I'll build your website for free. $297 a month is for the part that answers the phone when you can't.

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 — ads are a separate add-on I run for customers who want them, worked out person to person, not part of the $297. 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.

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.

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.

The domain goes in your name. If you already have one, we use it. The site is built for you and the code is yours to keep. If you cancel, the site stays live through the end of your paid term, then I hand you the front-end files. What comes down is the system behind it — the hosting, the booking, the text-back, the follow-up — because that's what the monthly was running. I say all of that out loud before you pay me anything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Four. Fortified Asset Solutions, Rescue 1 Epoxy, Top Mind Marketing, and Spirit West River Lodge. Their sites are on the work page — open them and poke around before you take my word for anything.

You'd still 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 signing on with a small shop. The 30 days is there so being early costs you nothing.