Taking work for small businesses
A professional local-business website, live in a week and yours for good.
Starting at $500 once. I build it, correct the business details customers find on Google and Maps, and give you a simple phone app for keeping it current.
Your business is already online. You just didn’t write it. Google, Apple Maps and Yelp already have a page about almost every business in Prescott — built automatically, from guesswork. Wrong hours. An old phone number. Reviews nobody has answered. Getting that back into your hands is the job; the website is how you keep it.
Four guided screens, no account, and nothing is charged. Or just have me look you up →
One real business, already running
Built for the person who has to use it after launch
Guido’s Pizza has two locations, 42 menu items and 79 prices. The owner changes them from her phone; customers see the update immediately.
Live now
A working customer site, not a concept or template
Owner-editable
Prices, hours and availability without calling a developer
No lock-in
Code, content, photos and logins hand over completely
Live · guidosaz.com
Guido’s Pizza — two locations, Arizona
A family pizzeria whose prices on Google had gone stale years ago. The site is built and running; the owner changes a price on her phone and it updates instantly.
- Menu she runs herself
- 42 items, sizes and prices, edited from a phone
- A separate staff app
- Installs to her home screen, opens on the editor
- Both locations, properly
- Own page, own hours, own listing for Google
- Hers to keep
- Code, content and logins hand over completely
Said to me on doorsteps
The reasons good businesses still don’t have a website
- “I don't even know what I'm supposed to have.”
- Most businesses are already listed on Google, Apple Maps and Yelp without ever signing up — usually with the wrong hours. Finding those, getting them into your name and making them match is part of the job, not an extra.
- “Everyone who quotes me talks like a robot.”
- I'll tell you in plain words what you're getting and what it costs, and if a website is the wrong spend for you right now I'll say that instead. You can call me and a person answers.
- “The last guy took my money and I never heard from him again.”
- Half to start, half when it's live — and you own the finished site outright, code and logins included. If you stop paying me for hosting, you keep the website. That's the whole deal, and it's in writing before you agree to anything.
- “What happens when I need to change a price?”
- You change it. From your phone, in about ten seconds, without calling anyone. That's the part most people don't get offered, and it's the part that matters six months later.
- “Two and a half grand? I can't justify that.”
- Neither could I. Five pages starts at $500 because cost is the single biggest reason a good business still has no website — not because the work is worth less.
- “I'm too busy to take on a project right now.”
- It's four questions and a phone call from you. Something to look at in three days, live inside a week, and the only thing I actually need is your photos and your words.
Mostly I build for family restaurants, local trades & contractors, retail & boutique shops and tourism & hospitality — and garages, salons and anyone else who mostly gets found on a phone.
The part nobody tells you about
Your business is already on the map. The details are probably wrong.
Most businesses are listed on Google, Apple Maps and Yelp without ever having signed in. Those listings build themselves — from old directories, from a customer adding you, from data nobody has checked in years. So the hours are wrong, or the phone number is the one you changed in 2019.
That’s what someone sees at six o’clock on a phone, deciding whether you’re open. A new website doesn’t fix any of it.
So finding those listings, getting them into your name, and making every detail match is part of the job — not an upsell. Then I show you where to change them yourself, because your hours will change again and you shouldn’t have to ring me about it.
Where your details need to be right
- Google Business ProfileMaps and the local results — the big one
- Apple MapsEvery iPhone, by default
- YelpFeeds several other services
- FacebookOften the first place locals look
- Bing PlacesPowers Bing and DuckDuckGo
- NextdoorNeighbours recommending trades
Plus whatever your trade uses — TripAdvisor, a chamber directory, a delivery app. We work that out together.
What you get, and what you don’t
Included
- A site you own outright — code, content and logins
- An admin panel simple enough to run from a phone
- A staff app that installs to a home screen
- Set up properly for Google, Maps and search
- Your listings found, claimed and corrected
- Shown where to update it yourself
- Automatic backups whenever anything changes
- A plain-English guide written for your staff
- One command to move it to any server, ever
Not included, on purpose
Online ordering built from scratch
Slice and Square already do it, cheaper and safer. I will help you set one up.
Fake reviews or review gating
Both violate Google policy and can get your listing penalized.
Lock-in of any kind
If you want to leave, everything moves with you in one archive.
What it costs, including the part most people hide
For comparison
A Prescott web agency publishes $1,500 for three or four pages, up to $3,000 for ten or more — plus $29–$97 a month, for as long as you have the site.
Here it is $500, and there is no monthly.
Their top monthly tier bills for managing your directory listings. That is $1,164 a year for something included in every build here — more than twice the price of the whole site.
Their published prices as of 2026-08-28. Go and check them; that is rather the point.
The starting point
The Five-Page Site
$500
Your hours, your phone number, your address — and you read enquiries as they land.
