I'll build your website for free. $297 a month is for the part that answers the phone when you can't.
I'm Drew. One guy, not an agency. The build costs you nothing. Once it's live, you pay $297 a month for a real website on a domain you own, plus the thing that texts back the call you missed while you were on a roof.
Free build. $297 a month starting at go-live. No setup fee. No contract. Cancel anytime. Live in 7 to 10 business days.
Those are industry numbers, not mine. I'll show you my sources and I won't quote you results I don't have.
Six things. One price. Every month.
The website is the part you see. The other five are the part that works while you're under a sink.
Your website
Ten to twenty pages on a domain in your name. Services, service areas, photos of your own work, a phone number that's easy to tap. It loads fast on a phone in a truck.
How the site is built 02Missed-call text-back
You miss a call. They get a text back in seconds that says you're on a job and asks what they need. Your text-back turns on about two weeks after we start, once the carriers approve your number.
How the text-back works 03New lead follow-up
Somebody fills out the form at nine at night. They hear from you right then, not at seven the next morning when you finally see the email.
How follow-up works 04Review requests
Job's done, invoice is paid, the ask goes out. No chasing people down from the driver's seat. No begging in person.
How review requests work 05One-click campaigns
You already have a list of people who paid you once. A slow week, a spring tune-up, a storm coming. One message, one click, out to all of them.
How campaigns work 06On-site SEO
Titles, page structure, service pages, city pages, clean markup. The groundwork done right on your own site. I won't promise you a spot on any results page. Nobody honest can.
What on-site SEO coversGo look at the one I built.
I'd rather you check the work than take my word for it. It's live right now. Open it on your phone.
- First client
- 24 pages
- Live
fortified-assets.com
Built by me, start to finish. Twenty-four pages. It's live, and it's the first client Summit Intake Systems ever had. I'm not going to dress that up as something bigger than it is.
I also built their Google Business Profile from nothing. No listing, no photos, no reviews on the day I started. I set it up, filled it out, and it's been collecting reviews since.
The contact form on that site doesn't dump into an inbox and die. It lands in one place, right alongside the calls and texts, and it opens a job you can actually track. I tested that end to end on the live site before I ever put it on this page.
Open fortified-assets.com and poke at it. Fill out the form if you want. It works.
Being first is the point
One client means I have room, and it means you get me on the phone. The first twenty people who sign up keep $297 a month for as long as they stay. That price doesn't move on them later.
The other builds
There are a few other real sites I've built around town. Those were traded, not sold, so I call them builds and not clients. I'd rather tell you that than pad a list and hope you don't ask.
Three steps. About two weeks.
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You tell me about the work
Fill out the form. Then we get on a call for about 25 minutes. What you do, where you drive, what you charge, what you want the phone to do. That's the whole call.
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I build it
Seven to ten business days. Ten to twenty pages on your own domain. You look it over and tell me what's wrong. I fix it.
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It goes live
Site goes up. Follow-up and review requests start. Your text-back turns on in about two weeks, because carrier registration takes one to four weeks and there's no way around it.
Who this is for, and who it isn't
I'd rather lose the sale than take money from somebody I can't help. If the leak's small, I'll tell you to keep your money.
This is for you if
- You answer your own phone, or it goes to voicemail when your hands are full.
- Everything you have online sits on somebody else's site. A Facebook page, a booking app, a directory listing. You don't own any of it. Their rules, their pages, gone the day they change something.
- You've got a list of past customers sitting in your phone and no way to reach all of them at once.
- You want a real website with your name on the domain, not a page you rent.
- You're a service business around Pensacola. Roofing, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, lawn, pest, concrete, remodels, hauling.
Skip this if
- Your phone already rings more than you can handle and you're turning work away.
- All your work comes from one general contractor and you don't want any more.
- You've got a site you like and somebody keeping it up. Stay put.
- You want me to promise you a spot at the top of the search results. I won't, and you should be careful with anyone who does.
- You want ads run. I don't run ads.
- You need it done by Friday. I need 7 to 10 business days and I'm not going to lie about it.
