For auto repair shops
Be the mechanic your town already trusts.
When the check engine light comes on, most people's first worry is getting ripped off. They go to the shop they trust. Every week you bring your town its news, and they come to know you and trust you. We build the website, the newsletter and the social accounts, and send you the stories and the exact words to say.
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What most auto repair shops do
Most shops are a coupon for an oil change.
Oil change coupons, a sign out front, a review site that shows the one angry customer first. It tells people you're cheap, not that you're honest, and price shoppers leave the minute someone else is cheaper.
People stay with a shop for years once they trust it. Show up every week with your town's news, and you stop being the oil change coupon. You become the shop people send their kids to.
Everyone else sends coupons. You bring your town its news.
The stories
Stories only a mechanic tells this well.
Most weeks you tell the town's news. Some weeks the news is about cars and roads, and nobody explains it better.
Main Street is closed for repaving starting Monday.
How long it lasts, the detour, where to park for the shops, and which side streets will be busier than usual.
Pothole season is here.
How to report one to the village, which ones are on the list, and what to check on your car after you hit a bad one.
The winter parking ban starts next week.
Which nights it's on, where you can park, what the ticket is, and why washing the road salt off your car matters.
One customer comes back for every car they own.
A family that trusts their shop brings every car to it for years: the brakes, the tires, the detailing before they sell, and then the next car. They don't shop around, because shopping around is how people get burned.
Be that shop. A driver who has watched you explain the detour and the parking ban already knows you're straight with people. When something goes wrong, they don't search. They call you.
Marketing that works
Most marketing buys attention. We build trust.
We've made more than 20,000 local videos, and the ones that bring in customers all do the same few things. Here's the difference.
| What most auto repair shops do | What we do with you |
|---|---|
| Buys attention. Ads, mailers and paid leads. It all stops the day you stop paying. | Builds trust. Your face and your town's news, every week. It adds up, and it stays with you. |
| Talks about you. Specials, before-and-afters, "call me today." People have seen it a hundred times and scroll past. | Talks about them. What's happening in their town. People watch, and they remember who told them. |
| Chases views. Trends and sounds that strangers three states away watch. Views aren't customers. | Reaches neighbors. The people in your town, the only ones who can actually hire you. |
| Buries the point. A slow intro and a logo. The scroll wins in two seconds. | Answers first. One real question per video, answered in the first sentence. That's what makes a stranger trust you. |
| Shows up when it can. Twenty ideas posted once, then nothing for a month. | Shows up every week. The same rhythm, week after week, until your town expects you. |
| Disappears. A post is gone in two days, and AI can't watch a video. | Keeps working. What you say lands on your town's website, where search engines and AI can read it for years. |
How it works
Three steps.
Get the week's stories.
Every week we send you what happened in your town, already checked, with the finished script for each one. Keep the good ones, skip the rest.
Hit record.
Read the exact words, in your voice, at the length you record. Your opener and your sign-off are already in the script.
Post everywhere.
Post the video everywhere at once with Unbusied, which comes with your seat. The same story goes on your town's website and into its newsletter.
Pricing
One price. Host your town.
Your town
- Hey [your town]!, your town's media brand, with you as its host
- What we learned making 20,000+ local videos
- Your town's website, built and hosted by us
- Your town's email newsletter, set up and drafted every week
- Your town's Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, set up by us
- Every week's local stories, with the finished scripts in your voice
- Unbusied, to post every video everywhere at once
- A video chat with us every month about what to record next
Apply only. One host per town. Month to month.
Just one reel helped a new private club reach 70% capacity right after it launched.
One of our hometown media platformsQuestions auto repair shops ask
Answers before you ask.
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I'm under a car all day. When would I record?
In one sitting. We send the week's stories with the exact words already written, so you can record a week of videos at once, even in the bay after closing.
Do the videos talk about cars?
Mostly no. Most weeks you tell your town its news: what's opening, what's closing, what the village board decided. When the news touches cars or roads, like a detour or the parking ban, you're the one who explains it.
I run a detailing shop, not repair. Does this fit?
Yes. Detailing customers choose on trust too: you're handling their car, and they come back every season. The town's news works the same way for you.
Will it bring me customers right away?
We don't promise that, and nobody honest can. Trust takes weeks of showing up. What changes first is that people start to recognize you, at the gas station, at a game, in line for coffee. The cars come from that.
Can another shop in my town do this too?
No. Each town has one host. Once it's you, we don't build the same thing for anyone else in your town.
Who owns the website and the accounts?
We do. We build, host and run them, which is why there's no build fee. You're the face and the voice of the brand. If you ever leave, the videos you made stay up and a new host can step in, so your town keeps its news.
What does it cost?
$999 a month, month to month. That includes the website, the newsletter, the social accounts, every week's stories and scripts, Unbusied for posting, and a video chat with us every month.
One last thing
Nobody in your town has claimed this yet.
Your town will know you before they need you. Each town gets one host, so it might as well be you.
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