Bob Cheal
Bob developed his first website in 1996, long ago in internet time. It was a Beatles music site that had a dual purpose. First to help Beatles fans locate Beatles resources on the fledgling internet and the second, to act as a ad revenue site.
Bob’s has developed his skills in ASP, PHP, and WordPress for content management. All are skills needed for web development in today’s market. With these skills, web applications can be developed and customized to fit specific needs. ask-yvonne.com and askthehandyman.net are both examples of web applications that Bob has developed over the last several years.
Bob Cheal works from his home as a full time web designer. Married to Shirley since 1989, he is a former sandwich shop owner (Santa Rosa Subs), licensed mortgage agent (Mission Hills Mortgage), church administrator (FUMC Santa Rosa), marketing services manager (Guaranty Residential Lending), handyman and author (Ship-Shape Handyman Services) and Marketing Manager (Sequoia Senior Solutions). His love of computers and computer programming started in 1973 and has stayed with him throughout his career. Creating his first webpage in 1996, through his design work today he is able reach out to the community and help businesses reach their target markets with the tools available on the world wide web.
In 2005 he authored a book entitled “Become a Handyman – a Quick Start Guide.” He gained valuable experience in the self publishing market and learned the intricacies of Amazon sales channels. Search optimization needs led to a republication under the title: “The Handyman Business Guide to Success” which quickly rose to the top of the handyman business searches on Amazon.
Developing a successful website involves much more than posting a webpage. Bob can help you in many ways including:
- Give your site a facelift to give it life and interactivity.
- Add video to your site. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, video is many times more impressive. Bob will shoot and produce your video.
- Develop your site in an environment that you can manage yourself minimizing the need for ongoing web support.
- Create a back end for administration of the site and your database of customers
- Incorporate analytics for traffic analysis so that you can make intelligent decisions about the direction of the site.
- Develop revenue channels from PPC ads and affiliate sales to improve your bottom line.
- Administer a PPC (pay per click) targeted advertising campaign to drive more of the right type of traffic to your website.
- Improve the accessibility of your site by adding Text resizing.
- Build an E-Commerce site to market your products.
- Add a never ending stream of news and information to your site by incorporating news feeds.