Not every small business needs a website immediately. If you are fully booked from referrals and your Google Business Profile is well maintained, you can wait. A website earns its cost when you want to be found by people who do not know you, charge more, or stop depending on a platform.
We build websites, so treat this accordingly — but we turn work away every month because the honest answer was that the business did not need one yet.
One-page site
Live and working
Domain and content
Care plan is monthly
Free, and for a local business it drives more customers than a website does. Do this first, always.
Fine for showing work and reaching existing followers. It does not appear in Google searches.
$349. The minimum that gets you findable in search and gives you somewhere you control.
$749+. Worth it when you have several services to rank for or need booking and content.
A legitimate answer if you are full, profitable and not trying to grow right now.
We will tell you which of these you are, on a fifteen-minute call, at no cost.
The maths is usually simple. If a customer is worth $100 and a $500 site brings five new ones, it has paid for itself. For most trades that happens in the first month or two.
| Social page | Website | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | $349+ |
| Appears in Google search | Rarely | Yes |
| You control it | No | Yes |
| Good for existing followers | Yes | Less so |
| Full services and prices | Awkward | Yes |
| Looks established | Somewhat | Yes |
| Survives a platform change | No | Yes |
They do different jobs and most businesses want both. The risk with social only is that you are building on land you do not own.
Yes, and we do regularly. Selling someone a website they do not need produces a bad outcome and no referrals. A fifteen-minute call usually settles it.
Setting up your Google Business Profile properly, with real photos, correct hours and a routine for asking for reviews. It is free and it is usually the highest-impact thing available.
Then a one-page site at $349 is exactly right. You do not need five pages to look like a real business.
It is a template we adapt to your business — your colours, photos, services and words. It is not a custom design from scratch, which is what makes $349 possible. If you want fully custom, that starts around $2,500 and we will tell you honestly which one you need.
Your logo if you have one, some photos of your work or your shop, your services and prices, and your opening hours. If you do not have photos, we will tell you what to take with a phone — it is usually enough.
Yes. The domain is registered in your name, the content is yours, and you can move it elsewhere at any time. We do not hold your site hostage on a care plan.
You keep the site and the domain. You would need to arrange your own hosting, which is usually $5 to $15 a month, and we will help you move it across at no charge.
Indicative ranges in USD. Every engagement is quoted to a written scope before work starts, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
$349 – $549
About 1 week
Best for: Shops that mainly need to be found and called
$749 – $1,290
1–2 weeks
Best for: Most local businesses
$49 – $99 / month
Rolling monthly
Best for: Keeping it working without thinking about it
How we think about this work, in more depth.
Getting started
A 30-minute call, then a written proposal with scope, price and timeline within two to three working days. No retainer required to get a real number, and no obligation if the answer is that we are not the right fit.