Dumb question

[LaRue Medlin]

does any one like the magnifying glass I put on my website? I re-worked the whole site...



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[gary s]

no, you dont cover my old stomping ground, greenvile-spart. :bwahaha:



seriously, i like it but from a biz prospective, do you want to advertise that you are limited to a certian area and that it would cost more to go outside the area.

on the other hand, maybe potential customers would like to know they are dealing with a local biz.

i am on the fence with this. maybe leave it on for a while and see if you have an increase in biz. do you ask new customers how did you here about our service?

if you got that new TC with your logo, that will for sure increase your biz :grin:



good luck

 

[user 64972]

i like it LaRue!



'07 ST

 

[David Griffith 2]

+1

 

[LaRue Medlin]

Gary,, the reason I do this is, around Sumter (3 locksmiths), Manning (1 LS) and Kingstree (1 LS), the other locksmiths will not travel more than 10 miles from town. I get a lot of "IN THE BOONIES" work because of that. If you had to call a locksmith from Columbia or Florence, it would cost a bundle. It's also good because I have gotten many calls asking if I would travel XX miles because no one else will. That's why they call me "The Traveling Locksmith" :grin: If you are willing to pay, I'm willing to go. BTW,, I will get a TC.... someday:cry:

 

[Bill V]

It's good--but I do have some suggestions for potential improvement...



Is the area inside the magnifying glass your service area? Or does it go beyond that area as well? If the circle is not a true representation of the travel limits, maybe another means of showing them would be better.



I think the map behind the magnifying glass looks a bit cluttered, and therefore detracts from the rest of the image. Can you either remove all the map data outside the magnifying glass, and just have the outline of the state (still filled in white), plus the map data inside the glass? Or, at least eliminate all those smaller highways and names of smaller cities in the state outside the magnifying glass?



Maybe above your small print of "Our main service area...", put a larger headline of "LARGEST LOCKSMITH SERVICE AREA IN THE REGION!!" or something like that, to really emphasize that point.



This is grammatical nitpicking, but--I recommend changing the wording to:

"Our main service area is 30 - 40 miles around Sumter, but we will travel up to 100 miles if requested."

(The changes I made are that I removed the capitalization on "Main Service Area", added spaces before and after the dash, changed the period to a comma after "Sumter", removed the capitalization on "But", and deleted the words "our services are". I think it just flows better if those words are removed--they're unnecessary to the meaning.)



But like I said, these are nitpicks. All in all, it looks sharp!

 

[Bill V]

If you truly have a "primary zone" (with no mileage surcharge) and a "secondary zone" (with a mileage surcharge), maybe you could create a Google Map. For example, I created this one in about 90 seconds...



<iframe width="700" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117248115549936330670.0004965bc5098ea80c1ac&amp;ll=33.85217,-80.466614&amp;spn=1.368567,1.922607&amp;z=9&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117248115549936330670.0004965bc5098ea80c1ac&amp;ll=33.85217,-80.466614&amp;spn=1.368567,1.922607&amp;z=9&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">test</a> in a larger map</small>

 

[rob chaw]

Likey Likey...

 

[Kevin Palmer]

I like it...

 

[LaRue Medlin]

Bill,, thanks on the wording, but for my purposes, the map will stay the way it is. I don't really have a set "home zone". There are too many variables on my service charges to do a map like your example. I even tried to pull up a map by counties, boy was that a fiasco.