Acres of Timber / Dispatches
Dispatches
Notes from the trade
Short pieces on the parts of a wood business nobody teaches you. Getting found, pricing, what a buyer looks at, and why work slips away on a Thursday afternoon. No filler, no invented numbers.
What a sawmill website actually needs
Most mill websites fail at the same four things, and none of them are design.
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What buyers look at when they value a sawmill
Equipment is the easy part. What moves the number is whether the business runs without you.
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How people actually search for a sawmill
They search by species, by dimension, and by town. Almost nobody searches by your business name.
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The shop that answers first usually wins the job
Most lost work in this trade is not lost on price. It is lost on silence.
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