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FREE GUIDES FOR PEOPLE WHO RUN THEIR OWN SITE. NO JARGON, NO UPSELLS, NO FLYING BLIND.
01 Google Business Profile
The free listing doing more selling than your website. Master it.
6 min

How to Set Up Your Google Business Profile

The free listing that puts your business on Google Maps and search.

5 min

What Customers Actually See on Your Google Listing

The anatomy of your Google Business Profile from the customer's side, and which parts decide whether they call you or the next shop..

4 min

Should You Add a Phone Number to Your Google Listing?

Yes, and which number to use: personal cell versus business line, what customers expect, and how to keep your sanity..

5 min

How to Post Updates and Articles on Your Google Business Profile

Google lets you post to your listing like a social feed.

6 min

Why Reviews Are Everything (and How to Get More)

Reviews decide who gets the call before anyone reads a word of your website.

5 min

Getting Noticed: The Weekly Routine That Compounds

Reviews, posts, and an alive listing feed each other.

02 Domain
The one thing nobody should ever own but you.
4 min

Why Your Domain Matters (and Why You Must Own It Yourself)

Your domain is the one piece of your online presence nobody can take from you, unless you let someone else register it.

4 min

Where to Buy a Domain (and What to Watch For)

Registrars sell the same product at wildly different prices with wildly different games.

3 min

Keeping Your Domain Alive: Renewals and the Email You Must Not Ignore

Domains die from neglect, not attacks.

03 Hosting
Where the site lives, and why that can cost you nothing.
4 min

What Website Hosting Actually Is (and Why Yours Can Be Free)

Hosting demystified in plain English: what it does, what it should cost for a small business site, and when free is genuinely enough..

5 min

Connecting Your Domain to Your Site (DNS Without the Headache)

The 20 minutes that turns yourshop.com into your actual website: what DNS records are, the two records that matter, and what 'propagation' means..

Rather have someone who does this every day handle it? That's the $75/mo plan. Or keep going solo, that's the whole point of these guides.

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