A website that puts you first when someone nearby needs what you do.
Florists, private chefs, piano tuners and care providers win work the same way: someone nearby searches, compares two or three businesses on their phone, and gets in touch with the one that looks right. I build websites for local businesses around Ely and Cambridge that get found and get chosen, from £1,700 at a fixed price in writing.
Websites from £1,700 Online shops from £4,800 Care from £87/mo Fixed prices, in writing, before any work begins.
- Found for “near me” searches, with Google Business Profile done properly.
- Looks right on a phone, because that’s where people find you.
- One person who answers your emails, from the first call to years after launch.
Local customers choose quickly. Make the choice easy.
They search, look at two or three businesses on their phone, and get in touch with the one that answers their questions.
Flora Laura Flowers in Ely takes orders for delivery through its own online shop, and the details matter to Laura’s customers as much as to her, right down to a flower trug instead of a basket for the shop icon.
La Cucina Italiana is Sally Bycroft’s private chef business in Cambridge: private dining, weddings, corporate catering and pasta workshops. One website has to sell all four, clearly, to people searching for each.
Cambridge Pianoforte tunes, services, restores, hires and sells pianos, and Quality Home Care in Ely provides home, live-in and after-hospital care. Very different businesses with the same job to do: be found by people nearby, answer their questions, and make it easy to get in touch.
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Every website I build includes the local SEO: Google Business Profile, local schema and pages for the places you cover.
Three things that make this work for local businesses.
Be found, look right on a phone, and know what it costs before you start.
Found locally.
Google Business Profile set up properly, local schema, and pages for the towns and villages you cover, so you show up in the map results as well as the list below them.
Right on a phone.
Most local searches happen on a phone. Fast pages, clear buttons, your opening hours, and a way to get in touch that works with one thumb.
A price you can plan for.
From £1,700 for a website and £4,800 for an online shop, fixed in writing before any work begins. Care from £87 a month keeps it fast, safe and backed up.
Local businesses I’ve built for.
Shops, food, care and services around Ely and Cambridge.
“I love the attention to detail he’s included in my website, like using a flower trug icon instead of a basket for the online shop.”
What a local business website from me includes.
Every project is quoted to the job, but these are the parts most local businesses need.
Phone photos are fine to start with. Real photos of your work and your premises beat stock photos every time.
Your work, in photos
Galleries that look right on a phone and load quickly, so people can see what you do before they get in touch.
Google Business Profile
Set up properly and connected to the website: category, service areas, photos, and a review link you can send to happy customers.
Enquiry and booking forms
Short forms that ask the right questions and land in your inbox, or a booking service you already use, connected properly.
An online shop if you sell
WooCommerce shops from £4,800, with payments and delivery, as Flora Laura Flowers has.
Words written for you
You know your business; I do the writing. Your knowledge, put into plain English that sells without the waffle.
Training and a guide
A 30-minute walk-through, then a one-page guide for the things you’ll change yourself.
Care, so you never think about it
Hosting, backups, security, updates and small changes from £87 a month.
“I love my new website and you sorted it all out in record time too.”
Four steps, fitted around running a business.
No meetings for the sake of it, no homework, no jargon. The same four steps as every project.
About four weeks from the first call to launch, six for an online shop. The honest variable is how quickly words and photos come back.
Talk
30 minutes, freeA call about what you do, who the website is for, what it has to do and what isn’t working now.
Quote
Week 1A written proposal within two working days: a fixed price and a timeline. Sign it or sleep on it, no obligation. No hourly billing, ever.
Build
Weeks 2 to 3I design and build, and you see it taking shape and say what you think. Short email check-ins, no project portal.
Launch and care
From launchWe go live, I show you the ropes in 30 minutes, and the care plan keeps it fast, safe and found from then on.
Local business websites, plainly answered.
The questions people ask on the first call. If yours isn’t here, send it over and I’ll answer it straight.
How much does a website for a local business cost?
Can you set up my Google Business Profile?
Can customers buy or book online?
How long does it take?
What do you need from me?
More of the customers you want.
Thirty minutes on a call, no obligation. Or send a message about your business and what isn’t working online, and I’ll come back the same day, Monday to Friday.
One small ask. Have a think about what customers most often ask you before they buy. Those answers are the best words a local website can have.