What Cinnesota does NOT do:
"You can do anything-but NOT everything."
Cinnesota does NOT promise you will be on the front page of Google.
Where do you hide a dead business? On the second page of Google. We know the infinite scroll was introduced and there aren’t pages anymore but the idea is the same.
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The game simply isn’t played like that.
We do know HOW to put you front and center!
It is PAID ads. Plain and simple. There’s no magic to it.
If you would like to have Google Ads running for your site and company, Cinnesota has a whole additional pricing structure, which includes monthly budgets, conversion tracking, target ROAS and a much more hands on approach that costs substantial money. Each client is unique in what type of customer they are looking for (demographics) and each demographic is unique to their cost per click depending on their market segment, a lawyer pays WAY more than a plumber per lead.
Please know, the internet is pay to play. If you are convinced the perfect SEO strategy will get you noticed, you are fooling yourself, and Cinnesota is not the company you want to partner with, we simply are realists who know that over-promising and under-delivering sucks.
SEO is built into all designs at Cinnesota Web Design we use rank math or yost plugins to help with SEO optimization. We aren’t ignorant that SEO helps, but SEO is NOT a magic bullet that will magically get you more magic imaginary customers, that’s not real, we don’t sew the emperor’s new clothes here at Cinnesota.
Cinnesota does NOT participate in, or manage social media accounts.
At Cinnesota Web Design we believe social media is a time trap for many business owners. As John Maxwell says: Keep the main thing the main thing!
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Don’t lose sight of the business for the socials. Social media, at Cinnesota Web Design, is viewed as a liability and not an asset. Social Media is a toilet with your business name painted on the bottom, get the picture? Think about how you personally use social media. Are you there to buy or are you there to waste time and be entertained? Be honest. As businesses, we want INTENT based customers, this is where your Google Ads, and Google Business profile come in. Cinnesota pays for INTENT not for entertainment. The psychology of people, when you are physically typing “Pizza near me” you WANT PIZZA NOW! Your intent is shown and Google throws up a paid ad FIRST. Hopefully, your shop because you do business with Cinnesota.
Yes, others show up but not at the top and not with all those beaming 5 star reviews. Social media is a waste of time for MOST businesses.
We would recommend Metricool for all your auto posting needs, but Cinnesota will not help. We stay in our lane, we’re good at what we’re good at. Websites and Google Ads.
Of course, there are exceptions.
What if, all of a sudden, you become YouTube famous or blow up on tik-tok? You want a site to sell SWAG and stuff to make more money! You’ve already mastered social media and have the audience that most businesses have to pay Google for.
Advancedcrabandseafood.com is one of our awesome clients and this exact story happened to them. We can help you too.
Another client would be a restaurant, IG would be great for showcasing your awesome dishes or specials.
Yet another company that benefits from socials is a clothing brand creating top of the mind marketing, or any brand for that matter looking for that top of the mind marketing spot. There’s so much static and fake garbage out there on socials we say good luck being heard or seen.
Here’s a few examples our team thought of in just a couple seconds. We aren’t in any way affiliated with these companies, but they do a great job on the socials:
Redbull – they sell energy drinks but NEVER advertise energy drinks on their socials, what do they show? Extreme sports and crazy stunts.
Sea Bags of Maine – Simply great advertising on the social media.
There are many companies that do a good job, but we would argue small companies waste valuable capital on these pursuits. Yes, there are companies so large this expense doesn’t matter, but they also hire teams of people and spend multiple millions on advertising a month. If that’s you let’s talk!
Cinnesota has come to see that many companies use social media manager and marketing manager interchangeably. This should not be so. Does your company want tire kickers or buyers?
Cinnesota does NOT find you products to sell.
Cinnesota will not find you products to sell nor will we upload thousands of drop shipped items to your site, be genuine, that’s all people want. Sell a few things really well.
Cinnesota does NOT teach professional phone etiquette.
Cinnesota doesn’t teach you how to be good on the phone. If you are running a local business and you are terrible at answering the phone, you will not be in business long or you will be struggling for money every day.
Professional etiquette...
Clients who spend money want to speak with a real person, a real person who they know and can trust. If you’re gruff and sound mean, that’s ok, but be real with yourself, maybe consider hiring a niece or daughter or great aunt or granny herself to be the “office admin” and be nice and sweet to all your potential clients. My mom always said “Nathan, you get further with honey than you do with vinegar.” Yes, some customers are simply bad or mean people. Remember, you don’t have to do business with everyone that calls, have some self respect and fire that customer before they become a 1 star review…you know who we are talking about.
We’re not saying be rude, but politely excuse your company from their minds as a company that can accomplish their particular project. You can sense it the first second you pick up the phone, they want the whole world for free or they even want you to pay for the whole world then give it to them with a smile. That one star review is NOT worth the one client, you will lose many good potential clients because you choose to do business with that one super bad client.
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Cinnesota does NOT continually make changes to your site.
Cinnesota will not continually make changes to your site. Huh? Yes, we will not continually go in and update specials or monthly deals. We can, based on our hourly min of $45/hour. When we sign our contract for website design and building that is for 2 major revisions. We will post your site after the approval meeting with you.
Cinnesota does NOT place ad-sense ads on it's sites.
Cinnesota does not host ad-sense ads (these are ads) on our sites. They look tacky and unless you’re a blogger mommy who posts recipes with 1000 ads on the site…
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people lose taste for your page QUICKLY. It’s called your bounce rate. How quickly do people “bounce”? Think about it. When you’re looking for a home remedy for dish soap and you finally see a site tag that snags you in, if all you see are 10 ads and that stupid popup video ad and then the sign up for my newsletter pop up and then buy dish soap pop up then…yadda yadda, we bounce, do you? Do you tolerate it? We’d be willing to say no, you move on. We know they make tons and tons of money doing that, but it’s annoying and our clients aren’t annoying, those annoying companies do business with other firms. Our clients pay for INTENT based customers who are already looking for their service.
