Local SEO
For a local business, showing up in Google's map pack beats a pretty website every time. We build the foundation, then keep you climbing — so the calls come to you.
- Local SEO Setup$650
- Local SEO Retainer$600 / month
Brand, website, and the tools to run it — built in days, at a published price, and yours to keep.
No call, no commitment. Tell us about your business and get a real plan with a fixed number — one you can say no to.
You’re losing them to whoever looked more legitimate at 10pm on a phone. That’s the whole contest, and it’s usually decided before anyone speaks to you. Here’s where it gets decided.
Nobody calls a contractor at 9pm. They look — and whoever looks legitimate at that hour gets the call in the morning. If your listing is thin or your site looks abandoned, that decision is already made before you wake up.
Slow load, pinch-to-zoom text, a phone number they have to hunt for. Most people don't persevere through that — they hit back and tap the next result, and you never know it happened.
A free builder subdomain, a Gmail address on the contact page, prices and hours that are three years stale. None of it says you do bad work. All of it says maybe don't risk it.
For most local trades the map pack decides the job before the website is ever opened. If your Google Business Profile is unclaimed or unmanaged, you're not losing the comparison — you're not in it.
None of this shows up as a lost job. It shows up as a quiet month you can’t explain.
We’ll look at your current site and listing and tell you what’s working — free, and you’re not obliged to buy anything after it.
Most owners aren’t. Answer three questions and we’ll tell you which one thing to start with, and what it costs. No email, no call.
Rather just look at the numbers? See every price
It’s the quote you can’t get without a call, the contract you can’t read, and the invoice you didn’t expect. We removed those on purpose — and every one of them is in writing.
You can see the whole rate card before you speak to anyone. If a number changes because your scope is genuinely bigger, you'll see that in writing before any work starts.
Content, design assets, and source code are yours once the project is paid for — written into the contract, not offered as a favour.
A complete export with a written setup guide and credentials, at no charge — on any project, and on any cancellation.
A small change is $125, a standard one is $325, and maintenance clients get a micro-update included every quarter. No hourly meter running in the background.
Hosting and maintenance are month-to-month. The one exception is the $0-down contractor plan, where we build the site up front — that one runs a 12-month initial term and says so plainly.
Fair terms don’t matter if the site is forgettable. Here's what actually gets built.
Tell us what you needA real brand, a website that sells, and the tools to run them. Every price here is fixed and published — no “starting at,” no quote you have to book a call to hear. Pay in full or in installments. Every Launch Kit comes with 3 months of Maintenance free; after that it’s $149/mo (cancel anytime).
The look that earns trust before you say a word. A logo that works everywhere, colors with intent, and type that says you mean business.
A site that loads fast, reads clear, and turns visitors into calls and bookings. Mobile-first, built to rank, easy to update — and built in days, not months.
The plumbing that runs the business: professional email, online booking, and email marketing — set up, wired together, and documented so you're not stuck on hold with support.
Built is only half of it. Getting found is the other half.
Ask what your market looks likeYou don’t lose jobs because your logo’s wrong. You lose them because customers can’t find you — and because the words don’t sell. These two fix both, at fixed prices well below the usual retainers.
For a local business, showing up in Google's map pack beats a pretty website every time. We build the foundation, then keep you climbing — so the calls come to you.
Most owners freeze writing their own copy — and generic words quietly cost them jobs. We sharpen your voice, your headlines, and the lines that turn a reader into a customer.
When you need calls sooner than SEO can deliver, search ads fill the gap. Flat monthly management — never a percentage of your spend — and you own the ad account, always.
Already running a Local SEO retainer or have your copy nailed down? You can stack any service à la carte — no need to bundle.
We build websites for the kinds of small businesses that don't fit a template — local service operators, solo practitioners, independent retailers, and small online shops. If anything below sounds like you, you're our person.
Custom websites for small toy stores, hobby shops, indie booksellers, gift shops, and one-of-a-kind retail. The kind of small retail website that reads like the actual shop — not a Shopify template wearing a logo.
Toy stores · book shops · gift shops · niche retail · hobby & specialty
Small contractor website design built around one job: getting the phone to ring with qualified leads. Photo-led pages, plain-English service lists, real project galleries, and a quote-request flow that doesn't bury the phone number.
