Who is not using freelancer.com, I have posted a few jobs and had them done within days while the rest of the businesses locally have been closed for Xmas!

So todays wix project took about 2 hours to do.. it was fun and I think it is bright and colourful.. www.wix.com/logosRus/cus

make a free flash site in minutes then order a uniform online

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I will keep testing and training myself and do it myself.  It will come together, infact I think it is coming together.  A business sort of similar to mine but with limited online presence recently emailed me complaining that when they search google for Byron Bay Embroidery they get Complete Uniform Solutions delivering embroidery to Byron Bay schools, sports clubs and businesses daily!

I am taking this as a compliment that updating and driving my own content and search adwords is working.. o yes I have got the RSS link on here working I believe now for those that want to feed to this web bloggy site.

What I do need to work on is link building apparently.. but I feel like if I clutter my internet site with weblinks I am creating more traffic on the high way and there will be congestion and pollution.. is this too extreme.  Does anyone consider the link building to be essential?

Also finding that I am running so many personal projects, juggling work and children and staff!!! and then running so many work projects that the brain needs help.  I have searched for lots of different ways to deal with this without expending large amounts of dollars (hello free ware I am a fan) and I think I do like ‘the brain’ currently using the 30 day free trial to track staff christmas party planning and gifts for everyone.

One larger recent project of completely redesigning cricket shirts for the Warratahs a local cricket club started with the simple shirt below and grew to a fully sublimated cricket polo shirt incorporating named collars, more than 20 logos from various suppliers and sponsors.  I used ‘the brain’ open source to assist our staff at Complete Uniforms track the stages of the job and client approvals etc.  fantastic

Heading to 7am I am about to go wake the boys, get them ready for school and organise my day in the factory.. wish me luck…

custom designed polo from Complete Uniform Solutions

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I did spend quite a bit of cash on the old SEO about 18months ago and now it seems I am at the back and need to pay again to get up the front.  O really too much, all this pressure to compete and be on the first page for school uniform suppliers. 

figure I will try my way a different way, so mixing it up with a little bit of google adwords, a little bit of blog text and a whole lot of radio advertising.  Radio is relatively cheap in the rural area our business is located in so it is a good investment and it has proven so.  Amazingly it did not so much drive everyone to the website but got them in the car driving to our store!! Hello what better way to close a deal than in person.

the internet opens our stores to the whole world and our services to the whole world but seems that concentrating on some local focus is necessary to drive sales. So SEO should I be investing in this every few months or taking a crack at it myself.. lets just see how this all works.  Handy hints on how to get better SEO results, put your site infront of more people and get more online purchases are very very welcome here.

Travel gear polos, tracksuits and playing garments colour co-ordinated

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I look forward to finding out more about your fabrics Lee.  It was nice to meet you at the Business Awards Dylan and congratulations on your win.  I think we are all winners to be living here and working here!  No Harbour Bridge traffic delays..

The awards were a great night and they are another example of supporting the local community and networking in a small town.  Surprisingly they are highly competitive as there are a substantial number of successful business operators here.

Gentle Giants entered the small business manufacturing section.  We are one of the few uniform suppliers/uniform wholesalers left that still manufacturers a large amount of product in Australia.  We do also have to be competitive on the world market so we manufacture off shore too!  I have been amazed to find that many companies that supply school uniforms and sports team apparel actually do not make the garments nor do they do the embroidery and printing.  We do it all and it keeps us busy and it keeps us happy.

Business is busy-ness!.

If you are in a smaller population area I urge you to join your Local Chamber of Commerce and attend these award nights.  If you do not have time to put forward a submission then perhaps enter into a sponsorship arrangement with the Chamber and supply some giveaways and/or sponsor a particular award.  You will get great publicity out of it!

So our website is picking up more traffic now, we have a new design and quote maker feature on the website and seems a lot of people are enjoying have a play with design, uploading graphics, names and numbers to the shirts and emailing in for quotes and comments.  I am still running the older Garment design feature on the site also.

Let me know what you think of the features, do you prefer the first Garment Generator or do you prefer the new Quote and Design Maker.

Keep the comments flowing!

cheers

Gentle Giants

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