As some of you know, I recently sold a website dedicated to helping vBulletin admins. On that forum I had two sections, one that listed off all the clients I had worked with (that approved to be mentioned) & one that listed several of the testimonials from those clients. At the time of selling that forum I had worked on over 300 vBulletin sites. This was over a 3-year span & many of those admins would need repeat work (vB upgrades, new sites etc..). When I sold the site I built a new “vBulletin Services” page on this blog. Right around that same time that I sold the site, I picked up a great job with the state – I’m still very happy employed and loving it. I knew that I wouldn’t be taking on as many jobs as before, so promoting the services back on this blog wasn’t a priority.

I’m starting to clear up some time and thought I might as well take care of this so I can mark it off my list. I’m going to re-post all the clients I had worked with, a general outline of what I did and a link/screenshot to their site. I’ll setup a category for my clients and testimonials. I also have the option with the current style to display 9 featured client sites. I think it says something about webhosting right now, and you might see the screenshots displayed across the top, those will be changed soon, I’m hoping to have everything transferred over by the end of this next week. I may not end up using this green style you see, I want to have an option to show featured post on the home page, like my IPB vs vBulletin post should be on the front, it was getting a lot of comments, as well as a few others that have a high comment count.

So this is how I’ll continue to build my brand, by showing the work I’ve done and what my clients say about me. In the 3+ years I’ve been doing this, I’ve never had an upset customer with problems that we couldn’t resolve. Usually it’s a communication error, and that’s one of the reasons I like to talk on the phone with clients, but I request all site requirements done via email. That way I have a solid copy and know exactly what a client wants. It’s best to be clear and concise and keep good documentation of the work at hand.

In short, all my subscribers will get a few updates with a dozen or so post it in, I’ll try to get through them as fast as possible so it’s not so annoying for the subscribers.

Thanks as always for all the support!

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What the these business owners need to know is that marketing is not just putting out a few ads and hoping for the best, but rather a process that involves lots of strategies and planning. Although marketing is a process, it does not have to be complicated; you would simply have to set a goal and then make a plan with strategies on how to achieve them, if you have a website, this can be done with the aid of a search engine optimization consultant.

Depending on the type of product and / or service that you offer, you may want to get the services of a search engine optimization company who will help you to select the correct keywords and implement them in the correct places on your webpage. The aim of this will be to increase traffic to your website and in turn increase your sales and revenue.  If you are not clear as to what a search engine optimization service can do for you, simply ask your search engine optimization consultant to give you an overview, but all you need to know is that persons search for products on services on the web by entering certain words that they think will give them a list of websites that offer the type of product or service that they are looking for.

These are called keywords or key phrases; this is what leads a prospective customer to a website, as the search engine will return a result page with a list of websites that matches the keywords that were entered for the search. It is therefore imperative that your website has the correct keywords necessary to ensure that your webpage is among the results lists. Any professional search engine company that you choose to hire will already know how to perform a search engine optimization on your web pages to get more traffic to your website, and not just random traffic, but traffic that will lead to optimized sales and a better ROI.

Another simple and inexpensive way to get your business out there is to utilise the many social networks on the web, you can start by creating your own blog or forum which will talk about your company’s products or services, customers can leave comments and prospective customers can ask questions.

While advertising is always a good strategy, try to add other forms of promotion in the mix and if you company is an online company, get yourself a search engine optimisation package  from a search engine optimization company, all these put together will promote customer growth and sales.

This is Brandon Sheley of Sheley Enterprises, and I thought it was about time I made an umbrella site to show off everything I’ve done on the web.

I’m the owner of vBulletin Setup and have been offering vBulletin Services since the middle of 2007. I started vBulletin Setup as a place to share information on optimizing your forum for Search Engines as well as server load. You can see a list of my past vBulletin Clients that wished to be listed in the forums. I’ve had several of the larger forums that wish not to be listed, so their competition doesn’t see what they’ve had done and mimic it. I’ve had a number of clients post Testimonials as well, but I rarely ask clients to post. I figure I’m busy, so I know they are busy, if they want to post a testimonial they can. I’ve never had a customer walk away unhappy, and have gotten several referrals from past clients.

As you see, I still have a ton of work to do on this blog, I’ll chip away at it as I get time. I’m always working on a number of project, and always looking for new web ventures.

Anyways.. Life has been good for me, Alissa and I are getting the house cleaned up to get ready to show/sell. We are looking for a house with more room and a bit newer then the one we are currently in. School is cruising along fine, I’m still passing and looking forward to spring break! We are working with cisco switches, it’s pretty interested stuff, at least for me it is.

What have I been working on ? The end of last year I got a call from a past client in Cali asking me if I wanted to fly over for some website meetings.. Of course I said yes! It was awesome and warm! I think I’ll be going back sometime, this time with Alissa. I’m currently the head Marketing Coordinator for the Crowdgather network.. I’ll let you know more about what crowdgather is when we official go public. All I can say is this.. Currently I’m in charge of 20 forums and I have to make sure they are optimized for search engines, as well as monetize all the forums so my boss can start making some money. We haven’t added ad’s on many forum yet, I’ve just been working on getting the site optimized and posting some links around the web back to it.

With that said, the vBulletin Services work that I was doing during the week, I don’t have near the time for.. I’ve created a vBulletin team that is composed of about 20 vbulletin programmers and designers that I’ve been pushing the work off on to.. It’s worked out for everyone because I asked that the vb team help on the forums, especially if they are making money off vBulletin Setup.

Other then that, hasn’t been to much going on. I’ll try to update this more often now that I have the magazine style template setup.

cheers
-Brandon

here is the list

• vb install
• vbseo help and tweak
• vba
• vbarcade
• adding 100′s of games
• gave some suggestions on how to promote the site with it’s niche

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This client has two vBulletin sites that I’ve helped and done some work on.
With this site, we’ve upgraded from 3.5.x and have added a style and a gallery.
This site was pretty simple to setup and here is a list of some other hacks or mods that was done.

• upgrades from 3.5.x
• photoplog gallery
• shoutbox
• vbadvanced
• style and matching logo

When we first installed vBulletin we had 3.5.0 and have since updated each times it’s been needed.

The client wanted a lot of goodies in the postbit section and the members love the vBux and all the graphics in the postbit..

The site has a light and dark style both are hacked out completely.

This client has another site which I’ll look to in a min.

here is a short list of what was done

• vBseo
• vBadvanced
• vBshout
• photoplog vBulletin Gallery
• upgrades, and upgrades
• seo optimization

(This was one of my first sites, Gary was a great guy to work with and it’s awesome to see his site still going strong)

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