Your contracting business is about sales. If you do not sell, your business dies. You do not sell without leads. Your marketing and advertising's only real job is to produce leads or sales for you.

That simple connection of powerful facts is very important to both of us.

Hudson Ink exists to bring you more leads, in less time, from more people, at a lower cost. Yes, that's a tall order. But if you've been on this website awhile or read our other articles or books, hopefully you agree we're up to the task.

(Montgomery, Al.) Nov. 11, 2011 - In a time of dwindling attendance to many national live events, the first-ever "Next Level Contractor"event has shunned that trend. How?

We recently read a major online study citing that “94% of small businesses haven’t claimed their local listing”. Since an “unclaimed” listing would send a company’s search results far down the list, we felt that number was too high, especially for contractors who’d be giving up a significant lead source.

So we queried 9,800 contractors from our list who granted us behind-the-scenes permission to check their listing, completeness, and ranking.

According to Internet Marketing Trends “…the rate of change in web marketing has exceeded business’ capacity to absorb it.” In other words:

Overwhelm. You simply cannot go chasing after every new web marketing gizmo and feature that comes out. You can’t spend the time or the dollars to test each new techno-tidbit to see if it works as “promised”. It’s too much. Plus, you’ve got a contracting business to run.

You just want your web marketing do 3 basic things: