Everything you sell, where people are already looking.
Somebody searches for a thing you sell. They find your item, see you're two miles away, and drive over. That's the job.
Answer five questions and I'll come back with what your catalog would look like.
Takes about a minute. The last one asks where to send it.
What do you sell?
Would rather just talk? 814-964-0081 · text it · pick a time
Your whole list, online, one page per thing.
Menus, stock, counters, shows. If you can list it, it can go up and be found. Three steps, and two of them are mine.
You hand over the list
Whatever shape it's in. A spreadsheet, a supplier PDF, photos of a whiteboard, or a walk around your place with me writing it down. Getting it into a usable shape is my job.
It becomes something people can browse
Categories, prices, a search box, filters that work. Somebody who lands on it can find what they came for in a few seconds, on a phone, standing in a parking lot.
Every item gets its own page
A name, a photo, a description, a price, and whether it is in stock. All of it written out in the structure Google reads. That is the part that puts the item in search results and in Google Shopping instead of leaving it buried inside a page about your business.
Does this work for what you've got?
It works if you sell things you could write down as a list. Three shapes cover almost everyone I have built for.
A menu that keeps changing
The full list, plus the part that moves every week. You edit the specials yourself, from a phone, and they are live before the doors open.
Pubs · restaurants · diners · pizzerias · coffee shops
- Andy's Ale House & GrillFull menus and the daily specials, edited by the team
A counter with stock behind it
Hundreds of items, each with its own page, its own price and whether it is in today. Prices change often and you change them, not me.
Fish markets · farm markets · butchers · bottle shops · garden centres
- Sea Cave880+ products, with live stock and pricing they update themselves
- Presque Isle Fish & FarmEvery counter — lake fish, ocean and Gulf, shellfish, kitchen, farm
A calendar people check
Shows, events, classes, whatever fills the room on a given night. Up early enough that somebody can plan their week around it.
Live music venues · event spaces · anywhere with a season
- BullfrogEvery show on the calendar, up before the doors open
Barbers, powersports shops, and service trades that quote by the job have a list of exactly the same shape, and I have not built one yet. If that is you, answer the five questions and I will tell you straight whether it is worth your money.
Everything people ask me.
Including the awkward ones. If yours isn't here, it's a good question to open the call with.
Getting started
While it gets built
Whether it works
The things people ask last
Four businesses in Erie, four lists that are now online.
“the communication and timeliness of his work is outstanding. i could not be happier with the product also. his web design was awesome. like with any ongoing project there are always changes that you want made. never any kickback on this. he listens then executes.”
I'm Tom.
I build websites for local businesses in Erie, and mostly for the kind where somebody has spent years getting good at one thing and never had a way to show it to the people already searching for it.
Four of those are live right now. I built all four, I host all four, and I still keep them current.
who you deal with
Me, from the first phone call through to the hosting. There is no account manager, and nobody you get passed to.
the photos
I take them. Your counter, your room, your food, your stock. Stock photos of somebody else’s shop are the fastest way to make a real business look fake.
the guarantee
The Stray Success Guarantee. Ninety days after the site goes live you decide whether it worked. If it did not, every dollar comes back. No form, and no call where I talk you out of it.