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I've started a topic to better understand what costs everyone is incurring with their business websites. Please feel free to comment and answer the poll questions.

There are many different website services, packages, and programs available when choosing the right company/webmaster for your auto repair business. You can sign up to a service that provides a robust website, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), analytics, marketing services, social network management, integrations, etc. You can also sign up for much simpler solutions which usually only include a website and some SEO. You can also try to use an online website builder to get yourself online with something very basic, which is better than nothing. So many different option and they all have their associated costs. In some cases there are initial startup costs as well. In most cases however, there are monthly costs associated with operating a business website. Please take a moment and share, if you would like, about your website costs and associated services. Please also take a moment to answer a few quick question in the attached poll. Thank you.

Links section has been updated. https://www.autoshopowner.com/links/

If I remember correctly, Johnson Controls manufactures Interstate and I thought NAPA batteries were manufactured by East Penn. 🤔

* Topic moved to Marketing, Advertising, and Promoting forum.

If our community here at AutoShopOwner has helped you in your business or in another way, please share with a post in this topic. There is nothing better than word of mouth and testimonials, some of which I'd like to post on our main page (coming soon). 🙂

Great to hear, glad you like it. 😎

There is a 10 sec flood control delay with search for our free members. You can upgrade to a premium or above membership which has no flood control for search. 😁

I just realized why most of you cannot see who specifically liked a post. That feature is now slated for premium and above memberships going forward. However, for the time being I've enabled it on our FREE membership package. 😁

Sorry for the delay responding to this. That's a good call out about the likes and I will look into that. As far as notifications, you can control them in your account settings or directly via this link: https://www.autoshopowner.com/notifications/options/ When you click into your account settings, you'll see to the right "Other settings" and then the link to Notifications. Click on what you want for notifications on the site and emails. You can do both , one, or none.

Topic moved to Auto Body Shop Discussions Forum

CMillet, I split your reply and the other replies to your comment into this separate topic for you, to not take over the original topic. You can change the title if you like, I just used the content from the first post.

I have split the off-topic replies in this topic into a new topic:

Glad you approve 😁

For anyone following twitter and facebook, we are back online. For those that use Tapatalk, I've just updated the plugin for that as well. Our forum, which is our main section, is back up. We've got new layouts for various other sections as well. Please reach out in this post, PM, contact form, or email if you experience any issue with this website. Layout issue, functionality, etc. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the comment, hopefully not too much of a change. We tried to keep it close to the old layout. Still have some things to work on, but core site functions are all back up.

Just a quick update, almost done with some final testing and finalizing some of the sections on this site. We are planning to update ASO next weekend and the site will be down for a bit during that time. I will keep everyone posted via twitter as well.

Hello Jim, thanks for joining and posting your question to the community. I moved your topic into the general automotive section as I believe it could garner some conversation. You had posted in the Auto Repair Shop Help forum, and that is a section where auto shop owners can inquire about specific topics they are looking to get assistance from our community with. The members here are primarily automotive shop owners networking and collaborating on their businesses. Thank you for your service to our country.

There are so many websites powered by wordpress, including some of the ones posted by our members. Please make sure you or your webmaster patch or update your sites to the latest version. I often see outdated wordpress sites that are never updated in fear of breaking the styling and theme. It is critical to keep web 2.0 sites up to date. More info: Recent WordPress vulnerability used to deface 1.5 million pages Over One Million WordPress Sites Defaced It's easy to see if you are running a wordpress site (as long as the admin panel has not been moved) just append /wp-admin/ to your domain name. Example: yoursite.com/wp-admin/

Yes, downloads are included in our premium membership which is $29.99 a year right now. You can upgrade from our free membership here: http://www.autoshopowner.com/store/category/1-membership-packages/

Welcome to AutoShopOwner and thanks for posting an introduction to your company and services.

http://www.autoshopowner.com/files/category/2-technician-forms/

In the coming weeks, we are going to be updating AutoShopOwner to a newer platform for 2017. We are working on making it as close as possible to what we have now before making the switch. Joe and I have discussed our need to stay up to date with the ever evolving internet. This includes making sure we are running on the latest software that runs this community. There will be a few important changes and I will update this topic as it happens. Everything will generally work the same with some new enhancements including mobile usability, posting features, and a newer user interface. For those using Tapatalk with this forum, we will make sure that is up to date and have plans to move to https:// to serve secure web pages. Please subscribe (Follow) to this topic if you would like to be notified about these changes. More to come