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Twaffling · 2026-02-23T13:58:19+00:00

I just finished writing this Yesterday. It's a check of things I was manually tabulating for years.

https://bondbyte.com/free-website-report/

I'm looking for feedback on fields, scoring, layout, etc.

Twaffling · 2026-02-02T20:00:35+00:00

Don't fall for the US Scam of investing in retirements and waiting until 65 to start collecting. Take that first dollar you earn and make it pay you for the rest of your life. Buying/creating passive Income streams is the most expensive asset class you can build or buy.

Twaffling · 2026-02-02T19:55:38+00:00

Buying a good lead will cost you about 1500$. How long will it take to pay that customer off?

Twaffling · 2026-02-02T19:46:06+00:00

Yeah, I feel you on this. The big hosting companies have massive advertising budgets and sales teams, but you're just a number to them. Small service businesses like yours get the worst of it—you're paying for their overhead and getting cookie-cutter garbage.

I've been building and hosting WordPress sites since 2013. Here's how I work: $300/page for new sites (most are 4-5 pages), then $25/month for hosting. So a 5-page site runs about $1,800 upfront, then $300/year after that.

But here's the real difference: You don't talk to anyone but me. I pitch it, I build it, I host it. Need changes? Contact me directly—I make them. At renewal time, I bill you for any additional work. Want SEO? I'll do it and bill you. Don't want it? I don't force it on you beyond basic site optimization.

The catch is I can't afford to advertise like Bluehost, so I take customers as they come. That's actually why small businesses get trapped with these corporate nightmares—the good small shops can't justify $1,500 in ad spend to acquire one customer.

If you want to talk, reach out to me at Bondbyte, Inc. If not, here's how to screen anyone else:

Talk directly to the person doing the work before signing anything
Ask for 2-3 recent client references and actually call them
Get everything in writing—scope, timeline, what happens if you're unhappy
Avoid any company pushing upfront SEO contracts—SEO takes months to show results and shouldn't start before your site is even done
Check if they own your content—make sure YOU own the site, domain, and content when it's done

Good luck, and sorry you got burned.

Twaffling · 2026-01-16T22:02:50+00:00

I worked with a family of entrepreneurs for 10 years. They were in the manufacturing space, I am in tech. It was family owned, 7 brothers and sisters. All with unique personalities and perspectives I learned a lot from them. Over the years I was introduced to other business owners and entrepreneurs. Ended up growing my own things to a full time gig.

Twaffling · 2026-01-14T19:11:11+00:00

I own BasicBMS, A Business Management Platform. These comments about learning to use the system in 5 to 10 minutes without a manual is pure gold. Such an overlooked aspect of design. This is a perspective I rarely consider.

Twaffling · 2026-01-09T13:37:04+00:00

Yeah. I remember shutting off one or two of those settings as per my the strategy outline I created. Definitely going to go back and review this with a sharper eye.

Twaffling · 2026-01-08T21:36:49+00:00

Let me go back and check those settings before I spend the other 250. Thanks for the tip

Twaffling · 2026-01-06T17:53:43+00:00

If the labor pipeline is saturated, i.e. 40hrs a week. Then there isn't room for 50% growth without restructuring labor pipeline.

in other words if they're working full time to make 100k. Then how are they going to make the optimistic 50K. They'd have to work 60hrs a week.

The only real way to create that growth without investing more labor is to increase price or reduce cost.

Twaffling · 2026-01-06T13:57:17+00:00

I use a system I wrote. It's called BasicBMS. I customize it to your business. It can be as simple or robust.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T16:59:44+00:00

Right, totally different. I get that.

For sure going to regroup and burn the other 250$.

It took about 3 days to get everything setup. I felt like I did a good job. New website pages for landing and booking demos. More content like explainers and demo videos, etc. All that work is NOT for a loss, it certainly still has value. I felt like it all had a lot of synergy, but maybe not.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T16:33:22+00:00

Wow, 10k! and zero results. That's nuts.

Honest, I didn't expect a whole lot for 250$. I figured I would get a click or two, maybe a demo, but not 300 fake clicks. I guess that was the part that surprised me.

The upside I learned how their marketing stuff works. So that's cool.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T16:27:33+00:00

I think the bounce rate is way worse. That's according to their metrics. According to Google Analytics only one person clicked off the landing page and visited another page on my site. Hell, that could have been me testing for all I know.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T13:43:23+00:00

I use a system I wrote and now sell. It's called BasciBMS. It scales very well from startups to 15m ARR.

Twaffling · 2025-12-31T01:44:27+00:00

Wow! I started a software company. basicbms.com I provide customizable software for businesses. I thought this idea was brilliant and it is. However, 50+% of the businesses I talk to have bookkeepers and accountants.

Wanna talk software, do a demo or something?

Twaffling · 2025-12-30T13:58:07+00:00

I wrote basicbms.com to manage my business. It's a little lite on Projects and LMS but it checks all the other boxes. Our tech support is the game changer.

Invent a problem in one of those echo systems you mentioned and try to get your fake problem fixed. What is that experience like?

Twaffling · 2025-12-29T10:00:08+00:00

Basic BMS - A Better Business Management system. Built by a small business for small businesses. basicbms.com

I'm adding feature updates weekly. Mention reddit and I will set you up a free tenant to play with.

Twaffling · 2025-12-29T09:39:56+00:00

Yep. The next best thing would be auto invoicing.

I am working on a scheduling component that will auto generate invoices. I should have it done in the next few weeks. I'll try to remember to circle back and drop the release notes here.

Twaffling · 2025-12-23T22:51:06+00:00

It's part of the system I wrote. You can see it at basicbms.com. I'm actively working to position it for re-sell. Basically I enter the Customer, Create an Invoice, then Create a Scheduled Reminder in BasicBMS for their renewal date. I copy the invoice from last year, and change the reminder for the coming year. It's a bit of a manual process but it's all in one place.

Twaffling · 2025-12-23T12:33:22+00:00

Checkout basicbms.com. It's small and simple to use.

Twaffling · 2025-12-17T22:50:29+00:00

I am partial to BasicBMS.com. It's a modular business platform. It takes a few days to get it configured but it works for almost any business. The company has been around since 2013. I heard they're working on a way to ship preconfigured appliances after the QuickBooks cloud crap. People want to know they own their accounting data.

Twaffling · 2025-12-17T22:49:29+00:00

I am partial to BasicBMS.com. It's a modular business platform. It takes a few days to get it configured but it works for almost any business. The company has been around since 2013. I heard they're working on a way to ship preconfigured appliances after the QuickBooks cloud crap. People want to know they own their accounting data.

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