I built you a website. It is yours either way.

Before I built anything I went looking for you the way a customer would.

I searched your business name and got HomeStars, Facebook, CertaPro, Student Works and nine other painting companies. Nothing of yours. Not because you are hard to work with, but because there is nothing of yours out there to find.

What I did find was you listed on other people's sites, five of them, and every one puts your competitors on the same page as you.

Your neighbours on Nextdoor already recommend you. That is the hardest part of this and you have done it. It just stops at the edge of the people who have already met you.

That is a one page sample. It is not the real thing.

It was built to show you what your own site could look like, with your trade, your areas and your number on it. The full build is not one page. It is an About page, a Contact page, a page for every service you offer, and a page for every community you work in, each one written about that place rather than the same text with the name swapped.

That is the part that does the work. A single page can say you paint in Calgary. Twenty pages can say you do cabinet refinishing in Tuscany, and that is what somebody in Tuscany actually types.

What happens after you tap

1. You call or text me. Fifteen minutes. I ask what you actually want more of, interiors or exteriors or cabinets, and which parts of town are worth the drive.
2. We register your domain, in your name. About twelve dollars. It is yours, on your account, whether you and I carry on or not.
3. We set up your Google Business Profile together. On your own Google account, so you own it. I take manager access to run it for you.
4. We start on reviews. Every job you finish from here is a chance at one. I ask for them on your behalf so you do not have to remember.
5. Every month you get a report you can read. How many people found you, what they searched for, how many called.

What it looks like by spring

• Somebody is selling in April and wants the whole interior done. They search, they find you, they call you.
• A neighbour sees your van on the street, looks you up that evening, and this time there is something to find.
• Every customer who is happy with your work gets asked for a review, whether you remember to ask or not.
• The couple two streets over read those reviews on Google and phone you instead of the fella with no name on his truck.

On the money, plainly. $297 a month is less than one interior. If it brings you one extra job a month you are well ahead of it. If it brings you none, you cancel, and you keep the domain and the Google profile either way.