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No Money? Start This AI Website Side Hustle Transcript, AI Summary & Key Points

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast · Jun 26, 2026 · Education · 18:01 · EN

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00:00 Okay, so this email slides into my inbox and  this guy says, "Hey, I think your followers need to know about this." What I do is I build  free websites for people and then I ask them, "Hey, I built a website for you. Do you want to  see it?" They usually say yes. I show it to them. Then I say, "Hey, if you want this website, pay  me 75 bucks a month.

00:13 What's his monthly cost to maintain it?" Almost zero. What's his upfront cost  and time to build it? Almost zero. So then he gets dozens and hundreds of business owners to pay  him 50 to 100 bucks a month for their website. He's making tens of thousands a month and in  addition, he's got his foot in the door to upsell them on more expensive things. And the magical  thing is that with each new client he adds, his costs go up by $0 a month.

00:38 So I said,  Tyler, show me exactly what you're doing, how you're doing it, how you find customers,  cuz I I'm going to record my screen and show my followers the exact same thing. You're going  to love this. And I'm going to go ahead and find some customers while I'm filming this video.  No audience plans. It's not my mom. It's not a second phone. I'm going to use my actual  iPhone to text local business owners here in the Dallas Fort Worth area and say, "Hey,  I built you a free website."

00:59 Show it to them and then offer them the privilege of getting  charged by me to use the website. Let's go. Okay, first of all, the platform that all  this happens in is Go High Level. Okay, I'm going to log in right here. You can use it  for 30 days for free only with my link right down below. Everyone else's link is 14 days free. With  mine, it's 30.

01:20 Cool. Then you're going to click this big yellow button, enable free AI. They'll  give you 30 days to use all of their AI tools for free. And after that, I think it's like 50 bucks a  month or something. So we're going to click that. We're going to enable it. Boom. Then we're going  to go to this tab over here, ask AI. So you're familiar with Claude Croc, Chad GPT, maybe Replet,  Lovable, Vibe Coding tools, and AI tools.

01:38 That's basically what this is. But the magic of this  is that it's fully integrated with your CRM, customer relationship management software, okay?  or your customer CRM. That's what GoH High Level does. It's a like a CRM for your business or  b a platform where you can resell hundreds of different software tools without knowing how to  build software yourself.

02:02 It's magical. Okay. So, what we're going to ask it to do right here is to  build a home service website for us, but we want to prompt it just right. and Claude or Chad GPT,  either one are amazing at generating prompts that can generate even better prompts for other tools  like go high level in this case. So, I'm going to give you this prompt for free.

02:23 I don't need your  email address in the description below. You can copy paste it, swap out your location, swap out  your service, and you're good to go or you can just generate your own and and make it custom  to you. Okay, here's my prompt to claude. You can use Gro, whatever you want. I'm going to use  GoHigh Level's new vibe coding tool to make a home service website, but I need a really good prompt  for it that knows how to talk to GHL.

02:41 It'll be a handyman website based in Dallas, Texas. I'm  going to use Opus 4.8. And let's see. Okay, look at this. It tells High Level to integrate  everything to the CRM, calendar, workflows, everything. SEO, metadescriptions, design, name  your suburbs. This is really, really good. I never would have thought to mention all this stuff.  And it even gives me a couple tips.

03:02 Drop in a reference URL. Okay, very cool. Name your suburbs.  Okay, so I found this random handyman website just by googling handyman website. This is going to be  my reference so Claude knows what to work with. And then I'm going to include suburbs. So I told  Claude, "Hey, smith handhandymanservice.com is my reference website. Work that into the prompt as  well as all the DFW suburbs of over 50k people.

03:32 List them all all out for GHL to include. Make  sure it's all SEO and AEO friendly. AI SEO. Oh, and you're going to love my text message hack to  make sure that you get noticed cuz we all get so much text message spam nowadays. It's hard to  stand out. You're going to love it. And here's the beautiful thing about creating this handyman  website. How many handymen are there in America?

