If you sell things
Shop, florist, repair shop. A catalog with prices, a cart and in-store pickup. Stock goes down on its own when someone buys, and the order arrives with a name and a phone number.
Going live is easy.Selling is a skill.
Pricing, Google, getting paid and texting: what to decide in each case, and why. No theory, just the same judgment we use ourselves.
Which Domain to Buy If You Don't Have One Yet5 min
Is Your Business Domain Actually in Your Name?4 min
Point Your Domain to Your Site With Zero Downtime5 min
What Happens the Day Your Domain Expires4 min
Why Your Domain Decides If Customers Trust You5 min
Drop the Gmail: Write from Your Own Domain3 min
Why Your Emails Land in Spam Even If They're Fine4 min
What Should Someone Do in the First Thirty Seconds?4 min
Who You're Talking To, Not Just What You Sell4 min
Your Business Does Several Things: Which One Leads?3 min
3 Things You Should Never Fake On Your Website5 min
Build Trust on Your Website Without Faking It4 min
What Your Website Has to Say on Day One4 min
If It Doesn't Fit on a Phone Screen, Nobody Saw It3 min
What Google Actually Checks on Your Website5 min
The Page That Answers the Search5 min
Write the Question That Repeats, Not the News3 min
Getting Found by People a Few Blocks Away4 min
Get Other Websites Talking About You Too4 min
Answer Your Reviews Before You Write Another Word4 min
How Long Until Google Ranks a New Website5 min
How Many Website Visits Before You Trust the Data4 min
The One Number You Should Check Every Week5 min
Where You're Losing Customers Before They Buy4 min
A Website Traffic Spike Means Nothing Yet4 min
A Different Link for Every Place You Show Up3 min
What Happens Over Text Still Counts as Data4 min
How to Find What's Broken on Your Website5 min
The Photo You Don't Have: What to Use Instead4 min
Setting prices
What we get asked most and what gets talked about least: what to charge, how to show it on your site, and how to raise prices without losing your regulars.
Are You Selling Hours on the Clock or Finished Jobs?3 min
What You Don't Have, Don't Show4 min
Should You Show Your Price or Make Them Ask?5 min
What You Need Before You Take Your First Payment5 min
Charge a Deposit at Booking, Not on Arrival4 min
The Deposit That Makes a Booking Stick4 min
Let People Ask for a Quote Without Calling You First4 min
Charging in Full: When the Money Is Already Yours4 min
Packages Are Paid in Full and They Expire3 min
How to Price a Session Package, Not Guess It5 min
A Discount With an Expiration Date, Not a New Price3 min
A Shift Repeats Forever; a Closing Happens Once3 min
Your First Sale Triggers Taxes, Not Your Tenth5 min
Getting paid over text
Let the conversation close the sale on its own, without you glued to your phone waiting to reply.
Ask Only What You Need to Book the Appointment
A booking form only needs the basics to confirm an appointment; everything else can wait until the customer is already booked.
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Closing the Booking Without Leaving the Thread
Once the customer has named the day and time they want, closing the booking right there in the same thread, deposit included, wins appointments that an outside link loses on the way.
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Book the Appointment Even If You Can't Answer
By the end you'll know which slots book themselves, which you handle by hand, and have a text ready that confirms bookings without a call.
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One Order, One Place Where It's Born
Decide where every order gets created, how you move over the ones that arrive by another channel, and the exact sentence that keeps you from losing any.
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The Only Button That Matters
Know the one action your website should ask for above the fold, and why three identical buttons get clicked by no one.
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The 5 Questions Every Customer Always Asks
By the end, you'll have the five answers customers always want, written out with exact numbers, ready to paste or feed to your chatbot.
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Let the Bot Answer Pricing, You Close the Sale
Automate the questions that repeat every day in your texts, and save your time for when a customer is ready to buy.
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When to Let a Human Take Over the Chat
Learn the three signals that mean your bot should stop, and the exact phrase to hand off the conversation without losing the thread.
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Text Customers When It's Their Turn, Not Yours
Learn the only message that never feels pushy: the one that reminds them it's their turn, not the one that suits you.
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Answer Fast Without Living on Your Phone
Set three fixed windows for checking messages, write out the answers you repeat every day, and put up an away message, so speed stops depending on being permanently available.
3 min readEvery trade gets paid differently
If you sell your time
Salon, physical therapist, clinic, photographer. A calendar with your real openings, a deposit charged at booking, and a reminder the day before so nobody forgets the appointment.
Who writes this?
Written by the people who builtyour payment button
From what happens in the dashboard, not from a manual
Every article starts with a real question about pricing, texting or Google, not a syllabus written ahead of time.
How we pick the topicsWhoever writes it, built it
Payments, the text auto-replies and the Google Business Profile: we didn't read about them anywhere. We built them for Yodai.
What the people who tried it sayNo strange words
No marketing jargon and no developer talk. If an unusual word is needed, it gets explained in the same sentence.
Frequently asked questions
Start where it hurts.
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Say what you do
One line. No forms to fill in: you say it the way you'd say it to a customer, and a few minutes later your site is live.
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Check prices and hours
It arrives already written, with your services and your prices in place. You fix whatever doesn't fit and swap in your own photos.
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Take your first deposit
Turn on card and Apple Pay and the calendar with deposits. It's free and no card needed: you pay once your site starts bringing in money.
What if you don't have a website yet?
Tell Yodai what you doand have it today
Build it
Write four lines about what you do and your site comes outwith your copy, your photos and your catalog.
No coding and no templates to fill in. If you already have an old site, its content can be brought over and you continue from there.Get paid
A cart, deposits and payment links for the chat:the money lands in your accountfrom day one.
Card and Apple Pay, with the order alert on your phone. No separate store to set up and nothing else to sign up for.Change it
Prices, hours and photosyou change them yourself from your phone, in the same dashboard as your products.
No calling anyone, no waiting for a quote and nothing breaks. What you touch goes live right away.