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Marketing Pro or DIY?
What do you guys use for graphic design? For your website, logo, social media graphics. Thinking whether to seek the services of a professional. I have no idea how much it would cost. Or should I do it myself with something like canva.com
Www.martyscardetail.com
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I love shiny things
Originally Posted by
martyk13
What do you guys use for graphic design? For your website, logo, social media graphics. Thinking whether to seek the services of a professional. I have no idea how much it would cost. Or should I do it myself with something like canva.com
www.martyscardetail.com
That's a complicated question...with a lot of factors.
I will be glad to elaborate in-depth.
Let's start simple.
Do you write your own web pages?
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Originally Posted by
Merlin
That's a complicated question...with a lot of factors.
I will be glad to elaborate in-depth.
Let's start simple.
Do you write your own web pages?
Yea. Www.martyscardetail.com is all my work.
Www.martyscardetail.com
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I love shiny things
I also do my own web pages.
Originally Posted by
martyk13
It's a good start. The basics for a webpage are Who, What, When, Where, and How.
NOTE: Personally I'd lose the www. prefix. Less to type. Less to remember. Everyone knows it's the Web.
Web Pages:
The 1st "trick" is to immediately capture the potential customer's attention so they "stay" on your page(s).
Sadly, there is nothing "exciting" about your home page. That's where a strong graphic/picture/video comes in.
The 2nd trick is to make your pages FAST! Google ranks your pages "mobile-first". This is important!
Nobody likes a slow website and you can lose customers if it loads slow. It must be under 3 seconds.
Here is a FREE Google tool I use to test my page speed. (and those of my competitors)
https://pagespeed.web.dev/
Also, if you are using Chrome browser: (go to the page you want to test)
Upper right hand corner > Three dots > More tools > Developer tools > At the top right choose > Lighthouse
You can test both mobile and desktop speed.
If you want to know what Google knows about your website type site:martyscardetail.com in the search box.
In short, I started out with a FREE webpage maker called https://mobirise.com
You can design web pages on your desktop without having to upload them to the server to see the results.
There are other products like https://wordpress.com/website-builder/
Graphics:
There is a site called https://www.fiverr.com/ that I might suggest.
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If you have artistic talent then try canva but you could just hire project-based freelancers for sure there tons of freelancers available online. that's what we do.
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