Trades around Pensacola whose phone already rings, and who don't own a website of their own.
I'm Drew. One guy, not an agency. I'm not trying to sell this to everybody. There's a shape of business this fits, and a shape it doesn't, and I'd rather tell you which one you are before you pay me.
$297 a month. No setup fee. No contract. Cancel anytime. If the leak's small, I'll tell you to keep your money.
Work that gets done in a truck
These are the ones I know how to write about, because the job is the same shape every time. Somebody has a problem at their house or their shop, they call, and whoever picks up gets the work.
- Lawn and landscaping
- Tree service
- Handyman
- Plumbing
- HVAC
- Roofing
- Remodeling
- Electrical
- Paving
- Pressure washing
- Mobile owner-operated services
Owner-operated is the sweet spot
One truck or five. You're on the job most days, and the phone is in your pocket next to a set of channel locks. When it rings at two in the afternoon you're up a ladder or under a house, and you catch it when you catch it.
That's not a discipline problem. You can't answer a phone with both hands full. The point of the monthly part is that something answers anyway while you finish what you're doing.
If your trade isn't on that list
Tell me what you do. Pest, pools, septic, docks, fencing, appliance repair, mobile detailing, hauling. If the work is local, the phone is how people reach you, and you drive to the customer, it's probably the same build.
If it isn't, I'll say so on the call instead of taking the month and figuring it out later.
Three things have to already be true
I'm not building demand out of nothing. I'm putting a foundation under demand you already have. So you need to already have some.
Your phone already rings
People find you now. Word of mouth, the truck, a neighbor, somebody's brother-in-law. You get calls in a normal week and some of them you don't get to.
If nobody is calling yet, a website doesn't change that this month. The site catches and holds what's already coming at you.
You don't have a real site of your own
Either there's nothing, or there's a one-page thing a cousin made in 2016 that nobody has touched since, or everything you have lives on somebody else's website.
If you already own a site you like and it works, this isn't for you. I'll say that again further down, plainer.
You're on Google, with past customers
A Google Business Profile with your name on it and some reviews, even a handful. And a phone full of people who've paid you before.
That existing list is what makes the campaigns worth anything. Six people is not a list. Two hundred is.
Why the past customers matter
One of the six things in the $297 is a one-click message out to your existing customer list. On a slow week, before a season turns, after a storm. That piece is worth real money to somebody with four years of customers in their phone. It's worth nothing to somebody who finished their first job last Tuesday. Same price either way, which is why I'd rather the second person wait.
You don't own the Facebook page
Most guys I talk to are not missing from the internet. They're renting their spot on it.
Somebody else's website, somebody else's rules
A Facebook page. A booking app. A directory listing you pay for by the month. A profile on a site that sends you jobs and takes a cut. All of that is real, and none of it is yours.
They set the rules. They change the layout, the reach, the fees, the terms. They can suspend the page over something you didn't do, and there's no number to call. The day they change something, whatever you built there changes with it, and you had no say in the meeting where it got decided.
Keep all of it. I'm not telling you to delete anything. I'm telling you not to let it be the only thing you have.
What owning it actually means
- The domain is registered in your name. Not mine.
- Ten to twenty pages about your work, not a profile in somebody's template.
- The form on it comes to you, and it lands in one place with the calls and texts.
- Your customer list is yours to export, not locked behind an account you don't control.
- Nobody can turn it off because of a policy change you never read.
Those are industry numbers, not mine. I don't have results of my own to quote you yet, and I'm not going to borrow somebody else's and call them mine.
Two kinds of people should not buy this
Not a hedge, not a humble brag. I mean it plainly. If you're one of these two, close the tab and keep your $297.
You're brand new
No Google listing yet. No reviews. No past customers to message. You're three months in, you're hungry, and a website feels like the thing that fixes it.
It won't. Not yet. Four of the six things I'd hand you need something already running underneath them. Review requests need finished jobs. Campaigns need a customer list. Follow-up needs somebody filling out the form. Missed-call text-back needs missed calls.
