For painters
Be the painter your whole town recognizes.
Hiring a painter means letting someone into your house for a week. People pick the one they feel they know. 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 painters do
Most painters are a sign on somebody's lawn.
A yard sign at the last job, a post in the town group asking for referrals, a listing on a site that sends the same lead to five other painters. It all ends in a race to the lowest quote.
The painter people want is the one they already trust in their home. Show up every week with your town's news, and you stop being one of five quotes. You become the painter people ask for by name.
Everyone else fights over price. You bring your town its news.
The stories
Stories only a painter tells this well.
Most weeks you tell the town's news. Some weeks the news is about color and old houses, and nobody explains it better.
The new mural going up on Main Street.
Who's painting it, what it shows, how long it will take, and how they keep it looking good through the winters.
The historic district's color rules.
Which houses need approval before they change colors, how the review works, and how long it usually takes.
The last good week to paint outside.
Why paint needs warm days and dry nights, and what to do if your project didn't get finished before the cold.
Trust wins the job, not the lowest quote.
A whole house, inside or out, is a big job, and the homeowner is trusting you with their rooms, their furniture and their keys. When they already know you, they stop comparing quotes line by line.
Be that painter. A neighbor who has watched you explain the mural and the historic district rules doesn't need five bids. They already know who they want.
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 painters 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 platformsI'm on ladders 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 at the end of a job.
Do the videos talk about painting?
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 paint or old houses, like a new mural or the historic district rules, you're the one who explains it.
Winter is slow for me. Does this help?
Yes. The town's news doesn't stop in winter, so you keep showing up while other painters go quiet. When spring comes, the people who watched you all winter call you first.
Will it bring me jobs 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 paint store, at a game, in line for coffee. The calls come from that.
Can another painter 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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