John MorrisHire me

Building websites since 2004

Get found.
Get the call.
Get customers.

I build the online presence that gets a small business chosen: a Google profile that puts you on the map, a website that turns lookups into calls, and social media that keeps your name in front of your town. One person, start to finish, so you deal with me, not a call center.

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Membership sites and projects for Inc. Magazine · Michael Hyatt · Lewis Howes · Ray Edwards · Tim Ferriss

What you need

Three things your next customer checks online before they ever call you.

This is for businesses people drive to: a shop, a clinic, a trade, a church, a nonprofit. Before your next customer calls anyone, they search Google, check you out on their phone, and notice who keeps showing up in their feed. Those three checks decide whether they pick you or the place down the road.

01

A dominating presence on Google

When people nearby search for what you do, you are what they find.

When someone nearby needs what you do, they start on Google, and most never look past the first few results. If you are not in those results, you are not in the running. It is the first impression most customers ever get of you. A dominating presence means your profile is complete and correct, you show up on the map, your reviews do the talking, and your website shows up for the searches your customers actually type.

  • A complete, accurate Google Business Profile
  • Showing up on the map and near the top of the results
  • Reviews that say what your ads cannot
  • Content that ranks for the searches that matter

That is what Google Optimization builds.

02

A website that turns visitors into customers

Traffic is worthless if the site does not turn it into business.

Getting found is only half the job. When someone lands on your website, you have seconds. Every extra tap, every confusing page, costs you some of them. It has to load fast, look right on a phone, say plainly what you offer, and make the next step effortless: tap to call, get directions, book the appointment, buy the thing. A site that does that turns lookups into calls while you are busy doing the actual work.

  • Fast, and built for phones first
  • Clear about what you offer and who it is for
  • One obvious next step on every page: call, visit, book, buy
  • Your hours, location, and prices where people expect them

That is what A Website That Sells is built to do.

03

Social media that brings in new business

Show up in their feed until your name is the only one they remember.

Nobody wakes up needing your business today. But when they do, they call a name they recognize. Of course, most business owners know they need to be doing social media. They just don't know how to do it in a way they can keep up with, or how to get people to actually respond. So posts go up in bursts, then nothing for weeks. What fixes it is being shown what to do, in plain steps that fit a real week. Then it goes up steadily, people respond, and your name stays familiar.

  • Posted steadily, not in occasional bursts
  • Posts people actually respond to
  • In front of local people until you are the familiar name

That is what Facebook Growth System sets up.

Results

One church. One year. Here is what happened.

Covenant Church in Van Buren had no Google profile and a quiet Facebook page, so people searching for a church in its own town never found it. One year of the same three things above, and here is what changed for them. These are Covenant's own numbers, from Meta and Google.

On Facebook (over the past year)

+326%

link clicks

+317%

watch time

+304%

3-second views

+117%

total views

+56%

new follows

+47%

interactions

On Google

Top 3

in every Van Buren church search

#1

for "Sunday service Van Buren MO"

#1 + #2

both top spots for "non denominational church Van Buren MO"

Zero → found

no Google profile at all before this work started

Portfolio

Proof, not promises.

Every project here is live. Open one, see where it started and what it became, and judge it exactly the way your customers will judge yours.

covenantchurchvb.comScreenshot of the Covenant Church homepage

Client work

Covenant Church

A full build for a Van Buren church: website, Google Business Profile, and a Facebook presence that stays current. The results are in the numbers above.

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mainstreetmarket.pages.devScreenshot of the Main Street Market homepage

Concept study

Main Street Market

A concept study, not client work. My take on a freshened-up site for the Van Buren grocery, built on spec as a working site the owners can click through, not a stack of screenshots.

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From the membership-site years

Before I turned to local work, I spent a decade building membership sites for New York Times bestselling authors, national business magazines, and six- and seven-figure online programs. That is national-level experience your small business gets without a national agency's bill. Several of those clients are quoted in the reviews below.

Sports Executives Academy

For Lewis Howes, three-time New York Times bestselling author

His membership program for people building careers in sports, built on WishList Member. The site is gone now; his words about the work are below.

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Platform University

For Michael Hyatt, New York Times bestselling author

The membership site for his platform-building program: opt-in pages, members area, and forum, built on a custom theme framework so the site could grow with the program instead of being rebuilt.

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Inc. Magazine Small Business Owner Council

For Inc. Magazine

Other developers had failed to launch this membership site for nearly two years. I built it from scratch and had it live in one month.

