Iron Sharp Media · website design and builds in Manhattan, Kansas

Website Design · Website Builds · Website Redesigns

From a Simple Site to the System That Runs It.

I build custom websites and full business systems for western outfits and small businesses. A clean site, an online store, or the whole platform that runs your entries, your money and your back office. It's just me, and I'll tell you straight which one you need.

Call, text, or email · whichever's easiest · Manhattan, Kansas

14+
Live builds
$799
Starting build
24h
Quote turnaround
1–2w
Typical launch

Sharp websites for small business, western & equine, rodeo, contractors, creators, fitness, and locals.

Recent Work

Live websites, built to convert.

Two flagship builds up front. Twelve more in the list below.

Carnival of Cans barrel racing production website built by Iron Sharp Media

Barrel Racing Production · Tier 1

Carnival of Cans

14th annual barrel race. Added money, payouts and entries, clear on a phone.

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Also built, not linked yet

Two futurity standings systems. One carries a registry of more than 2,100 horses with standings that update through the season. The other runs a separate futurity's money standings. Both are live and working. They're sitting on temporary web addresses right now, so I'm not printing the links until they move to real domains.

Track Record

14+ Websites shipped since 2024. Rodeo, retail, industrial, contractors, tools, tack, and local business. Small studio, real deliverables, all live and linkable above.

What I Build

A website that sells, a system that runs it, and your time back.

Four things. A site people trust. A store or booking system that takes the money. Automation that does your busy work. Graphics that match. Pick what you need.

02

Online Stores, Booking & Back Office

Sell things and take reservations online, and get a private dashboard where you see every order and every dollar. This is the part most web designers will not touch.

  • Product catalog and checkout, so people can buy from you
  • Booking and reservations, paid by card or e-check
  • The site knows what is left and stops selling when you fill up
  • Waitlist that offers freed spots automatically
  • A private dashboard showing sales, fees, and refunds
  • Download your orders as a spreadsheet any time

Pricing Custom Quote

See It Running

03

AI Automation: Buy Back Your Time

The busy work that eats your week gets handed to a system instead. You stop doing the repetitive part and get back to the part only you can do.

  • Invoices that build themselves from your records
  • Confirmation and reminder emails sent automatically
  • Monthly bills that post on their own, no re-typing
  • One dashboard that replaces your spreadsheet
  • Payment problems flagged for you instead of found later
  • Drafting help for posts, emails, and event copy

Pricing Custom Quote

Get Time Back

04

Graphic Design, Banners & Promotion

Logos, flyers, stallion ads, retractable trade show banners, event graphics, and promotional print. Built to match the site and hold up in real hands.

  • Logos & brand identity
  • Stallion / sale / event flyers
  • Retractable trade show banners
  • Print collateral & ad creative
  • Brand kits & templates

Pricing Custom Quote

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Already running for real businesses

Runnin' Dove Tack & More

A full product catalog and checkout. Customers browse tack, add to cart, and pay online. Built on Shopify so she can add products herself without calling me.

Go For Broke Productions

Riders reserve stalls, camping, and exhibitions and pay by card or e-check. The office sees every order, every dollar, and who still owes. Read the full story.

Need more than one of these? Ask about a full-scope project.

What I Build

Four kinds of build. Pick the one that fits.

A simple site and a full event platform are different animals, so they're priced like it. Here's the ladder, simplest first.

Tier 1

Simple Website

$799to start

You need to look professional and be easy to reach.

  • Home, about, services, gallery, contact
  • Contact form that emails you
  • Built for a phone first
  • Basic search setup so your name comes up
  • Fast, secure hosting included
  • You own everything

Pairs with Essential Care or Sharp Care

Tier 2

Store Catalog

Quoted after a call

You sell products and want people buying online.

  • Everything in Tier 1
  • Product categories and product pages
  • Photos, pricing, real checkout
  • You add your own products without calling me
  • Orders come straight to you

Pairs with Sharp Care

Flagship

Tier 3

Full Business System

Quoted after a call

You run events and the office is buried in spreadsheets.

