Websites
Starting at $500. Built one-on-one with you, with no monthly subscription, and it’s yours when it’s done.
I’m in Buffalo, New York. Some of my clients are down the road and some of them I have never met in person.
Somebody’s nephew built it in 2016 and then went to college. The hours on it are wrong, and they’ve been wrong long enough that people call to check instead of trusting the page. On a phone the text is the size of a grain of rice and the phone number isn’t a button, so anybody who wants to reach you has to pinch, zoom, and copy it by hand.
Or you’re paying $29 a month to a website builder for a site you can’t figure out how to edit, and every time you go in to change one price you’re afraid of breaking the layout. So you don’t. That bill has quietly gone out for four years now, which is more than this would have cost you outright.
Or there isn’t one at all. Word of mouth and a Facebook page have carried you, and that works right up until somebody googles you before calling, finds nothing, and picks the shop that had a website. When most of your business comes by referral, the site isn’t there to sell strangers. It’s there so the person who was already referred to you doesn’t hesitate.
Clean, fast sites for shops, salons, taverns, trades, tutors, and the family businesses that have been on the same corner for forty years. Built for a phone first, because that’s where nearly everyone will see it.
No templates, and no agency handoff where you meet a salesperson and never see them again. You work with me the whole way through.
Option One
One page that covers what a customer is actually looking for: what you do, where you are, when you’re open, and a button that calls you.
Option Two
The usual pick for an established business. Room to explain what you do, and a site that brings you inquiries instead of sitting there looking nice.
Option Three
For a business whose prices, staff, hours, or specials actually move. A private admin login built around the handful of things you change, so you’re not texting me every time something does.
Most of this happens by phone, email, and a screen share when it helps to look at the same thing at the same time. I have built sites for people I see at the shop and for people I have never met in person, and the finished sites don’t tell you which is which.
If you happen to be near Buffalo, you get a little extra. I can sit down at your shop instead of running a call, and I can take the photos myself if the ones you have are five years old.
Real businesses, on their own domains, owned outright by the client.
$500, $900, or $1,400 depending on which of the three above fits, and bigger custom sites start at $1,500. Payment is half to start and half on delivery. Add-ons and the two optional care plans are on the pricing page.
What you don’t pay is a monthly bill for the website itself. Hosting is free on the setup I use, your domain is about $12 a year billed to you, and the site keeps working whether or not you ever hear from me again.
No. You pay for the build and the site is yours. Hosting is free on the setup I use, and your domain runs about $12 a year billed straight to you.
There are two optional care plans if you’d rather have somebody on call, but most clients don’t need one and I’ll tell you if you’re one of them.
No, and it’s often the easier job, because your hours, services, and photos already exist somewhere.
If you’re on a builder with a monthly subscription, I’ll show you exactly what it takes to get your domain and your content out before you cancel anything.
That’s the Self-Serve Site at $1,400. You get a private admin login built around the things you actually change, you publish it yourself, and it’s live right away.
Chrissy at Salon in the Tower updates hers from her phone between clients.
No. I’m in Buffalo and a good share of my website clients are here, but the work does not require it. We can do the whole thing by phone, email, and a screen share when it helps to look at the same thing.
If you’re nearby I’ll come sit down at your shop, because it makes the site better. If you’re not, you won’t be able to tell from the finished site.
If a website isn’t really the problem and the mess is behind the scenes, the honest starting point is either the lead spreadsheet or software that doesn’t fit how you work.
If you’re in the trades and the site is fine but the phone goes unanswered, see losing jobs to missed calls.
If the site is fine and you’re typing the same order into two different systems every day, see stop double entry.
You don’t need to know what you want the site to say. A sentence about what you do is plenty to start with.