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.
By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice
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 is the free, no-sales-pitch playbook straight from the federal agency whose whole job is keeping businesses safe from ransomware, phishing, and hackers. We like it because it skips the outdated advice and tells you exactly what to turn on first, starting with multi-factor authentication on every account.
We like this one because it skips the jargon and walks you straight through what the 3-2-1 rule actually means for a small shop, including real tool picks and a cost example you can steal right now. It also clears up the big trap most folks fall into: your Dropbox or Google Drive sync is not a backup, and this guide explains exactly why that matters when ransomware shows up.
We found a plain-talk post from a real accountant who ran her own QuickBooks file and made every one of these mistakes herself, so she knows exactly where DIY owners go wrong. It walks through six specific slip-ups, like double-posting income and letting auto-add bank rules run wild, and tells you exactly how to fix each one before they turn into a tax headache.
We like this one because it walks you through all ten fixes in plain order, from moving your router to picking the right kind of extender or mesh setup, so you can actually do something today instead of just reading about the problem. EPB is a real fiber utility, not somebody trying to sell you gear, which means the advice is straight and honest for a shop our size.
Google put together a free video series that walks real small business owners through everyday AI tasks like writing emails, sorting finances, and handling customer service, no tech background needed. We watched it and the demos are plain and practical, the kind of thing you can try the same afternoon right here in Alice.
This one walks you through a real NWS marine forecast the same way a buddy at the dock would, covering wind knots, wave height, and the swell interval trick that most folks ignore until they get beat up out on the water. If you fish out of Port Aransas or Rockport, we think this is worth ten minutes of your time before the next trip.
