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Before We Begin Your Project Hi, I’m Nolan Phelps, To make sure your website launches smoothly, I use this same checklist with everyone I work with. Whether we just connected or you’re coming in cold. Below, you’ll see exactly what I’ll need from you to get started, avoid delays, and

How to Set Up a Google Business Profile

Get Found on Google: My No-BS Setup Guide I’m Nolan from FunkPd. I tell every client the same thing: if you’re not on Google, you don’t exist. This guide is my exact process for getting you listed. We will set up Search Console first to prove you own your website.

Wix vs. WordPress: Which Platform Actually Fits Your Business?

Choosing a website platform is one of the first major decisions a business owner makes. The marketing for tools like Wix is powerful, promising a fast, easy, drag-and-drop path to a beautiful website. And for some uses, that promise holds true. But for a business that needs to generate leads,

Why Most SME Websites Rot in 2025; And How to Build One That Won’t

What “Rot” Really Means (Receipts Only) 96,580 Canadian small businesses closed in 2023 (ISED 2023).SME count shrank from 1.22M to 1.10M in a year (ISED 2024). 98.1% of all businesses are micro: 1-4 staff, no in-house tech, no comms team. Most operators get a site built, ignore it, and two

Average Website Design Costs in Winnipeg for 2025

2025: The Unfiltered, Uncompromising, No-Excuses Breakdown by FunkPd. Preface: Read This or Get Eaten If you’re shopping for a website in Winnipeg, most “pricing guides” will tell you what you want to hear: “Affordable! Flexible! Transparent!” None of them will tell you the truth. They won’t show you where the

LoudAwards

The Black Box: Surviving Live Voting at LoudAwards This isn’t a portfolio story. This is a black box analysis; an after-action report from four years running the Manitoba Loud Music Awards voting platform solo, under real traffic, real risk, and no reset button. No backup team, no dry runs. If

SAM: Social Automation Machine – Built to Work

April 14, 2025Nolan, FunkPd. SAM; Social Automation Machine; kills the Instagram grind. It’s a service at sam.funkpd.com, not a plugin. Sign up, sync your account, and it posts; quotes, photos; while you work. I built it to stop wasting time on captions. Runs FunkPd’s feed, helps welders, bakers stay visible.

Cranking the Volume: LoudAwards and FunkPd’s Sponsorship

LoudAwards doesn’t just play music; it’s Winnipeg’s unfiltered howl, and we’re the ones keeping the digital pipes from bursting. This ain’t about us, though; FunkPd’s just the wrench in the works. It’s about Dag Aymont’s Manitoba Loud Music Awards, a beast of metal, rock, punk, and hardcore that’s been clawing

Make Amazing GPT copy! Prompt Examples of Chain of Thought, Tree Thinking, and more

Welcome to the world of advanced prompt examples for text generation – a realm where creativity and logic intertwine, and where complexity is not a barrier, but a building block. Our journey today will include prompt examples of the intricate yet fascinating concepts of Chain of Thought, Tree Thinking, Step-by-step

Improving Text with ChatGPT: Top_P, Frequency Penalty, Presence Penalty

🛠️ 2025 Update: This guide still holds up. Claude 4, GPT-4o, and most modern LLMs still use the same core tuning inputs, top_p, frequency_penalty, presence_penalty, and temperature. These settings continue to shape tone, diversity, and repetition. If you’re tweaking output to sound more human, less robotic, or more creative; this

The Importance of Industry-Specific Website Design for Your Business

A generic website for a roofer or plumber is like handing a drunk poet a dull axe; it swings, but it don’t cut. You’re a Canadian tradesperson, surrounded by bastards all chasing the same jobs. A cookie-cutter site makes you a ghost. You need a site as tough as your

Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management often comes up when talking about efficient business operations. While understanding its principles is valuable, the best approach often involves adapting or even evolving beyond standard methodologies to fit real-world needs – something we know well at FunkPd. Led by founder Nolan Phelps, whose background spans over

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Small Business Website Design That Doesn’t Waste Your Time

Need a website? $500. We offer fast, effective contractor website design in Winnipeg. Done once. Read this before you waste time on quotes, calls, or “discovery” meetings. 🚫 If You’re Not Ready, This Is a Waste of Money What Happens After Launch We will build your site if you pay.

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