I build the online presence small businesses are missing — a real website, a Google listing that shows up, and systems that answer the phone when you can't. No jargon, no agency runaround, no monthly retainer for work you can't see.
Someone in your area needs exactly what you sell. They pick up their phone, they search, and you don't come up. Not because you're not good — because nothing about you is where they're looking.
I went through the published business directory for a rural valley in Santa Barbara County and counted. Roughly seven out of every ten listed businesses have no website — not a bad one, none. Most have no Google Business Profile either.
The number is starker in a small town, but the problem isn't a small-town problem. Plenty of good businesses in Ojai, Ventura, and Carpinteria are running on a Facebook page and word of mouth, and quietly losing the customer who searched instead of asked. It's fixable in an afternoon, for less than most people expect.
You don't need all of it. Most people start with one and add the next when the first one starts paying for itself.
Twenty minutes, on the phone or over coffee. You tell me what's not working. I tell you straight whether I can help — and if I can't, I'll say so.
One price, in writing, before anything starts. Not an hourly rate that grows while you wait. If the scope changes, we talk about it first.
You own everything — the domain, the accounts, the logins. I'll show you how it works. Stay on for support if you want it, or don't.
I spent more than twenty years in nonprofit business administration — budgets, grants, boards, systems, and the unglamorous work of making an organization actually run. I grew up on this coast — Carpinteria and Ojai — and I've spent my life between the coast and the valleys inland. These are my towns.
For the last several years I've worked for myself, and what I kept running into was the same thing over and over: capable people with good businesses, losing work to somebody less capable with a better website. That gap is not a talent problem. It's a nobody-showed-me problem.
You will not get a sales pitch from me. You'll get an honest read on what's worth doing, what isn't, and what you can do yourself for free. That's a slower way to build a business. It's also the only way I'm interested in building one.
No obligation, no pitch, no follow-up sequence hounding you for a month. If I'm not the right fit I'll tell you that on the first call and try to point you somewhere better.