Improving what you already have.
Fixing a site that underperforms, keeping it safe, and removing the manual work behind it.
You already have a website and a business. The question is not what to build — it is which of the things currently going wrong is actually costing you money.
Start with the cheapest possible diagnosis. Fill in your own contact form from your phone and confirm the message arrives. Silently broken forms are the single most common lead leak we find, and they can run for months without anyone noticing, because nothing tells you that nothing happened.
Then work outward: is the traffic the right traffic, is there an obvious next step on the page, and does the site answer the question that stops people calling — which is almost always price.
Only after that is a redesign worth discussing. Plenty of businesses pay for a full rebuild when six hours of repairs would have fixed the actual complaint, and the classification matters more than anything else on the invoice.
The last two articles cover the other half of improving a business online: the repetitive internal work sitting behind the website. If someone is retyping the same information between three systems every week, that is usually a smaller and better-defined project than a redesign, with a payback you can calculate.
The articles
- 01 Your Website Gets Traffic But No Leads. Here Is Why. Eight reasons visitors arrive and leave without contacting you, in the order worth checking. 6 min read
- 02 Seven Signs Your Business Website Needs a Redesign Telling a site that looks dated apart from one that is costing you work. 5 min read
- 03 Website Security Basics for Small Businesses The handful of measures that prevent almost every realistic attack, and the ones you can skip. 6 min read
- 04 Custom Software vs. Off-the-Shelf: How to Decide When buying is obviously right, when building pays for itself, and the middle option most businesses forget. 6 min read
- 05 Five Small Business Workflows Worth Automating First The repetitive processes with the clearest payback, and where automation is not worth it. 6 min read
Other guides
Getting Found in Local Search
How local customers find a business on Google, and what to do when they cannot.
What a Website Costs and Who to Hire
Pricing, ongoing costs, timelines, and how to evaluate whoever quotes you.
Planning and Building a Business Website
Deciding what to build, which platform to build it on, and what to put on it.