Estate Sales by Vivian
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Information about Estate Sales, antiques & collectibles, appraisals, local antique shops, and anything else that we feel like passing on. Most of the posts will be from me, but Michael and perhaps other team members may join us. Please join in and add your comments. We love hearing from you.
Michael just installed a new blogging component to my website. It is very powerful and so easy to use.
He has transferred all of the old blogs and comments to the new system so all of my old messages and your comments are still there.
I hope to be able to spend a little more time blogging information for you and I also hope that you will take the time to add your comments. It really makes it more fun when everyone contributes.
See you at a sale soon.
More changes to report.
We have recently expanded my FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) section of the website.
If you click on FAQs on the menu you will be taken to the FAQs page where there are now two sections. One is for Estate Sale clients or prospective clients and the other is for the Estate Sale customers.
As we get other questions we will add them to the page.
If you have any suggestions then please click on the Add a New Comment just below this article. We always appreciate hearing from you.
I am often asked "Who does your website?".
I am very proud of our website and am only too aware of its value and the importance to my business. It is one of my most important tools.
At first I had someone I knew in Beaumont who had made a couple of websites build my first one. Unfortunately, it was not very effective. Pages on it sometimes took minutes to load, it had little information, and really was not very attractive.
Then almost exactly five years ago, Michael came to one of my estate sales and left a proposal (for a website - not the other kind). That actually is how we met. A short time later I had a nice professional website. Since then it has continued to grow and has developed into what I believe is the best estate sale website in the entire country. Michael continues to work on it on a regular basis to make sure that it is state of the art.
He also takes care of the Search Engine Optimization for the site. That is the process for ensuring the website does well in the search engines. If you search on Google for Beaumont Texas antique stores, he currently has 6 websites in the top ten for those search terms. That is tough to do.
For those of you who do not know, Michael has operated a website design and hosting business since 1995. He did it fulltime for about ten years while he did antiques on the side. A few years ago he switched to full time antiques and websites on the side.
He has developed over 300 websites in the past 16 years. They are in almost every industry and business type from fishing guides, doctors, antiques, auctions, motivational speakers, authors, cities, blogs, historical organizations, small online sales businesses, food industry sites, resturants, party planners, high school reunions, artist, nature sites, band/music sites, organizations/associations, charter boat services, attorneys, and so many more.
He also is an expert in Search Engine Optimization. His websites including mine, do extremely well in the search engines.
Until just a few years ago, he hosted close to 200 websites, mostly fishing related. These days he specializes more in antique related sites, but still takes assignments in any field. You can check out his work at Antique Webs Overnight and Webs Overnight.
Just as information, Michael is also the owner of the Tattered Suitcase and the Antique Mall of Beaumont.
There are plans for some other new and exciting features coming to the site soon.
See you at a sale soon.
Well, the new web site is finally up and running. We have been working hard for quite some time to get it finished.
The general design is the same but the whole system "behind the scene" is all new. It is a whole new web site system that is far advanced over the usual HTML code like the old one.
There are all kinds of possibilities for new features for the new one. You have probably already seen the new photo gallery. It is just outstanding. You can expect to see more fun things soon.
Well, I have the blog back up and running.
We will move the old blog and comments over from the old site before long. There were only a few. We had to shut that one down due to some security issues with that program. This one is super and won't have those type of issues.
Lots of news to tell you about - coming soon!!!!
