This month we shipped a price tracker that updates every thirty minutes, a Spanish-language jobs board that reaches more workers, and a postcard mailer that lets you target just the neighborhoods you actually service. The biggest move was publishing repair cost data for South Texas. We've been writing estimates for local repair work long enough to know what things actually cost. Now you can see the real numbers instead of guessing.
Arrange them as you wish. Your family gets a fun puzzle. Slice a single photo into nine magnetic tiles. Customers rearrange them however they want.
By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice
You upload a photo. We cut it into a grid of nine pieces. Each piece becomes its own magnet. At an event, you hand someone nine magnets they can swap around and stick back together in any order.
The design tool lets you drag a frame over your image to pick which part of the photo becomes each tile. You can zoom, rotate, and line it up exactly how you want it. The preview shows you the real magnets as they'll look printed.
You're thinking about getting your AC fixed or your roof looked at. You want to know if a quote is fair. We publish a price tracker that shows you the range of repair estimates we've written for that work in your city.
You use one of our price calculators to figure out what a repair or service should cost. Now you can copy a link and send it to someone else. They click it and see the exact same estimate, with all your settings locked in.
You posted a job three days ago. Now you realize you want to bump the pay or clarify the shift times. Instead of deleting it and starting over, you just edit the post you already have live.
Our jobs board has pages for different trades. Plumbing. HVAC. Roofing. Electrical. When you post a job in one of those categories, your name and your listings show on that page.
You run a photo booth or event setup. You're taking photos and printing magnets all day. The bottleneck used to be how fast we could make them. We've rebuilt the printing press and the process to keep up with high-volume events.
You want to order some magnets for an event. You land on our website and you're ready to go. No form asking for your team name or how many locations you have. Just a button that says start.
We used to offer a free account that lasted forever. Now we run a fourteen-day trial. You get full access to the design tool and the shop. You can design magnets, buttons, postcards, whatever.
You run a service business in Corpus Christi. You want to mail postcards, but you don't want to blanket the whole city. You pick your service area on a map. We mail only to the blocks inside that zone.
The biggest thing this month was publishing repair cost data for South Texas. We've been writing estimates for local repair work for a while now. We decided to publish what that data actually says. You can see what roofing costs in Corpus Christi. What HVAC costs in Alice. The range based on work we've priced.
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.