  • Everything in Tier 2
  • Reservations for stalls, camping, RV, exhibitions
  • Paid by card or e-check
  • Live availability that stops selling when you fill up
  • Waitlist with private pay links when somebody scratches
  • A private dashboard showing sales, fees, deposits and refunds
  • Cash and Venmo from the gate recorded in the same place
  • Stall assignments exported for race morning

Pairs with Event Producer or Platform Care

Tier 4

Membership Platform

Quoted after a call

An association running members, dues, points and a season.

  • Everything in Tier 3
  • Member logins and member-only areas
  • Signups and renewals
  • A points and standings engine
  • Built against your real rulebook and checked on real results
  • A manual entry path for whatever arrives by text or email

Pairs with Platform Care

Which one is right for you?

Tier 1

You just need to look professional and get found.

Tier 2

You're selling products.

Tier 3

You run events with entries, payments and a back office.

Tier 4

You run an association with members and standings.

Not sure? Reach out and I'll tell you straight which one fits. If it's Tier 1 you'll get a number on the call.

How It Works

Four steps, no surprises.

The bigger builds scare people who've never bought one. Here's the whole process.

01

Tell me what it needs to do

Not what it should look like. What the business actually needs handled. A call or a text thread covers most of it.

02

I tell you which tier fits

Straight answer, no upsell. If it's a simple site you get the price on the call. The heavier builds get a flat quote after a short scoping call.

03

I build it where you can watch

You get a preview link and see it come together. Your current site stays up and untouched the whole time.

04

It goes live and I keep it running

Launches on your domain. The monthly plan keeps it updated, secure and fast. You own the domain, the files and the data.

See It Before You Buy It

Watch the back office actually work.

Ninety seconds. No signup, no sales call. This is the organizer panel your riders never see, running on sample data you can click through yourself.

Try the Admin Demo See the Matching Website

Login is demo / demo and any password works. Nothing is charged and no data is real.

Flagship Build

The website was the easy part.

Go For Broke Productions runs a season-long, added-money barrel racing tour. I did not build them a brochure site. I built what they run on.

01

The public site

Tour schedule, calendar, standings, finals qualifiers, results, sponsors, scholarships, and a page for every stop on the tour. Hand-coded, fast, mobile-first, and built to look like their brand instead of a template.

02

The reservation store

Riders reserve stalls, RV and electric sites, camping, and exhibitions online and pay by card or e-check. Availability is live, sell-outs are handled cleanly, and a freed stall can be held for the waitlist instead of quietly reselling to whoever refreshes first.

03

The organizer admin

The back office. Sales, processing fees, deposits, and refunds in plain language. A searchable order ledger. Cash, Venmo, and check payments recorded from the office. Per-barn inventory showing paid, held, and available. A waitlist with private pay links. One-click stall assignments for race day. An activity log on anything that touches money.

04

Support on race weekend

This is the part most web shops do not offer. When payments got stuck in an unsettled state, I traced it to a processor-side settlement problem and told them plainly what was and was not in their control. I built reconciliation tooling that flags declined cards and returned e-checks so the office can re-collect instead of eating the loss.

I read and prepare. The client clicks the actual refunds and holds their own credentials. I never touch client money.

Open a Live Admin Demo Visit the Live Site

The demo is a real, clickable organizer panel with sample data. Log in with demo / demo. Nothing is charged, nothing is real.

Website Pricing & Care Plans

Website builds starting at $799.

Clear starting price. Bigger projects quoted by scope.

Website Build & Rebuild

Starting at $799

For businesses that need a clean, sharp website.

A clean site that earns trust and turns visitors into leads.

Includes

  • Custom website design and build
  • Mobile-friendly layout
  • Core business sections
  • Basic on-page SEO setup
  • Contact form or call-to-action buttons
  • Launch and deployment support

You own everything. Your domain, your files, your site. No lock-in, no platform fee, no take-it-back clause.

Your site launches when you love it. Two rounds of revisions are included. More if we need them. If a real issue shows up after launch, I fix it, on me.

$799 covers a clean business website. E-commerce, booking systems, big catalogs, extra pages, copywriting, or heavy SEO work are quoted by scope.

Monthly Website Care

Keep your site sharp every month.

Pick the level that fits your site.

Essential Care

$25/mo

Sites that mostly stay the same.

