Most of this is things you already have. Gathering it before we start means your site is built with your real details from day one, not placeholders.
What to gather
- Your business details: name, phone, the email address requests should go to, your hours, and the towns you serve.
- Your services and prices: what you do, how each job is priced (by the room, the square foot, the hour), extras, minimums and fees.
- Photos you own: your work, your truck or storefront, and you. Customers' homes or faces only with their written OK.
- A short video, or your logo and colors. I match your site's colors to your video. No video? Pick a color look, or send a photo of your business and I'll take the colors from it.
- Your links: up to 5, like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or your Google reviews.
- Your Google account, if you have one. Your Google Business Profile is set up in your name, and I show you how to add me as a manager so I can help.
- Licenses and insurance, if your trade has them, so customers can see them.
- Reviews, with each customer's OK to use their words and name.
What's in your name
You buy your domain name (like yourbusiness.com) in your own name and pay for it directly, along with any booking or email service. That way they're always yours. Where your site is hosted is something we settle when we start.
I never ask for your passwords. When an account needs setting up, you sign in yourself and I tell you what to click. If I need to work in an account, you add me to it, and you can remove me any time.
Your video, and your colors
Send 6 to 10 seconds of video of your work, your storefront or your truck, with the phone held steady (sideways or up and down both work). No talking needed: it plays without sound, and I remove the sound from the file completely.
It plays behind your headline with a dark layer over it, so the words stay easy to read, and I pick your site's colors from it. If anyone recognizable is in it, I need their written OK. Visitors who turn off motion, and most phones, see a still picture from it instead, which keeps the site fast.
From first call to launch
It takes at least 3 business days from the time I have your details, and nothing goes public until you've seen it. You pay when it's delivered.
We talk it through
What you do, who your customers are, and what the site needs. You get the price in writing before I start.
You send your details
Everything on the list above. Anything that's missing can be added later.
I build it
On the same design and security as my own site, with your words, prices and look.
You check it
You look over every page, and I change anything that isn't right before it goes public.
It goes live
Your domain points at the site, and I check it again once it's live. Then Google, Bing and Apple can find it. You pay then, by card through Square.
After launch
- Support is my time for your site: changes once a month if you need them, and your site kept online, secure and up to date. The first year is included in the website price.
- Changes, once a month if you need them: new prices, hours, photos or wording. Call, text or email me.
- Bigger additions are priced first: a new calculator or page is on the Prices page, and you say yes before I start.
Stopping support. Your $300 pays for the website and a year of support together, as one purchase, so there's nothing separate to cancel. When the year is up, you decide whether to renew.