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Cayman SEO: Search Engine Friendly means Business Friendly

At the end of the last week of January 2012, I was feeling a bit worn out.  I had arrived from Manila two weeks prior and honestly, I was exhausted.  While I was in Manila I had gotten sick first with the flu and then fever over the New Year Holiday.  I hadn't recuperated from that yet and then had to travel back to Grand Cayman.  As soon as I arrived here, obviously, I had a lot of work waiting for me and have been meeting our clients left, right and center since then.  Its been an exhausting two months to say the least.

So when I received this email last friday, it made all the difference to me as a service provider.  This is one of the most meaningful testimonials I have received and it came at a time when I needed to know that what I was doing was worth it.  It is from our only client in Little Cayman, Brenda of Scooten! Scooters!  She writes...


 
Now that I am over the stress of figuring out the banner photo change, I want to tell you that we have had seven reservations come from our web site so far.  That may not sound like much to you but, to us, it is significant, particularly because each one has been a long term rental of a week or more.  Before the web site, most of our rentals were referrals from the resorts but they were usually only half day rentals.  The web site customers have used our web site to plan ahead and rent a scooter instead of a car.  Bottom line, we have already paid for the investment in the web site.  Thank you!

Thank you for writing that in Brenda!  You don't know how much that means to me.  We want to know that our websites are making a difference so when we receive a testimonial like this, it makes all our exhaustion melt away and makes us ready to face new day.

If you are looking for scooter rentals in Little Cayman, please don't hesitate to contact Scooten! Scooters!  Aside from the fact that they are excellent Clients, they also care about their customers and I can vouch for that!

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