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Missouri River Valley LOOP is the live client story — a regional tourism network of 49 local businesses across 8 towns, now run from one place instead of a pile of spreadsheets, Google Forms, QR codes, and separate payments. No fake logos, no invented clients.

Client case study · Missouri River Valley LOOP

From spreadsheets, forms, and phone tag to one operating system.

Before, the business list, each business's events, and the towns all lived in separate Google Sheets. The scavenger hunt ran on Google Forms, QR codes were made one at a time, and payments happened somewhere else. Now the same work lives in one place that feeds the public site.

49
local businesses, once tracked by hand across spreadsheets
8
towns, with each business running its own events
1
place to run the directory, events, sign-ups, and the scavenger hunt
0
forms to rebuild each season — last year's setup carries over
The shift that removed the follow-up

Owners now manage their own listings and events.

The biggest day-to-day win wasn't a prettier site. The owner can give each business its own private login, so they update their own hours, links, descriptions, and events themselves.

That ends the seasonal phone tag — no more chasing 49 owners for fresh information, no more copying the same detail across a spreadsheet, a form, and the site. Less follow-up, fewer apps, one source of truth.

  • Scoped access — owners see only their own records
  • Public vs. internal fields are explicit, so nothing leaks by accident
  • One edit updates the directory, the calendar, and the public site
Before and after

Same work, far less hidden labor.

Before — scattered tools
Business details, events, and towns each kept in separate Google Sheets
The same details copied onto the website by hand
A new QR code made one at a time, for every stop, every season
Hours and events updated by calling business owners
Sign-ups on one form, payment somewhere else
Now — one admin
Each business, its events, and its town live in one place that feeds the website
Owners update their own listing and events — no more chasing
Scavenger hunt players make a passport once and track their progress — one form, forever
QR codes are part of the system, not a folder of images
“Join the LOOP” sign-ups and payment are handled together
The real improvement

The LOOP didn't just get a better website. It got a repeatable operating model — one source of truth for businesses, events, the scavenger hunt, billing, and publishing.

Missouri River Valley LOOP · regional tourism network
Honest internal proof

The platform I run my own business on.

Beyond the The LOOP client work, the same admin — content, publishing, calendar, leads, follow-up, and billing — is the system Wild Kahuna itself runs on. Future small-business builds start with these pieces already in place instead of from scratch.

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One admin for content, publishing, calendar requests, follow-up, billing, and client work — the proof that small-business sites shouldn't start from zero every time.

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Hands-on experience with the kind of broken, outdated systems that waste people's time — and a focus on building the clear, durable opposite for small businesses.

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