Site Management

A website you never have to think about.

I build your site, then I keep it running so you don't have to wonder if it's okay. You run your business. I've got the website.

01 ·Who it's for

A business owner who has better things to do than babysit a website.

If even one of these makes you sigh, keep reading.

  • You've got a site, and every single time something needs changing you have to remember which login it was, where the thing even lives, and you lose half a morning to a task that should've taken four minutes.
  • Your last web person quietly kept the whole thing running, and then one day they stopped answering, and now you genuinely don't know who's watching your site or if anyone is.
  • You found out your site was down because a customer mentioned it, which is about the worst possible way to find out your site was down.
  • You don't want to be the person in charge of your own website. You want to fire off a quick "hey can you swap this photo" and then go back to actually running your business.
  • Some part of you has thought "can I just pay someone to make this not my job anymore?" Yes. Hi, I'm Barb.

You run the business. I'll babysit the website.

02 ·The plans

Two plans. Two levels of stop-worrying.

Both plans keep your site safe, monitored daily, and checked more deeply each week. Managed Hosting tells you what I found and fixed. Managed Care adds more hands-on updates plus monthly SEO and keyword reporting, so you know how the site is performing and what to do next.

Managed Hosting

Live, safe, watched

$75/mo

Website · billed monthly

For a site that's doing its job and doesn't ask much of you.

What's included

  • Hosting, deployment, SSL, and domain checks
  • Backups and version history
  • Daily automated availability monitoring and a deeper weekly health check
  • Technical fixes tied to the existing build
  • One small support request each month, up to 30 minutes
  • A monthly website report showing what was checked, what was found, and what was fixed

Best for: A site that's earning its keep quietly and changes once in a while.

Managed Care

Stop doing the math

$200/mo

Website · billed monthly

For a site that's part of how you get customers, not just proof you exist.

What's included

  • Everything in Managed Hosting
  • Up to 60 minutes of routine website changes each month
  • Copy edits, image swaps, links, hours, and supplied content
  • A detailed monthly SEO report covering visitors, leads, Google visibility, and keyword movement
  • Clear priorities for what to improve next
  • One-time Content Starter List bonus with useful blog topics and page angles

Best for: Most people. Updates done without you ever calculating whether it's "worth" asking.

Compare plans

Feature Managed Hosting $75/mo Managed Care $200/mo
Hosting, deployment, SSL, and domain checks Included Included
Backups and version history Included Included
Daily automated availability monitoring Checks whether your site responds so I can investigate when it does not Included Included
Monthly website health report Daily monitoring, the deeper weekly check, what was found, and what was fixed Included Included
Detailed monthly SEO report Visitors, leads, Google visibility, keyword movement, and clear next steps Not included Included
Content Starter List bonus One practical list of useful blog topics and page angles Not included Included
Routine changes Copy, images, links, hours, supplied content One request · up to 30 minutes/month Up to 60 minutes/month

What's included

Routine changes: copy edits, image swaps, links, hours, supplied posts, and small configuration changes.

Quoted separately: new pages, features, integrations, redesigns, involved debugging, and work beyond the monthly allowance.

If something looks like it'll run over, I'll tell you the cost before I start. Talking it through doesn't eat into your time, and unused minutes don't carry over.

03 ·Behind the scenes

The quiet work you never see.

Most of what a care plan does happens in the background, which is exactly why it's easy to undervalue. Here's what's actually going on while you're busy running your business.

01

Your site stays up

Professional hosting with a security certificate, plus daily automated availability monitoring and a deeper weekly health check. If something on your current site breaks, I fix it instead of handing you homework.

02

Your site stays safe

The repository, version history, and backups stay organized so there's a clean recovery path. No plugin dashboard waiting for you to remember it exists.

03

Changes get made

Maybe your hours changed, you've got a new photo, or a few small fixes to send over. You send it, I take care of it, and I'll flag it first if it's bigger than your plan covers.

04

A real person knows your site

Not a ticket queue in another time zone. Me. I know how your site is built and how your business runs, so when you need something you're not explaining it from scratch every time.

Add it up, and it's one flat amount a month to stop thinking about any of this. That's the entire point.

04 ·Client love

The proof is the people who stayed.

The plans are new. The way I work isn't. I've kept clients' sites running for years, not because anything traps them, but because their site is cared for and they'd rather keep it that way.

Receipts

Ten years, and still grateful.

I can't say enough about how Barb with Kickstart Creatives has helped us the past ten years with our business. Literally from day one, she absorbed ideas I couldn't put into words and made the magic happen for our website, marketing, logo, and more. Thank you Barb, grateful for all you do!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

05 ·Real questions

Things people ask.

The questions I get most often. If yours isn't here, send it over on the contact page and you'll get a real answer from a real person.

So this is part of how you work, not an add-on?

Yes. The way I work is I build your website and then I keep it running, so Managed Hosting or Managed Care is chosen in the original proposal. It isn't an upsell I spring on you later, and billing doesn't begin until launch.

Which one do I actually need?

Choose Managed Hosting if you mainly want the website kept safe, working, monitored daily, and checked more deeply each week. Its monthly report tells you what I checked, what I found, and what I fixed, and it includes one small support request with up to 30 minutes of changes. Choose Managed Care if the website helps bring in customers. It includes everything in Hosting, up to 60 minutes of routine changes, a detailed monthly SEO report covering visitors, leads, Google visibility, keyword movement, and what I recommend doing next, plus a one-time Content Starter List bonus.

What if I just need one little thing changed?

Send it over on either plan. Managed Hosting gives you one small support request each month, up to 30 minutes, so a few quick things like hours, links, copy edits, or an image swap can come in together. Managed Care gives you up to 60 minutes. If a request goes beyond the allowance or needs design work, I tell you the cost before I start. No surprise invoices, ever.

What if you disappear like my last web person?

That's the fear, and it's a fair one, because it happens all the time. A plan means I'm not a one-and-done project that ends at launch. If you move on, the source files and available data are yours, and I document the transfer responsibilities so you know what has to move. You stay because your site's looked after, not because I built a trap to keep you.

When do I actually start paying?

The day your site goes live. You pick your plan back at the start of the build, so there's no second sales conversation later, but you're not paying for a plan while there's no site to manage yet. Build first, launch, and that's the day month one begins. If you'd rather pay yearly, you pay for ten months and get twelve.

What if I want a bigger change down the road?

A whole new page, a new feature, an integration, a redesign, or involved debugging is beyond routine changes. I quote that work separately so you know the cost first. The same applies when routine requests go beyond the monthly allowance.

I already have a website. Can you just take it over?

Sometimes, and it depends on how it was built. My plans are built around the custom-coded sites I make, which are clean and predictable to look after. If yours is on Squarespace, Wix, or WordPress, taking over maintenance on someone else's setup gets messy fast, so the more common move is to rebuild it on the new stack and put it on a plan from there. And if you built it yourself with one of the AI tools, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, and you're stuck getting it live, or it's live but you have no idea how to keep it running, that's very much a thing I do. Send me your site on the contact page and I'll tell you straight what I can take as-is and what I'd rebuild.