Because a barber, a mechanic, or a family restaurant is not shopping for a website. They're running a business. No amount of advertising reaches someone who isn't looking — so we go to them, with the finished thing already built, and we let them decide.
Nobody represents Gold Standard Web until they have completed our full certification programme, passed the exam, signed a contractor agreement, and filed their tax paperwork. The compliance section of that exam must be answered perfectly — a single wrong answer on the rules means they retake it.
Publicly, at prospectorstart.com. No purchase, no fee, nothing sold to them.
Eight modules covering the product, the rules, the pitch, and the law.
An exam, with the compliance section required at 100%.
A contractor agreement and a code of conduct, plus tax forms.
Only then are they authorised to show a website to anyone.
We publish this so you can hold us to it. If a representative breaks anything in the right-hand column, we remove them from the network without a conversation.
Tell us. Email hello@goldstandardweb.com or use the verification form. We would genuinely rather hear about it from you than find out later — our entire position in this industry depends on our reps being straight with people, and we act on these fast.
No. They're independent contractors. They set their own hours, choose which businesses to approach, use their own phone and vehicle, may decline any prospect, and are free to sell for other companies. They're paid commission on completed sales and nothing else — no salary, no hourly pay, no payment for simply visiting you.
It does not. They carry our name, they're bound by our code of conduct, and we certify them before they may sell. If one of them misrepresents us to you, that's our problem to fix and we want to know about it.
Yes, and we'd rather say so than let you discover it. Reps earn a flat commission on the website and a share of your monthly plan for the first year, so a higher plan pays them more. That's exactly why they are forbidden from promising results, inventing urgency, or discounting — and why the price is published here where you can check it. Decide based on what your business actually needs, and if a rep pushes you past that, tell us.
Ask for their name, then check with us before you give them anything. A genuine rep will hand you a card and be completely comfortable with you verifying them — if someone resists that, treat it as your answer.
Of course. Email hello@goldstandardweb.com and we'll handle it directly at the same published price. You are never required to go through a representative.
Apply at prospectorstart.com. It's commission-only with no guaranteed income, you never pay us anything, and the entire training programme is there to read before you commit to a thing.