Your customers are searching.
Right now they find nothing.

Fair question, and you should ask it. I built and I maintain hloo.in myself — a CRS immigration calculator, a dangerous goods reference, a kitchen planner and cut-list tool, an export readiness checklist, an event platform, and a scanner that tells you whether AI assistants can read your website. Go and use any of them right now. That is my portfolio, not a slideshow. Before moving to Ottawa I also ran my own service centres for 20 years — so I know how a shop actually runs, not just how code works.

Then you pay nothing. For the first 3 businesses I build the site and put it live before any money changes hands. You look at it on your own phone, show it to your family, sit with it for a few days. If it is not right you tell me and we are done — no invoice, no argument, and I still hand you the files. I would rather lose a week of work than argue with someone over $499.

$499 one time to build the site and get it live — the site is yours. Then $199 a year, which is $16.58 a month billed once, covering hosting, your Google Business Profile, review replies and 4 changes a year. No monthly subscription. Ottawa agencies charge $3,000–$8,000 up front for the same build and then bill maintenance on top.

Seven days from the day you send me your photos, prices and hours. Your Google profile clean-up starts on day one — that part usually shows results before the site is even live.

Then it is cheaper for you. Send me your web address and I will check three things free: whether the link is showing on your Google listing, whether it works properly on a phone, and whether anything on it is broken or out of date. I see a lot of sites that were built once and then left — prices from 2022, contact forms that do not send.

He probably can, and he probably will. But here is what happens: the site gets built, then his studies or job take over, and eight months later it still shows last Diwali's prices. Building it is 10% of the work; keeping it alive is 90%. That is what the $199 a year is for. Tell him to help with the design — happy to work with him.

You are right, and I will not ask you to. Grocery prices change weekly and your whole catalogue does not belong on a website. What works is your weekly flyer image on a page Google can actually read, a list of the brands you carry with no prices at all, and a WhatsApp button so customers send their list and collect it ready. That last one is where the money is.

Your menu on your own page, and a direct order link by call or WhatsApp. The delivery apps take 20–30% of every order, and that cost is sitting inside your menu prices right now. A direct order button keeps it with you.

Your price list on a page, and online booking connected to your Google listing. Right now the customer who wants an appointment at 10pm cannot get one, and your competitor has that button. That is the whole gap.

Then a customer cannot see your collection before deciding to come, and a lehenga is never chosen alone — she sends photos to her sister and friends first. So: a photo gallery by category, a WhatsApp button on every photo, and a booking page. Prices on request is completely fine.

Facebook works for people who already follow you. Google is where strangers with money in hand look first — and Google ranks businesses that own a website higher in local results.

The site and domain are yours from day one. If you skip the yearly renewal we hand over the files — no hostage-taking.

Perfect. You never touch it. WhatsApp me a photo or a price and it's live the same day.

You would not, and I will tell you that on the call. If nothing changes week to week, the $199/year plan is the honest one. The monthly plan exists only for shops that run weekly specials and need someone updating them.

No office, no sales team, no account manager. Just me. You pay for the work, not the overhead.