Pricing

With me, from £795 for a one page site and from £1,500 for a five page website, both fixed, with no VAT to add. Across the UK generally the figure is higher: most guides put a small business website between £1,500 and £4,500, and agency quotes go well past that. I sit at the bottom of that range rather than the middle, because you are paying for the build and not for an office.

Because agency figures include an office, account managers and a sales team. I have none of those. You are paying for the build and nothing else. The work is the same work, done by someone with over 10 years of experience, and you deal with me directly rather than through three other people. I am not trying to be the cheapest quote you get, and if you find one much lower it is usually a template with your logo dropped on it.

Essentials at £595 a month covers your Google Business Profile, on page work and a monthly report you can actually read. Growth at £995 adds two new content pages, citation building and link outreach, which is what moves you up in a competitive area. Both are rolling monthly with no tie in. I will tell you honestly which one your situation needs, and if neither is worth it yet I will say that too.

Not for the packages above, which are fixed so you know the number up front. For anything outside a package, or extra work on top of a monthly plan, it is £80 an hour and I agree it with you before starting. Nothing gets added to an invoice you have not seen coming.

No. Every site is designed and built for your business. Cheap website offers usually mean a stock theme with your logo dropped in, and that is a fair thing to be suspicious of at this price. The portfolio is all custom builds, including one that grew 718% year on year and led to the business being acquired by a national brand.

No, and it is worth understanding why. Monthly website deals are usually a rental: stop paying and you lose the site, because you never owned it. I charge once, and the only ongoing costs are hosting and your domain. A £30 a month deal is about £1,080 over three years, and at the end of it you still own nothing and have to start again.

No, and not for a few years either. Those platforms cost roughly £150 to £250 a year and you build it yourself. What you are paying me for is a site that actually brings in enquiries, and the weekends you get back by not building it. Most businesses outgrow them anyway, and moving off later costs more than starting properly.

Yes. You get the number in writing before any work starts, and it does not move unless you change what you asked for. If the scope changes I tell you what it costs before I do it, not after. Nothing inside a package is billed by the hour, and anything outside one is £80 an hour agreed with you first.

No. I am not VAT registered, so the price you see is the price you pay. It is worth checking when you compare quotes, because a £1,500 quote plus VAT is really £1,800.

A domain is roughly £15 a year and hosting is £5 to £15 a month. Those are the only things you have to pay for, and you buy them directly so you own them rather than renting through me. A care plan is optional from £150 a month if you would rather not think about updates and backups.

Two to five days for the builds and one off jobs, once I have your content. The monthly plans run continuously, and SEO takes months rather than days to show. Most agencies quote 4 to 8 weeks for the same brochure site, and most of that is scheduling rather than building.

Yes. Sites are built on WordPress and you get a walkthrough at handover. If you can use Word you can change your own text and images. If you would rather not, that is what the care plan is for.