The longer answers.
Two questions come up before almost every call: what a website actually costs for a business like mine, and what I am allowed to ask a customer for once the job is done. These are the answers at full length, with the numbers printed and the rules quoted from the people who wrote them.
Nothing here is a sales page. The prices are the prices and the rules are the rules.
What a website costs, by trade.
The same three sizes and the same two ways to pay, with what moves a particular trade between them. The arithmetic is worked out in full on every one.
- Painters How much does a painter website cost?The numbers, printed, and what moves a painting business between the three sizes.
- Plumbers How much does a plumber website cost?The numbers, printed, and what moves a plumbing business between the three sizes.
- HVAC How much does an HVAC website cost?The numbers, printed, and what moves a heating and cooling company between the three sizes.
Every trade has a page of its own, whether or not it has a cost guide yet: see the trades →
Asking for reviews, the honest way.
Two public rules govern how a business may ask. These four guides quote them, link them, and put them beside the situations a contractor actually meets. None of it is legal advice, which is why every one of them sends you to the source.
- Reviews Is review gating illegal?What Google names and what the FTC rule prohibits, quoted and linked, for a contractor deciding how to ask.
- Reviews What Google lets you ask for in a reviewThe permitted sentence and the prohibited one from the policy itself, and the line between them.
- Reviews The FTC reviews rule, for contractorsWhen it took effect and what it bans, tied to the situations a home service business actually meets.
- Reviews How to ask for reviews honestlyWhen to ask, who to ask, how to ask, and what to do with a bad one.
The service that does the asking, on every finished job: see the reviews page →
The short answer is a call.
Read as much or as little of this as you like. One short call about your trade and your town gets you what we would build and what it costs, with nothing to decide on the call.