Wizbang Hub Your town. Your community.

Your town deserves more than a Facebook group.

Give your town its own online home, complete with local news, weather, events, business listings, conversations and sponsorship opportunities. Ready in about a minute. No technical skills required.

Start your site See the demo town

No setup fee. Every feature included. Cancel anytime.

The Juniper Crossing Hub on a computer: the homepage with today’s Morning Crossing brief, weather and the next event
The same Juniper Crossing Hub on a phone

Juniper Crossing is our made-up demo town. Every screen on this page is the real product.

Daily BriefLocal directoryEvents calendarBoard and chatNewslettersWatch partiesSponsor spots

You’re doing the work. Facebook gets the audience.

You built the group. You welcome newcomers, answer questions, remove spam, post events and keep people informed. Then an algorithm decides who sees your work.

Local announcements disappear. Business recommendations get buried. Events get lost in comment threads. And after all those hours, you still don’t have a place your community truly controls.

Wizbang Hub changes the arrangement. Keep your Facebook group, and use it to bring people to a community website with its own news, directory, events, conversations and member email. Your community deserves a permanent home.

The Daily Brief

Give your community a reason to come back tomorrow.

Every morning, your Hub brings together local weather, alerts, school delays, upcoming events, local news and community conversations. Residents get a useful daily starting point. You get fresh content without spending your morning writing it.

  • Weather and alerts for your town, refreshed at noon.
  • School delays and closings, posted by you or your moderators in two taps.
  • What’s coming up from your community calendar, ten days ahead.
  • Local headlines and talk from the news feeds and forums you choose.
  • In their inbox, too. Switch on the email and the brief goes out every morning.
  1. Local updates
  2. Your Daily Brief
  3. Returning readers

Fresh local information. Every morning. Without the daily workload.

The Morning Crossing, Juniper Crossing’s Daily Brief: today’s weather, a two-hour school delay, and the next four events
The Daily Brief on a phone

The local directory

Help residents find local businesses. Give businesses a reason to support your site.

Every town needs a reliable place to find local services. Your Hub includes a searchable directory of businesses and creators, with reviews, recommendations from neighbors and business-owner verification. Residents find the people they need. Businesses gain another place to be found. And you get a natural starting point for local sponsorships.

The Juniper Crossing directory: a labeled sponsored line above listings for a bakery, a handyman and a diner, each with star reviews and neighbors’ recommendations
In your inbox: a business owner’s claim
A claim waiting in the host’s inbox: @marisol_m claims Lakeside Paddle Rentals, with Approve and Deny buttons

  1. A listing residents trust

    Star reviews, owner replies and short recommendations from neighbors who’ve actually used the business.

  2. Owners claim their listing

    A business owner taps “Is this yours?”. You check it’s really them and approve, and their listing is marked verified.

  3. Sponsored spots, clearly labeled

    A sponsor’s line or card always carries a small “Sponsored” label, so residents keep trusting the directory.

Local sponsors

Your community website doesn’t have to be another monthly expense.

Local businesses already spend money trying to reach nearby customers. Wizbang Hub gives you built-in sponsor spots where businesses support the community while promoting their services. You choose your sponsors, set your rates and manage their placements. View and tap counts help show sponsors how their spots perform.

The Sponsors screen in a Hub’s admin: two running sponsor spots, each with its views and taps for the last 30 days
Your Sponsors screen, with each spot’s views and taps.

An example month

3
$25
Sponsors bring in
$75
Your Starter plan
−$29
Left over each month
$46

Example only. Revenue depends on securing paying sponsors. No earnings are guaranteed.

Included with every Hub

A second way your Hub pays for itself.

Every Hub owner is a member of the WizBang SalesForce, no application needed. Your homepage comes with a “Websites for local businesses” section that shows the trades still open in your county. When a local business gets its website from Wizbang Sites through your Hub, you earn 20% of what it pays, every month it stays.

  1. It’s already on your homepage. The section and its page are built in, with your code. Nothing to set up, and you can turn it off.
  2. A business signs up. Its website, its bill and its help all come from Wizbang Sites. You don’t sell, build or support anything.
  3. You earn every month. Earnings come off your Hub’s bill first. Set up payouts and anything more goes to your bank.
The Websites for local businesses section on the demo Hub’s homepage, listing the trades still open in its county
The section on a Hub’s homepage, with the trades still open in its county.

