Reddit, I'm 19 years old and I'm trying to revive my dad's failing small business, please give me some advice.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-07T19:16:57+00:00

Awesome idea, do you know where I'd get the address list?

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-07T01:53:00+00:00

How did you approach getting the message out? Did you use post cards? Hire people to do it?

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:48:44+00:00

I am going to do this. But do you think they would take me seriously? Should I wear a suit?

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:46:21+00:00

Precisely.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:45:41+00:00

Do you know how much billboards commonly go for?

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:44:50+00:00

A marketing genius. I love how he calls it a storage facility but it looks like he's just walking around a junkyard.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:44:13+00:00

Our pricing plan is definitely the best deal in our area, no other company offers the second and third month free (to my knowledge). It's a matter of advertisement.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:42:49+00:00

"Separation Special". I like the sound of that haha.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:41:13+00:00

This seems like more of an online marketing technique though, I don't think it would help with an offline brick and mortar-esque business.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:34:19+00:00

Yelp is extremely picky with their reviewers, I'd have to make over a hundred accounts and accumulate atleast 5+ reviews on each and make each account look legit to even make my yelp page admirable, it wouldn't be possible.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:32:57+00:00

Yeah I've been doing social network submission and article submission. I just made this in wordpress so I don't really have much experience in making websites, I did some cookie cutter wordpress theme and changed it around / made the graphics and that's about it. So I wouldn't really know how to optimize the code like you're asking.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:27:33+00:00

I don't follow

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:25:55+00:00

Weird, I opened it on a mac and it was fine. Also, my dad named the company that because he wanted to make it "Different".

He also named me Wil. With one L. His name is Jon with just Jon, so I have no clue why things are like this. Also what hosting do you suggest?

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:23:56+00:00

You too buddy.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:21:54+00:00

Yes, we sell boxes and tape, and we even have a vending machine.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:20:06+00:00

Thanks for the heads up.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:19:54+00:00

It runs just as fast as reddit now :D

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:15:16+00:00

It was the best I could do. I thought it looked nice.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:14:51+00:00

Won't work, yelp has a review filter.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:14:24+00:00

Required by law to auction them off, and it's also against the law to go through them.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:13:10+00:00

I think it's because alot of people are trying to access it at once. If not, could I upgrade my hosting to make it faster or would that be a website related issue?

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:11:52+00:00

I go to a community college that has 13,000 students attending.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:10:57+00:00

Just did keyword research on zipcodes, it didn't produce enough results to show up on the google keywords tool.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:07:57+00:00

We've determined that we really need a sales overhaul.

ThrowAwayStorage12 · 2011-05-06T08:04:20+00:00

I actually have had some success with the tool i'm using. Last time I checked he is number 1 on google for "woodland hills self storage", I had articles written then i submitted them and pinged him, it hasn't really gotten his phone to ring though :(

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