What you gain and what you give up going with one person instead of a team.
A good freelancer can build you a very good website. The quality is usually fine, and the tradeoff is in coverage and in what happens a few months after launch.
Some of the best sites we've seen in this trade were built by one person, so this page is about something else: what it costs to depend on a single person when that site is also your main source of work.
One person does the design, the build and usually the copy. You get a direct line to the person doing the work, which is better than being handed to an account manager.
The risk is concentration. If that one person gets busy, takes a vacation or goes back to a full time job, the site sits. Ongoing SEO and content are often outside the scope, so the site launches well and then stops improving.
Before you sign with anyone, including us, ask who owns the domain and the hosting account, what a change will cost a year from now, and whether the site can be handed to someone else if you part ways. Plenty of freelancers get all three right. Some build on a personal account with a template license that's hard to move, and you only find that out on the day you try to leave.
There are three of us, there are no account managers, and the work continues after launch. The website, the Google listing, the local SEO and the follow up are one system on one monthly fee, so nothing falls between two suppliers.
The person writing your service pages is the same person watching the map rankings, so when a town slips it becomes a new page instead of an email about whose job it was. You get a report every month, and when a month was quiet we say so.
The domain and the Google Business Profile stay in your name from the first day, and after the initial term the Webflow site is yours to take.
Get a free audit of your website, your Google listing and your local rankings, then decide who you want building it.
