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Your About page should name a real person.

Strangers hire people, not logos. If About only says our team, they call a shop that named a real person.

  • website
  • about page
  • trust
  • small business
Open sign hanging on a glass shop door

Someone lands on your site with one quiet question. Who actually runs this place.

If the About page only says "our team," or skips a name altogether, they fill in the blank themselves. Often they fill it with doubt. They won't email you to ask. They'll call the shop whose page already named a real person.

Strangers hire people, not logos

You already know who answers the phone. Your regulars do too. The next customer does not.

They skim for a face and a first name. "I'm Marco" beats "our dedicated professionals" every time. So does a short line about Clovis or Fresno, and the trade you still take. A slogan where a person should be reads like rented space.

If a neighbor can't tell who owns the shop after one glance at About, the rest of the site is noise.

Put a name where a thumb lands

About is not a trophy case. It is proof.

Write it the way you would introduce yourself at a barbecue. First name. What you do. The city. One or two sentences about how long you've been at it, if that is true. Skip the mission poem.

A clear photo helps when you have one that is current. A real truck, a real counter, a real person. Kill the stock smile that never worked in your shop. When someone leaves, take their photo down. When someone joins, put them up.

Match the name to the map pin and the truck

If Google says one trade name and About says another with no shared words, strangers treat both as unfinished. Same for a van door that lists a first name the site never uses.

Keep the spelling the same. Keep the city the same. When you rebrand, update About the same week you update the listing.

Say who replies after they hit Call

A fat call button still feels safer when the page named who might pick up. You don't need a full staff roster. One honest line is enough. Leave a message. Marco calls back the next open morning. Or: the shop line rings the truck during jobs.

Vague "we will get back to you soon" does less work than a person and a time.

Fix the name. Then stop decorating

New colors won't save an About page with nobody on it. A first name, a city, and a true sentence will.

Open the page on your phone once a month. Ask one question. Would I trust this shop if I had never walked in. If the answer is no because nobody is named, write the name. Leave the fonts alone.

If you want a site that stays clear about who runs the place without becoming another night project, talk with Hexacomb. You run the business. We take care of your website.

Contact

What should the site be bringing in?

New business, or one whose website went quiet. Say what you do, the towns you cover, and drop the link if you have one. I write back from Clovis, usually within a day. The first note is about your jobs, not a list of packages.

marco@hexacombllc.com
(559) 492-7402

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Name a real person on your About page | Hexacomb