03:52 Over 100,000. You can copy and paste this website  for every single one of them. Swap out the name of the business and the location and you are good to  go. Okay, done. Two prompts. And I have my master prompt for go high level. We're going to switch  back over here. Ask AI. Boom. There it is. That's it. Now, let's see. You can see it cooking here  on the right.

04:10 Now, first of all, why did I choose handyman of all the businesses out there? Okay,  let me show you my data points. First of all, how many handyman are there in the US? 150,000.  That's a lot. Cool. Now, what does Google Trends say? How many people are searching for handyman  near me? And is that growing or shrinking over time? Boom. handyman near me.

04:29 It grew and then it  peaked uh in 2021 when money printing was going crazy and everyone was remodeling their houses and  then it dropped, bottomed out in late 2024, but it was still higher than it was in 2019 and now it is  climbing back up again. So, what does that mean? It means that the handymen out there are probably  busier than they ever have been.

04:50 Except for, of course, you know, mid 2021, as we see here,  which means they're busy, which means they're doing well, which means they have money. They have  a budget. They have time to finally check the box of either a getting a website. You'd be surprised  how many handymen don't even have a website, and b getting a better website, cuz if they have  one, it probably sucks.

05:07 So, perfect timing. That's why I chose Handyman. The biggest reason of all is  that of all the thousands of home service niches out there, handyman are probably one of the  most likely to have the owner's personal cell phone number listed right there on Google Maps  for the whole world to see. We call a dentist, no chance. Maybe 5% chance. We're going to have  to go through their receptionist orever.

05:28 Lawyer, 50/50. Real estate, probably cell phone number,  but they get hit up a lot. And then you get someone like a landscaping business. Well, some  of those are really big, some are small. 50/50 as well, but most handyman businesses are solo  operators and we're going to get their cell phone number, aka the decision maker, but it's still a  business that has a budget presumably for $50 to $75 a month for a simple website.

05:53 And before you  go and think, "Oh, I need to find people that don't have a website cuz they're the ones more  likely to buy." No, you need to find people that have a website because they realize the value of  a website. You're going to have a much harder time convincing someone without a website that it's  valuable. They're already set in their ways.

06:06 All right, let's check in on GoHigh Level.  It's building the homepage. It's got the HTML written. Now, please note, I am not logged  into my sub account right now. That is a noob mistake. That's how GoHigh Level works. You've  got a master account and then a sub account. So, if I wanted to start a business just like this  and I want a bunch of sub accounts under me, then this customer would be one sub account.

06:28 And  for one of Gohigh Level's higher pricing tiers, you can have unlimited sub accounts under you.  Which is why I said that for every customer you add, you're able to only charge 50 bucks a month  because it's virtually pure profit. There's no marginal cost increase for every sub account, aka  customer that you add. Okay, you can see that it's working on adding all 27 DFW cities to the service  areas page.

06:49 Okay, boom. Everything's done. It just is telling me to switch into my sub account so  it can fully integrate everything. So, I'm going to go ahead and do that. Going to go here, click  switch, go back to ask AI. Okay, so we've got like a dynamic thing going on and it shows a checklist  of everything it's going to build as it builds. It looks like it's done.

07:11 Okay, now I need some  inspiration. What am I going to even call the name of this business that represents this website? So,  we're just going to go Google Maps, Dallas, Texas Handyman. I see uh Hank's handyman service. 1,500  reviews. That's probably too many for a single operator. That's probably a bigger business. So,  what I want to do is I want to go find something a little more rural, less likely to be a big  business out in Farmersville.

07:35 So, Farmersville has like, I don't know, 20 40,000 people, not too far  from me. Hey, there's basically no one out there. So, we'll look at Princeton. Handyman Castillo's  handyman. Okay, six reviews. Phone number right there. I'm going to go to this random website  called phone validator. You can see if a phone is cell phone or landline. We're going to put that in  there.

