About Us
While our small team works with clients from all across the United States, our heart is in Massachusetts. We offer premium website design, hosting, and support services to small businesses, nonprofits, and solopreneurs on Cape Cod, in Boston, and in Worcester.
How We Got Started
118Group Web Design was started by Dale Shadbegian back in 2010 as a way to help friends & family navigate building a digital presence. Since then, the team has taken on new leadership and has grown to six full-time team members eager to impress!
The products and services we offer
Recommendations Received (9)
"Dale is great at helping local businesses revamp their website with a mobile-friendly responsive..."
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"Dale is great at helping local businesses revamp their website with a mobile-friendly responsive design. He also helps build community around local businesses' social media pages and blogs. If you need help getting found online, Dale is a go-to guy!"
Products & Services
We build websites rich with features that load nicely on mobile devices. If your website doesn't load on a mobile device, you're losing business an...
Recommendations Given (14)
"Check out their online portfolio and you'll see the great work they do."
"Very good trust worthy firm! Great people. "
Recent Activity
Yes, sort of. It's like any Advertising: Define your target market, create content to appeal to them, target them clearly and consistently. Facebook is SO CHEAP for local business. Many small businesses have this flawed view that every dollar they spend will come back instantly. That's just not...
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Yes, sort of. It's like any Advertising: Define your target market, create content to appeal to them, target them clearly and consistently. Facebook is SO CHEAP for local business. Many small businesses have this flawed view that every dollar they spend will come back instantly. That's just not how it works. If it were - everyone would own a small business and be rich.
Look at the Stock Market - it takes 5 years to double your money, assuming a 20% ROI.
Some Industries have it harder than others, and as always a good combo of Reputation Monitoring, Social Media, SEO, and Client/Prospect Newsletters give the best 1-2 punch. They all need to work together.
For us (Web Design, SEO, Social Media Management)... it is 2 main sources: Word of mouth in my personal network just from being good to people and helping them when I can over the past 20 years. Second is SEO - Getting found in Google - hands down best avenue for us.
I've seen Facebook do...
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For us (Web Design, SEO, Social Media Management)... it is 2 main sources: Word of mouth in my personal network just from being good to people and helping them when I can over the past 20 years. Second is SEO - Getting found in Google - hands down best avenue for us.
I've seen Facebook do wonders for Food/Lodging.
Not every business currently has a business model which will sustain the finds for online growth, and the few who carve it out tend to do very well.
No matter what method you obtain leads, many studies suggest having a healthy website and overall credible online presence is key to obtaining new business.
I used to, but for what we do it's not a good idea. For emergencies we have an inbox set up: urgent@ourdomain.com which is forwarded to our team emails, and also to the cell # of who is on-call.
For normal interactions, we have a google voice # so texts come into our inbox which is helpful. If...
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I used to, but for what we do it's not a good idea. For emergencies we have an inbox set up: urgent@ourdomain.com which is forwarded to our team emails, and also to the cell # of who is on-call.
For normal interactions, we have a google voice # so texts come into our inbox which is helpful. If I had just a cell phone, it wouldn't work for us for the following reasons:
- Difficult to track actual completion and queue by importance
- Doesn't easily allow for pasting of links, from a browser.
- The message is usually short-cutted and reading tone/intent can be misleading or completely misunderstood
- The message cannot easily be archived for future use, etc.
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Yelp has contributed so much malcontent and biased reviews for so many businesses I have encountered. I've become good at negative SEOing those bad and really immoral reviews. MOST ENJOYABLE THING I'VE EVER DONE IN MY Life. Bye bye bad Yelp review, it's on to Search Result Page 2 for you!
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Yelp has contributed so much malcontent and biased reviews for so many businesses I have encountered. I've become good at negative SEOing those bad and really immoral reviews. MOST ENJOYABLE THING I'VE EVER DONE IN MY Life. Bye bye bad Yelp review, it's on to Search Result Page 2 for you!
Attracts a haggling clientele
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Attracts a haggling clientele
No, but soon.
I am just getting the lay of the land here - registered for over a year, just set a goal to spend 20 minutes a day here last week. The audience at Alignable is more interactive than LinkedIn. I've had more engaging conversations, and a few "let's follow up in the future" type...
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No, but soon.
I am just getting the lay of the land here - registered for over a year, just set a goal to spend 20 minutes a day here last week. The audience at Alignable is more interactive than LinkedIn. I've had more engaging conversations, and a few "let's follow up in the future" type correspondence.
I've re-connected with several friends from the past who I can definitely refer in the near future. I stay pretty busy, so landing business is not my first priority. I'm more interested in seeing who is out there and what they're up to.
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I have a blog and I write for several blogs. The most important part of a blog in my opinion is that you need to publish 1 blog at least every couple of months. This tells your prospects you are ready and open for business, you care about your Industry, and you have taken steps to help others....
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I have a blog and I write for several blogs. The most important part of a blog in my opinion is that you need to publish 1 blog at least every couple of months. This tells your prospects you are ready and open for business, you care about your Industry, and you have taken steps to help others. You will get very little SEO value if any, unless you really embark on an SEO effort which is a whole different story.
Just to add - there were a few comments about it being glitchy, or not looking "razzle dazzle" as Mark put it... wordpress is completely open and you can redesign or modify any way you want. Even if you have purchased a premium theme.
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Just to add - there were a few comments about it being glitchy, or not looking "razzle dazzle" as Mark put it... wordpress is completely open and you can redesign or modify any way you want. Even if you have purchased a premium theme.