Here's what I'd do instead, and it costs you nothing. Claim your Google Business Profile yourself. It's free and it takes an afternoon. Put real photos of your own work on it. Do the next twenty jobs and ask every one of those people for a review, in person, before you leave the driveway. Get the phone ringing on its own.
Then come back. I'll still be here, and you'll get a lot more for the same money.
You're already covered
You've got a site you own and you like it. Somebody keeps it updated. The phone rings enough that you're booked out and turning work down.
Then you don't need me. There's no version of this where I convince you that a thing that's working is secretly broken. That's the pitch I'd have to make, and I'm not making it.
Same goes if all your work comes from one general contractor and you like it that way, or if you're winding down toward retirement, or if you want somebody to run ads. I don't run ads.
Things I won't promise you
- A spot at the top of any search results page. I won't promise it, and be careful with anybody who does.
- Texting on day one. Carrier registration takes one to four weeks, so your text-back turns on in about two weeks.
- A number of calls, jobs, or dollars. I don't have those numbers, so I'm not going to make them up.
- A rush build. Seven to ten business days, and I'm not going to lie about it.
- Advertising. That's a different job and a different budget.
Why I'd rather lose the sale
Because of the guarantee. Try it for 30 days. If you don't want it, for any reason, tell me and I'll refund the month. No conditions.
The 30 days start the day your site goes live, not the day you sign up. Any reason counts. And if you take the refund, the site comes down.
So selling this to the wrong person costs me the build and costs you a month of thinking about it. Easier to sort that out now, on this page, before either of us spends anything.
Straight answers
I'm not sure which one I am. How do I tell?
Look at your call log from the last two weeks. Count the calls you didn't answer and never called back. If that number is more than zero and you've got a list of old customers sitting in your phone, you're a fit. If your call log is quiet, you're early, and I'd tell you the same thing on the phone that I said above.
I have a website already. Does that rule me out?
Depends on whether it's yours and whether it works. If you own the domain, it has real pages about what you do, and somebody keeps it current, stay where you are. If it's one page from years ago, or it's on a builder account somebody else controls, or you can't remember the login, that's the version I'd replace.
Email me the address. I'll look at it and tell you honestly whether replacing it is worth $297 a month to you.
Everything I have is on Facebook and it's been fine. Why change?
Fine is fine. Keep the page. The issue isn't reach, it's ownership. That page runs on somebody else's website under somebody else's rules, and those rules change without asking you. You can't take the page with you, and on most of these you can't take the customer list off either.
A domain in your name is the one piece nobody can change the terms on.
I'm outside Pensacola. Do you still build?
Ask me. I'm in Pensacola and most of what I do is around here, which means I know the towns, the drive times, and the way people actually search for this work. Farther out, the build is the same and the local knowledge is thinner. I'd rather say that up front than pretend the distance doesn't matter.
How many clients do you have?
One. Fortified Assets. Their site is fortified-assets.com, twenty-four pages, live right now, built by me start to finish. I also built their Google Business Profile from nothing, no listing and no photos on the day I started, and it's been collecting reviews since.
There are a few other real sites I've built around town that were traded rather than sold. I call those builds, not clients, because that's what they are.
You'd be early. That's the trade, and it's why the first twenty keep $297 for life.
What if I sign up and it turns out I wasn't a fit?
Tell me and I'll refund the month. Try it for 30 days. If you don't want it, for any reason, tell me and I'll refund the month. No conditions. The clock starts at go-live, and if you take the refund the site comes down.
Tell me what you do and I'll tell you whether this fits.
Book a time. Your trade, your town, and roughly how long you've been at it. I'll come back with what I'd build and what it covers, or with the reason I don't think you need it. Both answers are free.
$297 a month. No setup fee. No contract. Cancel anytime. The first twenty clients keep $297 for life. Build takes 7 to 10 business days.