General contractors · home improvement · roofing · remodelers · handymen · landscapers
Websites for cleaning businesses, residential service companies, and recurring-route operators. Service tier pages, transparent pricing posture, and an online booking flow that respects how busy your customers already are.
Residential cleaning · commercial cleaning · pressure washing · pest control · lawn care
Websites for life coaches, business coaches, therapists, and one-person professional practices. Calm editorial design that signals you take the work seriously, with a single obvious path to booking the first conversation.
Life coaches · executive coaches · therapists · counselors · nutritionists · solo consultants
Boutique e-commerce websites for curated lifestyle brands, small online stores, and shop-owner-run e-commerce. Slower-paced design that lets the products breathe and the brand story land — not a maximalist sales funnel.
Lifestyle brands · curated shops · small DTC · indie makers · niche product lines
Websites for yoga studios, personal trainers, massage therapists, pilates instructors, and small wellness practices. Class schedules, intake forms, and a booking flow that feels like the practice itself — calm, deliberate, and easy.
Yoga · pilates · personal training · massage · acupuncture · small wellness studios
Don't see your industry? We're also a fit for photographers, restaurants, nonprofits, and small professional practices — most super-small businesses, really. Tell us about your business.
The Contractor Growth Plan: your site designed and built with nothing due up front, plus hosting, Google Business Profile management, local SEO, and a plain-English monthly report. Contractor marketing firms typically charge $1,000–1,500/mo for that scope.
You’ve seen the approach. Here’s the number, published, before you ask.
Or just get a fixed quoteFor newly-formed LLCs and brand-new small businesses. A single engagement is more efficient to deliver than three separate ones — so the bundle costs less.
Every kit includes 3 months of Maintenance — free.
That covers managed hosting, SSL, weekly backups, security updates, and a quarterly micro-update for your first 3 months. After that it’s $149/mo to keep us running it — cancel anytime with a free handoff. Build cost can be paid in full or on a payment plan.
Maintenance plan included — 3 months free, then $149/mo. It stays on automatically unless you cancel.
A designed single-page site with a human behind it — typically live within a few business days. Real design, your own logo and email, built to be found locally. Add a hosting plan and we run it for you; or take the free handoff and host it yourself.
Start with a 50% non-refundable deposit · balance due on launch
Maintenance plan included — 3 months free, then $149/mo. It stays on automatically unless you cancel.
A clean logo, a simple website, and professional email on your domain. Everything you need to hand out a URL and get to work.
Start with a 50% non-refundable deposit · balance due on launch
Maintenance plan included — 3 months free, then $149/mo. It stays on automatically unless you cancel.
A full brand identity, a website built to rank, and your pick of three business tools — usually delivered within about a week. The package for owners ready to invest in a credible presence.
Start with a 50% non-refundable deposit · balance due on launch
Need something bigger?
Projects needing e-commerce, custom integrations, or larger scope are quoted individually — most fall in the $6,000–$12,000 range. Email hello@raikowskistudio.com to discuss.
A deliberate sequence that builds on itself. The brand decisions we make up front are the same assets used in your website and your tools — so everything stays coherent without extra back-and-forth. Most Pro Sites go from approved brief to live in under a week, and larger bundles usually land in two to three weeks end to end.
A 20–30 minute conversation about your business, your goals, and what you need. No pressure, no upsell — just figuring out the right fit.
Logo concepts, color palette, typography. You review and choose. This is the foundation everything else builds on.
Your website is designed and built directly from the approved brand — mobile-first, SEO-ready, and set up to be easy for you to update. Most Pro Sites go live within days of brief approval.
You see everything together. Two rounds of revisions are included. We make it feel exactly right before anything goes live.
Professional email on your domain is configured. If it's part of your scope, the booking system is set up alongside it.
Website goes live on fully managed cloud hosting. A walk-through shows you how to update anything yourself, and your Maintenance Plan kicks in from that day.
The consultation and quote cost nothing, and there’s no obligation to go further.
Most owners only think about hosting when it breaks. Our job is to make sure you rarely have to — enterprise-grade cloud, fully managed, with the cost baked into your plan. One line item, no markup games.
Built for high uptime and monitored around the clock, so problems get caught early.
