Yes, I Also Build Small Business Websites
I know. The world doesn't need another person offering to build websites for local businesses. You can't move for them. Every other LinkedIn profile belongs to someone who'll build you a "stunning online presence" for a few hundred quid and a testimonial.
It's the most saturated corner of an already saturated industry, and I'm fully aware of the irony of writing about it.
But here's the thing: people keep asking me to do it anyway.
How This Keeps Happening
I've been building websites for a long time now, and over the years I've accumulated the kind of network where someone's cousin is a plumber, and that plumber needs a website, and someone mentions my name at a barbecue, and suddenly I'm looking at a logo someone designed in Microsoft Word.
It's not a core part of what I do. Most of my work is with bigger projects, established businesses, and clients who already know what they want. But every few months, someone I know, or someone who knows someone I know, gets in touch and says something like:
"I just need a simple website. Nothing fancy. Can you help?"
And because I'm incapable of saying no to people I like, I kept saying yes, doing the work, and then not really telling anyone about it.
So I Made It a Proper Thing
After the fourth or fifth time of scoping the same kind of project on the back of a napkin, I figured I should probably write it down properly. So I put together a page for it with clear pricing, a defined process, and an honest description of what you get.
It's a one-off build for £600. You get a 1-3 page website, AI-drafted content that you review and approve, hosting for 12 months, Google Analytics, a Google Business Profile audit, and a contact form that actually works. No WordPress. No monthly retainer. No logging into a dashboard you'll never understand.
The kind of businesses this works for are the ones you'd find on a local high street or in someone's van: trades, tutors, therapists, surveyors, consultants. People who are great at what they do but would rather eat their own business cards than spend a week trying to figure out Squarespace.
Why Not Just Use a Website Builder?
They absolutely can. And for some people, that's the right call. But I've lost count of the number of times someone has shown me their half-finished Wix site with a pained expression and said "I started it six months ago and I hate it."
The dirty secret of website builders is that they're only easy if you already know what makes a good website. If you don't, you end up with a homepage that's fourteen sections long, a colour scheme that looks like a packet of Refreshers, and a contact page that somehow links to a Google Form.
What I'm Not Doing Here
I want to be clear: this isn't me pivoting into the small business website market. I'm not about to start running Facebook ads targeting electricians in Harrogate. This is just me acknowledging that it keeps coming up, so I've made the process simple enough that I can do a good job without it eating into the rest of my work.
If you're a local business owner and you've ended up here, have a look at the page and see if it fits. If it does, get in touch. If it doesn't, no hard feelings. You can always try Wix again. I won't judge. Much.