Industries
Specialty retail and local entertainment
Shops that are not a mall: stained glass studios and supplies, used and new tires, pinball and arcade, coin-op and collectibles. We know this kind of business. Iowa City and shops that sell something specific.
This is a type of retail — not a single client story.
Who it’s for
Owners whose inventory is weird in the best way. A studio. A tire lot. A dealer of machines and signs. If “search the town plus the thing” is how customers find you, this is the page.
What’s usually broken
- A phone-book site with a yearly bill and three pages that do not work on a phone.
- The thing you buy or sell (a machine, a pane, a tire size) is not a page.
- Hours and the lot address wrong.
- The only “store” is a Facebook post.
Pinball and arcade belong here as specialty retail: people search “sell pinball,” “sell arcade,” a neon sign, a specific cabinet. That copy has to live on your site.
What Upley does
Site
Short when short is enough. Product and service pages when the thing needs a URL. See Website design and Retail & ecommerce.
Hosting
Lower-cost hosting you own, not a directory lease. See Hosting.
Domains
Yours. See Domain names.
Automation
“I have one to sell” and quote follow-up. See Marketing automation.
Original content for AI
Pages for the actual thing so search — including AI — cites your shop, not a forum thread. See SEO for AI.
Venues and by-owner stays: Lodging. Party catalogs: Event rentals.
Monthly work starts at $115. A new site is scoped.
Book 30 minutes
Thirty minutes. Iowa time. No deck.