BustinLooseMedia.com: Our new Parent Company!

After all of these years, I have finally decided to try and get paid a little bit for my work, what a concept, right? Now that I have several sites, many dedicated to website design, or promotion, I thought it would be a good time to pull it all together, under one umbrella, so to speak, so, I built another site, and this is the one that my business will be named from, BustinLooseMedia.com.

Where did I get that name, you might ask? Well, it is actually simple, the people that I most often help, are, or were, at one time, small business owners that had no concept of how they could utilize the Internet as another tool, just like a business card or newspaper ad. My goal is to help them Bust Loose from the old, and get into the new! Back when I got started, someone building a website was paid well, like $2,500 for a basic simple static html website, one with more than just a few pages that is. Times have changed, now, you can build a basic static html site, using WYSIWYG and paying a few bucks a month for hosting, but it is very limited as to what you can do.

Now that WordPress has developed into a full CMS tool, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination, and of course, your time, that is where I come in. WildWebDesigner.com builds the sites, and so on. TrafficComplex.com does the traffic promotion, and all of my other sites have the potential for generating revenue with ad space. I have one site, dedicated to the area where I live, the purpose there is to bring businesses that service our area together with those needing their services or products. I know, that sounds a bit like reinventing the wheel, but, it is not, because here in Burleson County, those without computers outnumber those with, but that is changing, so, through BurlesonCountyBusiness.com,  and BustinLooseMedia.com, I am going to Bust this place out of the old and into the new.

Recent Projects: BurlesonCountyBusiness.com

This site is a pet project of mine, where I live, the only internet access available is either dial-up, or sattellite, the reason for this is of course do to supply and demand, since there is not much demand, there is no supply! Anyway, the purpose of this site is to be both a directory, and an affordable source of advertising for the local businesses that service our area. No, there are not many with websites here to promote, but, I can take care of that, and also provide information for the visitors to our area. Since this is a popular weekend destination for visitors from Houston and other, more internet savvy, areas, this site should be of some assistance.

Just as I am from Houston, many people come here to visit, but end up staying, so gradually, computers and the internet are moving in! For those that may be interested, here is a link, BurlesonCountyBusiness.com.

Recent Projects: The Fellwock Real Estate Group

This is a site that I did about a year and a half ago, it is a static Html site, that I also maintain and update the listings. After building this site, Wordpress became a viable CMS Platform, so now, I am working on building a theme that will match this as closely as possible, as these are the colors and the layout that this company wants, that theme is a work in progress, but it is getting there. I hope to have that done in the next weeks, it wont be exact, but it will be close, and you will be able to see the flexibility of Wordpress. Take a look at the site here, FellwockRealEstate.com. Post a comment and tell me what you think.

OpinionHead has gotten a facelift!

After using several different themes for OpinionHead.com, I have finally found one that I like, the Blue Zinfandel theme by Brian Gardner, at this point it has only been modified through plugins, but there will be others yet to come. Thanks Brian, great job on this theme! Here is a snapshot of OpinionHead.com, if you have an Opinion this is the place for it!

Recent Projects: TrafficComplex.com, if you need traffic to your website, this is the place!

Are you a webmaster in need of traffic to your website?

There are many things that you need to do to get your rankings up, and one is increase traffic, this shows your site is more important than a site that gets no traffic, it is that simple

Google and the other search engines rank your pages according to relevance to the keywords on your site, one way that it becomes apparent is of course what people are actually searching for, once your pages get indexed, and the spiders crawl your site a few gazillion times, they then rate it, if you have more traffic, the better your site looks!

If you want to learn more about how a traffic exchange works just do a little research, and you can start here at TrafficComplex.com, just know this, if you have a Google Adsense account, DO NOT join a traffic exchange, they will drop you, and I mean fast!

Recent Projects: PattiMace.com, your choice for Real Estate in the Houston area!

This is one of my favorite sites, since the release of WordPress 2.5, things haven’t been the same. There are so many plugins available to turn a simple Blog into just about anything you want.

Why would you want to do that, you may ask? Affordability is one answer, go take a peek at this site, PattiMace.com, it uses a real estate plugin that allows you to post home listings, and even creates an .xml file for an RSS feed, that can be used to add your listings feed to Google Base and others, so that your listings are available in places like Google Real estate! That will increase the visibility and make it easier for people to find you!

This is the main reason for using the WordPress format, which is highly customizable, through themes and plugins, to get your pages picked up by the search engines! After all, having a website that nobody sees is a waste of server space!

You might wonder why I would tell the world about how easy it is to build a Real Estate website? That is clear, there are way too many “professional” website designers out there, that are just too expensive for the average real estate agent to use, so, they try to do something themselves, or get into expensive hosting contracts that are not always in their best interest. It isn’t that these designers are bad, they just are too expensive for a small business to use. Large real estate brokerages can do this, and rightly so, take a look at the Houston Association of Realtors website (HAR), this is where the properties are listed with MLS, and is a wonderful site, but, as an agent, or even a small brokerage, building something like this is way out of reach.

So, an agent needs a way to stand out, this is Patti’s page at HAR, you would never find her, unless she was to get extremely lucky and someone was to find her using HAR’s Member Finder, in other words, a needle in a haystack! By having her own site, that is also functional, and very visible, she can have the clients find her, and avoid that luck of the draw search process, do you know how many real estate agents there are in Houston?

Using the Wordress Blog, she can write useful posts that help people, even if they have no interest in buying a home in her area! The more she writes, the more her sites page rank will grow, the better that page rank gets, more people will be able to find her even easier.

Helping people, what a concept? I live by the philosophy that “if you help enough people get what they want or need, you will in turn, get what you want or need”, this is the purpose of this site, helping people get a website that will work for them, and be affordable for just about anyone.

For anyone that finds this post, and is looking to relocate to the Houston area, or just wanting to buy or sell a home in the Houston area, I can tell you this, Patti is a dedicated agent, and having a real estate agent that is dedicated to helping you, is a very important thing! So, take a peek at her site, send her an email, and let her help you.

If you are a real estate agent, or anyone needing an affordable website, drop me a note, and I will either build you a website, or help you to build your own.