Questions
Is the breakdown actually free?
Yes. It costs you fifteen minutes, nothing else.
How much of my time is this going to take?
Less than you're expecting, and I'd rather keep it that way. You know your customers better than I ever will, so I'll need some of your time early on to get that out of your head. After that the work is mine, not yours. If a rebuild starts adding jobs to your week, it's being run badly.
How much does a rebuild cost?
Depends on what's actually wrong. I'll give you a real number on the call based on what your site needs, not a generic package price.
I can get a website for a couple hundred bucks. Why would I pay more?
You can, and you'll get a website. Whether it brings you work is a separate question. Cheap usually means someone puts your name, your number and a list of services on a page and hands it over. That's the looks-good version further up. What you're paying me for is working out why people are calling someone else instead of you, and fixing that. A site that brings in two extra jobs a month pays for itself and keeps paying. One that brings in nothing was expensive at any price.
What if it doesn't work?
Fair question, and I'd be wary of anyone who answers it with a guarantee. What I can tell you is that you'll know exactly what I think is wrong and exactly what I'd change before you commit to anything, because that's what the free call is for. Nothing gets built on a hunch, and nothing gets touched that wasn't costing you work in the first place.
How do I know you'll actually deliver?
You don't, not from reading a website. That's most of the reason the first call is free and specific. Fifteen minutes is enough to tell whether I actually understand your business or I'm reading off a script. If I can't tell you something useful about your own site in that time, you've lost a quarter of an hour and learned what you needed to know about me.
How long does it take?
Between one and three weeks, depending on how big the job is and how much has to be built rather than fixed. You get a date before we start, and I hold it.
Do I have to pay it all upfront?
No. Half to start, half when it's finished and you're happy with it. So you're never out of pocket for work that hasn't been done, and I'm never finishing a job I won't get paid for. That's the whole arrangement, no retainer and no surprise invoices.
What happens after it goes live?
I keep it secure and updated, and you get short videos showing how to change your own text and photos, so you're not paying me to swap a phone number. Anything bigger is charged by the hour, agreed before I touch anything.
Do I get to see it before it goes live?
Yes. You see the design before anything gets built, and the finished site before it goes public. Small tweaks at that stage are fine. Rewriting half the site isn't, which is why the first stage matters.
The example is a locksmith. Does this apply to my trade?
Yes. That locksmith is one case study, not the whole offer. The same problems turn up in every trade: people land on the site and see no reason to trust you, it drags on a phone, and you have no idea which jobs came from where. Contractors, electricians, roofers, logistics, same story.