How we make money — all of it
- The build, at the price on the tag. One package, every trade: $1,800. That is our revenue, and it's the only thing we take. The barn goal is $2,000 — the build, plus the state's $100 LLC filing fee, plus the card company's cut. Nothing else.
- $39 a month to keep the lights on — website, booking, phone line, small changes — starting after your included year. Cancel anytime; everything with your name on it goes with you.
That's both. There is no third.
What we will never do
- Promise you income. Not a number, not a range, not a wink. We don't know how hard you'll work — nobody selling you a dream does either. We sell lumber: the company, the website, the phone line, the cards. What you build on it is yours to prove.
- Hand you the cash. Every board your people give is paid to Hoosier Online, not to you — on purpose. Your aunt shouldn't have to hand money to a relative and hope; she's buying pieces of a business from the outfit that builds them. You never touch a dollar, and you never have to be trusted with one. (Once you're open, your customers' money is a different story — that goes straight into your own Stripe account, and it's all yours.)
- Take a piece of your business. No equity, no revenue share, no strings on the LLC. Your company is your company.
- Pretend boards are refundable. They aren't, and we say so before anybody pays. A board isn't sitting in a pot waiting on a goal — it's spent the day it lands, on the next piece of your business. The first $99 breaks ground — your own .com, live. $250 more hangs the sign. At half the barn you are already a registered Indiana business. If the barn stops there, what was built still stands and it's still yours. That's the deal, in daylight.
- Put anything in fine print. If a rule matters, it lives on this page in this size type.
What your people are buying, gate by gate
- $99 — the ground: your .com registered in your name, the server lit, your sign standing at your own address. The place exists.
- $250 — the sign goes up: your logo cut, your website live at your own .com. Designed, not templated — you choose from presented directions, with 25 years of brand work behind every one.
- $351 — the full brand kit: sign art, cards, flyer, yard sign — print-ready.
- $300 — your EIN issued and your Indiana LLC filed. We pay the state. That lands at exactly $1,000: halfway up, you are already a real, registered business.
- $500 — the printed stack in your hands — and your business phone line answering.
- $500 — card payments switched on, booking live, the full website build-out, launch week set.
- Six numbers that add to $2,000. Nothing hidden, nothing left over.
Straight talk on licenses
- Some of the fifteen trades need real licenses: home salons (state cosmetology and salon rules), gun shops (a federal firearms license from the ATF — months, fingerprints, an interview, zoning), deer processing (state board rules), food stands (Indiana's Home-Based Vendor law).
- Every trade that needs one says so right on its card, the cost sits in your ledger, and we prep and walk the paperwork with you step by step.
- We're not lawyers and we don't play them. We're the neighbor who's filled these forms out before and sits with you while you do yours. When a question needs a real lawyer, we say so out loud.
Why trust us
- We run our own shops on this same wiring — the websites, the booking pages, the phone lines we build for you are the ones our own businesses answer on every day. You're not buying anything we don't use ourselves.
- Every campaign ledger is public. Every dollar has a name on it, including ours.
- We turn people away. If your barn doesn't pencil, we say so before your family's money is on the table, not after. Ask anybody who's gotten our "not yet" text.
- We're a small Indiana outfit in Wilkinson. If we do wrong by a founder, every reader of this page knows somebody who'd hear about it by Sunday. That's the real regulator out here, and we like it that way.