#6/100 Quick Win: The $11 Website

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You can have a business website. Tonight. For $11.08.

You don’t need a developer. You don’t need an agency. You don’t need a monthly retainer.

You can build a simple website in about 20 minutes and have it live on your own .com.

Here’s how.

A lot of owners freeze up when they hear “website.” It sounds like tech. It isn’t.

Claude builds the shop. Porkbun gives it a street address (your domain). Netlify gives it a lot to sit on (your hosting).

That’s the whole thing.

In the last article, your reviews started answering themselves. This time, your business gets a front door you actually own.

Here’s the math. If you pay for Claude or ChatGPT, you already have the builder. A .com at Porkbun is $11.08 a year. Netlify hosts a small site for free.

Total: $11.08.

A 2025 Clutch survey of 406 small business owners found 17% still don’t have a website. For 16% of them, cost was the main reason.

That reason is gone.

And you don’t need to know any code. If you can copy, paste, and drag a folder, you can do this.

I’m using a med spa as the example. Swap in your own business. A plumber, an orthodontist, and a med spa all need the same thing here.

Say you own Glow Aesthetics. Most of your marketing happens on Instagram, and that’s fine.

Then someone hears about you from a friend and searches “Glow Aesthetics near me.”

They find your Instagram profile and maybe a booking link. Booking through Instagram is clunky, and it can make you look like you’re not fully set up yet.

A simple website gives that person somewhere official to land.

Open Claude and paste this in. Swap in your details:

Build a one-page website for Glow Aesthetics, a med spa in {Town, State}. Include our treatments {Botox, filler, facials, laser hair removal}, our hours, our address, {phone number} as a tap-to-call button, and a Book Now button that opens {your booking link}. Add a short about section for {provider name, credentials}. Keep it clean and calm, not flashy. Put everything in a single self-contained index.html file with the CSS and JavaScript inside it.

Don’t worry about that last sentence. It tells Claude to hand you one file instead of a pile of them. Copy it as is.

Claude builds the page and shows you a preview.

Don’t like the colors? Tell it. Want your logo at the top? Upload it and tell Claude where it goes. Keep going until it looks right.

The Book Now button is the part that matters. Your booking software already gives you a link. Put it at the top of the page and again at the bottom.

Now the site isn’t just sitting there. It’s sending people to book, which is what you’re after.

Download the file Claude gives you. Make a new folder on your computer, name it after your business, and put the file inside.

That folder is your whole website.

Go to app.netlify.com/drop. You’ll see a big box that says “Drop here.”

Drag your folder onto the box.

A few seconds later, your website is live. It’ll have an ugly temporary address, something like brave-curie-12345.netlify.app.

Make a free Netlify account so the site stays up, then rename it to match your business. Next, you’ll get it a real address.

Go to Porkbun, search your business name, and buy the .com.

Porkbun keeps your home address off the public registration record for free.

And buy it yourself. Don’t let your agency or the guy who built your last website buy it. It’s your business and you should own the address.

Already use this domain for your business email? Stop here and shoot me an email. Changing these settings the wrong way can knock out your email. There’s a slightly different setup that keeps it working, and I’ll walk you through it.

Everyone else: this is the only step that feels techy. It’s still just copy and paste.

In Netlify, click Domain management and add the domain you bought. Netlify gives you four lines of text.

In Porkbun, click the small NS button under your domain name. A panel opens called Edit Authoritative Nameservers. Delete the four lines in the box, paste in Netlify’s four, and save.

You’re telling Porkbun, “When someone types my address, send them to Netlify.” That’s all DNS is. You don’t need to understand it. You just need the right lines in the right box.

Then wait. Usually it takes about an hour. Sometimes it takes up to a day for the internet to catch up.

Type in www.yourbusiness.com and there it is. The little padlock (that’s HTTPS) shows up on its own.

You just built a website. No developer, no 12-month contract, no big check. You built it with AI, bought the address yourself, and put it online.

Six months from now, your hours change. Or you add a treatment. Or you want a new photo.

Tell Claude what to change. Download the new file. Drag the folder onto your Netlify page again.

Done.

This is the part I want you to remember.

Your website might be built by an agency. Your logo might be designed by someone else. Your marketing might be outsourced.

Your domain stays in your name.

If the agency disappears tomorrow, your website shouldn’t disappear with it. Give people access. Don’t give them ownership.

Netlify’s free plan covers about 20 updates a month. Go past that and Netlify pauses your site until the next month starts.

For a small business site, that’s plenty. Save your changes up, make them all in Claude, and drag the folder over once. Once a week is a good rhythm.

Here’s what I’d do.

Build the site first. Steps 1 through 3 cost nothing.

Drop it on Netlify. Open it on your phone. Tap the buttons. Pretend you’re a new client.

Would you book?

If yes, buy the domain.

If you’d rather your site, client texts, and reviews all lived in one place, HighLevel has a website builder too, with an AI tool that walks you through building it step by step.

Open Claude. Paste the prompt. Add your details and your booking link. Drop the folder on Netlify.

Then reply to this email with your netlify.app link. I’ll look at it and send you a few ideas to turn more visitors into booked clients. It’s free.

If you get stuck, email me. I’ll help.

Now go get this Quick Win!

-Bryan

[email protected]

Catch up here:

#1: Review Catch-Up Go back through your old customers and turn past work into new reviews.

#2: The Automatic Review System Make asking for reviews part of your normal customer process.

#3: The Missed Call Text-Back Every missed call gets a text back in under two minutes.

#4: AI Answers the Call Answer your customers, no matter the time of day.

#5: The Review Router Good reviews get answered fast. Bad reviews get your personal attention.