About Local Site Design, Parker, CO
One person in Parker who builds the site, runs the search work, and answers the phone. That is the whole company, on purpose.
48 hours, no call required.
Over a decade at the craft. One or two new clients a month, and the same person on it every time.
No account managers, no sales team, no junior doing the work after you sign.
Why It Works This Way
I started this because friends of mine kept getting burned. The story was the same every time: money out the door every month, a report full of numbers nobody explained, and a phone that never rang any more than it used to.
One of them went through three agencies before he was ready to quit marketing completely.
If you have already been through an agency you probably know why that matters. The person who sold you was not the person who built it, and the person who built it was not the person who answered when it went wrong.
What Happens Here Instead
No long lock-in.
A short ramp, then month to month with 30 days notice. The standard Denver agreement is twelve months signed before anyone lifts a finger, which is a way of making the first month the only one that has to be good.
Every price published on the site.
Rather than quoted after a sales call, because a call lets somebody price you rather than the work. Before any work begins the final figure goes in writing, so there is nothing to argue about later.
You own every account from day one.
Domain, hosting, files, content and your Google profile. Not held by me and released on request, which is a pattern worth asking about with anyone you hire, including me.
Reports that count calls.
One number a month, from your own Google call log and a tracked number, rather than impressions and average position. If you want the detail underneath it, it is there. The headline is the figure that pays your bills.
The same person, every time.
There is no account manager and nothing gets passed to a junior or offshored. The trade-off is real: I take one or two new clients a month, so I am sometimes booked out, and I will say so rather than queue you.
The Part Most Agencies Will Not Say Out Loud
Ranking is not instant and nobody controls it. Here is what I watch happen on my own clients, rather than what makes a better pitch.
The needle starts to move somewhere in the first one to two months. The phone lags behind the rankings, always. Month six is usually when the extra calls stop feeling like a fluke and start feeling like a pattern.
Earning the whole spend back takes about a year, and because trade work runs with the seasons, where your busy stretch falls will stretch or compress every one of those numbers.
I will not guarantee a position, because no one honestly can. What I commit to is that the work ships exactly as scoped and that we count calls rather than impressions. If that sounds slower than what you have been promised before, it is. It is also what actually happens.
There is a second thing worth saying out loud, and it works against me. One person means lower overhead, so the same output costs less, and it means you talk to the person doing the work. It also means I am sometimes full. The trades I take is the short list.
I take one or two new clients a month, because everything is built by me rather than passed to a junior. If I am booked out I will tell you in the first reply rather than book a call and work out how to say it later.
Good at: websites for service businesses with a service area, local search, Google Business Profile work, and paid search when the timeline is short. Not good at: e-commerce, national brands, and anything without a local service area.
Flemings Tree Care in Castle Rock is the one I point people to first. The owner paid three agencies before me, and what his money bought was a stack of reports. Applied Technology Inspections, T-Cross Excavation and Legacy Concrete are out earning their keep too.
How the Work Actually Runs
Interview.
Forty minutes on the business, not on colour schemes. What you do, which jobs you want more of, which you would rather stop taking, and what customers ask you on the phone.
Build.
The pages get written from that conversation rather than from a template with your trade swapped in. You see it before anyone else does. Larger builds run four to six weeks.
Transferred to you.
Domain, hosting and logins into your name. Not held here and released on request.
Measure.
Calls counted, one number, not a dashboard. The same figure every month so it is comparable rather than impressive.
Questions I Get Asked
Who actually does the work?
I do. You are not handed to an account manager after the sale, and nothing gets passed to a junior or offshored.
How long have you been doing this?
Over a decade at the craft. My longest-running client has been with me over three years.
Why work with one person instead of an agency?
Lower overhead, so the same output costs less, and you talk to the person doing the work. The trade-off is that I take a small number of clients at a time, so I am sometimes booked out.
What made you start this?
Friends of mine kept getting burned. Money out the door every month, a report full of numbers nobody explained, and a phone that never rang any more than it used to.
Do you work outside Colorado?
For the website itself, yes. For map pack rankings, proximity to the searcher is a large part of what decides who shows up, so I am most useful in the south Denver metro.
What are you not good at?
E-commerce, national brands, and anything without a local service area. I would rather say that up front than take the project and do a mediocre job of it.
What does it cost?
A build is $1,500 to $6,500 one time, most land at $3,500, and monthly search work runs $750 to $1,500. Every figure is published rather than quoted after a call.
Where I Work
Based in Parker, Colorado, working across the Front Range. The work runs over calls, screen shares and email, and it is me on the other end of all three rather than an account manager.
Start With the $47 Teardown
I'll show you where you stand, what your competitors' pages answer that yours don't, and whether I'm the right person for it at all. Forty-eight hours. Yours to keep either way.
$47, free if you go ahead with any service. If you do not see an increase in calls by month three, I work for free until you do.
Your Local Site Design LLC
1394 Deertrack Ln
Parker, CO 80134
(303) 981-0908