07:57 And we're not going to talk about scraping or mass texting or doing stuff at scale. Number  one, there's a lot of regulations around that stuff. So, we want to do this the oldfashioned  way so we don't get in hot water. Number two, there's friction there. There's a learn a learning  curve there. Even if it's a little, we just want to use our our our iPhone or heaven forbid Android  to text people the oldfashioned way.

08:14 Okay. Mobile phone, cell phone. Cool. This is perfect.  We're going to call it Castillo's handyman. So, what am I saying? It's called Castillo's Handyman  in Princeton, Texas. Use whatever booking schedule seems appropriate. Build it in high level, please.  Fully integrate it into this sub account. Boom. Okay. Boom. Yes. Build it. Amazing. Okay. And  boom.

08:35 There it is. There's what the website actually looks like. I'll show you the real  dynamic version here in a second. There's what the mobile version looks like. And side note, I'm an  idiot. I clicked the wrong tab to build this thing in. But no fear. I'm going to click copy right  here on the actual HTML. I'm going to go here, AI Studio. It should look pretty colorful, right?

08:54 I don't know how else to describe it. I gave it all the code and said, "Here it is. Here's the  website. Show it to me." What I've been using this whole time is basically like Chad GBT, a  chatbot, not a vibe coding tool. This is the actual vibe coding tool. So, listen, if I screw up  in real time, I'm going to leave it in. We're not going to edit that crap out.

09:14 I'm human. Whatever.  Thankfully, Gohigh Level made it easy and I can just copy and paste my HTML into the Vibe coding  tool. So, while we wait for this to rebuild, let's text Mr. Castillo and a few other handymen as well  because we'd be pretty naive to think that we're just going to text one person to get a paying  customer. But hey, maybe we'll get lucky today.

09:34 Okay, Castillo's handyman. I'm going to copy his  number. Oh, look at this. It's already done. Oh, that only took like a minute or two. There's  the actual website. Okay, I hope you saw this in time. Do it in the AI studio. Okay, not in the  chatbot. There it is. Boom. Beautiful. And how do I connect it to my go high level account? I click  a purple button and it connects with my calendar.

09:57 Beautiful. Remember this was my inspiration  site, Smith handyman service. How accurate did we get? Close enough. Cool. All right, let's  text Mr. Castillo. I'm just going to send him this screenshot right here. Paste his number. This is  my personal cell phone. Now, I was going to see if he had a website, but he doesn't even have  a website. No, look, he just has a picture of his business card, which is fine.

10:17 It's working.  But this city right here, Princeton, look it up, is like either the fastest growing or one of the  in the top three fastest growing cities in the country. This about to be really competitive for  Mr. Castillo. He's going to need a website. Okay, everything's integrated over here. I'm going to  say, not trying to pat my own back, but this is a master class in text messaging.

10:35 Okay, screenshot  to prove that I actually did what I said I did because I get DMs every single day from these guys  saying, "Chris, I made a video about how you can improve your social presence. Can I send it to  you?" And then if I say yes, which I never would, then they go ahead and make it. It's fine. Don't  hate the game. It's cool. I get it. We're all out there hustling.

10:54 But I know I know they hadn't  already made me a video, right? It's a lie. So, I don't want to lie to him. I'm going to send  him a screenshot of what I actually did so he can know that I stand out. My name is first name,  last name. I want him to know that I'm a real person. I'm not from some call center overseas.  I'm not AI. I live 20 minutes from you.

11:07 That is the most critical sentence of this entire message.  I am nearby. I am a real person. Then I said, I can't believe you have a business in the nation's  fastest growing city and you don't have a website. I built one for you just now. Can I send you the  link? Okay. No, really. I just built a website for any handyman. I just need to swap out the name and  that'll take a fraction of a second.

