our blog and a big thank you to everyone watching and commenting about our last video.  Your comments help us get to know what you guys are interested in, so we can give you what you want to see. Keep your comments and questions coming. The race car has been real enjoyable for me; as a previously certified mechanic, this whole process has been bringing back memories.  Enjoyment that I thought left me, shortly after my second baby was born.  Sometimes life gets busy with work and family, but a meaningful way to play with your friends is so important for balance.  With great pleasure, we are proud to announce. Episode 4 of the “The Race Car” has been posted to our YouTube channel, enjoy. We have really focused on the car, with an extended Q and A with Jon, and more car footage.

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 Our good friends at Spunks have signed up to co-sponsor the car.  We will be giving out free seeds at the races, so check out evergreenspeedway.com to see when the mini stock division will be racing. Really, you must try these roasted pumpkin seeds.  Go check out their site and our video on their product.  Order up a tasty treat at spunkstore.com. Thanks to Rolands! Local small business is the way to go.  Go local, support your community. We go further, when we go together.

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Increase the Online Presence for your Business

Increase your online presence

After a few years of research and experimenting. We have finally created a service that will increase your online presence for your business in 72 hours.

Our new service takes a four prong approach to increasing the awareness of your business. This is not a one shot type of service. The main prong is being able to manage directory listings on 48 different high domain authority websites. This will increase your online presence in 72 hours. Two of the prongs will monitor your keyword rankings and your reputation on social media and or review sites. These two prongs will help keep your digital marketing stragity in check and will determine your next moves for your marketing dollars. The fourth prong is review generation. A very necessary tool that will increase the ability to collect reviews and it creates a funnel for your client to review your business on serval high end review sites.

This is what the service in tells:

  • Listings / Submissions (48 Directories )
  • Duplicate Removal post confirming the duplicate listings
  • Review Generation: Review Requests + Funnel Happy Customers to Write Reviews
  • Review Monitoring: 18+ Review Sites
  • Social Media Activity Monitoring: Facebook, Google+ & FourSquare
  • Organic Rank Tracking with Keywords: Google (Maps + Search), Yahoo & Bing
  • Reporting & Notifications

We continue to strive for an excellent customer service experience for our clients. We have been utilizing a few of these types of services for years though businesses that I will not name. They are really great for small business. However the companies that we worked with did not really communicate with us. That is why we have an option to send you weekly or monthly emails about what our service is doing for you. These tools are powerful and will guide your business on the right digital marketing path.

See how your business shows up on our 48 recommend business listings. Our scan tool is easy and you’ll have the results quickly.

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Our YouTube Race Car Adventure Continues…

The Race Car Allshouse Designs

We have just released our latest YouTube Video. This will be our 24th video and we have come a long way. It is hilarious to look at our first video and compare it to video number 24. We have learned a whole lot and continue to research on what makes an entertaining video. We will continue to improve and try our best to bring value.

 The one concept that has been the same is our priorities for our YouTube channel.  Which what we found through research is the most important concept to follow. With that said, here are the list that we have put together.

  • Create awareness of our brand “Allshouse Designs”.
  • Execute our Inbound Marketing Stragity.
  •  Educate the public about our experience and our knowledge.
  • Communicate our values.
  • Advertise our services.

With these 5 priorities in play it helps us determine our next steps. As far as the quality of our videos. We really have a long way to go, but when we get there it is going to be very rewarding. The really cool thing is that we have everything documented. It is fun to think that everyone can look at our channel and start to see our progress. That is what we look at to see what we need to learn and what to tweak. We really thank our current audience and hope that they continue to support us through our journey.

Here is a little glimpse into our latest video. Now we did film around 5 videos at the same time. We experienced horrible lighting and sound issues. We fixed the audio that alone is a great fix. Nothing like having an echo in your videos. We purchased high quality microphones. If you want to know which ones we are using for our latest video you can ask us by commenting below. Now on to the lighting.  After filming in front of a green screen for majority of our videos. We decided to can the entire green screen concept. We just felt that we just could not get the lighting right. In video number 24, episode 3 of the Race Car series. We are using natural light with studio lights. To film it we used two different cameras at two different angles. When you watch the video. The crisper picture with everything in focus is filmed with the Samsung cell phone camera and the warmer picture with the background slightly out of focus is the DSLR camera. In nut shell we are trying to find what we like better.

The last mention is what we have show cased in the video. Matt talks about the feel of the video with out the green screen, a little blurb about our new service and of course the progress of the race car. I hope you enjoy and like what Matt says, “let us know what you think?”

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New! Business Directory Listing Service

Here at Allshouse Designs, we are always looking for new, user-friendly ways to help our fellow business owners and potential clients.

We are excited to announce that we have partnered up with 40 plus high domain authority business directory sites. What does this mean for you? Well, you have an opportunity to have your business listed on them. To get started with this opportunity.  We have put together a scan tool. The scan tool will take your business information that you enter in and compare it to the business listings in the directories. Once it is done it will give you a nice report.

The scan tool for directory listings
Report from the Scan Tool

This tool is absolutely free to try and as you can see. It can give you an idea on how your brand is listed. The tool is also extremely easy to use and takes only a few minutes. After the scan is complete, you will receive a report just like the one above. With this information in front of you, it can help you make some decisions as to ways to fix this or… you could hit the CONTINUE TO FIX button at the bottom of the screen and let Allshouse Designs fix these issues for you.

