For Rhode Island shops, trades & offices
Be the one they call when someone nearby searches.
I get your business showing up on Google — and I build the website free to do it. You’re live in 30 days and you don’t lift a finger.
→The website costs you nothing. $997 to get set up, then $297 every 4 weeks.
→You do nothing. I write it, build it, and handle Google. One phone call from you.
→Live in 30 days or your first period is free.
Fifteen minutes, no pitch. I’ll look up what Google currently thinks of your business while we talk. If I can’t help, I’ll say so.
Steve Johnson
North Kingstown. One guy. I answer my own phone.
People I work with
Woman arranging stems at a shop counter. Real florist, real shop.
Florists
Wickford
Stylist mid-cut, chatting with a client. Warm interior light.
Salons & barbers
East Greenwich
Owner behind the case, morning light, apron on.
Bakeries & cafés
Providence
Woman loading a van with supplies, or working in a bright room.
Cleaning services
Warwick
Roofer on a ladder or truck bed. Real job site, not posed.
Roofers & trades
Coventry
Electrician at a panel, headlamp on. Hands in frame.
Electricians
Cranston
Flower shops, salons, bakeries, cleaners, roofers, electricians. If people find you by searching for what you do near where they live, I can help. If you sell to the whole country, I’m probably not your guy.
Who you’re actually hiring
It’s me. That’s the whole company.
I live in North Kingstown. I’ve spent years watching small businesses around here pay $500 to a guy who disappears, or $25 a month to Wix for a site nobody ever finds. Both end the same way: a website that looks fine and never rings the phone.
So I built this around the part that matters. You get the website free. What you pay for every 4 weeks is the work that gets you found — your Google profile, your reviews, pages for the towns you actually serve. That work never stops, so neither does the bill. That’s the honest version.
When you call, I pick up. When you need a price changed on a Tuesday, you text me and it’s changed. There’s no account manager because there’s nobody else here.
Your domain
In your name, on your card. Always.
Your content
Photos, words, customer list. Yours to take.
One year
Then month to month. No auto-renew trap.
Rhody Websites is a line of business of Own The Box Marketing LLC.
What the work looks like
This is the part you’re paying for
Screenshot: a real Google Business Profile — photos, hours, services filled in.
Your Google profile
Claimed, categories set right, service area configured, photos and posts every period. This is what puts you in the map results.
Screenshot: Google map results for a local search, three listings showing.
The map pack
Those three listings above the regular results are where local jobs come from. Getting you into them is the job.
Screenshot: review request text message, or a Google review panel with replies.
Your reviews
Automatic review requests to your customers, and I draft the replies. Reviews are the biggest thing you can control.
What you get
The website is the easy part
Anybody can build you five pages. What separates a site that sits there from a site that books work is everything below it.
01
The website
Five pages, written and built around the work you actually want to be hired for. Loads in under a second on a phone. Not a template anybody in your town will recognize.
02
Your Google profile
Claimed, verified, categories set right, service area configured, hours and services filled in. This is the listing that shows up in the map results, and most people never finish setting it up.
03
Reviews, automatically
Every customer gets asked, without you remembering to ask. Reviews are the single biggest thing you control that moves you up the map.
04
Pages for your towns
A real page for each town you serve — not the same page with the name swapped. That is what Google is looking for, and what everybody else gets wrong.
05
The boring stuff
Hosting, SSL, backups, security, uptime monitoring, domain renewals. You will never think about any of it. That is the point.
06
Somebody to call
Price change on a Tuesday, new photo, holiday hours — text me and it is done. No ticket system, no portal login you will forget.
What you have to do
One phone call. That’s your whole job.
The reason most small businesses never fix their website is that fixing it sounds like work. Writing the words. Finding the photos. Learning some system. So it sits there for another three years.
You talk to me for forty-five minutes about what you do. I take it from there.
One 45-minute phone call
You
Writing every word on the site
Me
Building and testing the pages
Me
Claiming and fixing your Google profile
Me
Asking your customers for reviews
Me
Replying to the reviews
Me
Hosting, backups, security, renewals
Me
Answering the phone when it rings
You
Plans
Pick how hard you want me working
$997 to get set up, on every plan. Then billed every 28 days for one year. After that, month to month.
Silver
$297
Every 28 days · $997 setup
→Free 5-page website
→Google Business Profile claimed and optimized
→Automated review requests
→Foundational local SEO
→2 edit requests, done in 7 business days
→Hosting, SSL, backups, security, uptime
→Domain management
→Performance report
For a business that needs to exist on Google, properly, and isn’t fighting anybody for it yet.
