New Irrigation Services Coming Soon To My Site
On this particular site for the past 6 years, my main focus has been selling my e-book, How To Build Your Own Automatic Lawn Sprinkler System. This e-book has done very well and helped out thousands of people design and build their own residential automatic irrigation systems. I've enjoyed the whole process of developing the book, the website, and answering sprinkler system questions over the years.
Lately I've been thinking about some other services that I can offer my visitors in addition to just offering the e-book. Many of the people who find my site are just looking for sprinkler parts to buy, which I do offer through a third-party-website, others are looking to get their questions answered to help them properly diagnose and fix their existing irrigation systems. I've answered thousands of emails over the years giving people free advice and helping them solve their sprinkler problems and it has been rewarding just knowing that I've helped.
Answering all of these questions definitely takes time and it has led me to come up with the idea of offering a paid sprinkler troubleshooting service via email and possibly phone. With a paid service I can justify dedicating more time to helping people solve their irrigation maintenance issues. I'm not saying that I won't still answer basic questions for free, but some issues that I've dealt with in the past have been slightly complex and required multiple emails back & forth to help finally solve the problem. Also many times I have to request additional information and pictures to help in diagnosing the sprinkler problem.
So to make this process smoother and more efficient I will be creating a sprinkler troubleshooting and maintenance form which asks certain questions upfront and allows people to upload pictures to help describe the specific issue that they are trying to resolve. I have not decided on a final price or full details of exactly what I will provide yet, but it is an idea that I've ran by a few people and they thought it was a very good idea. I know that I will make the cost less than a typical service call charge from your local irrigation contractor so that it will help you save money, which is one of the whole reasons of you wanting to do it yourself in the first place!
I will be designing the form and modifying the order page starting this week and I hope to have the program fully functional and implemented within the next 2-3 weeks.
On top of that new service, I will also be offering another new service that I've provided free in the past and many people frequently ask me to provide. It will be a sprinkler system design service. My design will come complete with a specific materials list and also the checklists that I offer as bonuses on my website when buying my sprinkler e-book.
I just have not been able to provide this service to as many people that have asked for it because of the time and energy it takes just became too much for me to do it for free anymore. My book provides great instructions for people to do this themselves, but there are still others who end up wanting me to personally design their system anyway. I would love to offer and provide this service to more people and by charging a fair price I will be able to do that. I have not yet decided on a final price for this irrigation system design and plan package, but it will be more than the irrigation troubleshooting service because of the amount of work that goes into it. However, it will still save you hundreds to thousands of dollars compared to hiring an irrigation professional to install it.
Some people may already know about Rainbird's free design service and I encourage you to use them if you wish. My service will be different from Rainbird's as I will be desinging the system according to my plan and specs. I'll actually be using the "simplified design" method outlined in my e-book. My design plan is normally a lot easier for the average "non-irrigation" person to follow, and my way normally always saves a ton of cash on parts/materials because of my design method, but you will still get a high quality system, including even coverage and matched precipitation rates across all zones.
I will keep you posted and make an announcement when I release these two new services. On another note, the look & design of my Blog may be changing within the next month due to Blogger.com changing the way that my blog is published to my server. They are doing away with FTP option and want me to host my content on one of their Google servers, which I'm not too happy about. So, I may be moving to a different service to publish my lawn sprinkler blog and with that move comes a new layout and look. Sorry to add this in at the end, it's a whole other issue...but I wanted everyone to be aware so that you're not shocked if you come to my blog one day and everything looks totally different! Don't worry though, all of my old blog posts going back to 2004 will all still be available for you to read!
That's it for tonight! I've got a busy day fixing sprinklers tomorrow...in the cold weather..brrr!
Scott
Landscape Irrigation System Design
Advanced Irrigation Systems, Inc.
Lately I've been thinking about some other services that I can offer my visitors in addition to just offering the e-book. Many of the people who find my site are just looking for sprinkler parts to buy, which I do offer through a third-party-website, others are looking to get their questions answered to help them properly diagnose and fix their existing irrigation systems. I've answered thousands of emails over the years giving people free advice and helping them solve their sprinkler problems and it has been rewarding just knowing that I've helped.
Answering all of these questions definitely takes time and it has led me to come up with the idea of offering a paid sprinkler troubleshooting service via email and possibly phone. With a paid service I can justify dedicating more time to helping people solve their irrigation maintenance issues. I'm not saying that I won't still answer basic questions for free, but some issues that I've dealt with in the past have been slightly complex and required multiple emails back & forth to help finally solve the problem. Also many times I have to request additional information and pictures to help in diagnosing the sprinkler problem.
So to make this process smoother and more efficient I will be creating a sprinkler troubleshooting and maintenance form which asks certain questions upfront and allows people to upload pictures to help describe the specific issue that they are trying to resolve. I have not decided on a final price or full details of exactly what I will provide yet, but it is an idea that I've ran by a few people and they thought it was a very good idea. I know that I will make the cost less than a typical service call charge from your local irrigation contractor so that it will help you save money, which is one of the whole reasons of you wanting to do it yourself in the first place!
I will be designing the form and modifying the order page starting this week and I hope to have the program fully functional and implemented within the next 2-3 weeks.
On top of that new service, I will also be offering another new service that I've provided free in the past and many people frequently ask me to provide. It will be a sprinkler system design service. My design will come complete with a specific materials list and also the checklists that I offer as bonuses on my website when buying my sprinkler e-book.
I just have not been able to provide this service to as many people that have asked for it because of the time and energy it takes just became too much for me to do it for free anymore. My book provides great instructions for people to do this themselves, but there are still others who end up wanting me to personally design their system anyway. I would love to offer and provide this service to more people and by charging a fair price I will be able to do that. I have not yet decided on a final price for this irrigation system design and plan package, but it will be more than the irrigation troubleshooting service because of the amount of work that goes into it. However, it will still save you hundreds to thousands of dollars compared to hiring an irrigation professional to install it.
Some people may already know about Rainbird's free design service and I encourage you to use them if you wish. My service will be different from Rainbird's as I will be desinging the system according to my plan and specs. I'll actually be using the "simplified design" method outlined in my e-book. My design plan is normally a lot easier for the average "non-irrigation" person to follow, and my way normally always saves a ton of cash on parts/materials because of my design method, but you will still get a high quality system, including even coverage and matched precipitation rates across all zones.
I will keep you posted and make an announcement when I release these two new services. On another note, the look & design of my Blog may be changing within the next month due to Blogger.com changing the way that my blog is published to my server. They are doing away with FTP option and want me to host my content on one of their Google servers, which I'm not too happy about. So, I may be moving to a different service to publish my lawn sprinkler blog and with that move comes a new layout and look. Sorry to add this in at the end, it's a whole other issue...but I wanted everyone to be aware so that you're not shocked if you come to my blog one day and everything looks totally different! Don't worry though, all of my old blog posts going back to 2004 will all still be available for you to read!
That's it for tonight! I've got a busy day fixing sprinklers tomorrow...in the cold weather..brrr!
Scott
Landscape Irrigation System Design
Advanced Irrigation Systems, Inc.
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