# Curb to Click

> Websites and landing pages for independent businesses with a physical location in
> Atlanta, Georgia and the surrounding metro. Brandon George drives out, stands where the
> customers stand, writes a plan the owner keeps whether or not they hire him, and
> builds the website. Affordable, on a domain the owner owns, found by search engines and
> by AI assistants. For businesses that have no website and for businesses that need a
> better one.

## What it offers
- The Walkthrough: $350. An hour on site, in person, plus a written plan. Yours to keep. Credited in full against the Website.
- The Website: from $4,500. Built from scratch or rebuilt, on a domain you own, found by search and by AI assistants. The photographs are in the price: the owner, the work and the place, shot in a morning. The plan prices the exact build.
- Both, the Walkthrough and the Website: from $4,500. Together, for less than separately. The $350 comes off.

## Where
- Atlanta, Georgia and the surrounding metro. He drives out to the business. There is no posted limit on how far. Anyone further out is invited to ask.
- The cities page has a lookup: type a city or ZIP and it answers with how many independent businesses there are on the map and roughly how many have no website, from the study's own frame, on the page. No request leaves.
- Cities in the frame, with the number of mapped independent businesses that give that city on their address: Atlanta 1,186, Marietta 659, Kennesaw 166, Roswell 135, Smyrna 124, Alpharetta 99, Decatur 89, Douglasville 69, Stone Mountain 53, Duluth 53, Norcross 43, Clarkston 39, Sandy Springs 32, Lilburn 31, Tucker 31, Lithia Springs 30, Johns Creek 27, Woodstock 25, Austell 25, Lawrenceville 25, Doraville 21, Fayetteville 19, Dunwoody 18, Snellville 18, Chamblee 17, Avondale Estates 17, Stockbridge 14, Conyers 13, Peachtree Corners 13, Hiram 13, Lithonia 12, Mableton 12. Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
- Every city with 20 or more on the map has its own page: https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/atlanta, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/marietta, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/kennesaw, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/roswell, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/smyrna, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/alpharetta, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/decatur, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/douglasville, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/stone-mountain, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/duluth, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/norcross, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/clarkston, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/sandy-springs, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/lilburn, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/tucker, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/lithia-springs, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/johns-creek, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/woodstock, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/austell, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/lawrenceville, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/doraville.
- Every trade with 60 or more on the map that a first build makes sense for has its own page, with that trade's count: beauty salons 468, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/beauty-salons · hair salons and barbershops 437, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/hair-salons · dentists 207, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/dentists · clothing stores 192, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/clothing-stores · clinics 165, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/clinics · doctors’ offices 152, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/doctors · law offices 115, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/law-offices · veterinarians 106, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/veterinarians · massage studios 71, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/massage · furniture stores 65, https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/furniture-stores. Not restaurants, bars, cafes or bakeries.
- The frame by city and ZIP, as JSON: https://curbtoclick.com/data/places.json

## Questions people ask
- What happens in the Walkthrough? I come to your business for an hour. I see what a customer sees: the sign, the parking, the door, the room. Then I pull up what the internet says about the same place while I’m standing in it, including what the AI assistants say. You get a written plan within two days.
- What’s in the plan? What’s working. What’s costing you customers. What’s worth fixing and what isn’t, in priority order, with prices. It’s yours to keep, whether or not you hire me. See it blank.
- What does it cost? The Walkthrough is $350, about what a home inspection costs in Atlanta. Websites start at $4,500, and the photographs are in that price. If you go ahead, the $350 comes off the build.
- I already have a website. Is this for me? Yes. This is for businesses with no website and for businesses with one that could be better. The Walkthrough tells you whether to fix yours or replace it, and what each would cost.
- Do I have to hire you to build it? No. The plan is yours. Take it to your cousin, to an agency, or to nobody.
- Where do you go? Atlanta and the metro. I drive out. If you’re further than that, ask me anyway and I’ll tell you straight. Atlanta, city by city, with the count.
- Will AI recommend my business? Only if it can read you. AI tools like ChatGPT answer with one or two names, not a page of results. They pick those names by reading websites. So your site has to say, in plain words, what you sell, where you are, when you’re open, on a domain you own. That goes into every plan and every build, and this site does it too.
- Do you use templates? No. Your website is built from scratch, or rebuilt, on a domain you own. No agency, no template, no brand pillars.
- What if I’m not ready for a stranger at the door? Take the Curb Check. Ten questions, a minute, free. Nothing you answer leaves the page.
- How do I book? Tell me where to stand. The form goes to the host and then to me. I write back with a day and a time.