  • Hosting and uptime managed
  • SSL and malware protection
  • Monthly backup
  • Occasional small updates when you ask
  • Email support
For the Arena

Event Producer

$249/mo

Rodeo, barrel race, and roping producers running a season.

  • Everything in Sharp
  • Two event flyers every month
  • Matching social graphics for each event
  • Event pages kept current: dates, classes, added money, ground rules
  • Entry info page and results posted after each event
  • Sponsor logos kept current
  • Unlimited small revisions
  • One on-site standby day per season

Platform Care

Custom

You run reservations, payments, and a back office.

  • Everything in Event Producer
  • Reservation store and payment support
  • Admin panel changes and new reports
  • Payment reconciliation and recovery help
  • In-season support on event weekends
  • Priority scheduling

Every plan includes hosting, uptime, security, and updates as agreed. Small updates mean text, image, button, link, and section tweaks. New pages, redesigns, e-commerce, or full campaigns are quoted separately. On-site event standby is $50/hour, one hour minimum, and is included as one standby day per season on the Event Producer plan.

Pay for the year, get a month free. Essential is $275 a year instead of $300. Sharp is $1,100 instead of $1,200. Event Producer is $2,739 instead of $2,988. One invoice, one time, done for the season.

Payment terms

Care plan invoices are due within 7 days. A $15 late fee applies after that. Service pauses at 30 days late. First-time slip is always forgiven if you just tell me.

How It Works

Simple. Sharp. On time.

No agency runaround. You always know what's next and what it costs.

  1. 01

    Tell me what you need

    Brief by form, email, or text. Flat quote in 24 hours.

  2. 02

    I map the plan

    Pages, message, design direction. Locked before we build.

  3. 03

    I build the site

    Mobile-first, fast. Sent over for your review.

  4. 04

    You review, I sharpen

    Two rounds of revisions. Direct feedback, no ego.

  5. 05

    Your site goes live

    Deployed, tested, yours. Add a care plan to keep it fresh.

AI-assisted workflow. Faster builds, sharper direction, affordable pricing. Real design judgment behind every site.

No middleman

You're texting the person who builds the site.

Most agencies route you through a sales rep, then a project manager, then a developer you never actually meet. Iron Sharp Media is one person. Whoever answers your text is who writes the code.

What you skip

  • Sales rep
  • Account manager
  • Offshore dev team
  • Ticket queue

What you get

You,

texting Jake direct.

913-752-7139

Fewer handoffs. Faster answers. Somebody who remembers your business the next time you call.

Who This Is For

Tired of a website that looks thrown together?

If your work is solid but your website doesn't show it, that's the gap I close.

More Creative Work

Graphics, branding, and promo work.

Websites lead. Banners, print, and promo back it up.

YAGOTTAWANTASTREAK stallion advertising for Lazy B Quarter Horses
Featured Centerpiece Stallion Advertising · Premium Print

YAGOTTAWANTASTREAK

Lazy B Quarter Horses · Jaffray, BC

Stallion ad built to land bloodlines, results, and credibility at first glance. For premium print.

  • Magazine-grade typography & layout
  • Hierarchy built around the headline numbers ($12M sire line, $51,498+ progeny earnings)
  • Crafted to print at full bleed without losing detail
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Jake Szuk · founder of Iron Sharp Media

JAKE SZUK

Founder · Iron Sharp Media

About

Built by someone who gets business, presentation, and trust.

I'm Jake, founder of Iron Sharp Media. Rooted in agriculture, rodeo, and hands-on creative work. Today the focus is websites that make real businesses easier to find, trust, and buy from.

I've watched great operators lose to competitors with better presentation. Iron Sharp Media exists to fix that.

The name comes from Proverbs 27:17. "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." That's the deal. You bring the business. I sharpen the image.

I also run Iron Sharp Strength, a strength and athletic-performance brand for rodeo athletes and competitors. Different industry. Same standard: real work, no fluff, built to last.

Est. 2024 Founder-led · Manhattan, Kansas
Websites First Builds · Redesigns · Care Plans · Supporting Graphics & Print
Real Industries Western · Equine · Rodeo · Fitness · Contractors · Local Business
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Frequently Asked

Straight answers before you reach out.

Pricing, timelines, ownership, and what a care plan actually covers.

How much does a small-business website cost?

