The big board
Your business, up on the big board.
BoardByHand is one big board, lit up where people pass. Businesses buy a spot, and the spots take turns standing big on its face — one name at a time, like the boards on the highway. Underneath stand six smaller boards, one for each trade.
Every standing spot takes its turn on the big face — a few seconds each, all day and all night.
What a spot is
One spot. Three places it stands.
Up on the big board, in turns, your name big and lit in your colors, marked plainly as a paid promotion. On your trade's board underneath, standing beside the other businesses in your line of work. And on a page of its own — your spot standing big, with its own address — so you can put it in your email, your posts, anywhere your people already read you. No pictures, no banners, nothing loud: your name, a headline in your words, and two plain lines. This is the card your spot wears on the boards and on its page:
A sample. TrueNorth Dispatch is an invented business, drawn so you can see the shape.
The boards below
Pick the board where your people pass.
Six rooms stand under the big board — one smaller board for each trade on the shelf. Walk up to yours and see who is standing: our own tools hold every board from day one, so no board ever stands dark.
Trucking & Carriers
For businesses that sell to truckers and carrier owners.
8 standing here
$49 one room · a month
Founding price — the first five businesses on this board pay it.
Caribbean
For businesses that serve people shipping to the Caribbean and families back home.
3 standing here
$49 one room · a month
Founding price — the first five businesses on this board pay it.
Home & Property
For businesses that sell to homeowners and small landlords.
1 standing here
$49 one room · a month
Founding price — the first five businesses on this board pay it.
Makers & Online Sellers
For businesses that serve people who make and sell things online.
2 standing here
$49 one room · a month
Founding price — the first five businesses on this board pay it.
Crews & Local Services
For businesses that sell to small crews and local service companies.
2 standing here
$49 one room · a month
Founding price — the first five businesses on this board pay it.
Money & Paperwork
For businesses that help people untangle bills, notices and paperwork.
1 standing here
$49 one room · a month
Founding price — the first five businesses on this board pay it.
Who passes
Three roads pass this board.
You share your page
Your spot's own page is yours to pass around — in your email, your posts, your messages, on your truck. Every tap through it is counted.
Doors from our own sites
Our tools and pages — the same shelf standing on these boards — point their readers at the boards. The traffic of the tools its crowds already use passes the big board every day.
Search
Each board is a page of its own, written in the words people type when they look for a trade's services — so the boards themselves can be found.
The promise
You pay first. Then a person looks — and your spot goes up.
Money first
No application, no waiting to be picked. You write your spot and pay. That is the whole front door.
Approved by hand
A person reads every spot before it stands — and everybody who pays gets approved. Your spot goes up the same day we look, and your first month starts that day.
Counted, openly
Every tap on your spot is counted — today, this week, all time — on a private page only you can open. Renew on numbers, not on faith.
Prices
Two plans. One monthly price each. Cancel anytime.
One room
$49 a month
Your spot stands on one trade's board and takes its turns on the big board, with its own page. The first five businesses on a room's board pay the founding price; after that the room's price is $79 a month. The count is live — when the fifth spot lands, the price changes by itself.
Every room
$149 a month
Your spot stands on all six boards at once — big-board turns included — with a page in every room. Founding price $149 a month for the first five every-room spots; $249 a month after that.
Your spot stands while your subscription runs. Cancel anytime — your spot stays up to the end of the month you paid for, then comes down on its own.
Three taps
Pick your board. Write your spot. Pay.
That is the whole job. Your spot is written by you, in your words, in your colors — we put it up on the board, give it its page, count its taps, and show you the count.