Try it for 30 days. If you don't want it, for any reason, tell me and I'll refund the month. No conditions.
That's the whole guarantee. There isn't a second page to it.
- The 30 days start the day your site goes live. Not the day you sign up, and not the day you pay. You don't burn your window waiting on me to build.
- Any reason counts. You don't like the look of it. You changed your mind. Work got slow. You don't have to explain it to me.
- Tell me and I refund the month. No form to hunt down, no retention call, no conditions.
- If you take the refund, the site comes down. That's the trade, and I'd rather say it now than surprise you later.
- No setup fee
- No contract
- Cancel anytime
The first twenty clients keep $297 for life. Texts and calls bill separately at cost through a prepaid wallet, roughly $0.008 per text segment and $0.018 per voice minute, with no markup from me. All of the pricing details.
Straight answers
What does $297 a month actually do, and what doesn't it do?
It builds you a foundation. A real website on a domain you own, a text that goes back out when you miss a call, follow-up on new inquiries, review requests after a job, a way to message your old customers, and the on-site SEO work done properly.
Here's what it doesn't do. It doesn't make your phone ring by itself. It won't put you at the top of a search results page, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It isn't advertising. It won't fix pricing that's too high or a crew that shows up late.
I'm one guy. What I'm selling you is a foundation that's yours and a system that answers when you can't. If somebody's promising you more than that for $297, ask them to put it in writing.
When does the text-back actually start working?
About two weeks after we start. Business texting goes through a carrier registration process, and it takes one to four weeks. Nobody can skip it, buy their way past it, or hurry it along. I file the paperwork the day you sign up so the clock starts as early as it can.
Everything else works before that. The site, the form, the follow-up by email, the review requests. Texting is the one piece that waits on somebody other than me.
I already have a Facebook page. Isn't that enough?
It's something, and it's not nothing. But you don't own it. Same with a booking app or a directory listing. It's somebody else's website, somebody else's rules, and it can change or disappear on a day you had no say in. You can't take the page with you and you can't take the customer list off of most of them.
A domain in your name is yours. Keep the Facebook page. Just don't let it be the only thing you have.
Who owns the site and the domain?
The domain goes in your name. If you already have one, we use it. The site is built for you and stays up as long as you're a client. If you cancel, it comes down. That's the honest shape of a monthly arrangement, and I say it out loud before you pay me anything.
What are the text and call charges, really?
They're separate from the $297 and they run through a prepaid wallet. Roughly $0.008 per text segment and $0.018 per voice minute. That's the cost, passed to you, with nothing added on top. You put money in the wallet, it draws down as messages go out, and you can see what it went to.
Is there a contract?
No. No setup fee either. It's month to month and you can cancel anytime. On top of that: try it for 30 days, and if you don't want it, for any reason, tell me and I'll refund the month. No conditions.
Are you an agency?
No. One guy, in Pensacola. You'll deal with me on the phone and me in your inbox. That's the upside and the limit of it. I can only take on so many builds at a time, which is why the first twenty get to keep $297 for life.
How long does the build take, and what do you need from me?
Seven to ten business days once we've had the first call. That call is twenty minutes. At the end of the build there's a 25-minute launch call where the site goes live while we're on it. From you I need photos of your own work if you have them, your service list, the areas you'll drive to, and an hour of your attention spread across two weeks. That's it.
How many clients do you have?
One. Fortified Assets, and their site is fortified-assets.com, live and built by me. There are a few other builds around town that were traded rather than sold, so I don't count those as clients.
You'd be early. That's the trade: you get a price that never moves and you get me answering the phone, and in exchange you're taking a chance on a short list. The 30 days is there so the chance costs you nothing.
Tell me what you do and I'll show you what your setup would look like.
Fill out the form. I'll come back to you with what I'd build, what it covers, and whether I think you even need it. If you don't, I'll say so.
$297 a month. No setup fee. No contract. Cancel anytime. Try it 30 days from go-live and I'll refund the month if you don't want it.