Pages served from edge locations worldwide, designed to load fast wherever your customers are.
Automatic SSL, automated backups, and DDoS protection — included.
Built to absorb growth — from a trickle of visitors to a spike — without re-platforming.
Everything managed under one roof. Database picked per project.
All infrastructure is managed by the studio. Clients don’t need a cloud account, don’t get a separate hosting bill, and don’t have to touch a console.
You pay for your site once — then it's yours: content, design assets, and source code, written into the contract. The Launch Handoff packages it all for self-hosting: a complete export, a written setup guide (DNS, SSL, deployment), and credential handoff.
The handoff itself is free and there's no exit fee — with any project or cancellation. The only trade-off, stated plainly: self-hosted sites aren't eligible for our hosting plans, because we can't maintain infrastructure we don't control.
Your first 3 months of Maintenance are free. After that, keep the site fast, safe, and handled for $149/mo — comfortably under what agencies charge for the same scope — or $49/mo for hosting only. Cancel anytime and leave with a free handoff. No retention pitch, no hidden meter, no exit fees — the price you see is the price you pay.
Everything in Essentials, plus monthly checks, faster support, a quarterly micro-update, and a yearly planning call. Agencies commonly charge $200–$1,000/mo for this scope — ours is $149, all-in.
Cancel anytime. No long contracts.
The honest comparison: freelancer maintenance runs $95–$350/mo and agencies charge $200–$1,000/mo for this scope. The quarterly micro-update covers normal small touches — anything bigger is the published $125 (small) or $325 (standard).
Professionally run, fully managed hosting and nothing else — for owners who want the site up, fast, and safe at the lowest possible monthly cost. Upgrade to Maintenance any time.
Infrastructure only — no content changes or check-ins. Upgrade to the Maintenance Plan any time.
No subscription needed. Three simple options for changes, new work, or strategic input.
Up to 1 hour of site updates — copy tweaks, image swaps, small adjustments. Maintenance Plan subscribers get one micro-update per quarter included.
Up to 3 hours for a new page, feature addition, or a round of larger updates. Scoped before any work starts.
Five Small change requests, prepaid, valid for 12 months. The same work for less — and no quoting step when you need something done.
A written strategy review of a growth, positioning, or planning question — a thorough emailed analysis with clear recommendations. Useful when you want a second opinion before you invest.
On the Maintenance Plan? One micro-update per quarter is included. Beyond that, change work is the published flat $125 or $325 — the price you see is the price you pay.
You’re about to hand your front door to someone you found on the internet. Here is exactly what you keep if it goes badly — written the way we’d want it written to us.
Once a project is paid for, the content, design assets, and source code belong to you. That's a term in the contract, not a courtesy we extend to clients who ask nicely.
The Launch Handoff — full export, written setup guide, credentials — is free on any project and on any cancellation. There is no exit fee anywhere in our pricing.
Hosting and maintenance bill month to month and cancel from your portal. Cancel and you keep 30 days of transition hosting so nothing goes dark while you move.
Fixed, published, and quoted in writing before work begins. If scope genuinely grows, you approve the new number first — you will not receive an invoice you haven't already seen.
Read the full terms and billing policy — they say the same thing, at greater length.
The questions small business owners actually ask before they hire a web designer — pricing, timelines, hosting, what's included, and where we draw the line.
Our prices are fixed and published, and you can pay in full or on a payment plan: a Starter Site is $1,200, a Pro Site (4–6 pages) is $2,800, and a single-page One-Pager kit is $795. E-commerce builds start around $5,000 and are quoted individually. Brand identity runs $350–$1,800 depending on depth. Every kit also includes 3 months of Maintenance free; after that it's $149/mo to keep us hosting and looking after the site (or $49/mo for hosting only), and you can cancel anytime. For context, professionally built small business sites typically run $2,000–$8,000 in 2026 — we sit near the bottom of that range and publish the number instead of quoting it after a call. Every price is on the Pricing page.
Yes — contractors are our specialty. For roofing and HVAC companies we offer the Contractor Growth Plan: your site designed and built with $0 down, plus managed hosting, Google Business Profile management, local SEO, and a plain-English monthly report for $449/month all-in — well under what contractor marketing firms commonly charge for the same scope, and you own the site. It runs on a 12-month initial term and then goes month-to-month. Details at raikowskistudio.com/roofing and raikowskistudio.com/hvac. We also build for general contractors, remodelers, landscapers, and other trades: clear service lists, real project galleries, and a quote flow that doesn't bury the phone number.
