Straight comparisons against the agencies pitching home service businesses. What each one costs, what you are locked into, and who each one suits.
This applies to us as much as to anyone else you are looking at. If we come out badly on one of these, that is worth knowing.
Ask to speak to the person who would build your site, rather than the person selling it. In a lot of shops those are different people and you never meet the first one. Once the contract is signed you get an account manager who relays messages.
Get it in writing: the domain, the website itself, the Google Business Profile, the content, the tracking numbers. Anything you cannot walk away with is leverage against you at renewal, and you will not feel it until the day you want to leave.
A low monthly with a build fee bolted on is not cheap. A higher one with everything inside it might be. Add up twelve months of each, including setup, hosting and anything billed separately, then compare those two totals.
Copy these into a note and ask every agency the same six. The differences show up fast.
A straight answer here tells you most of what you need to know. For us it is Eric, and you talk to him on the first call, before anything is signed.
Ask specifically about the domain, the site, the Google Business Profile and the content. Ours: the domain and the profile are yours the whole time and stay in your name, and after the initial term you can take the site.
Ours is no build fee. Hosting is $300 a year and Webflow bills you for it directly, so it never runs through us.
Ours is twelve months, because local SEO does not show its work in eight weeks. After that you either continue at a lower rate or take the site and go.
This one catches people out. A screenshot of you ranking first, taken from your own shop, is not a result. Ask for a grid across the service area.
Portfolios are curated, and a phone number for a real client is much harder to fake. Any agency worth hiring will hand you one.
Get a free audit and see what we would do with your site. Compare that to whatever anyone else is telling you.