John Bergmann has over the past 34 years, become one of the most trusted and sought after wood flooring contractors in Austin, TX.

Some of the services that John offers his clients are ;

• Austin Wood Flooring
• Austin Flooring Installation
• Marble Falls Wood Flooring
• Marble Falls Installation
• Austin Custom Wood Floors
• Austin Hardwood Flooring

Please continue to stop by from time to time. This blog along with our web site will be a great resource for anyone in Austin or the Hill Country area looking for hardwood flooring contractor who’s about quality and craftsmanship. We’re going to try to post pictures of new projects along with information that will help anyone who’s in market for wood flooring in Austin.

Crest Efficient Solutions, a Dallas-Fort Worth Air Conditioning Company has announced it’s launching service on April 1st to the Dallas Fort Worth Area. Crest Energy Solutions is owned and operated by Brothers Chris and Ricky Berry. They are both lifelong Dallas residents who between them have over 34 years experience in the Dallas HVAC industry.

“Our goal with Crest Efficient Solutions is to be able to walk into a home anywhere in the metroplex that’s having any type of HVAC problems, and have that issue resolved as quickly as possible while making sure the customer is thrilled with the service and value they received from us” says Chris Berry, the eldest of the two brothers. Ricky Berry says “Dallas Summers are absolutely brutal, especially when we have those harsh periods where there’s no rain for weeks at a time. When it gets hot like that, everybody’s A/C units are working overtime. If your A/C unit is getting up there in years or not being maintained properly, you’re gonna have problems especially when it gets in the upper 90′s/100′s. When that time comes, there’s no one who’s as fast, capable and friendly as Crest Efficient Solutions at making sure your family’s not suffering in that type of dangerous heat.”

While providing service to all of the DFW Metroplex, Crest Efficient Solutions focuses on service in these areas:

• Plano Air Conditioning
• Frisco Air Conditioning
• Arlington Air Conditioning
• Southlake Air Conditioning
• Dallas Air Conditioning

Also in addition to air conditioning services we offer the following services to the DFW area:

• Emergency 24/7 AC Repair Service
• Air Duct Cleaning
• Air Conditioning Repair
• HVAC Repair

If you have any questions or would like to know more about Crest Efficient Solutions please visit our main site www.crestairandheat.com or call us at 214-216-6577.

March 20, 2011 – Cameron Chmelik, owner of John Cameron Custom Homes, Inc has just released the new version of the company website. John Cameron Custom Homes specializes in building unique and beautiful custom homes in the Austin area. Here are a few of the services that John Cameron Custom Homes offers that you can learn more about on our web site:

• Austin Remodeling
• Austin Custom Home Design
• Austin Green Building
• Austin Kitchen Remodeling
• Austin Bathroom Remodeling
• Austin Custom Homes
• Lakeway Custom Homes

Cameron says the company stands apart from many home builders because of the focus on building beautiful homes that are equally as functional as they are luxurious while paying close attention to energy saving techniques. Check out the newly designed site at www.johncameroncustomhomes.com

Austin, TX – Texas Dent Works, an Austin Paintless Dent Repair companies announced the launch of their newly designed web site today (http://www.texasdentworks.com). Their site was re-designed in an effort to help promote their new location at 3698 620 S, Suite #107, Austin, TX. After servicing the dealership industry exclusively in Austin for over 10 years, Texas Dent Works is branching out to serve the general public. “We’ve talked about opening a shop to the public for years now but the timing is finally right. We are very excited about our new shop and our great location across 620 from the Bee Cave Galleria. We hope to service the Lakeway, Bee Cave and West Austin communities for years to come”, said Texas Dent Works owner Dustin Karshens. Texas Dent Works provides Austin Paintless Dent Repair, Austin Bumper Scuff Repair, Austin Invisible Car Bras, Austin Paint Touch Up and Austin Headlight Restoration. Stop by and visit their new retail shop that’s open to the public at :

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As all my clients know, one of the services we provide as part of our Footprint Bundle is a dedicated Media Consultant. What this means is that you basically have an employee at your disposal to handle any Internet Marketing or Advertising issues. If a company is trying to sell you SEO or PPC Internet Marketing, we’ll sit in on that meeting (or even take the meeting for you) and give you our feedback as to whether it makes sense for your business in our opinion. We’re fair about it too. We often recommend other services. Our only goal with this process is to make sure that our business partners are informed when they make an advertising or marketing decision.