Yes. Websites for cleaning businesses and other home service operators are a regular build for us. We design service tier pages, transparent pricing layouts, and online booking flows that respect how busy your customers are. Residential cleaning, commercial cleaning, pressure washing, lawn care, and pest control all fit.
Yes. Coaches, therapists, counselors, nutritionists, and solo professional practices are some of our favorite clients. The brief is usually the same: a calm editorial site that signals you take the work seriously, with one obvious path to booking the first conversation.
Honest answer: if your needs are simple and you have time to manage a builder, Squarespace and Wix work fine. We're a fit when you want something that doesn't look like a template, loads faster than a builder allows, and includes domain email plus online booking setup as part of one project — without you having to wire it together.
Yes — that's our Business Tools service. We set up email on your domain (you@yourbusiness.com), wire up an online booking system, document the workflow, and hand it off so you're not on hold with support. Email & Domain is $200; Booking System is $350.
Starter Sites typically take 1–2 weeks from kickoff. Most Pro Sites go from approved brief to live in under a week — AI-assisted production keeps the build genuinely fast. E-commerce builds usually take 6–10 weeks depending on catalog size. Brand identity work overlaps with the web build, so it doesn't add to the calendar.
Every site we build is mobile-first. We design on phone-sized canvases first because that's where most small business visitors actually are — then scale up cleanly to tablet and desktop. Performance, layout, and tap targets all get tested on real devices before launch.
No. Hosting is included in both of our plans — Essentials Hosting at $49/month (infrastructure only) or the Maintenance Plan at $149/month (infrastructure plus real human care). Your site runs on fully managed cloud hosting with global edge delivery and automatic SSL, and you don't have to touch a console. We handle deploys, certificates, backups, and uptime. You just send updates.
Yes. Our $149/month Maintenance Plan covers managed hosting (all infrastructure costs included), automatic SSL renewals, weekly automated backups, security updates, monthly uptime checks, a quarterly micro-update review (one small change per quarter included), and a month-11 check-in call to plan the year ahead. Email support is 48-hour standard, 24-hour for urgent issues. Larger changes are quoted at $125 (small) or $325 (standard) — no surprise hourly invoices.
Yes — Site Refresh is a focused redesign service for owners who already have a website but it's tired, slow, or unclear. We keep what's working, fix what isn't, and re-launch on managed hosting. Site Refresh is a fixed $950.
Either works. Most owners come with rough notes; we sharpen those into headlines, service descriptions, and the small connective copy that makes a site read clearly. Pricing is published and fixed: $450 for a homepage plus one service page, $1,100 for a full 4–6 page site, $350 for a campaign or single email. No invented stats, no fake testimonials — your words, just better-shaped.
Both. For a lot of local service businesses, ranking in Google's map pack matters more than the website itself. We offer Local SEO Setup ($650 — Google Business Profile optimization, citation audit, keyword research) and a Local SEO Retainer ($600/month — GBP management, citation building, content briefs, monthly reporting). Local SEO retainers commonly run $500–$2,000/month and are usually quoted rather than published; ours is $600, flat, on the page. It pairs naturally with the Maintenance Plan.
Yes — Google Ads Management is $400/month flat, never a percentage of your ad spend. We build the search campaigns (keywords, ad copy, location targeting), manage bids and negative keywords, keep your landing pages aligned with the ads, and send a plain-English monthly report covering spend, clicks, calls, and cost per lead. You own the ad account and your budget goes directly to Google with no markup — most owners start with a $750–1,500/month budget, and it's month-to-month, so you can pause for slow season. For comparison, agencies commonly charge $400–900/month or take 10–20% of spend — a cut that grows every time you raise your budget. It pairs naturally with the Contractor Growth Plan and Local SEO retainer.
Yes — Email Marketing Setup is a fixed $450. We pick a platform that fits how you'll actually use it (Mailchimp, Resend, ConvertKit, or similar), set it up on your domain, wire a welcome flow to your signup form, build a first campaign template, and hand off documentation. After that you're set to send.
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