We publish what
most agencies charge for.
Prices, processes and the parts that did not work. If reading this means you decide to do it yourself, that is a fair outcome.
We Checked 50 Top Web Design Agencies. 79% Won't Publish a Price.
78.6% of top agencies publish no prices. So we built the dataset ourselves: 34 published price lists, 6 platforms, 2 marketplaces and 7 cost guides, with a link for every number.
Everything,
newest first.
No listicles, no thought leadership, no posts written to hit a word count. Each one answers a question a real client asked us, and says plainly where the numbers came from.
SEO for small law firms: what to do yourself and what to pay for
Most guides to SEO for small law firms are written by the companies that want the retainer. Here is the honest split: the five jobs a one-to-five-lawyer firm should do itself, the three worth paying for, and how to tell whether the money is producing enquiries.
What $99 a month SEO actually buys
Two vendors advertise it, one bills it annually at $149 and neither says what arrives each month. The hours behind the number, and what we charge instead.
How to compare web design agencies on portfolio and pricing
Most agencies publish no price and most portfolios prove nothing. An eight-line table that makes every quote comparable, and the five questions for a fifteen-minute call.
Local SEO packages: what each tier includes, and what to check
Published tiers run from £400 to £2,500 and $500 to $3,000 a month. What changes between them, the six jobs that move the map pack, and our $750 beside them.
DIY branding vs hiring a professional: when each one wins
Most answers come from designers telling you to hire a designer. Here is when DIY branding is fine, when it stops being fine, and the part no logo tool does for you.
How to evaluate a website quote, line by line
Comparing totals compares what each agency left out. Here is our own $4,900 quote taken apart, five red flags, seven questions and a way to compare two quotes line by line.
One hub per service,
read in order.
Every service we sell has a hub, plus one for pricing, because that is the question everybody arrives with. Each hub opens with the long piece on that subject, then everything else we have written around it.
What things cost, why agencies hide it, and how to tell whether a quote is fair before you sign.
Open the hub → Hub 02 4 articles Web design & developmentBuild timelines, scope control, and the difference between a site that looks good and one that sells.
Open the hub → Hub 03 3 articles E-commerce & ShopifyStorefronts, checkout, product pages, and the decisions that quietly cost you orders.
Open the hub → Hub 04 5 articles SEOTechnical foundations, buyer-question content, and how to tell whether any of it produced revenue.
Open the hub → Hub 05 7 articles AI search visibilityHow ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI decide who to recommend, and what makes a business visible to them.
Open the hub → Hub 06 5 articles Local SEO & GBPGoogle Business Profile, the map pack, reviews, and turning near-me searches into people at the door.
Open the hub → Hub 07 3 articles Content marketingWriting for the question rather than the keyword, and measuring content in revenue instead of volume.
Open the hub → Hub 08 2 articles Branding & strategyPositioning, naming, identity, and saying one clear thing instead of five vague ones.
Open the hub → Not writing 4 case studies What it did in practiceThe four client results, each one stating how its number was measured and over what period.
See the results →You have read what
we would do. Here is what it costs.
Every price is on one page, itemised to the line. If it does not fit your budget you will know in ten seconds, which is a better use of your time than a proposal.