Websites for local businesses
We build your website before we ask you for anything.
Most designers send you a quote and ask you to picture the result. We send you a finished website for your business, live, online, and built from your real details. Look at it first. Decide after.
How it works
No pitch decks. No discovery calls.
Four steps, and three of them happen before you hear from us at all.
We find you
We look for local businesses doing well on reviews but with no website of their own, or nothing but a social page.
We build it
Using your real opening hours, your actual reviews and your own phone number. Not a template with your name dropped in.
We put it online
It goes live on the internet, then we send you the link. No obligation, no strings, nothing to sign.
You decide
Like it, and we move it to your own domain name and hand it over. Don't, and we'll take you off the list. That's it.
Our work
Built to be used, not admired.
Fast, plain, and readable one-handed on a phone in a car park, because that's where most people will actually open it.
Kestrel Lane Barbers
Barber shop
View siteRidgeway Motors
Garage and MOT centre
View siteThe Copper Kettle
Cafe
View siteThese three are demonstration builds for example businesses, made to show the standard of the work. They are not client sites, and the reviews on them are invented. Each one says so at the top of the page.
What you get
One page, done properly.
Plenty of local businesses don't need five pages and a blog. They need one page that loads instantly and tells someone where you are, when you're open, and how to ring you.
- Your real opening hours, address and phone number
- Your genuine Google reviews, shown properly
- Loads in under a second, even on mobile data
- A tap-to-call button that works on every phone
- Your own domain name, sorted for you
- No lock-in, the site is yours to keep
What does it cost?
It depends on the business and on what you want it to do, so we'd rather quote properly than put a number on a page and hope it fits. A single page for a barber is not the same job as a garage taking bookings online.
Tell us what you're after and we'll price it honestly, including if we think you don't need us.
If you need more
A website is the starting point, not the ceiling.
The site we send you is deliberately simple, because that's what most businesses actually need. If yours needs to do more than tell people about you, we build that too. Just say what you want it to do and it goes in the quote.
Online booking
Let customers book a slot themselves instead of ringing during your busiest hour. Syncs with the calendar you already use.
Live chat or a chatbot
Answer the same three questions automatically, day or night, and pass anything real straight through to you.
Enquiry and quote forms
Capture job details, photos and contact information up front so you're not playing phone tag to get them.
Taking payments
Deposits, gift vouchers, or a proper shop if you sell products. Card payments handled by the same people the banks use.
Menus, galleries and price lists
Photos of your work, a menu people can actually read on a phone, or a price list you can update yourself.
Getting found on Google
Your Google Business listing tidied up and connected to the site, so the two agree with each other.
Not on the list? Ask anyway. If it's something we shouldn't take on, we'll say so and point you at someone who should.
Why we work this way
Because "imagine a website" is a rubbish sales pitch.
Ask a busy shop owner to picture something and you're asking them to do the work. Ask them to click a link and look at their own business on a screen, and there's nothing to imagine. Either it's good or it isn't, and they can tell in about four seconds.
It means we do the building up front and sometimes get nothing for it. We think that's a fair trade for never having to talk anyone into anything.
Get in touch
Tell us about your business.
Or just ask what we'd do with it. Emails go straight to our team and get answered personally, usually the same day.
hello@bradshawsites.co.uk