So last week one of my clients calls me up and tells me about an internet marketing company that called him. He received a call from a lady with Net Biz claiming that for $300 a month he would be on the first page of Google 24/7 in the sponsored links for an ultra competitive keyword phrase. He asked me to call her and get more details before he signed up. Perfect scenario for me. This is another reason why I love what I do. I’m about to learn something. I’m going to learn 1 of 2 things; either I’m going to call this company and they are offering a great service that no one knows about (which I can now recommend to other clients of mine who are not competitors with this client) or this is a service that is not what it seems and I’ll strongly recommend that my client not do business with these guys. My guess is the latter but hey, you never know so I always keep an open mind.

So I call Lori from Net Biz (http://www.netbiz.com) and inform her that I’m business partners with the individual that she spoke to earlier and I need to understand what this service is so we can make an informed decision. She tells me that for $300 a month she’ll give me 1st page placement for the keyword ‘Pest Control’ in the Austin market 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the entire month.

Now, I come from a company that managed millions of dollars in Google Adwords campaigns on a monthly basis and I saw customers spending upwards of $5000 monthly in this same category and they were not showing up “24/7″ so I know something is very fishy here. I ask her how is this possible considering bidding for this exact key word phrase often reaches $9 per click on the high? Lori hates this question (there’s a good chance she hates me too). She’s irritated that I’m asking questions and quickly calls her manager over to get on the phone. The manager proceeds to tell me that NetBiz has an exclusive deal with Google that allows them to essentially sell one fixed sponsored links listing per key word phrase, per market, that will show up 24/7 for the entire month. Hrrmm….is that even possible? For a second, I’m wondering if this little company in Portland, OR has found (or negotiated) the holy grail in PPC advertising with Google. That self doubt lasted about .8 seconds until the manager proceeded to use fear tactics to close me. He said:

‘Well sir, I don’t have any more time to answer these questions you have. You see, in our exclusive deal with Google, we can only list one company per key word phrase and we’ve got to find someone today. I don’t care whether you do it or not but I’ll promise you one thing, somebody will buy this by the end of the day. It’s either going to be you or your competitor. So is this something you can commit to today?

Well now there’s zero doubt in my head that this whole thing was a scam. The best analogy I can give you is that if I somehow found a way to sell you an iPhone that you could use on any provider’s network, for $25, that would be the easiest sale ever right? If I had a limited supply the first thing I would do is call the people closest to me and offer them that deal, then I’d open it up to my extended network, then the public. One thing is for sure, I would be sold out…and quickly at that. I definitely wouldn’t have to sell this to strangers and use scare tactics like; ‘well sir, I only have 15 iPhones left and I really don’t care who buys them but I know I won’t have them by tomorrow’. No way. If I had a deal that sweet, you’d have to know me or have done business with me before for me to hook you up. The general public wouldn’t ever even get a chance to tell me no. Because $25 for an iPhone that works on any network is exactly that; a hookup. Just like paying a flat fee to be listed 24/7 in an industry where other companies are paying thousands of dollars a month and not getting that exposure, is a hookup.

So now I know that this isn’t legit but I still want something more concrete to take back to my client. I tell the manager (I believe is name was Damon) thanks for answering my questions and ask to be transferred back to Lori. I tell Lori that I’m ready to sign up today but that I need to see everything we just talked about in writing. She again, is irritated and summons her manager but this time she is talking to him with me in ear shot. After sharing my request with her manager, she tells me that the contract is ‘Locked” and doesn’t get “Released” until I pay for the service. I respectfully tell her that without any expectations in writing, there is no way we can do business. She again summons Damon over and after some back and forth, he agrees to “Unlock” the Terms and Conditions. She quickly emails me a copy. I’m paraphrasing (If you’d like to read the T’s & C”s yourself here it is) but the document essentially says that they will guarantee you 1st page results. The document does not say which key words you’re getting and it says that if it ever gets too expensive, they have the right of taking you down and/or offering you the right to stay up at a higher price. In other words, they could put me on the first page results for any low volume keyword phrase and as long as I showed up on the 1st page, they would technically be honoring the contract. I even researched this a little further and found a few horror stories claiming this exactly (If you’d like these examples email me and I’ll them to you ). So as you can imagine, I called my client up and told him my recommendation is to not do business with this company and I explained why.

I’m sharing this story for two reasons; 1) I’m proud of the service we offer and the fact that we save our clients time and money and 2) The best way to start any business relationship is with proper expectations. If someone is selling you ‘pie in the sky’ or something that sounds too good to be true. It almost always is. I would love to buy an iPhone for my mom (who’s a Verizon customer) for $25 but there’s not too many of those flying around (at least not yet).