The Website Guy returns. It’s been a very busy couple of months since I last checked in! Right off the bat – don’t follow my bad example and keep up with your blog. With that said, it’s a forgivable offense if you’re working on building a following elsewhere, which is exactly what this web guy has been up to. 🙂
One of my primary focuses for building up my budding business is local outreach. I have this silly notion of being the Spiderman Webhead of my home town, Virginia Beach. I want the websites of the businesses in my area to be top notch because I know how much it matters to the economy overall. It’s why anyone from the Hampton Roads area should feel free to reach out with any questions – I’m usually giving away great information for free because I’m motivated to improve the digital presence of our area’s businesses and organizations overall.
To meet my fellow local business entrepreneurs, I have been sampling some of Virginia Beach’s local networking groups. Business Referral Network or BNI has been my primary focus, an international networking group that meets weekly. It has been insanely instructive to step back from the national and international clients to focus on some of the most exciting first steps of a building a small business. There’s a palpable excitement in the air … it’s electrifying. I’m reminded of why my mother (a real estate agent) liked working with first time home buyers so much – it’s such a huge milestone, and I am honored and humbled to play a role in making small business owners’ dreams a reality. Someone pinch me.
Outside of my local outreach, I’ve been busy working on a “meeting of minds” between my brother and I. He is a “web guy” himself, and recently left his place of employment to brave the wild world of freelancing. We have established a joint venture, “The Website Guys”, and we’re initially focused on helping small to medium sized businesses get the most out of the Facebook platform. Being in the #2 spot behind Google, Facebook’s platform gets more attractive every day as Facebook attempts to close that gap. You’ll find more frequent web guy musings on our page there, though now that we’re through most of the startup tasks I plan on blogging more frequently. Long form content just doesn’t do well natively in Facebook, and I’m a wordy kinda guy 🙂
So in closing, if you haven’t already please like our page and follow along https://www.facebook.com/vbwebsiteguys/ ! Thanks!