Start with Silver
Live in 30 days or the first period is free. Your domain and content stay yours.
Most popular
Gold
$597
Every 28 days · $997 setup
Everything in Silver, plus:
→Full Google profile management — 4 posts per period
→Full review management, and I draft the responses
→2 service-area pages added per period
→Rank tracking
→4 edit requests, done in 5 business days
→Quarterly strategy call
For anyone competing with three other shops in town for the same searches. Most people land here.
Start with Gold
Live in 30 days or the first period is free. If reviews and profile views haven’t gone up in 90 days, I keep working and stop billing.
Platinum
$1,197
Every 28 days · $997 setup
Everything in Gold, plus:
→Citations and NAP across 40+ directories
→4 service-area pages added per period
→Call tracking with recording
→Competitor gap analysis
→Quarterly campaign to win back old customers
→Online booking and payments
→8 edit requests, done in 3 business days
→Strategy call every period
For a business that wants the whole county, and wants to know which ad made the phone ring.
Start with Platinum
Live in 30 days or the first period is free. If reviews and profile views haven’t gone up in 90 days, I keep working and stop billing.
Every plan is a one-year commitment, billed every 28 days. No setup fee is refundable once the site is built, and nothing renews automatically at the end — you choose whether to keep going.
In writing
Three promises I’ll put in the contract
Live in 30 days, or the first period is free
From the day I have your photos and answers. If I miss it, you do not pay for the first 28 days. I have never wanted to test this one.
Everything is yours
The domain is in your name on your card. The words, the photos, the customer list — yours. Cancel and I export all of it to you within 10 business days. Nothing switches off.
Gold and Platinum: 90 days, or I keep working free
If your reviews and Google profile views have not gone up in 90 days, I keep working and stop billing until they do.
How it goes
Live in 30 days
Week 1
We talk
Forty-five minutes. What you do, who you want calling, what the shop down the road is getting that you are not. I write it all down.
Week 2
You see it
Your actual homepage with your actual words — not a template preview. You tell me what is wrong and I change it.
Week 3
I build it
Every page built and tested on a real phone on real cell service. Your Google profile gets set up at the same time.
Week 4
It goes live
Launched, submitted to Google, review requests switched on. Then I show you how to change your own hours.
Where I work
All of Rhode Island, and I mean it
I’m in North Kingstown. The whole state is inside forty minutes, so if you’d rather I came to your shop than sat on a video call, say so. Nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut too.
401-227-5020Providence
Warwick
Cranston
Pawtucket
East Providence
Woonsocket
Newport
Central Falls
Westerly
North Kingstown
South Kingstown
Narragansett
East Greenwich
West Warwick
Coventry
Johnston
Cumberland
Lincoln
Smithfield
Bristol
Barrington
Portsmouth
Middletown
Tiverton
Wakefield
Jamestown
Charlestown
Wickford
Questions people actually ask
Straight answers
The website is really free?
Yes. You pay $997 to get set up and then $297 every 4 weeks for the visibility work. The build itself costs you nothing extra, and I do not upcharge you later for pages.
So what am I actually paying for?
The part that never ends. Your Google profile, your reviews, new town pages, keeping everything fast and online. A website is a one-time thing; getting found is not.
What happens after the year?
It keeps running every 4 weeks and nothing auto-renews into another year. If you want to stop, you stop, and the site and domain stay yours.
What if I already have a website?
Then I will look at it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping. Sometimes the answer is that your site is fine and your Google profile is the problem — I will say that.
How long until I show up on Google?
Your Google profile can start showing within weeks. Real organic rankings take three to six months of steady work. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is lying to you.
Do you do this for businesses outside Rhode Island?
Starting here, and expanding as I build up reviews. Call me anyway — if you are in southern Massachusetts or eastern Connecticut, the answer is probably yes.
Who writes the words on my site?
I do, after listening to how you describe your own work on the phone. Then you read it and tell me what I got wrong.
Why should I trust a new business?
Fair question. Call me and find out in fifteen minutes whether I know what I am talking about. That costs you nothing, and it is a faster answer than reading more of this page.
Start here
Call me and we’ll figure out if this fits.
Fifteen minutes. I’ll look up what Google currently thinks of your business while we talk, and tell you straight whether I can help. If I can’t, I’ll say so.
Monday to Friday, 8 to 6. I answer it myself.
Live in 30 days or free
Everything stays yours
No contract to talk