Free Guide

Your business deserves a website you actually own.

Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy — they all do the same thing: rent you a website on top of their platform. They charge $20–$45 every month. Forever. And the moment you stop paying, your site goes dark.

This guide shows you how to build a real, professional small-business site with modern tooling — in an evening — that you'll actually own.

What you actually get

Side-by-side: building your own vs. paying a hosted-site platform.

Build your own

Own it forever

✓Your own analytics. Real Google Analytics on every page — visits, sources, popular pages, time on site.
✓Unlimited pages. Add a services page, a blog, a portfolio — no per-page fees.
✓Full control of the design. Any layout, any font, any feature. No "this is a Premium template" walls.
✓Lives on your own domain. Real SEO that compounds for your business name — not the platform's.
✓$0–$5/mo to host. Free on Netlify; ~$12/year for the domain. That's it.
✓Edit any sentence in 60 seconds. No "submit a ticket" or learning a CMS — just open Cursor and ask.

Squarespace / Wix / GoDaddy

Rent it monthly

×Their analytics dashboard, missing the data you actually want
×Templates only — the same look as ten thousand other businesses
×"Premium" features locked behind higher tiers
×$240–$540/year forever — and the renewal price always goes up
×Stop paying = site disappears. Migrating off is hard on purpose.
×Every change goes through their builder UI — slow, fiddly, not yours

Get the free guide

Drop your email and I'll send you straight to the step-by-step. You'll get a downloadable PDF so you can work through it offline at your own pace.

Want help instead of doing it yourself?

Start with a free 30-min conversation.

A website is one piece of a bigger picture. Book a free 30-minute call — no obligation — and we'll figure out what your online presence should actually look like. From there, the two paid options are:

✓$3,500 7-Day Online Liftoff — I build the full small-business site for you in 7 days. 30-day unconditional money-back guarantee.
✓$5,000 30-Day Owner Bootcamp — everything in the Liftoff plus 30 days of one-on-one training so you can run, update, and grow the site yourself with AI.

Book a free 30-min conversation