## The plan, in three steps
1. Walk the curb. I come to your business. An hour, in person. I see what a customer sees, then pull up what the internet says about the same place while I’m standing in it.
2. Get the plan. A written assessment: what’s working, what’s costing you customers, what’s worth fixing and what isn’t, in priority order, with real numbers attached. You keep it either way.
3. Open the door. I build the website your business deserves. Then whatever the plan said mattered next.

## What the owner gets
- Somebody actually shows up. Not a form. Not a call on a screen. I drive to your door, stand where your customer stands, and start from what they see.
- You keep the plan either way. It is written down and it is yours, and it stays yours if you never hire me. That is the part that costs me something. It is also the part you should ask every other quote for.
- You stop apologizing for your website. The version of your business that lives online finally matches the one on your street. You send the link on purpose.

## The Curb Check, the ten questions
Every question is written so that yes is the good answer. Count the yeses.
1. If somebody searches your business name and your city, are you the first thing they find? Why it matters: Being first for your own name is the floor. If you’re not, somebody else is standing in your doorway. It’s also the first thing an AI assistant checks before it recommends anyone.
2. Is the phone number on the internet the one that actually rings? Why it matters: A wrong number online is a customer who called and decided you closed.
3. Are the hours online the hours on the door? Why it matters: Wrong hours cost you the trip somebody made and the second one they won’t.
4. Do the photos show the place the way it looks this month? Why it matters: Old photos undersell the room you’re proud of.
5. Can a stranger tell what you sell in the first five seconds on your site? Why it matters: Five seconds is what a person gives you. An assistant reading your page gives it less. It wants what you sell, where, and when, stated plainly. Or it moves on.
6. Does your site live on a domain you own, not on a platform’s address? Why it matters: A page on somebody else’s platform can’t rank, can’t move, can vanish when their terms change, and isn’t what an assistant cites when it names a business.
7. Does it read on a phone without pinching? Why it matters: Most of the people nearby who look you up are looking on a phone.
8. Can you send someone your link without saying “it’s a little out of date”? Why it matters: If you apologize for it, so does everyone who lands on it.
9. Does the site say where you are, with a map that opens? Why it matters: The people already nearby need one tap to the door.
10. Is there one obvious thing to do next on the page: call, book, come in? Why it matters: A page with no next move is a page people leave.

What the count means:
- 9 or 10 yes: Findable. Your front door is doing its job. Keep it that way, and check it again in a year.
- 6 to 8 yes: Underselling. The business is better than the version of it online. That can be fixed.
- 5 or fewer yes: The best-kept secret on the block. Somebody nearby is choosing a worse business than yours right now. Start with an hour.

## The study, in numbers
- 26.1% of mapped independent businesses within 25 miles of downtown Atlanta have no working website of their own. 95% confidence interval 21.9–30.2%. In plain words: about 1 in 4.
- Frame: 8,937 independent businesses from OpenStreetMap, after removing chains, government and institutions. 18,914 records pulled. 148 recorded website URLs fetched. 202 businesses without a recorded website checked by hand.
- About 2,300 businesses. Fieldwork 8 and 9 September 2026. Method, limits and a section for reporters at https://curbtoclick.com/study.

## Who's asking
People increasingly ask an assistant for a good one nearby instead of searching. As of September 2026 that means ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Siri, Alexa, Grok. The answer comes from whatever the assistant can find and read plainly: the business's name, what it sells, where it is, when it is open, on a site it owns. The fix is the same as being found by Google, done properly: say what you do in plain words, put the facts where a machine can read them, own your domain, keep the story about you the same everywhere it appears. This site practices it.

