Spokane, WA

I'm BJ.
I build things.
I figure stuff out.

I own Clean Customs Carpet Cleaning and run everything myself — the work, the systems, the marketing. I write about what I'm learning.

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BJ Bower
Clean Customs
van / work
Spokane /
personal
About
I didn't start
as a tech guy.

I started cleaning carpets. Then I started building systems. Now I do both — and help others do the same.

12+
Years owner-operated
52
Pages rebuilt from scratch
Solo.
Every job, every system
Built it for myself first.
I got tired of paying people to do things I could figure out myself — SEO, Google Ads, Zapier automations, CRM integrations, a full website rebuild. All of it. Now I help other small business owners do the same. Not as an agency. As someone who's actually done it.
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Inland Northwest. Real work. No fluff.
Ventures
What I'm building.
Active · Since 2013
Clean Customs
Carpet Cleaning
Owner-operated carpet and upholstery cleaning in Spokane and the Inland Northwest. I built the full backend — quoting, CRM, SEO, and 52 pages of static HTML — myself.
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Consulting · Available
Websites &
Business Systems
Fast, no-nonsense websites and automation for small business owners. No agency pricing. Just someone who's built it for their own business and knows what works.
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Ongoing
Writing about
what I'm building
The blog is where I document what's working, what broke, and what I'd do differently. Real notes from running a real business.
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Writing
The blog.
Apr 2025
Personal
Missing Someone Isn't a Problem to Fix
Pop psychology has convinced people that missing their partner is a red flag. The science says otherwise.
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Apr 2025
AI & Tech
AI Is Now Changing How We Hear Each Other
AI just crossed a line most people aren't talking about yet. It's no longer just translating languages — it's reshaping voices in real time.
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Apr 2025
Personal
When the TV Meant Something
I was in kindergarten when the teacher rolled in that TV on the metal cart. From Challenger to Artemis II.
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Mar 2025
Business
The Biggest Companies in the World Are Just Dopamine Machines
How the world's most valuable companies turn attention into habit — and habit into billions.
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Mar 2025
AI & Tech
Why People in Their 40s and 50s Are Quietly Winning the AI Race
The people making the most money with AI aren't 22-year-olds. They're experienced operators with decades of real-world expertise.
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Coming soon
Systems
How I automated my entire quoting workflow for under $50/month
Zapier, ResponsiBid, PocketSuite — and why I stopped entering data by hand.
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SEO
I rebuilt my 52-page website from scratch. Here's what I learned.
Static HTML on Netlify, schema markup, canonical tags — and why I quit page builders.
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Small Biz
Running a solo service business is basically a systems problem
Every bottleneck I hit eventually traced back to a process I hadn't built yet.
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If you want help with your website, marketing, or systems — reach out.

No pitch. No form. Tell me what you're working on and I'll be straight with you about whether I can help.