An example month

5
Each pays Wizbang
$29/month
Your 20%, every month
$29
Your Starter Hub plan
Covered

Example only. You earn when local businesses sign up through your Hub; no earnings are guaranteed. Earnings come off your bill first, then go to your bank once payouts are set up.

Everything else your community needs, already switched on.

Never miss what’s happening nearby.

A community calendar where residents submit events for your approval. Approved events appear across your Hub.

Bring local conversations together.

Community boards, live chat, private messages and member pages give residents ways to connect.

Reach members without relying on an algorithm.

Send newsletters and announcements straight to subscribers from your community site, now or on a schedule.

Give residents something to attend together.

Host YouTube watch parties that play in sync, with live chat, and keep a video library that fills itself from your YouTube channel.

Run your community on your terms.

Appoint moderators, review reports in one inbox and decide what visitors see before they join.

Make the site your own.

Choose your name, logo, colors, homepage and the words your site uses. No coding or installation.

How it works

Live this afternoon, in three steps.

  1. The signup page: Hub picked, the site named Maple Grove Community, and its web address shown as available

    1 Choose your community.

    Pick your county, choose an available web address and select your plan.

  2. The setup screen: pick your colors and upload a logo

    2 Make it yours.

    Add your community name, logo and colors. Your pages and features are already set up.

  3. A community board with active forums, open for members

    3 Open your doors.

    Share your link, invite your first members and start building your local community.

Every Hub lives at its own address, like yourtown.wizbangsites.com.

Area exclusivity

One county. One Wizbang Hub.

Every county has room for one Wizbang Hub in our network. Once someone claims an open county, nobody else can start a competing Wizbang Hub there while that Hub is active. If you’ve been thinking about building something better for your community, check whether your county is still open.

Exclusive means one Wizbang Hub per county. It doesn’t give anyone rights to a town’s name or stop other websites. If a Hub closes, its county is held for 30 days, then opens to the waitlist.

Pricing

One complete community website. Choose the size you need.

Every plan includes the same features. No setup fee. No paid upgrades.

Starter

$29/month

Up to 250 members.

  • Every feature included
  • 2,000 photos
  • 2,000 emails a month
Start your site

Pro

$49/month

Up to 2,500 members and more photo space.

  • Every feature included
  • 10,000 photos
  • 10,000 emails a month
Start your site

Organization

$99/month

Up to 10,000 members and the most email.

  • Every feature included
  • 40,000 photos
  • 50,000 emails a month
Start your site
  • Billed monthly
  • Cancel anytime from your Admin page
  • Change plans anytime
  • Your second site and more are 10% off

Questions

What people ask before they start.

Do I need technical experience?

No. Your pages and features are already set up. Add your name, logo and colors, then start inviting members.

Do I have to close my Facebook group?

No. Keep your Facebook group and use it to share your Daily Brief, events and community website.

How much time will running my site take?

The Daily Brief assembles itself each morning. You’ll still manage your community, approve submissions, post school delays when they happen and respond to members as needed.

Will people join a new website?

You’ll need to invite them and give them reasons to return. The Daily Brief, the directory and events provide useful starting points.

Will my site earn money?

Two ways are built in. Sponsor spots: you set your prices and find participating businesses. And every Hub is a Wizbang referral partner: when a local business gets its website from Wizbang Sites through your Hub, you earn 20% of what it pays, every month. Revenue is not guaranteed.

Do I have to sell websites?

No. The “Websites for local businesses” section is already on your homepage, and Wizbang Sites handles each business’s website, billing and support. Your earnings come off your Hub’s bill first. You can turn the section off any time.

Who controls the site and member information?

You control your community and its administration. Members have tools to download or delete their personal data.

What if someone claims my area first?

Wizbang allows one Hub per county. Availability is first come, first served. If your county is taken, join its waitlist and we’ll email you if it opens.

What happens if I cancel?

Cancel your subscription from your Admin page. No phone calls or cancellation forms. Your site stays open until the end of the month you paid for.

You already care about your community. Now give it a place to call home.

You’ve spent time bringing people together, sharing local information and helping neighbors connect. Wizbang Hub gives you the website, the tools and a way to support the work through local sponsors. No building from scratch. No technical headaches. No waiting weeks to launch. Your town’s website is ready when you are.

Start your site

No setup fee. Every feature included. Cancel anytime.

Reserve your county.

We’re opening to our first communities now. Tell us where, and we’ll email you the day you can start your site.

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