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  1. DruidCarol

    Any Urban Tree Specialists in Southeastern Massachusetts?

    Hi, I am putting out a puff of smoke to see if there are any arborists who are specializing in urban tree problems and willing to advise a small group of residents that would like to know more about how to care for the public shade trees in their town. Please contact me privately if you have...
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  2. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    @NorCalBrock , I have to agree that it is tough to find websites that have all the ingredients put together. There are some with great content but it's kind of lost in the design. Some have a great design but the content is not telling people much about the company or why they should pick one...
  3. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    Nice photography! I have used SquareSpace--it is designed with the visual arts in mind as that I believe was its first market. Every system has its pros and cons, and funnily enough I found SquareSpace's interface less intuitive than Weebly or even Wordpress. BlackdownTree.co.uk is a...
  4. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    I was thinking the formatting of the menu bar by your website designer should make the dropdown of submenus under Grounds Maintenance literally closer together. My immediate thought when I saw the blank space was "Mind the Gap" (a number of years doing the London Underground when I worked for...
  5. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    Hi Steve, All in all, you've got a good mobile-ready site. I have to admit the color scheme isn't my favorite as the green is a little too "neon" and especially the contact info in white text with the bright background was a bit tricky to see. Sometimes the message can be lost in the design...
  6. DruidCarol

    Treephilosophy...... I can't get my head around.

    Trees are pretty much "criminalized" here in the New England area for all the same reasons, that they make work in the fall with leaf raking, dropping sap, etc.. (and BTW, I'm originally from Flint MI, @baumeister ! Left long before they began to poison everyone :eek:) I suspect it is a sign...
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    Treephilosophy...... I can't get my head around.

    Quote is from Nietzsche in his "Thus Spake Zarathustra" that wallows a lot in the conflict between good and evil as well as the distinction of man (just a head above animal life) and superman (the man who has overcome everything to be the supreme and perfect being). Nietzsche was an odd duck...
  8. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    Thanks, that is exactly what I like to know. Do you use quick lists to pick from to save time typing? (I ask that in the interest of others who might like to know that you can do that in Google forms!) I see opportunities to do this for type of work, type of trees, reasons for changing...
  9. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    Anyone tracking how many clients/prospects are coming to you via your website? Contact forms are easy to track but do you ask about how the customer found you in the first place when they phone? There are actually Google Analytic add-ons (mostly paid) to do this but wonder if anyone has their...
  10. DruidCarol

    1946 film of giant redwood tree felling

    My apologies if this has been posted before but found it amazing to see how talented these loggers were. You're probably glad for chainsaws today! (Ouch on the guy who is hoisted up on some huge chains instead of a nice saddle!)
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    • 1940s documentary giant sequoias lumbermen tree-felling
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  11. DruidCarol

    Time Clock Software

    Intuit handles .csv imports and I believe the newer versions handle Excel's formatting, but you should be good to go with a vanilla .csv that will parse out the fields you use. That should also make it accessible to FreshBooks and Sage/Peachtree accounting software, too. I think in this case...
  12. DruidCarol

    Time Clock Software

    What I see of this program is very nice and I like the admin dashboard a lot. I've worked with a tool called Shiftplanning (for a valet service, but I also know a landscape company that uses it and loves it) and it isn't nearly quite so attractive and visually appealing as what you've done...
  13. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    The key to all social media is how it links authentically to your main web presence, i.e., your official website. Essentially, someone who likes your work displayed on Pinterest needs to find out how to find out more about you. Maybe not a (dare I say it) "Yuuuge!" impact on page ranking...
  14. DruidCarol

    Website feedback

    It is possible to claim the duplicates that are those generic pages that Facebook actually added a while back to populate their platform for businesses (Google+ did the same thing); they also say that if someone "checked in" at your business before you had a FB page for it then that might be why...
  15. DruidCarol

    Marketing tagline

    There is debate about how useful taglines can be, whether they are old-fashioned relics. I look at it this way: in the tree service field, there's a good chance that there are a lot of people who "do" trees within a comparatively well-defined geographic area, and the trick for a client is to...
  16. DruidCarol

    Be Careful Out There!

    Some of these make me think of "Laurel teaches Hardy how to take down trees". The shrub whacking the guy in the skid-steer had me on the floor! :risas2:
  17. DruidCarol

    Marketing tagline

    Would your marketing guy be able to do something called A/B market testing to see if two versions of a tagline get more positive reaction? So you could do this either via a website call-to-action, an e-mail blast, or even good old snail mail (put a code on which version is mailed to which...
  18. DruidCarol

    New England grows 2015

    I just know that I'd better have Dramamine next time. That camera (assume it was GoPro?) was a little too real!
  19. DruidCarol

    New England grows 2015

    Hey, it's my problem, not yours! :D It's why I'm in awe of what you guys and gals do.
  20. DruidCarol

    New England grows 2015

    Thanks for reminding me I have severe vertigo. I was sitting quietly at the dining table watching this and feeling like I was going to have go offer prayers to the porcelain goddess.

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