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Free homepage

I will build your homepage first. It costs you nothing.

A real page on a real address, not a mockup and not a slide. You open it on your phone, and then you decide whether you want the rest of the site. That is the whole arrangement.

Or text me: (218) 818-1023. Tell me what you run and which lake you are on.

The trade

What each of us gets out of it.

Written out plainly, because a free offer with an unexplained motive behind it is not actually reassuring.

You get

A finished homepage for your business, designed around what you actually do, on a working link you can send to anyone. If you want the rest of the site, it is quoted at the normal price and this page is already inside that number. If you do not, you keep the link and nothing else happens.

I get

A piece of work I am allowed to show other people, and sometimes a client. That is genuinely it. No card is taken, so there is nothing to cancel, nothing that quietly renews, and no follow up sequence you have to escape from.

Timing

Ask for it in November, not in June.

Up here the free homepage is worth more in the off season than at any other time, and for a reason that has nothing to do with me. If you take one in November, you can actually look at it properly, the finished site goes live in December or January, and it is indexed and working during the February and March weeks when families are choosing where they are going next summer.

Ask in June and you will be reading my email between two boat launches, the job will drag, and it lands after your season is already decided. I would rather book you for October than do a rushed one in July, and I will say so if you write to me in season.

What I need

Less than you think.

What you run, and where

The business, which lake, and roughly who your customers are. Two sentences is plenty. If you have a Facebook page, send that instead and I will read it.

Whatever photos exist

Even if it is nine pictures on your phone. Real photos of your actual cabins, boat or shopfront beat anything I could buy, and I will tell you honestly if what you have is not enough yet.

Nothing written, if you have nothing

Most people do not have copy sitting ready and it is not a problem. Tell me about the place in your own words and I will write the first draft, then you correct the bits I got wrong.

Questions

The things people check first.

Is the free homepage actually free?

Yes. No card, no contract, nothing that starts billing later. I put a finished homepage for your business on a live address and send you the link. Want the rest of the site? It is finished at the normal price and the homepage counts toward it. Do not want it? Keep the link, and that is the end of it.

Why would you work for nothing?

Because showing beats telling, and I am not a good salesman. You can look at a real page in ten seconds and know whether you want me to do the rest. If it is not good enough to make you want the rest, I have not earned the job, and I would rather find that out on my own time than after you have paid me.

Can I do this in the off season?

That is exactly when you should. October to February you can actually look at it and think about it, instead of reading my email between two boat launches in July. Get the free homepage in November and the finished site is live and indexed before the February planning weeks.

Why only five at a time?

Because I build every one myself, around work I am already being paid for, and five is honestly all that fits. The five slots are shared across all my sites rather than five per site, so if they are taken when you write, I will tell you that day instead of leaving you waiting on a reply that never comes.

Start yours

Four boxes and you are done.

No card, no call to book. If a slot is open you will have a homepage to look at. If it is not, I will tell you today rather than leave you waiting.

No newsletter, no follow up sequence, no selling your details. One reply from me.

Nothing to lose, and the off season is the time.

Tell me what you run and which lake. If a slot is open you will have a homepage to look at. If it is not, I will say so today rather than leaving you wondering.