11:28 Swap out the name and the city. That's fine. And the number  once we have it. So, I'm just going to go back to here. Hey, this guy does have a website. Jim's  Honeydew Heroes. I'm just going to assume it's a mobile phone. I might be wrong, but I'm going to  assume. Okay. Go here. Paste it in. I'm going to assume his name is Jim. Now, he already does have  a website, so I have to change my pitch up.

11:48 Hello, Jim. My name is Chris Ker. I live about 20 minutes  from you. I can't believe you have a business in the nation's fastest growing city, and you  don't have a very good website. No offense. Now, I'm kind of on the fence about that one cuz I'm  offending him, but we'll see. I test everything except drugs. That's what I like to say. So, this  is just a test.

12:05 I just built one for you. Mind if I send the link? Okay. Go over here. Now, I'm  going to send him a screenshot, but I'm not going to include Mr. E or Castillo's handyman  in it. I'm just going to include that. Okay. Boom. Let's do it again. Okay. That's a welder. He  just has a Facebook page and a phone number. So, I'm going to redo the pitch about not having a  website.

12:28 And I'm going to include this picture. I'm going to take this one a step further. And  I should have done this on the other text. I'm going to put the name of the city I live in. It's  fairly small and they'll know what it is. So, it just adds a little more legitimacy to my pitch.  All right. TB Home Improvement. Let's look at his website. All right.

12:49 Not terrible. Actually, that  website's pretty good, which means he probably values a good website, so he's worth texting. But  I would not be surprised if that is a landline because he has a lot of reviews. So he seems a  little more established. Oh, cell phone. Cool. All right. I'm actually shocked there are more  handymen out here. Diego's home repairs.

13:10 Oh, website doesn't work. Call them by name. Tedious,  yes, but I'd rather do something tedious than not own my own business. And this is what it takes.  No website. Look, it is shocking how many business owners don't have a website and we had internet  for what, freaking 40 years? 30 now. I'm going to test not sending the screenshot because there's a  chance that that screenshot is sending my message to spam and I want to avoid that.

13:38 Now, this  right here is a go highle website. This guy probably does not need my help. Now, still could  be worth texting, but if I'm doing this manually one by one, then I'm not going to take the  time to text him. Staircontractor. Okay. Now, what do they say? The harder way is the better  way. If I want to be even more effective, then I'm going to go do this in person.

13:57 I'm  going to go to a retail store. I'm going to go to the addresses listed on these businesses. Even  though most of them list their own home address, I would go to their home and knock their door and  literally show them an iPad or a laptop and say, "I built this website for you. Do you want  to buy it from me?" Or again, remember, we can give these away for free.

14:14 free hosting,  free support, everything for free just to get our foot in the door and to earn their trust as  an AI expert, an internet expert, someone who knows what they're doing. And someone who bought  some goodwill on the front end by giving them a free website free for life. I know people that  are doing that as well successfully. It's just a different model.

14:32 Remember, if you sell them  something upfront, it's easier to upsell them because they've already given you their credit  card number. You already broke that trust barrier. So free is good. Free is easier than paid, but  it's going to be harder to upsell them. So, it's easier to get your foot in the door, but it's  harder to move in permanently. Okay.

14:45 Now, why do I love this business model? Well, this is the Costco  approach. Okay. Start with a free sample and the chance of getting a yes or a close is so so much  higher, right? This website is the free sample. And but I do feel strongly that you need to charge  for it. It's not actually free, but it's close to free. Cuz if you can get them to pay for a little  bit something, a free website, then it's much much much easier to get them to pay for something that  costs 10 to 100 times more than that.

15:10 Okay? Build the site in 5 to 15 minutes using go highle AI  labs. Copy and paste it, right? It'd be really nice if you could only do this for handymen. That  way, instead of spending 15 minutes each time, you could spend 5 minutes each time. Either way,  it doesn't really matter. Try to acquire whatever customer you can. It's just kind of nice to stay  in the same lane.