What most businesses without a website actually need.
Everything before, plus a catalog you edit from your phone
Menu & Prices You Run
$900
Everything above, plus your whole list: sections, items, sizes, prices, photos, and marking something sold out.
Live now at guidosaz.com — 45 items and 79 prices, run by the owner.
Everything before, plus every page you need and a second location
Everything, Everywhere
$1,500
Everything above, with as many pages as the business actually needs and a second location done properly — its own page, its own hours, its own listing.
One number instead of counting pages. From the 5th extra page it is also the cheaper way to buy it.
Why it is this price
These are student prices, and they end when I graduate in May 2027.
I am a business student at Yavapai College, building the portfolio I will be judged on. That is worth more to me right now than charging the going rate, so the going rate is not what I am charging. It is the same work either way — the same software, built by the same person, and it is yours outright whichever side of May 2027 you come in on.
After that the five-page site is $900 — still well under what the agency down the road charges, but not this.
What you lock in is the price. Nothing about the site expires with it.
Add to any of them
Taking bookings — two ways
Connected to the calendar you already use — $250
Set up in your name, built into your site, and synced both ways with your calendar — so it can never book a time you’ve already given away. For anyone whose day is a schedule: salons, barbers, garages.
Built into your own site — $600
Your questions on the form, not a generic one. A request lands in your app, on your phone, and in your calendar, and you confirm it. Yours outright, no monthly fee to anyone. For work you’d want to talk about first — photography, quoting a job, catering.
I’ll tell you which one you need, and it’s usually the cheaper one.
All three are built on the same foundations — everything in the list above, including your listings found and corrected, your own visitor numbers, and the staff app. The rungs differ by how much of the business you can change yourself, never by how carefully it’s built. Half to start, half at handover.
How fast
Something to look at in 3 days
Live inside 7 days, guaranteed. The clock starts when you’ve sent me your photos and the words — that is the only thing that has ever made a job run long, and if you’d rather I wrote them, I can.
Keeping it running
$300 a year
Server space, the security certificate, nightly backups, small changes, and a real person answering the phone when something looks wrong. Your web address is about $15 a year on top — I can buy it for you and it stays yours, transferable to your own account whenever you ask.
Yes, that’s a recurring cost. Here’s why it isn’t a subscription.
Cancel a Wix or Squarespace plan and your website disappears. You were renting it. Cancel mine and you keep the website. You get a single archive — the site, the code, your content, your photos and your admin login — that runs on any server, set up by anyone. I’ll hand it over and help you move it.
So the yearly fee buys you convenience, not permission. You are paying me to not have to think about servers. The day that stops being worth $300 to you, you take your site and go, and nothing goes dark.
Add any of these to any size
- An extra page
- $75 each
- Beyond the five. A page per service, or a page per town you cover.
- A second location
- $300
- Its own page, its own hours, its own listing on the maps.
- I research you and write the words
- $150
- No homework. I look you up — your listings, your reviews, your page — and write it. Send me anything you like and that is what goes in.
- Taking bookings
- $250 or $600
- Two ways, and I’ll tell you which you need — it’s usually the cheaper one.
- A newsletter people can sign up for
- $150
- The signup form on your site and the list is yours. Sending runs through your own free account, not mine.
That is the whole price list — there isn’t a second one. Whichever size you pick, the price is fixed before anything starts and what you accept is recorded exactly as it read, so it cannot quietly change later. If a site ever grows into something genuinely bigger, that’s a good problem and we’ll talk before anything changes, not put it on an invoice.
The part you actually use
A manager app on your phone, not a login you forget
Your staff app installs to the home screen with its own icon and opens straight into the editor — no app store, no browser bar, no hunting for a bookmark. It is deliberately separate from the customer site, so nothing you do behind the scenes can wander onto the public page.
- Change a price in about ten seconds
- Mark something sold out with one tap
- Upload a photo straight from the camera
- A “needs attention” list so nothing is missed
And when you want to take orders online, I set you up on Slice or Square rather than building one from scratch — they handle payments and fraud liability, and cost far less than a custom build. Your menu is already structured to plug into either.
How it goes
- 01
We talk
You tell me what the business needs. I tell you straight whether a new site is the right spend.
- 02
You get a proposal
Fixed price, itemized, with a schedule. You accept it by typing your name.
- 03
You watch it happen
A private page shows what I still need from you and every draft page to comment on.
- 04
You own it
Logins, guide and full handover. It runs without me from day one.
Before you decide anything, let me look you up
Tell me the name of your business and I’ll go and find what Google, Apple Maps and Yelp currently say about it — the hours they think you keep, the number they list, the reviews you may never have seen. I’ll send you what I find.
No charge, and nothing follows it unless you ask. If it is all correct you will know that too, and you can ignore me with a clear conscience.
Or reach me directly: (623) 777-8081