The Good Work Giveaway

Win a website as good as your work.

For the holidays, we’re picking one trade or home-service business and giving it a new website plus six months of our Google Maps, SEO and GEO work (getting found on Google and in ChatGPT answers), free. It’s worth about $7,500.

Entries are open Nov 4 to Nov 10. It takes about ten minutes, and Cole Mays, who runs Byword, reads every one.

Enter

For painters, fence builders, septic and gutter companies, roofers, and other trade and home-service businesses in the U.S.

Corbel Fence Co.Sample report · 1 of 2

Where you show up

Google Maps, “fence company near me,” checked from 49 spots around town, the way a customer nearby would search.

MAIN STYOU
  • Top three
  • 4th to 10th
  • 11th or lower

ChatGPT, asked 10 times for a fence company in townNamed you 2 times · the other two 9 and 6

Corbel Fence Co.Sample report · 2 of 2

What your customers say

Your Google reviews, next to the two companies above you.

YouThe other two
Reviews38112 · 61
New in 90 days92 · 0
Answered30 · 41

What your customers mention most:

  • Showed up when they said
  • A clean yard after
  • A fair price
A sample report for a made-up fence company.

Picked or not, you get a free report.

Two pages on where you show up on Google Maps across your town.

  • Free
  • By email within three business days

What the winner gets.

A new website

Built from your own job photos and your answers to our questions.

  • A page for each service you do
  • Forms that reach your phone
  • A review system that asks after every job
  • Five extra SEO pages at launch, each written for a search people in your town make

Six months of our monthly work

  • Your Google profile set up right and kept right, with your job photos posted to it every week
  • A review request after every job
  • A reply to every review in your voice
  • A new page on your site each month for a job you want more of, so you show up in Google search and in ChatGPT answers (that’s the SEO and GEO)
  • A short report each month

Yours to keep

Your site, domain and Google profile stay yours, whether the monthly keeps going or not.

Worth about $7,500: the $3,500 website, $1,000 for the five extra SEO pages, and six months at $500.

Why free? We want our next case study to be a trade business that does good work and is hard to find.

See what we did for a painter

What to know before you enter.

How we pick
Cole scores every complete entry on three things, and the highest score wins. Nothing is drawn at random. See how we score
Who can enter
Trade and home-service businesses in the U.S. open at least a year. Not current or past clients of Byword Studio or Neuma Creative.
Your time if you win
A call to start, then quite a few questions about your business and your jobs, since that’s what we write your site from, and your best photos of your work. Then about ten minutes a month: tap “job done” on your phone and send a few photos.
After the six months
The monthly only keeps going if you say yes, month to month at our regular price, which is $500 a month today. If you stop, we move your site into an account in your name and show you how to make changes to it with ChatGPT or Claude.
Not included
Ad spend, printing, photography, a new logo, and custom extras like booking that works with your job software.
Taxes
Ask your tax person how a prize like this is treated for your business before you accept.
Who’s behind it
Byword Studio is part of Neuma Creative, the brand studio Cole runs from Kona, Hawaii. Call or text him at (808) 480-4863.

How we pick.

Cole scores every complete entry on three things, and the highest score wins.

40%

Good work, hard to find

How good your work looks (your photos, what your customers say, your reviews) next to how easy you are to find (your website, and where you show up on Google Maps in your free report)

30%

Ready to build

Good photos of your jobs (what you tell us and any you send), and room to take on more work

30%

A clear goal

How specific you are about the jobs you want more of and where you’re taking the business

Where you show up on Google Maps comes from your free report, scanned the same way for every entrant. A tie goes to a second scoring of questions 10 and 11. Nothing is decided by chance. Years in business and who sent you aren’t scored.

Enter.

It takes about ten minutes. Entries close Nov 10 at 11:59 pm Hawaii time.

Cole Mays

Cole Mays reads every entry.Byword Studio

The Good Work GiveawayFifteen questions

Pick your type of business to start.

Which jobs do you want more of?

Pick up to 3.

How long have you been running it?
Could you take on more of those jobs in the next 2–3 months?
Do you have good photos of your jobs?

Send a few if you can. (optional)

Up to 5 photos. Photos help us see your work.

    A few sentences is plenty.

    More crews, bigger jobs, a new service, something else.

    Your name, email and phone

    We’ll only call or text about this giveaway and your report, and you can tell us to stop anytime.

    We use your answers and photos to judge your entry, make your report and follow up with you. Privacy · Official Rules