15:28 Then you show up in person, deliver it in person. It makes the clothes so much  easier. And then show it to them. Bring a little laptop with you. Hey, I built this website for  you. It's literally done. I did it for you right now. I want to give it to you for a fee. If you  don't want it, no harm, no foul. I'll, you know, give it to someone else. I'll sell it to someone  else.

15:46 But in general, potential customers are not creative. They have a hard time imagining what  you're trying to sell them. So, this is removing that need for creativity or that friction for  them in real time. You're showing them what you've literally already built. and they don't know about  high level or vibe coding and they don't know what any of that means.

16:03 They're assuming you put much  more work into this website than you actually did, which is fine. Let them assume that. Here's what  you should charge for something like this. Okay? You can do a $400 setup fee with 50 bucks a month  and work around with these numbers however you want. It doesn't need to be 400 upfront. It could  be 100, 500, whatever you want, but they don't get any monthly edits.

16:20 They don't get a custom domain.  Okay? So, you're pushing them towards the middle plan. You're anchoring them with that huge $400  setup fee. And then you're saying for only 75 a month you don't have any setup fee and you get  a custom domain and I'll host it for you. Okay, as included and it cost you nothing, literally  nothing to host it because you pay one flat fee to go high level every month and then the premium  option yada yada yada.

16:39 Few people will choose this but that's fine. You're trying to get them to  choose the $75 option anyway. And then you got your foot in the door. Okay, this will cover your  overhead. This will cover your cost. This in and of itself, the 75 bucks a month could be a big  business, right? 100 customers is $7,500 a month, almost $100,000 a year, almost pure profit,  right?

16:58 But you're going to be able to convert a double- digit percentage of these people to  buy an AI voice receptionist or do paid ads or content creation or content posting, a booking  system, lead generation, customer service. All of these things you can automate with go high level  email marketing like converting old stale email addresses to new jobs, new bookings, new leads,  etc.

17:21 There are hundreds of ways and I cover a lot of them in my go high level playlist which I  link in the description below. But this is where the real real money will be made is on the upsell  packages. So I wish I got a response or a sale by the time I had to finish this video. But it is  almost dinner time and I'm going to go eat. So thanks for hanging out on the Kerner office.

17:40 Please use my GoHigh Lee affiliate link. You will get 30 days free instead of the standard  14. I get a little kickback. You don't have to pay anything extra. It's a great win-win. We use  go high level across almost all of my businesses every day. Me and my entire team are truly  believe in it. It's a great piece of software.

💡 Answer

Build local-business websites with AI, show the finished site to owners, and charge recurring fees; the model works best when hosting and delivery costs stay near zero.

🧠 AI Summary

An AI website side hustle can generate recurring revenue by building websites for local businesses at almost no upfront cost, showing owners the finished site, and charging roughly $50 to $100 per month. Go High Level provides AI website creation, CRM, hosting, calendars, workflows, and subaccounts. Handymen are presented as a promising niche because many are solo operators with publicly listed mobile numbers, existing budgets, and weak or missing websites. The main revenue opportunity is recurring website fees followed by upsells such as AI receptionists, paid ads, content, booking systems, lead generation, customer service, and email marketing.

🔑 Key Points

  • AI can produce a local-business website in approximately 5 to 15 minutes.
  • Go High Level combines AI website creation with CRM, calendars, workflows, hosting, and customer subaccounts.
  • Handyman businesses are attractive prospects because many are solo operators, have public mobile numbers, and may have no website or a weak website.
  • Businesses that already recognize the value of having a website may be easier to sell than businesses that have never had one.
  • A recurring website offer can be priced around $50 to $100 per month, with $75 per month presented as the preferred plan.
  • A sample pricing structure uses a $400 setup fee and $50 per month for a limited plan, while a $75-per-month plan removes the setup fee and includes a custom domain and hosting.
  • Recurring website customers can be upsold on AI voice receptionists, paid ads, content, booking systems, lead generation, customer service, and email marketing.

