A free 10-minute diagnostic for Montana business owners planning a website
Why Your Next Website Could Look Great And Still Not Work
Sixteen questions to answer before you sign with any agency, covering purpose, structure, design, and who owns what at launch. Ten minutes now can save you a rebuild later.
- No pitch
- No pressure
- Takes about 10 minutes
- No data or tracking needed to use it
- Read in under 10 minutes
- Local insight, real patterns, nothing generic
- 100% free. No strings attached
SOUND FAMILIAR?
You’re about to spend real money.
Do you know what it buys?
You’ve had the quotes. One agency talked about design for an hour. Another sent a template and a price. A third said they’d handle everything, which sounded good until you realized you didn’t know what everything was.
Somewhere in there is a website your business will live with for five years. It will decide whether people who find you trust you, and whether they call or leave.
Most Montana businesses that end up with a build that disappoints didn’t pick a bad agency. They went into the build without knowing which questions to ask, so the important decisions got made by default. This guide gives you the questions.
WHAT YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH
Ten minutes from now, you’ll know
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Which stage of your build is carrying the risk: purpose, structure, design, or launch and ownership
02
Whether you’re buying a website or a string of change requests
03
What to get in writing before the deposit: domain, hosting, files, and who owns them
04
The questions to put to your agency, in the order that matters
INSIDE THE GUIDE
A few of the questions inside
Who it’s for: Montana business owners planning a new site or a rebuild, and anyone mid-build who’s starting to feel like decisions are happening without them.
Who it isn’t for: developers. This is written for the person paying for the build, in plain language.
Can you name the single action you most want a visitor to take, and does your agency know it?
Do you know who owns the domain, the hosting, and the site itself when it’s finished?
Would the site load quickly and work cleanly on a phone, and is someone checking that before launch?
Is there a plan for what changes in the first year, or does the site launch and stop?
“They worked with me via telephone and team calls to determine what I wanted for content, design and use-ability. Even showed me how to make basic changes on the website myself (adding photos, etc) when it was completed. I couldn’t be happier with the service and professionalism I received. Well worth the investment.”
K&J Convention Services, Google review
- Montana-based team
- Clients stay with us for 10 years on average
- Websites, search, and social under one roof
- 4.9 Google rating
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER
And if the guide raises questions?
Use it however helps: take the questions into your agency meetings, or check a build that’s already underway.
If you’d like an outside read before you sign, the guide’s last pages explain the MarketingStack Challenge: a free 30-minute conversation about your website plan or your current site, followed by a personalized report of recommended next steps. No pitch, no pressure, and the report is yours to keep.
Common questions
We’ve already started a build. Is this still useful?
Yes. The Launch & Ownership questions matter most mid-build, while things can still be put in writing.
Will this tell me who to hire?
No. It tells you what a good answer sounds like, from anyone you ask.
I was planning to build it myself on Squarespace or Wix. Still useful?
Yes. The purpose, structure, and ownership questions apply regardless of who builds the site. Answering them first is what makes a DIY build succeed.
What happens after I download?
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Honest clarity on what’s working, what isn’t, and where to focus next.
Inside the report:
- Which stage of your build is carrying the risk
- What to get in writing before the deposit
- The questions to put to your agency, in the order that matters
- Read it in under 10 minutes.
- 100% free. No strings attached.