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Plenty of new websites spend months "nearly ready".Waiting on the photos. Then the About page. Then the logo, which isn'...
02/10/2026

Plenty of new websites spend months "nearly ready".

Waiting on the photos. Then the About page. Then the logo, which isn't quite right yet.

Meanwhile a finished site that nobody can see gets the same number of enquiries as no site at all.

Version one is meant to be a bit rough. Three pages, photos off your phone, an About page you'll redo in a month. Version two is where it gets good, and version two needs real people to have used version one.

If yours has been nearly ready for a while, the missing piece probably isn't the photos.

30/09/2026

Some weeks in business you wonder if you've still got it. Whether the quote landed, whether the site's working, whether anyone's reading any of this.

Then someone runs up and grabs your hand without a second thought, and that answers it.

Most of why Verdant exists is more time for this bit.

25/09/2026

"We're just going to get AI to do the website."

Fair enough. So here is the offer. You get AI to build yours, I'll get AI to build yours, and in three months we see which one takes more enquiries.

The objection to that is always the same, and it is that the test would not be fair, because one of us does this for a living.

Which is the point. Same tool, different person holding it.

23/09/2026

Go and fill in the contact form on your own website. From your phone, with a real message. Then wait ten minutes and check, junk folder included.

A lot of people find out it never arrives.

The form still submits. It still says thank you. The message goes nowhere, and it has been doing that for months.

It's invisible from the outside, which is what makes it the expensive one. Nothing looks broken. Enquiries just slow down and you put it down to a quiet quarter.

Two minutes. Go and do it.

11/09/2026

Fourteen messages. Still not certain which Thursday.

Every service-based industry has had this exact conversation, and none of them got paid for the hour it took. A booking page does the whole thing while you are watching telly.

The big booking apps will do it too, for a cut of every appointment and permanent custody of your customer. Worth knowing before you sign up.

09/09/2026

Side hustles are not easy, and anyone online telling you they are is selling something.

Four things I wish I had known. None of them easy.

You will never feel ready. The first version being embarrassing is the point. A great product with bad marketing loses to a bad product with good marketing every single time. And free work does not turn into paid work, it turns into more free work.

If charging feels like a stretch while you find your feet, call it an introductory price. Same job, and it establishes that there is a price at all.

26/08/2026

Most small business websites do one job. They sit there and look alright.

Three jobs yours could be doing instead. Taking bookings and payments while you sleep, rather than a contact form that just emails you. Answering the questions you answer twelve times a week, like prices, areas covered and whether you do emergencies. And telling you what's actually happening, because most owners have no idea how many people visited last month.

None of it is fancy. Nobody just built it for them.

Send this to whoever looks after your website and see which one you're missing.

19/08/2026

Built a login screen where the dog looks away while you type your password, then jumps about when you get in.

Nobody asked for it. That's rather the point. When a site's built properly from scratch rather than dropped into a template, you can put whatever you like in it, including things that serve no purpose whatsoever.

What would you have on yours?

14/08/2026

Knew the rule. Ignored the rule.

The tip is real though. Your phone number should be a link so tapping it just rings you, instead of making someone copy and paste it on a phone.

12/08/2026

Every one of these is a real job that someone has to do, and none of them are the job you actually started your business to do.

If you've had a go at your own website and it's still not finished, this one's for you.

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