✅ Actionable items

  • Use Go High Level's free trial and enable its 30-day free AI access.
  • Generate a detailed website prompt with Claude or ChatGPT, including the business type, location, CRM integrations, calendar, workflows, SEO, meta descriptions, suburbs, and design.
  • Use a reference website and customize the prompt for the target business and location.
  • Build a generic home-service website, then swap the business name, location, phone number, and service details for each prospect.
  • Research local businesses through Google Maps and prioritize owners with publicly listed mobile numbers.
  • Use a phone validator to distinguish mobile numbers from landlines.
  • Contact prospects individually from a personal phone rather than using scraping, mass texting, or scaled outreach.
  • Send a screenshot of the completed website and explain that it was built specifically for the prospect before asking whether they want to see the link.
  • Adapt the outreach message for businesses with no website, weak websites, broken websites, or existing websites.
  • Consider delivering the website in person on a laptop or tablet to reduce the customer's difficulty imagining the finished product.
  • Offer a free or nearly free website as an entry point, then charge a small amount or recurring fee to make later upsells easier.
  • Use a tiered offer with a higher setup-fee plan to anchor the preferred recurring plan.

💡 Business ideas

AI-generated websites for handyman businesses09:51

Create localized, CRM-integrated websites for handyman companies and sell them as recurring services.

For
Local handyman business owners, especially solo operators in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Solves
Missing, weak, or broken business websites and limited online booking infrastructure.
Validate by
Build sample websites and contact local owners individually by text or in person to ask whether they want to see or buy the site.
  • Castillo's Handyman in Princeton, Texas
  • Jim's Honeydew Heroes
  • TB Home Improvement
  • Diego's Home Repairs

🏗️ Business models

Recurring AI website subscription00:04

Build a website for a local business, demonstrate it before the sale, and charge a recurring monthly fee for access, hosting, and related services.

  1. Identify a local business prospect.
  2. Build a customized website with AI.
  3. Show the completed website to the owner.
  4. Charge a setup fee or recurring monthly fee.
  5. Upsell additional automated business services.
  • $75 per month for a website
  • $400 setup fee with $50 per month
  • 100 customers generating $7,500 per month
Free website lead-generation model14:06

Give businesses a website, hosting, and support for free to earn trust and create opportunities to sell additional services later.

  1. Build and deliver a website at no charge.
  2. Use the free service to establish trust and enter the customer's business.
  3. Upsell higher-priced services after the relationship is established.
  • Free website for life
  • Free hosting and support

💰 Monetization

Monthly website subscription $50 to $100 per month; $75 per month is presented as the preferred offer. 00:16

Charge a recurring fee for use of the website and related hosting or platform services.

  • 100 customers at $75 per month equals $7,500 per month
Setup fee plus monthly subscription $400 setup fee with $50 per month; an alternative plan is $75 per month with no setup fee, a custom domain, and hosting. 16:11

Use a higher upfront fee for a limited plan and anchor customers toward a recurring plan with more included features.

  • No monthly edits or custom domain on the limited plan
Upsell automated business services 17:03

Sell additional software and marketing services after acquiring the website customer.

  • AI voice receptionist
  • Paid ads
  • Content creation
  • Content posting
  • Booking system
  • Lead generation
  • Customer service
  • Email marketing

📣 Marketing

Sales

  • Show the finished website before asking for payment.
  • Offer a free or low-cost sample to reduce resistance.
  • Use tiered pricing to anchor customers toward the preferred $75-per-month option.
  • Use the website subscription as an entry point for higher-value upsells.

Branding

  • Present as a nearby real person rather than an overseas call center or automated system.
  • Use local knowledge and proximity to add legitimacy.

Distribution

  • Direct text messages
  • In-person delivery using a laptop or tablet

Customer acquisition

  • Search Google Maps for local handyman businesses.
  • Prioritize prospects with publicly listed mobile numbers.
  • Contact owners individually from a personal phone.
  • Use screenshots of the completed website to prove the work was already done.
  • Mention local proximity and use the prospect's name and city.
  • Deliver the website in person when possible.

