Website Design, Branding & SEO for Small Businesses

If you’re just getting started, you’ll probably want both, and we’ll do the brand first. It’s a lot easier to build a website around a brand than to go back and squeeze one in later. I also just love working with new businesses. There’s something really fun about helping someone figure out what their business looks like before anyone else has seen it.

If you’ve been open a while, it really comes down to what’s bugging you. A lot of the time the business has grown and the logo hasn’t. It was made back when you were just trying to get the doors open, and it doesn’t feel like you anymore. That’s where we’d start, and the website can follow once we know what it should look like.

Sometimes it’s the other way around. You still like your brand, but your website is slow, or hard to update, or just not showing up when people search for you. Then we’d focus on the site, and I’ll build in the basic SEO from the start so you’re not paying extra for it down the road.

Not sure which one you are? That’s what the first conversation is for.

You can! For some things it’s a great tool, and you can get a logo idea or a page layout in a few seconds. The catch is that it only makes what you tell it to make, and figuring out what to tell it is the hard part.

You still have to know what you want your brand to feel like, who you’re talking to, and what your customers need to see before they’ll reach out. Then there’s the back and forth. You write a prompt, sort through what comes back, try again, and start second guessing all of it. Before you know it you’ve lost a few evenings, and what you’ve got is close but not quite you. It usually looks a lot like everyone else’s, too, since everyone’s starting from the same place.

Websites also have a lot going on behind the scenes that you won’t see in a quick preview. A site has to load fast, look right on every phone, be set up so Google can actually find it, and be something you can keep updated without pulling your hair out. That’s the stuff that makes it work for your business long after launch day.

So that’s where I come in. I’ve spent years figuring out what works for small businesses, and I’d love to take all of it off your plate so you can get back to running yours.

Most websites take about two to four weeks from our kickoff call to launch, and branding usually takes three to five. If you’re doing both, we’ll finish the brand first so the website has something to be built around.

The thing that moves the timeline the most is usually content. Photos, the words for each page, and your feedback on each round all keep things going, so the quicker those come together, the quicker you’re live. I’ll give you a schedule at the start so you’re never wondering what’s next.

Yes, all of it! You’ll have your logo in every format you’ll need and a brand guide with your colors and fonts, plus anything else that came with your package. Your domain is in your name and your website is yours. If you host with me and decide down the road you’d like to move somewhere else, I’ll hand everything over. No hard feelings, no strings attached.