Bridgend is halfway between
my house and my second-favourite city.
Family firms, trades and independents keep Bridgend running, and most of them are close to invisible online. Fixing that costs £650 and takes five working days.
A lot of Bridgend businesses run brilliantly on word of mouth and have never needed a website. Then the next generation of customers arrives, and they check Google before they call anyone. If you are not there, the job goes to whoever is, even when your work is plainly better than theirs.
I build sites that do one thing well: make the right person pick up the phone. Custom-coded, quick on a mobile, clear about what you do and which areas you cover. And because security is half of what I do, nobody gets to send emails pretending to be your firm.
Porthcawl throws up a particular version of this. Businesses there can be fiercely seasonal, and a site that quietly breaks in November costs nothing until the week the visitors return and the contact form has been swallowing enquiries for a month. I check that the boring parts actually work, because those are the ones that lose you money without ever announcing themselves.
Sitting between two cities cuts both ways for Bridgend firms. You can plausibly win work in Swansea and Cardiff, which is a real advantage. But you are also competing with businesses in both, and the ones with a decent site are taking enquiries from your patch. Being easy to find locally is the cheapest defence against that.
Word of mouth is still the best marketing there is, and I am not going to pretend a website replaces it. What a site does is catch the people who heard your name, looked you up, and needed one reason to believe you were still trading.
What it costs in Bridgend. Fixed, agreed up front.
One price, agreed up front, whether you are in the town centre or out towards the coast. Travel is not extra.
Website build
Up to 5 pages, custom-built, live in 5 working days
Cybersecurity health check
Plain-English audit with three priority fixes
Email security setup
DMARC, DKIM and SPF. Stops email spoofing
Google Business Profile
Get found on Google Maps when locals search
IT & tech support
Everyday tech fixed, remote or on site. No contract
The New Business Setup
Website, security, email and Google together. Saves £301
All prices include a free initial call. VAT not applicable.
What Bridgend clients ask me.
We get all our work by word of mouth. Do we even need a site?
You need less than most, and I would rather say that than sell you something. What a site does for a firm like yours is confirm you exist when someone passes your name on. The recommendation still does the work. The site just stops the person checking you out from finding nothing and quietly ringing someone else.
Our business is seasonal. Is a fixed price still worth it?
Usually more so, because the cost is one-off rather than a monthly fee running through your quiet months. £650 once, and the site is yours. If you want it maintained there is a care option, but plenty of Porthcawl clients take the site and simply leave it alone between seasons, which is fine.
Can you help us get found in Swansea and Cardiff too?
Yes, and being in Bridgend is genuinely an advantage there. I set the site up to cover the areas you actually serve rather than just the town you are registered in, and your Google Business Profile can carry a service area that reflects how far you really travel. Claiming the whole of South Wales when you do not is the mistake to avoid.
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