🚀 Open in 30 Days: Start a Business in Jamaica · Lesson 6 of 8 · free
What goes on a first website, why it is the difference between "the guy on WhatsApp" and "a company", and the free things to do before you pay for one.
⏱ About 15 minutes · read it, then do the "Do this now" steps before the next lesson
When someone hears about you, they search. If they find a Google profile and a directory listing, you exist. If they also find a clean page with your name, town, prices, photos, reviews and a WhatsApp button, you are a company. That is the moment a bigger customer decides to call you instead of the other guy.
One page is enough: who you are, what you do, prices from, the town, five to ten photos, two reviews, a WhatsApp button and a way to book or order. Nothing clever. The page is there to make the next step obvious.
Before paying for anything, do the free steps: the Google profile, the directory listing, the WhatsApp catalog. When money is coming in and you are losing time answering the same questions, get the real site — a turnkey website is J$35,000 to build with the software, hosting and support on a plan from J$4,500 a month. Run the free mobile check on any site you already have.
Decide what your one page says: write the ten lines now, even before you have a site to put them on.
List the business free in the Jamaica Business Directory the day you open — reviewed by a person, live in a day. When the first ten are paying, a turnkey website is J$35,000 to build, with the software, hosting and support on a plan from J$4,500/mo.