Websites you own.
Not rent.
Your name on the domain, and nobody left to ask.
Most business owners cannot change their own website. We rebuild it so the whole thing is in your name, and we teach your own person to run it. Then the next time a price changes, you just change it.
First, we look. It costs you nothing.
Get a free review of the site you have
The form is not switched on yet. The button will open a text message to John instead, with your answers already in it.
That has come through
John will ring you for a few minutes, then look at your site and come back with the write up. Nothing has been charged and nothing has been committed.
The problem
You run a trade. You know every part of it, except this one.
- What you see. The price on the page is last year’s price. You sent the change three weeks ago, and somebody is reading that page right now.
- What you feel. Foolish, and a little embarrassed about it. You can rebuild a machine and you cannot change one line on your own website.
- What it costs. Twelve payments a year, every year. And if you ever do stop paying, you walk out with nothing, because none of it was yours.
That is not a failing on your part. The villain here is permission. A man who built a business with his own hands should not have to ask a stranger for permission to change his own sign.
Ask yourself one question
Could you change anything on your website today, in house?
Or would you call somebody?
Then the real one
Who holds the domain name today, you or the fellow who built it? Plenty of people can edit a page and still not own a thing.
Why us
We were on the renting side of that page too
A catering business, four rental houses and a vacation rental. Every one of them needed a website, and not one of them was ours to change.
So we quit asking.
| Day 1 | Decided to build it in house |
| Days 2, 3, 4 | Built the sites and moved the domains |
| Day 5 | Live on the real addresses, both of them |
Five days from deciding to build them ourselves, to two websites live on their real addresses. And not one piece of company email was lost.
Go look at them. Two trades, two sites, nothing alike about them, and that is not an accident.
“We built our own website last week after six years of paying somebody else, and I am doing the same for a few businesses around here now.”
John Stoltzfus, Stoltzfus Web & Office
The plan
Three steps, and the third one is the point
Nothing here is a mystery, and none of it happens without you saying yes to it first.
We look
At how your business actually runs, before anybody builds anything. Nine questions, asked one at a time. We read your current site from the outside and tell you plainly what is wrong with it.
We build
To what we found. Not to a template, and not to what the last man got. A produce stand and a construction outfit are not the same work and they should not come out looking like the same website.
You own it
Your name on the domain, your hand on the information, from that day on. We take ourselves off your accounts.
What we promise while we do it
Four things, and they are not negotiable
Every man in this trade has been surprised by a bill or locked out of his own account. These four exist so that does not happen here.
They come out of the Master Prompt for Website Services, which is the document this business runs on.
- Every account goes in your name before any work starts on it. Your registrar, your hosting, your forms, your email.
- You can lock us out at any moment, on your own, without asking us.
- Nothing gets changed on your live site until you have said yes to that exact change in writing.
- When we are finished we take ourselves off your accounts.
Our work
Two trades. Two sites. Nothing alike about them.
Martin’s Roast A Pig
Whole hog roasting out of Lebanon. Six years of paying somebody else, rebuilt in four days and owned outright.
www.martinsroastapig.com
Sharon Springs Vista
A vacation rental. Guests are handed to Airbnb and Vrbo, because a booking system is not something we build and not something you should pay us to build.
www.sharonspringsvista.comWhat changes
Where you are, and where this puts you
| Renting a site | Owning one |
|---|---|
| They hold the keys. | You hold the keys. |
| You call for every change. | You change it. |
| You depend on somebody else’s schedule. | You decide, and it is done that afternoon. |
| You pay every month, and the payments never stop. | One setup, then a small yearly cost. |
| Stop paying and you walk away with nothing. | Walk away any day and take everything. |
| No control. | Full control. |
Ownership is not a technical term. It is a business advantage.
And if you do nothing? Twelve more payments. Another year of sending changes to a stranger and waiting on him. The wrong price on the page the whole time. Then if you ever do stop paying, you walk out with nothing, because none of it was ever yours.
And the desk, while we are here
The website is the front of the business. The paperwork is the back.
The back is where the evenings go. Every morning the roasters are counted and a flag goes up only if a type drops to one spare. Twice a day a quote off the website becomes a draft estimate in the books. Monday the vendor order is built with the grocery list beside it, and Tuesday it is re-read for changes and the week’s schedule goes out.
Every one of those already runs in our own business. That is the only reason we offer it.
Said plainly, because it matters. Office work is quoted as its own job. It is never folded into a website setup session, and it is never assumed. If you do not want any of it, you will not be sold any of it.
And the one honest monthly. There is no monthly bill to us and there never will be. Your domain is yours. The assistant that lets your own person change the site is a subscription in your name, it starts around twenty dollars a month, and we tell you that price in the sales conversation rather than letting you find it at signup.
Next time a price changes, you will not call anybody.
You will just change it. And if you are not ready for that, call anyway and we will look at what you are paying now. It costs you nothing.