This is where our service kicks in. The service is an annual subscription and creates the ability to fix, add and update information about your business on every directory at the same time. You can even add content, videos, and social media links on most of the directories. With this service we will send you reports about your listings on a monthly basis. Over all this service makes your business look more consistent and that is good for search engines.
We are in the middle of adding a couple other great tools to the service that will benefit your business. If you sign up today, there will be no additional charges to take advantage of the new tools. So what are you waiting for, run the scan tool today and see what pops up. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Run the scan tool now

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The Drone Project is Now in 360 Video

Allshouse Designs Drone

Here at Allshouse Designs, we often gravitate towards projects that interest us the most. We pride ourselves in enjoying every aspect of our business. After all, is that not the point of owning your own business? To mold it into something you enjoy coming to everyday. Of course it is!

As many of you already know, one of the recent projects we have started is the build of our video drone. We have launched one video already giving an introduction to how it looks in the air with our Samsung Gear 360 camera mounted. 

Well, the video we are launching next is going to feature one of our good friends, DUBL_AFPV over on Instagram, flying the drone around his backyard course. This should give an idea as to how the camera operates while moving at high speed. It also demonstrates the handling and speed of the drone itself.

DUBL_AFPV or Aaron, has been flying drones for a few years now and has built too many of them to count. So it would make sense we would have him fly our drone, sense Matt is still in the learning process.

If you are interested in building a drone like the one you see in the video be ready to spend some cash. In case you are interested in what we have and would like to build your own, here is what we have:

The Racing Drone
The Racing Drone

All in all, we spent about 6 hours of our time getting this drone built and about $500. We still need to get the ever important FPV goggles and will be going with the FATSHARK V3 Dominators. After all said and done the drone cost is going to be about $850.

Now, that cost is not the cost for all drones. Once you purchase the Radio and goggles you do not need to purchase them again. This means each drone can run you about $300 depending on your needs. Not to bad if you ask me.

I want to give a special thank you to Aaron (DUBL_AFPV) for helping with the build process. Check out some of his awesome videos on his YouTube Channel. A big thank you to Honor Hall for providing us with the music for the video.

If you have any questions about the parts that we chose to use and want to build your own, feel free to contact us at any time.

Thank you and stay tuned for that video!



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Allshouse Designs EP8 | Sales Funnel Concept

A 3 stage sales funnel

Here at Allshouse Designs, we pride ourselves in providing the best possible information to everyone. Whether that be with your small business, website, or social media profiles. We enjoy providing this information to you and will continue to do so.

Over the years, there has been many lessons learned while experimenting with our own company and we want to be sure you can avoid some of those headaches by following our blog and our YouTube channel. One important piece of valuable information we would like to provide you with is an explanation of the sales funnel concept.

A sales funnel is a marketing strategy designed to lead a consumer through a process that ultimately ends with them becoming your customer. There are three main categories within the sales funnel; at the top, you have your leads, then prospects, then you finish with your customers. When you see this in diagram form, it looks like a funnel – hence the name “Sales Funnel”.

A sales funnel always starts with the same step, Generating Leads. One of the easiest and most common ways of generating leads is with a landing page. A landing page is the first page most people will see when they visit your site via a link. The purpose of this page is to educate potential leads about a problem that your business can solve. Often, at the bottom of the page they have forms on them or boxes where people can put in their contact details to hear more about a solution to their problem. This provides you with a means to contact them and follow up on your leads.
Now, I could go into explaining the next steps to a sales funnel, but, why not have Alec Allshouse tell you himself. Click on the video link on this page to hear everything you need to know about a sales funnel and how to apply it to your business strategy.


 
Have comments or experiences of your own on this subject? Let us know in the comments below. We would love to hear from you and talk with you about them.
Until next time, have a great week!

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Excellent Customer Service is Key to Your Success!

3 points of customer service

Allshouse Designs’ founder has over twenty years of customer service experience. Over the twenty years he has found that we all need to be kind and respectful to meet the needs of a customer. It is Allshouse Designs’ value to bring their clients the best service they can. We really enjoy working with businesses that have the same value. That is why we compiled three main points of what you should practice to have a successful and respectful connection with your customer.

A positive connection with your customer is the key to your success. Don’t get me wrong, the way you recover a failed customer service is important too. However, if you follow our values of customer service. You will have an easier time recovering from mistakeswith your customer. Remember, we are all human and really, all we want is to be given an ear and to be respected. You can read more about our three points of excellent customer service or you can watch episode 7 of our Tools and Tips series below.

Please post your experience on how you handled a failed service in the comments below. Your story could help someone. Do your values line up with ours? we would love to hear from you.

Till next time, thank you and have a wonderful week!

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Boost Your Social Media Presence!

Social Media Signals

According to our research we have found that around 87% of small businesses in the USA use social media to market and advertise their business. It is no secret that search engines use social media signals to help determine your website ranking. That is why Allshouse Designs offers a social media boost service with in our website management package number 2. However, we have found that businesses have a favorite website management company or they just have it done in house. So we have developed a social media service that brings internet users to social media business profiles. These users will like, love and interact with social media posts, images and tweets. We will also recommend when and what to post on business profiles.

Social Signal Boost Service –

We are offering a great deal for 2018. Contact us today to request a quote for a six month subscription to the service. The service works on the following social media platforms:

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

Pinterest

Google +

If you want to see an example, we have been testing the service on our own Facebook page for about 2 months.