Entrepreneurship wasn't a choice for Remiah Trask — it was an inheritance. Both of his grandfathers ran their own businesses. His grandmother did too. His parents followed the same path. By the time Remiah was old enough to understand what a business was, he already knew that working for yourself wasn't just possible. It was expected.
What he didn't expect was that his entry into the business world would come through a friend asking a favor. Someone needed a website for his wife's organization. Remiah had taken a couple of college classes on web design — nothing serious, just enough to say he knew what he was doing. He said yes.
The site came together. It looked good. And then his wife Nikyla said something that changed everything: "You're actually really good at this. Maybe you can make a business out of it."
That was the beginning. In 2010, Remiah officially launched Design Baton Rouge — a web design and marketing agency built from scratch with no investors, no safety net, and no roadmap. Just hustle, a genuine eye for design, and the conviction that every small business deserves a website that actually works.
From Baton Rouge to North Texas
What started as a local agency in Louisiana grew into something bigger. Remiah's reputation spread through referrals, then through the community of entrepreneurs he was actively building around himself. He wasn't just designing websites — he was teaching business owners how to think about their digital presence, how to show up online with intention, and why a bad website is more expensive than no website at all.
That philosophy eventually became a book. "You Can Build a Freaking Amazing Website" — published under his own label and available on Amazon and Audible — distilled everything Remiah had learned into a guide that any entrepreneur could pick up and actually use. It became required reading in certain circles. Reviewers called it essential. One reader bought both the print and digital versions.
The business eventually relocated to McKinney, Texas, rebranding as Freaking Amazing Marketing — or FAM for short. The name wasn't just a marketing play. It was a statement of intent. Every website, every brand, every system Remiah builds is supposed to be genuinely, undeniably excellent. Not good enough. Freaking amazing.
Building the Infrastructure, Not Just the Sites
Today, FAM operates at a different level. Remiah isn't just building websites for individual clients — he's building the platform that lets consultants sell and deploy those websites at scale. DemoDrop, one of FAM's flagship products, is an AI-powered demo site generation and deployment platform that lets sales consultants show potential clients their actual finished website before a single dollar changes hands.
The concept is simple but the execution is complex: instead of pitching a client on what a website could look like, you show them exactly what it will look like. Personalized. Live. Ready to claim. The close rate on that approach isn't comparable to anything else in the industry.
And now, with Black Business Pulse, Remiah is turning his infrastructure-building instincts toward something personal — a platform designed to put Black-owned businesses across North Texas in front of the audiences who want to support them. The directory is free. The spotlights are automated. The emails, the social posts, the feature articles — all of it runs on the same systems FAM has been building for years.
The vision is national. Black Business Pulse launches in North Texas but the architecture is already built for expansion — Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago. Every city gets its own edition. Every Black-owned business gets its own profile. Every feature gets its own article, its own social post, its own email to share with the community.
If you ask Remiah what drives him, the answer comes back to the same place it always does: the entrepreneurial lineage he was born into. Both grandfathers. His grandmother. His parents. A long line of people who believed that ownership wasn't just a goal — it was a standard.
He's just building the tools to help the next generation meet it.
