Questions
The awkward ones, answered first.
These are the questions that decide whether this is worth your money. Where the honest answer costs us the sale, it is still the one below.
Do I get my city exclusively?
No, and we will not sell it to you. A $97 subscription that locks a city forever means one dormant partner can freeze a market with nothing we can do about it. It also caps us: only a handful of metros in any niche are deep enough to be worth working, so exclusivity would cap the whole niche at that many partners. Instead you get an occupancy board showing where other partners already are, so you can pick an open lane on purpose. Google decides who wins a contested one.
What happens if the niche does not work?
We swap it. Free, no argument, no time limit — you pick another niche and your seat moves to it. We do not offer money back, and we would rather be straight about why: a refund ends the relationship, and a bad niche is almost never a bad platform. The swap costs us close to nothing and it is the more useful remedy.
How many of these services can I actually sell today?
Three: the free website analysis, the featured listing, and reviews with the NFC card. Charged at the suggested prices that is $168/mo from a single business, and all of it is yours. The website builder is in build and the app has not been started. We would rather you know that before you pay us than after.
There are directory platforms starting at $9 a month. Why is this $97?
Because a listing directory and a directory you can earn from are different products. The entry tiers cap you at around 100 listings, have no custom domain and no bulk import — and the gap widens once your directory is full. At that point you will want to sell those businesses something, and a $9 tier gives you nowhere to build it. Here the upgrades are part of the platform: a featured spot and a review system today, a website builder in build. If all you want is somewhere to keep a list, one of those platforms is a genuinely reasonable buy and we would rather you took it.
Whose brand is on the directory?
Yours. It runs on a domain you own — you buy it, we connect it, it goes live. We do not put our name in your footer, and there is no "white label" upgrade to buy, because there is nothing to remove. Worth knowing up front: there is no self-serve domain screen yet, so you tell us the domain and we point it, usually the same day.
Do I own the clients?
Yes. You find them, you list them, you bill them, you keep the relationship. We never contact the businesses in your directory. If you stop paying for the platform they are still your clients — what stops is your access to the tools you served them with.
Do I need to be technical?
No. You never touch code, servers, or a design tool. The work is picking a niche, calling the list, and running the accounts you win. If you want to build websites yourself, this is the wrong programme — we do that part deliberately, because a directory owner building their own sites is the bottleneck we exist to remove.
Can I filter out unhappy customers from the review requests?
No. Sending review requests only to people who said they were happy is review gating, and Google’s policy prohibits it regardless of what any of us sign. Our system asks every customer in a transaction window the same way. If a competitor is offering you a thumbs-up / thumbs-down split, they are selling your client a policy violation on your client’s Google profile.
How many partners are there now?
None. We are recruiting the first ones, and we intend to sell alongside them rather than hand over a login and wish them luck. If you would rather join something with a track record, this is not the moment — come back when we have one.
Still have one we did not answer?
Ask before you sign up. We answer them ourselves, and an awkward question is a better sign than an enthusiastic one.