Townwick

Northfield, Minnesota

I build the website first. You decide after you have seen it.

Townwick makes websites for local businesses in and around Northfield — barbershops, salons, restaurants, trades. I build yours before we talk about money: a real site with your services, your hours and your prices on it. If you want it, it goes live on a domain in your name and I keep it running, at the $149/mo founding rate.

Ask about your shop

  • Days, not months. The first version exists before the first invoice.
  • Nothing to log into. No dashboard, no CMS, no password to lose.
  • The domain is yours. In your name from day one, and it leaves with you.

How it works

Three steps

  1. 01

    I build it first

    You tell me the basics — what you do, what it costs, when you are open. I build the whole site from that and send you a private link. Nothing is public, nothing is owed, and there is no meeting to schedule before it exists.

  2. 02

    You look at it in person

    We go through it on your own phone. Wrong hours, a missing service, a photo you do not like: say so and it changes while we are sitting there. If it is not for you, that is the end of it.

  3. 03

    It goes live

    A domain registered in your name, HTTPS, your Google listing pointed at it, and the message form landing in your inbox. From yes to live is about a week, and most of that week is waiting on the domain rather than on me.

What the monthly fee covers

Every month

Hosting and the domain
Static hosting, HTTPS, and a domain registered in your name from the first day. You own it. If we part ways it leaves with you.
Edits, by text message
Text me a change — a price, a Thursday, a new hire — and it is live within two business days, usually sooner. Edits are part of the monthly fee; there is no invoice for changing a price. Around two changes a month is the normal rhythm.
Your Google Business Profile
Hours, photos, categories and the website link kept accurate, plus a hand with review replies. Most of the calls a shop gets start there rather than on the website.
Photographs
One proper shoot of your place when we start — included, not an upsell. After that you send me phone photos when something changes and I make them look right. If you ever want a fresh full shoot, that is a flat one-time fee we agree on first.
Reviews on the page
Your Google reviews, refreshed weekly, each shown with the reviewer’s name and a link back to the original. Up to five — that is the limit Google returns, and the page says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Not included: rebrands, logo design, online ordering and e-commerce. Booking stays with whoever you already use — Booksy, Vagaro, Square — because that is the flow your customers already know, and replacing it would be me breaking something that works.

Price

$149/mo — the founding rate

One number, billed monthly. It covers the hosting, the domain, the edits, the Google profile work, the photographs and the review sync above — there is no line item for any of it.

This is the rate for the first five businesses in Rice County. It is this low because early clients are how Townwick gets built, and it stays locked at $149 for as long as you stay. The standing rate after those five is $249/mo.

The first three months are the trial — if it is not working, we shake hands and you keep the domain and the site. After that it is month to month. The domain and everything on the site are yours throughout, not held against the invoice.

Seeing the site costs nothing. The build happens before you decide, which is the only honest way to sell a website to someone who has been sold one before.

Run from Northfield

Rice County

I live here. This is one person: I answer my own email, I do the work, and there is nobody between us. I take on a few businesses at a time on purpose — a site nobody maintains is the site you already have. Northfield, Dundas, Faribault and the rest of Rice County.

Questions people actually ask

Ten of them

Do I own the domain?

Yes, and it is registered in your name rather than mine. If you leave, it goes with you and I will help move it. Agencies holding a client’s domain hostage is common enough that this is the first question here.

What happens to the site if Townwick goes away?

It keeps running. The sites are static files — there is no database to break, no plugin to expire, no server that needs me alive. Hosting is paid ahead, the domain is yours, and on request I hand you a complete copy of your site that any web person can pick up. Nobody ends up with a bill and a dead link.

If I leave, do I keep the site?

Yes. You get the domain (it was always yours) and a full working copy of the site — pages, photographs, and text. Leaving means you stop paying me, not that you start over.

What if I want to cancel?

In the first three months, any time — that is what the trial is for: we shake hands and you keep the domain and the site. After that it is month to month — leaving is a phone call, not a form to hunt for. If you want to keep the address without the monthly work, the site can be frozen at a hosting-only rate instead.

How long does it take?

You see a finished site within a few days of the first conversation. From your yes to a live site on your own domain is about a week; most of the wait is the domain and the Google listing.

What about photos?

I take them, on site, once you are a client. Until then a demo uses stock that is labelled as stock on the page itself — so you are looking at a layout, never at a claim about your business.

Do you take over my Google listing?

No — you own it, and you stay the owner. I am added as a manager on your account, you can see everything I change, and you can remove me in one click. For the first month I do not change anything without walking you through it. Your reviews are yours; nothing I do can move or delete them.

We already book through Booksy / Vagaro / Square. Do we have to switch?

No. Your booking stays exactly where it is — the site points customers into the system your staff already use, down to each person’s own booking page. Nobody learns new software because of me.

Do I have to learn anything?

No. There is no login, no dashboard and no password to lose. Every change comes through me, which is the point: you have a shop to run.

I already have a site. Can you replace it?

Usually. I rebuild it, we look at both, and the domain only points at the new one once you are happy. Anything that already works — ordering, booking, gift cards — gets linked to rather than torn out.

Tell me about your shop

The form works

Your name, a way to reach you, and what the business is. I come back with a few questions, and if it is a fit the next thing you see is a website with your name on it.

No newsletter, no follow-up sequence, nothing sold on. One person reads these.