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HomeRoomOnline.com

For Jefferson Bethke, creator of “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus”

Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke and Jeremy and April Pryor run Homeroom, a membership program that coaches couples on marriage and family. They had an old site and wanted a full rebrand: a new website, streamlined and easier to use. I built it, and it is still the site they run on today.

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WishList Insider

For Tracy Childers, WishList Products

The members area, dashboard, and forum for the WishList Member community, plus the wishlistmember.com sales site.

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Reviews

What clients say

People who hired me, in their own words. Most of these come from the membership-site years, when the clients were New York Times bestselling authors, Inc. Magazine, and the people behind six- and seven-figure online programs.

Photo of Lewis Howes
Lewis HowesThree-time New York Times bestselling author
John is amazing at building membership sites. I highly recommend using John and WishList for any of your membership site needs.
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Lewis SchiffExecutive Director, Inc. Magazine Business Owners Council
I can't thank you enough for the excellent work and wisdom you've brought to this project.
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Ray EdwardsOwner, Ray Edwards International, Inc.
Dude you are awesome as awesome can be. Thanks for all your great work.
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Xan BarksdaleOwner, Xan Barksdale Baseball LLC
Very professional worker who is extremely knowledgable in WordPress and Wishlist Member. I would definitely hire again.
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Lori GrantCOO, Operation Military Family
John did an outstanding job on my project. I highly recommend him and look forward to working with him on future projects.
Bob PattersonWishList Master, Patterson & Rosko
Not only is John a very talented programmer and developer, he is also an excellent communicator. This is a rare combination.
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Chris AitkenPartner, Borondi Group
He significantly improved my site through his expert knowledge of PHP, CSS and Javascript. Would definitely recommend John to others.
Bradley SmithWordPress Website Developer
John and I have worked together on numerous projects. John is very quick and efficient and was a pleasure to work with.

Pricing

The price you see is the price you pay

Plenty of web work starts at one number and grows from there, extra for this, extra for that, until the final invoice is twice the quote. Mine doesn't work that way. I keep the scope tight so the price you pick is the whole price and it stays that price. The Whole Works is all three handled at once, $1,000 less than buying them separately.

Google Optimization

Normally $297

$197

For a limited time

Your Google Business Profile and local listings, set up right and cleaned up.

Get Google Optimization

Free Google Optimization

A Website That Sells

Normally $1,497

$997

For a limited time

A fast, clear website built to turn visitors into calls, bookings, and sales. Google Optimization included free.

Get Your Website

Facebook Growth System

Normally $997

$697

For a limited time

A full audit of your social presence and a written plan your team can run.

Grow on Facebook

Save $1,000

The Whole Works

Normally $2,497

$1,497

For a limited time

All three: Google Optimization, A Website That Sells, and Facebook Growth System, working as one system.

Get The Whole Works

Done-For-You Social

Rather have it done for you? I run your Facebook month to month: steady posts of your real work, your events covered, your page kept in front of your town while you run your business. That is the work behind the Covenant numbers above. Three-month minimum, scope set in writing before we start.

Normally $597/mo$497/moFor a limited timeGet Done-For-You Social

About

Doing this since 2004

You are not hiring a distant agency or a rotating cast of contractors. You get one person: me. I have been building websites since 2004, and these days I work out of Van Buren, Missouri, building for the same kind of businesses and churches I live around. When something needs doing, you call the person who built it, and I answer to you directly.

For twelve years I worked at WishList Products, the company behind WishList Member. I started in technical support and worked my way up: I led the development team, then ran content and marketing, and finished as Head of Product. That run is why one hire covers your whole online presence: building the site, publishing the content people find on Google, and running the marketing that turns readers into customers, instead of three vendors who never talk to each other.

Along the way I built the Platform University membership site for New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt. When Inc. Magazine could not get its Small Business Owner Council site launched after nearly two years of trying, they brought me in, and I built it from scratch and had it live in a month. If your project has been stuck at 'almost done' for months, I am the person people call to get it live.

Before the web work, I served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2001 to 2012. I show up, I finish what I start, and I do not disappear mid-project. The clients quoted on this page can tell you that part themselves.

Tell me about your business.

No forms, no pressure. Call or text me with what you have now and what you wish it did. You will get a straight read on what would actually bring you customers, and what would just cost you money, whether you hire me or not.

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