Local Business Page

Every business in the directory gets a real page for free — hours, phone, address, map, photos and reviews. This is the paid tier above it, for businesses that want the page working harder than a contact card.

What we build. We interview you, write the copy, and lay the page out like a magazine feature rather than a form you filled in. It's built around what you actually want to be found for, not just your business name, and it's live within 48 hours of getting your material. One round of revisions is included, and you can send changes any time after that.

Where it sits. Your business appears in the featured section on the homepage and at the top of the directory, above the free listings. Those slots are limited on purpose — that scarcity is most of what you're paying for.

A category address. If one is open, your page can live at a category URL off the root domain — insandpoint.com/handyman — instead of the longer directory path. One business holds each of these at a time. It's a branding feature, not an SEO one: it's easier to say out loud and it fits on a business card. Google has been explicit that URL length and depth aren't ranking factors, and we'd rather tell you that than sell it as magic.

Be clear about what that address is, because we won't pretend otherwise: /handyman belongs to the category, not to you. Hold it and no other handyman in Sandpoint can have it. Give it up and the next one on the waiting list can. We'll never hand it over while you're renewing, and we'll email you before your term ends — but if you want an address that's permanently yours, that's your own domain, and we'll gladly point your listing at it.

What it costs. It's priced by category, because a customer isn't worth the same in all of them: $699 a year for trades and home services, $499 for professional and health, $349 for food, retail and personal. Every tier gets the identical page and the identical placement; only the price moves. A single emergency call is worth several hundred dollars to a plumber and a single pizza order is a few dollars of margin to a restaurant, so charging both the same would overcharge one and undercharge the other.

Right now it's $249, any category — the founding rate, good through January 1, 2027 or the first 10 businesses in the directory, whichever comes first. 8 of the 10 are still open. Come in at that and your rate is locked for three years while everyone after you pays list.

Whatever you pay, the first year includes building the page, and the renewal keeps your featured placement and your category address. Stop renewing and the page doesn't disappear — it stays live as a normal directory listing, and the category address keeps pointing at it until another business takes that address over.