Custom builds start at $799. That covers a clean small-business site with mobile-friendly layout, core business sections, basic on-page SEO, a contact form, and launch support. Bigger projects with e-commerce, booking systems, big catalogs, or heavy custom copy are quoted by scope. You get a flat number back within 24 hours of your brief.

How long does it take to build a new website?

Most small-business builds go live in one to two weeks from the day content is ready. Turnaround depends on scope, revision rounds, and how quickly copy, photos, and feedback come back. Every quote includes a projected launch window so nothing is a surprise.

Do you serve clients outside Manhattan, Kansas?

Yes. Iron Sharp Media is based in Manhattan, Kansas and works with clients across Kansas, the Midwest, and remotely nationwide. Projects run over email, text, and video calls, so location does not change the quality or speed of the work.

What is included in the $25 Essential care plan?

The $25/month Essential plan covers hosting and uptime, SSL and malware protection, one monthly backup, occasional small updates when you ask, and email support. It fits sites that mostly stay the same. Sharp ($100/month) adds regular content updates, small design tweaks, monthly link and form checks, and priority same-day support. Event Producer ($249/month) is built for rodeo, barrel race, and roping producers: everything in Sharp plus two event flyers a month, matching social graphics, event pages kept current, entry info, results posted after each event, sponsor logos, unlimited small revisions, and one on-site standby day per season. Custom is quoted for larger sites, e-commerce, or heavy monthly work.

Do I own my website after it is built?

Yes. You own your domain, your content, and your site. Files and hosting can be handed off any time you want to move. Nothing is locked to a proprietary platform you cannot leave.

Can you redesign my current website instead of starting over?

Yes. Website redesigns start at the same $799 base as a new build and reuse whatever content, brand assets, and images make sense. A redesign is the right call when your business is still positioned well but the site looks dated or is not converting visitors into leads.

Do you build e-commerce websites?

Yes, for the right scope. Small product catalogs, booking flows, and simple checkout can be added to a $799 build for an additional flat fee. Larger stores with dozens or hundreds of products are scoped and quoted separately.

What industries do you work with most?

Small businesses, contractors, western and equine brands, rodeo and event organizations, agricultural operators, fitness and creator brands, and local service businesses. Recent builds include gun-dog training kennels, industrial filtration, contracting, western retail and tack, barrel racing events, and strength coaching.

Are these sites built on WordPress or Squarespace?

No. I write the code myself in clean HTML and CSS and deploy on Cloudflare. That means your site loads faster than a template platform, has no plugin security holes, no forced software updates, and no monthly platform fee eating your budget. You are not locked into anybody's ecosystem, and the files stay yours.

Do I have to write all the copy for my site?

No. You give me the basics about your business, your services, your pricing, and what makes you different, and I structure and polish the wording so it reads clean and sells to your real customers. A quick 10-minute call or text thread covers most of what I need. If you already have copy you love, we use it as is.

What happens if I pay a care plan invoice late?

Care plan invoices are due within 7 days. After that a $15 late fee is added to the invoice. If it goes 30 days unpaid, care service pauses (edits, updates, monitoring, and backups stop) until the balance is cleared. Hosting stays up so your site never goes dark. First-time slip is always forgiven if you just tell me. I'd rather hear "money's tight this month" than get ghosted.

Still have questions? Send a project brief or text 913-752-7139 and get a straight answer back the same day.

Client Results

Built for real businesses across real industries.

Websites first. Brand, banners, and print when you need them.

Across western, equine, rodeo, fitness, finance, and local business, the standard is the same.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Wild-West Webs recently used Iron Sharp Media. Couldn't be more pleased. Prompt, professional, and the work required no revisions.
· Wild-West Webs

Ready When You Are

Ready for a website that makes your business look sharp?

Let's build a site that earns confidence before they call.

Contact

Let's build your website.

Tell me about your business. Reply in 24 hours. Call, text, or email · whichever's easiest for you.

Reply within 24 hours · Honest pricing · Real work.

Jake Szuk · founder of Iron Sharp Media

Text Jake directly. Whoever answers your message is who writes your code.

Text 913-752-7139

Service area: Based in Manhattan, Kansas. Serving small businesses across Kansas, the Midwest, and remotely nationwide.

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