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WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and GoHighLevel builds. AI chatbots, voice agents and websites built with ChatGPT and Claude. Funnels, tracking and the marketing behind them. Practical, tested and written by the developer who builds these for clients every week.
For a local business, the Google Business Profile is the home page most customers actually see. A complete checklist — categories, services, photos, reviews, posts, Q&A, tracking — in the order that moves Maps rankings and phone calls, plus the weekly routine that keeps it working.
Most A2P 10DLC campaigns are rejected for the same eight reasons, and none of them are mysterious: sample messages, opt-in wording, the privacy policy, the website. What each rejection actually means, the exact fix, and the compliant templates to resubmit with.
Not a one-prompt miracle: a developer workflow where Claude Desktop's Code tab does the typing inside a Local WordPress install, Elementor does the layout, and I do the deciding. The exact hour, minute by minute, the prompts that work, and where it stops being an hour.
A WooCommerce store is slower than a brochure site for structural reasons — cart fragments, uncached pages for logged-in shoppers, product images, checkout scripts. The store-specific fixes, in order, and the ones that break checkout if you get them wrong.
Local businesses do not need to go viral. They need to be visibly real, findable and easy to contact. A three-hour weekly routine — one platform done properly, four post types, a capture path into the CRM — and the numbers that actually matter.
Qualification is three questions your best salesperson asks in the first minute. An AI qualifier asks them on the website, by text and on the phone, at any hour, and routes the answer into the CRM. How to design the questions, the scoring and the routing without annoying good leads.
Shopify sells you convenience; WooCommerce sells you control. Which one is cheaper depends on what you count. A side-by-side on cost, setup, maintenance, SEO, payments, apps and growth — with the three questions that settle it for most small stores.
A missed call is a customer choosing the next business on the list. Missed-call text-back sends them a text within seconds, keeps the conversation alive and books the job. The exact GoHighLevel workflow, the timing that works, and message templates by industry.
People now ask ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews the questions they used to type into search — and get an answer without clicking. Being the source that answer cites is a different job from ranking first. What AI engines actually pull from, the nine things to change on your site, llms.txt, how to check whether you are being cited, and what to ignore.