Answering enquiries
Someone fills in your form at nine at night. A minute later they've got a reply with your name on it, and you've got their details for the morning.
Most small business websites just sit there.
I build ones that answer enquiries, take bookings and ask for reviews on their own. I'm Noah, a web designer based on the Sunshine Coast.
Websites from A$1,200, with the price in writing before I start.
What it does while you're busy.
The four jobs that tend to get left until late at night.
Taking bookings
People pick from the times you've actually got free, and it goes straight into your calendar. A reminder goes out the day before, so fewer of them forget.
Following up quotes
If someone asks for a quote and goes quiet, they hear from you again a few days later. Once more the week after, then it leaves them be. You can turn either message off.
Asking for reviews
Once a job's done, the request goes out that afternoon with your Google link in it. Asking on the day is most of the trick, because a week later people have moved on.
Is it worth it for you?
Two questions and you'll have a rough idea. Nothing gets sent anywhere, it all happens on your screen.
Rough numbers: six minutes to reply to an enquiry, five to follow someone up and three to ask for a review, over a 48 week year. Anyone who didn't become a customer counts as someone worth following up. If your numbers are small, it'll say so.
Time this takes you each week
2 hours 35 minutes
About 124 hours a year.
Replying1 hour 30 minutes
Following up50 minutes
Asking for reviews15 minutes
That's worth automating.
Ivory Glow
My family's candle business on the Sunshine Coast. I built the website, the online shop and the bookkeeping that runs behind them.
Every sale, online or cash at a market stall, files itself into the books with the costs and margin worked out, before anyone gets home.
- Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout, through Stripe
- Cash sales at markets logged from a phone in about ten seconds
- A plain-English summary of each month, sent by email
- Runs on its own, with nobody updating a spreadsheet
How it goes.
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We have a chat
Twenty minutes on the phone about what you do and where your time goes. It's free, and there's nothing to sign.
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I give you a price
What I'd build and what it costs, in writing, before anything starts. If I don't think it's worth it for you, I'll say so.
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It's yours to keep
You own the site, the domain and every account. I'll walk you through how it all works, and you're never locked in to me.
What it costs.
A new website, built and set up
A$1,200 to A$2,500
It depends how many pages you need and what has to happen behind them. Adding automation to a site you've already got usually costs less.
Keeping the automation running is a monthly retainer, and that's in the quote too. The price is in writing before I start, and it doesn't move afterwards.
Ask for a quoteLet's have a chat.
I'm 19, I work in IT during the week, and I build these in the evenings and on weekends. You deal with the person doing the work, and I only take on a few at a time.
Phone or email, whichever suits you.