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 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.
