What I do, and what it costs · St. Clairsville, Ohio
The jobs that eat your nights, at a fixed price.
Five jobs, plain prices. Start with the one that stings.
The first visit is free: 30 minutes at your place. You leave with the first three things I’d fix. No obligation.
Blake Porterfield Fisher College of Business, Ohio State, 2015
As seen in The Intelligencer and The Times Leader
Local · In person · Fixed prices
The staff you cannot afford to hire.
A part-time operations manager costs several thousand a month and takes on companies ten times your size. A bookkeeping service keeps your books and stops there. Neither one is going to drive to your shop on a Tuesday.
I am one person with modern tools, in your building, for $300 to $1,500 a month, or a fixed price for one job. Keep, Partner and Right Hand are on the prices page.
So we are clear
- I am not your bookkeeper and not your accountant. I read what your systems already produce. Keep the people who file your taxes.
- I take no commissions from any company whose prices I compare.
- You keep every password. You invite me as a user and you can remove me in one click.
- Nothing goes out in your name without your say-so.
Example · made-up shopMonthly
- QuickBooks Online
$99.00→ $30.00 - Adobe Creative Cloud
$59.99→ $0.00 - Mailchimp
$45.00→ $13.00 - Dropbox
$11.99→ $0.00 - Canva
$15.00→ $15.00
Their own marks, unaltered. Not affiliated with any of these companies. Prices are an example, not a quote from the company.
Lower bills.
I read your app, software, phone and card bills line by line and show you where you’re overpaying. You decide.
- Software and app subscriptions
- Card processing and POS
- Phone and internet
- Website, domain and email
How it paysStraight off the monthly outgoing. The fee is a capped share of the first year, agreed in writing before I start.
Price
No savings, no fee.
Digital bills only: the software, apps, card processing, phone, internet, website and hosting. Not your power, your gas, your insurance or your waste hauling.
Example · the Monday numberMon, 7:04 a.m.
This weekThree invoices are past 60 days. That is $1,845 sitting out.
Every line names the file it came from, so you can check any number yourself. Nothing here moves money.
Paperwork, handled.
The office work, done every week. Not at midnight.
- Monday numbers on one page
- Invoices chased
- Payroll prepped for your OK
- Forms filled
How it paysMoney you already earned, collected sooner, and labor caught before you write next week’s schedule.
Price
Fixed price, in writing.
Or a monthly plan: Keep $300, Partner $750, Right Hand $1,500 a month.
Example · what talks to whatOnce a week
What lands, without you exporting anything
- Sales by day
- Hours against sales
- Invoices still open
- Tomorrow’s bookings
Same tools, same logins, same prices. Your logins stay yours and you can remove me in one click.
Software, set up.
I pick the right software, set it up and get your apps talking.
- Booking, invoicing or scheduling
- Your customers moved in
- Your staff shown how
- Custom tools and apps when nothing fits
How it paysYou stop paying twice for tools that overlap, and you stop typing the same numbers into two systems.
Price
$350 picked and set up
Mane Escape Studio, Benwood WV28 days
Visitors
968
people who landed on the site
Tapped a booking link
597of those 968
straight through to book with a stylist
62%of everyone who visited went to book
0968 visitors
Google Analytics, 31 August to 27 September 2026. Counted as people, not clicks.
Get found.
A website, your Google listing and reviews, so people nearby find you and call.
- A website, one page to five
- Your Google listing, tuned up
- Reviews asked for after every job
- Local search care, every month
How it paysThis one does not save money, it makes it. It is the calls you are not getting today.
Price
Websites from $950
Google listing tune-up, $150 flat.
Example · made-up shopDraft 3
Appalachian Regional Commission, small business grant
28 pages · submitted 14 Mar
- Narrative and need6 pp
- Budget and match4 pp
- Jobs created and retained3 pp
- Letters of support5 pp
- Financials and attachments10 pp
You sign it and you send it. I write it, chase the attachments and keep the deadline. A handbook goes to your attorney before anyone uses it.
Big documents.
The paperwork you’ve been putting off, written and put together.
- Grant applications
- Employee handbooks and procedures
- Loan packages
- Training manuals, in Spanish too
How it paysA grant is money that did not exist. A loan package is money at a better rate.
Price
From $500
Handbooks are written for your attorney to review before you use them.
Free · nothing is sent anywhere
What are you paying for every month?
Tick the ones you pay for. Type what you pay if you know it, and the total is your own arithmetic, not my guess. It will tell you where you are paying twice.
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- Tick what you pay for. Nothing here is sent anywhere.
Each company’s own mark, unaltered. Not affiliated with any of them. This runs in your browser. No sign-up, no email, nothing stored.
What I work with
Bring it as it is.
If it can export a file, share a folder or invite a user, I can work with it.
Your files
Paper and photos
- Receipts
- invoices
- handwritten schedules
- whiteboards
- menus
- price lists
- contracts
- a shoebox of paper
- phone photos and scans
Documents
- Word
- Google Docs
- PowerPoint
- text files
- old website pages
Spreadsheets and data
- Excel
- CSV
- Google Sheets
- bank and card statements
- POS and payroll reports
- QuickBooks exports
Email and messages
- Forwarded emails
- text screenshots
- voice memos
Your software
Accounting
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Wave
- FreshBooks
Point of sale and payments
- Square
- Clover
- Toast
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Shopify
Payroll and scheduling
- Gusto
- ADP
- Paychex
- Homebase
- 7shifts
Field service
- Jobber
- Housecall Pro
Booking
- Vagaro
- GlossGenius
- Booksy
- Calendly
Office
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
Signatures and storage
- DocuSign
- Dropbox
- Box
Websites
- Wix
- Squarespace
- GoDaddy
- WordPress
Email marketing
- Mailchimp
- Constant Contact
- HubSpot
Workspaces
- Notion
- Airtable
- Slack
- Asana
- Trello
Connectors
- Zapier
- Make
Listings
- Google Business Profile
Not affiliated with any of these companies.
Not sure which one? Start here.
30 minutes, at your place or on the phone. You leave with the first three things I’d fix.
Blake Porterfield St. Clairsville, Ohio