## Every city on the map
City, businesses on the map, about how many with no website if the city runs like the metro (the 26.1% share, rounded to fives), straight-line median miles from Five Points.
- Atlanta: 1,186 on the map, about 310 with no website, 3 miles.
- Marietta: 659 on the map, about 170 with no website, 16 miles.
- Kennesaw: 166 on the map, about 45 with no website, 23 miles.
- Roswell: 135 on the map, about 35 with no website, 20 miles.
- Smyrna: 124 on the map, about 30 with no website, 11 miles.
- Alpharetta: 99 on the map, about 25 with no website, 22 miles.
- Decatur: 89 on the map, about 25 with no website, 6 miles.
- Douglasville: 69 on the map, about 20 with no website, 21 miles.
- Stone Mountain: 53 on the map, about 15 with no website, 13 miles.
- Duluth: 53 on the map, about 15 with no website, 21 miles.
- Norcross: 43 on the map, about 10 with no website, 17 miles.
- Clarkston: 39 on the map, about 10 with no website, 9 miles.
- Sandy Springs: 32 on the map, about 10 with no website, 11 miles.
- Lilburn: 31 on the map, about 10 with no website, 19 miles.
- Tucker: 31 on the map, about 10 with no website, 12 miles.
- Lithia Springs: 30 on the map, about 10 with no website, 16 miles.
- Johns Creek: 27 on the map, about 5 with no website, 22 miles.
- Woodstock: 25 on the map, about 5 with no website, 24 miles.
- Austell: 25 on the map, about 5 with no website, 15 miles.
- Lawrenceville: 25 on the map, about 5 with no website, 24 miles.
- Doraville: 21 on the map, about 5 with no website, 12 miles.
- Fayetteville: 19 on the map, about 5 with no website, 21 miles.
- Dunwoody: 18 on the map, about 5 with no website, 14 miles.
- Snellville: 18 on the map, about 5 with no website, 23 miles.
- Chamblee: 17 on the map, about 5 with no website, 11 miles.
- Avondale Estates: 17 on the map, about 5 with no website, 7 miles.
- Stockbridge: 14 on the map, about 5 with no website, 17 miles.
- Conyers: 13 on the map, about 5 with no website, 22 miles.
- Peachtree Corners: 13 on the map, about 5 with no website, 18 miles.
- Hiram: 13 on the map, about 5 with no website, 23 miles.
- Lithonia: 12 on the map, about 5 with no website, 16 miles.
- Mableton: 12 on the map, about 5 with no website, 11 miles.
- Brookhaven: 9 on the map, about a few with no website, 8 miles.
- Union City: 9 on the map, about a few with no website, 15 miles.
- Hapeville: 8 on the map, about a few with no website, 7 miles.
- McDonough: 8 on the map, about a few with no website, 24 miles.
- Suwanee: 8 on the map, about a few with no website, 25 miles.
- East Point: 7 on the map, about a few with no website, 6 miles.
- Powder Springs: 7 on the map, about a few with no website, 18 miles.
- Dallas: 7 on the map, about a few with no website, 23 miles.
- Jonesboro: 6 on the map, about a few with no website, 16 miles.
- Palmetto: 5 on the map, about a few with no website, 23 miles.
- Morrow: 5 on the map, about a few with no website, 12 miles.
- Riverdale: 5 on the map, about a few with no website, 13 miles.
- Tyrone: 5 on the map, about a few with no website, 22 miles.
Counts are businesses on the map that give that city on their address, so they run low.

## Who made it
Brandon George. Twenty years in advertising. Taught more than 200 students at the Creative Circus over nearly a decade. Atlanta. Portfolio at https://writethegoodfight.com.

## Pages
- [Home](https://curbtoclick.com/): the offer, what the owner gets, the three-step plan, the menu, the questions people ask.
- [Where I go](https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta): the range, city by city, with the count from the frame, and one page per city at https://curbtoclick.com/atlanta/<city>.
- [The Curb Check](https://curbtoclick.com/curb-check): ten yes-or-no questions about a business's own front door, counted on the page. Also as a PDF at https://curbtoclick.com/curb-check.pdf.
- [The plan, blank](https://curbtoclick.com/the-plan): the written plan's seven parts, empty. PDF at https://curbtoclick.com/the-plan.pdf.
- [The agreement](https://curbtoclick.com/agreement): the paper a client signs before any money moves, blank, in plain words. What they buy, what it costs and when, what he needs from them, the dates, and the rules. PDF at https://curbtoclick.com/agreement.pdf.
- [The Metro Atlanta Invisibility Count](https://curbtoclick.com/study): 26.1% (95% CI 21.9–30.2%, n=202) of mapped independent businesses within 25 miles of downtown Atlanta have no working website of their own (that circle is the study's sampling frame, not a limit on where he works). Fieldwork 8 and 9 September 2026. Method and limits published, with a section for reporters.
- [Book the walkthrough](https://curbtoclick.com/book): a form that goes to the host and then to him. He writes back with a day and a time.
- [Now](https://curbtoclick.com/now): what he is doing this month, whether walks are open, the last thing he built. Written by hand, dated.
- [How this site is built](https://curbtoclick.com/colophon): no third-party requests, every photograph served from the site itself, measured scores. Its history, one line a commit: https://curbtoclick.com/changes

## Contact
- hello@curbtoclick.com
- 216-571-0552
- I answer within one business day.
- Book the walkthrough: https://curbtoclick.com/book

## Related
- [Write the Good Fight](https://writethegoodfight.com/): the founder's portfolio.
- [Hot Pages Now](https://hotpagesnow.com/): a separate business Brandon George also runs. It sells one specific thing, a question-and-answer style landing page. Not sold here.