🔍 SEO & discoverability

Local seo

  • Include all DFW suburbs with over 50,000 people in the prompt.
  • Build a service-areas page listing 27 DFW cities.

Strategies

  • Include SEO and AEO requirements in the website-generation prompt.
  • Create service-area pages for local suburbs and cities.
  • Add meta descriptions and location-specific content.

Content strategy

  • Generate localized pages covering DFW suburbs and service areas.

Keyword research

  • Use Google Trends to examine interest in "handyman near me".

🧭 Frameworks

Costco approach14:50
  1. Start with a free sample.
  2. Use the sample to increase the chance of a sale.
  3. Convert the initial customer into recurring or higher-value purchases.

🧰 Tools & AI usage

  • Go High Level — Create websites, integrate CRM features, manage calendars and workflows, host sites, and manage customer subaccounts.01:11
  • Claude — Generate a detailed prompt for Go High Level's website-building tool.02:11
  • ChatGPT — Generate prompts for other AI website-building tools.02:11
  • Google Maps — Find local handyman businesses, reviews, phone numbers, and websites.07:12
  • Google Trends — Assess search interest for "handyman near me" over time.04:19
  • phone validator — Check whether a business phone number is a cell phone or landline.07:57

AI is used for

  • Generate detailed prompts for website creation — Create stronger instructions for Go High Level's AI website and vibe-coding tools.02:11
  • Build localized business websites — Produce handyman websites with CRM, calendar, workflow, SEO, and service-area integrations.02:06
  • Adapt website code for presentation — Copy HTML into the AI Studio vibe-coding tool to render the dynamic website.08:53

📊 Numbers mentioned

Costs

  • Almost zero upfront cost and maintenance cost per website
  • No marginal cost increase for each added subaccount according to the presented model

Growth

  • Over 100,000 handymen in America
  • 150,000 handymen in the US
  • 27 DFW cities included in the service-areas page

Pricing

  • $400 setup fee with $50 per month
  • $75 per month with no setup fee

Revenue

  • $50 to $100 per month per website
  • $75 per month per website
  • 100 customers at $75 per month equals $7,500 per month
  • Almost $100,000 per year from 100 customers

Traffic

  • "handyman near me" search interest peaked in 2021, bottomed out in late 2024, and was climbing back up.

⚖️ Advantages, risks & lessons

Advantages

  • Website creation and maintenance can require almost no additional cost per customer.
  • Go High Level integrates website functions with CRM, calendars, and workflows.
  • A completed website reduces the customer's need to imagine the product.
  • Handyman owners are often the direct decision makers reachable by mobile phone.
  • Recurring website customers create opportunities for additional service sales.

Risks

  • Scraping, mass texting, and scaled outreach involve regulatory concerns.
  • Free customers may be easier to acquire but harder to upsell.
  • Text message screenshots may increase the chance of messages being sent to spam.
  • In-person outreach may involve visiting addresses that are also business owners' homes.

Lessons

  • Target customers who already understand the value of a website.
  • Manual, personalized outreach can be preferable to scaled outreach when regulations and friction are concerns.
  • Charging something upfront can make later upsells easier because the customer has already crossed the trust and payment barrier.
  • Staying within one business niche can reduce the time needed to customize each website.

💬 Quotes

The most critical sentence of this entire message. I am nearby. I am a real person.

Local proximity and personal authenticity are presented as central to standing out in text outreach.11:13

The harder way is the better way.

Manual and in-person outreach are presented as more effective alternatives to scaled outreach.13:57

👤 People & companies

Tyler

Website side-hustle operator who builds free websites for businesses and charges recurring monthly fees.

00:38
Chris Ker

Presenter who builds and pitches AI-generated websites to local businesses.

11:52
Go High Level

CRM and software-reselling platform with AI website tools, calendars, workflows, hosting, and customer subaccounts.

01:11