Now for the one thing that seemed to really set us apart, we made a personal website. It seems crazy that this is not done more often but a number of people were somewhat amazed by this, from the adoption counselor to the judge. It seemed obvious and logical to us and it was something anyone can do in just a little bit of time. We spent so much time on making the book and we already had all of the information typed and ready to go so why not publish it and get it out there? We used Google Sites which can be used very easily to make a very basic website and get it up and running in minutes. We were able to register for www.jaredandkatieadopt.com for $10 for a year and use Sites to make the web page. We did not want anything fancy, just another way for someone to see our bio and have ways to contact us. It was easy to pick a template for the layout and make a page that followed along with the sections in our booklet. Adding pictures is as easy as a few clicks. We put this together in less than two hours by using a template and just copying and pasting the information that we had already typed.
It was also very important to have multiple ways for people to contact us. When we created www.jaredandkatie.com, we also got an email address using the jaredandkatieadopt.com domain name which we made available for anyone looking to email us. We also put up our twitter name, @jaredkatieadopt, as well as a 1-800 number because we did not want to post our personal numbers online. We registered that through Kall8 and if someone called that number it forwarded to Katie’s phone. We also posted the .PDF version of our letter so people could download it as well.
Alright, we have our booklet done and a website done, how do we get people there?
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