A Home Page That Says What You Do
The most common failure on a small business site is a homepage that never plainly states the service and the area it covers. Yours will, above the fold.
A brochure site is the right answer for most Maine businesses. It says who you are, what you do, why people should trust you and how to reach you, done well, on a platform you own, without pages you are never going to update.
It is not a lesser website. It is a smaller one, built to the same standard and sized to what your business actually needs right now.
If most of your work comes from referrals, your Google Business Profile and word of mouth, then your website’s job is to confirm that you are real, competent and easy to contact. That is a brochure site.
The most common failure on a small business site is a homepage that never plainly states the service and the area it covers. Yours will, above the fold.
One page per thing you sell, each able to rank and convert on its own, rather than a single page listing everything you offer.
For a small business the About page is often the second most visited. It is where someone decides whether to trust you, so it gets written properly.
A form that reaches you, a number that taps to call on mobile, your real hours and a map. Tested before launch rather than after someone complains.
Your reviews and examples of your work, placed where people are actually deciding rather than buried on a page of their own.
Schema markup, location signals and page structure built in while the site is being made, instead of retrofitted months later.
Four stages, and you hear from me as each one moves. Most brochure builds finish in two to four weeks. Content is what actually sets the pace. If your words and photos are ready it moves quickly, and if they are not, that is where the time goes.
You deal directly with the person building your site. No account manager relaying messages, no ticket queue, no handover to somebody who has never spoken to you.
Your site is built on WordPress and set up on my hosting platform, with the domain, the files and the backups all in one place that I manage. That is what makes the rest of it work: one number to call when something needs changing, one person who already knows how the site is put together, and no chasing three vendors to fix one problem.
Every brochure build is built on WordPress and designed mobile-first, because that is where most of your visitors will be.
A credible, fast, findable site: services, proof and a clear way to get in touch. Up to ten pages, usually two to four weeks.
For a business that wants the site actively bringing in work. More pages, deeper service and location coverage, built to keep growing.
They start at $1,500. Where you land depends on how many pages you need, whether the content is written already, and whether anything custom is involved. You get a fixed quote before any work starts.
Two to four weeks for most brochure builds. Content sets the pace. If your words and photos are ready we move quickly, and if they are not, that is where the time goes.
It gives people a reason to call you instead of the next name on the list. Most local buying decisions start with a look at the website, and a fast, clear, credible one is what turns that look into a phone call. It also gives Google something worth ranking and your Google Business Profile somewhere solid to send people, which is where most local leads begin. Once it is live, changes come through me, so it stays current without becoming another job on your list.
Then we add to it. A brochure site built properly is not a dead end. The structure supports adding service and location pages later without starting over.
