HootBiz

HootBiz

Online community and marketing platform.

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My name is Christopher Carbaugh - the founder of HootBiz. I've spent more than 20 years as a web strategist, designer, and developer, and through my main business Hoot Host I've worked with hundreds of small business owners.

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Why are so many great small businesses invisible online?

Hey Product Hunt crowd, I'm Christopher, founder of HootBiz.
I've spent 20+ years building websites and marketing for small business owners, and I keep running into the same problem: really good businesses that are nearly invisible online.

Most owners I start working with are paying for a CRM they barely use, an email tool collecting dust, a review platform earning no reviews for them, and a website + public listings that get no traffic - and none of it talks to each other. Most of it goes unused because it's too complicated or because the owner just has no time.

So I built HootBiz to pull it all into one place:

  • A business listing that's optimized for Google and AI search

  • Hoots, posts that publish to your profile, get indexed in search, and automatically go out as an email to your contacts

  • A Reputation Hub that shows your Google, Yelp, Alignable, Facebook, and HootBiz reviews together on one page

  • A simple CRM with leads, contacts, a pipeline, inbox, scheduling, and invoicing

  • Website integrations so you can manage your entire online presence in one place

  • A community where all of our members network, start groups, host events, and refer each other

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