{"id":1114,"date":"2007-01-12T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-05-09T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T21:27:32","slug":"why-chose-me-to-design-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/why-chose-me-to-design-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Why choose me to design your website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing a surge of visitors who are responding to my flyers posted in the area.<\/p>\n<p>I would assume you&#8217;ve heard the tired sales pitches like &#8220;Would you let a friend build your house?&#8221; or &#8220;Would you hire your nephew to fix your electric wiring?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay now or pay later.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s common sense. You let someone who knows what they&#8217;re doing handle such important matters. Maybe your friend is a mechanic. Maybe your nephew is a professional technician. I&#8217;ll wager 99% of the time they&#8217;re not, are they? \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\nYet, many businesses still take a &#8220;Do-it-yourself&#8221; approach with websites; taking the most cost-effective route with their &#8220;first impression&#8221; to the public. If a person walked into their office looking disheveled and seeking a job, they would not hire them&#8230; IRONICALLY they fail to realize that their website has the same &#8220;turn-off&#8221; effect as that.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you have a sharp looking, effective and fully-optimized website?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou betcha. I have proven that <a title=\"Professional Web design in the Poconos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/design\/\">time and time again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s proof:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you search for <strong><a title=\"High rankings in the search engines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=web+designers+in+the+poconos\">Web Designers in the Poconos<\/a><\/strong>, who is holding steady on the front page with such competitive keywords, beating out many of the top professional firms in this area?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a coincidence. That was a <a title=\"Search engine optimization (SEO). See?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=1105\">careful strategy I set out to do a month ago<\/a>. I may come off as arrogant and self-confident at times (this is, after all a personal website)&#8230; but I like to think I&#8217;ve earned it. I helped a <strong>judge<\/strong> get elected, a <strong>state representative<\/strong> get re-elected, helped pioneer the web presence of a <strong>media website<\/strong>, worked for a <strong>major advertising agency<\/strong>, and generated THOUSANDS of sales for dozens of <strong>real estate sites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>THAT is what you are looking for in a web designer, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>One that will not only make a great site at a reasonable price, but to also lay out a <strong>winning strategy<\/strong> where that website will be seen, succeed, and have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RESULTS<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Contact Eric Brooks to design, optimize or redesign your website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/contact\/\">Feel free to contact me<\/a> to see what I can do for you.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><strong>* UPDATE 05\/09\/11<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s been 4 \u00bd Years since I wrote this, and I am STILL on Google&#8217;s Front Page for &#8220;<strong><a title=\"High rankings in the search engines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=web+designers+in+the+poconos\">Web Designers in the Poconos<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;. 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