What it actually is
Most small operations in Texas are running one of three ways: no website
at all, a page a relative built in an afternoon, or something a company
charged them for years ago and never touched again. All three cost the
same thing — when somebody in Mabank or Kemp looks you up before they
call, there is nothing there that says you are the real thing.
LaunchPad fixes that floor. It is a template site, and we say so plainly:
a proven layout, built in your brand — your name, your colors,
your photographs, your services, your town. Not a custom design, and we
do not price it like one. What it is instead is correct: it loads on a
phone, it says what you do and where you do it, and the phone number
works when somebody taps it.
We host it and we maintain it. When something breaks, that is our job,
not a bill.
What is included
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A template site in your brand, hosted and maintained
Built on a layout we already know works, dressed in your business:
your services, your service area, your real photographs where you
have them. Hosting and upkeep are part of the monthly — there is
no separate hosting invoice arriving from somewhere else.
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Your Google Business Profile, with a seasonal post rotation
The listing that shows up when someone searches your trade and your
town. We set it up properly and keep posts rotating through the year
so it does not sit frozen on a photo from three summers ago. On this
plan the profile is set up and kept current; the hands-on month-to-month
management lives one plan up.
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A review system your team runs
We build the process and hand your people the tools and the wording
— when to ask, how to ask, what to do with a bad one. Your
team does the asking on this plan. That is the honest line
between LaunchPad and Local Authority, where the request goes out after
every job and we run it.
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A monthly report in plain English
What we did, what it cost, what came in. Written so you can read it
over coffee without a glossary. If a month was quiet, the report says
the month was quiet.
Questions people actually ask
Will this put me on page one?
Nobody honest can promise that, and we will not. Where you rank on Google
is Google's call, not ours. What we control is the work: your site is built
right, your listing is current, your reviews get asked for, and you get told
what happened. If a company promises you a ranking, that is the moment to
slow down.
Why a template? Is that not the cheap way?
It is the honest way at this price. A custom site designed for your company
is real work and it costs real money — that is Local Authority at
$2,500/mo. Selling you a “custom” site for $600 a month would mean
one of us is lying. A good template, dressed in your brand and actually
maintained, beats a bad custom site every time.
Do I own any of it?
Yes, and in writing. You own the site, the domain, and your customer
list from day one. If you leave, you leave with them. We do not hold
a business hostage to keep it.
Am I locked in?
No. LaunchPad is month-to-month. The three-month terms start at Local
Authority, where there is a build to pay off. Here there is nothing to
trap you with.
What if I outgrow it?
That is the point of it. LaunchPad is a floor, not a ceiling. When the
phone is ringing enough that you want the listing actively managed, the
reviews asked for automatically, and every call tracked, that is Local
Authority — and moving up does not mean starting over.
Who it fits — and who it does not
It fits an owner-operator or a small crew who needs to stop losing jobs to
looking unserious. Septic, roofing, HVAC, electrical, fencing, tree work,
dock work, cleaning — anybody whose next customer is going to look them
up first. It fits businesses anywhere in Texas; we are near Cedar Creek
Lake, and the work travels.
It does not fit you if you already have a site you like and your
problem is that nobody finds it — that is a search and listing problem,
and Local Authority is the plan aimed at it. It does not fit you if you need
a design nobody else has, or a landing page for every service you sell.
We would rather tell you that now than take the $600.
What the first weeks look like
We start with the free check so we both know what we are dealing with.
Then we collect the raw material — your services, your area, your
photographs, whatever reviews you already have. The site gets built and
you look at it before anybody else does. The listing gets claimed and
corrected. Your crew gets walked through the review process once, in
person or on a call, until it is a habit and not a chore.
Exact counts — how many pages, how many posts, how many review
requests — are written into the signed agreement, never onto a card
on a website. If ad spend ever enters the picture, it bills to you
directly and we never mark it up.