This month we shipped live repair-parts pricing on Bench, got postcards fully working on Adhere, and spun Screener into its own focused app. The biggest move was the Mission Control feed on the dashboard, one ranked view of what needs you right now across all campaigns. We also went multi-tenant on Boothpress, added bilingual job posts, and wired callbacks and texting straight from tickets. The command line can now manage short links by phone, and reports let you run any business metric without asking for a custom query. It was a shipping month.
Pick your town. Design your card. Target and send.
Adhere is our shared direct-mail postcard program for Coastal Bend businesses, one local pro per trade.
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Postcards work end to end. You design a 6x11 card, pick which neighborhoods in the Coastal Bend get it, and Adhere handles the print and mail through Lob. No separate vendor, no jumping between tools. The community-2500 card is live and tested.
This is for shops that want to reach homeowners in a specific area without the sales-call grind. A roofer in Calallen can design a postcard, target Calallen and nearby towns, and have mail in people's hands in a week. The whole thing lives in one dashboard.
Boothpress lets you set up a magnet shop for a customer. They manage it from their own subdomain. They upload photos, design magnets, set pricing, and take orders. You get a flat fee per shop, no cut of revenue. The platform handles signups, billing, and tenant isolation.
The jobs board supports posts in English and Spanish. An employer posts in English, and seekers can view it in Spanish. A seeker can pick their language on the jobs page. Job alerts come in the language you pick.
Calallen is a category on NPCLocal. Before, it was a neighborhood inside Corpus Christi. Now pros in Calallen can claim their slot and homeowners can search for local help in Calallen.
Episodes have editable URL slugs. Rename the slug and old links redirect to the new one. So if you engrave 'AS-007' and the slug is as-007, you can change it to 'challenge-coin-emerald' and old shares redirect to the right page.
This short video from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission breaks down exactly how a ransomware attack starts and what a small business owner can do right now to stop it before it wipes out their files. It comes straight from the feds, it is free, and it is plain enough that you can watch it with your whole staff in one sitting.
This free step-by-step guide walks you through fixing slow mesh Wi-Fi the right way, starting with node placement and reboot order before you spend a dime on new gear. We like it because it covers the stuff that actually trips up small shops, like weak backhaul, sticky clients that won't roam, and ping spikes on video calls.
This is a free workshop straight from Google that shows small business owners how to use AI tools like Gemini to knock out real everyday tasks, not just theory. We like it because it is built for folks with no tech background and walks you through actual things you can do this week.
We found this one real useful because it walks you through the right tools to have on hand and the safety steps to follow before you crack open any device yourself. If you have been paying a shop for fixes you could probably handle at home, this video is a solid place to start.
We like this one because it comes straight from the federal government and covers ransomware, phishing, and hacking in plain English with fact sheets, videos, and quizzes built for owners like us. No vendor upsell, no fine print, just solid free advice we can share with anyone on our team.
This free guide walks you through the 3-2-1 backup rule in plain English, tells you exactly what NAS does versus what cloud backup does, names the actual tools and what they cost, and calls out the mistakes most small businesses make when they think they are already covered. Down here on the Coastal Bend where a hurricane or a ransomware hit can wipe you out overnight, knowing your data is in three places on two different kinds of storage is worth an hour of your time right now.
