Recent Websites We’ve Built
Why is a website important?
A website is vital for small businesses as it allows them to compete with larger companies by showcasing their products or services to a wider audience, establishing trust with customers, and generating revenue through e-commerce.
We want to tell you a SECRET
If you don’t have a professional website, your business is more than 80% less likely to succeed.
A Facebook or Instagram page just isn’t going to cut it. On average, businesses without a professional website fail at 8x the normal rate.
We Won’t Charge You
We build people professional websites for free that other agencies charge thousands of dollars for.
The reason we do this is simple: it’s a great way for us to build connections with business owners who might hire us for larger paid projects as their companies grow.
What You Will Get
A CUTTING EDGE WEBSITE
We’ll set you up with a website that has the latest and most cutting-edge design.
MOBILE OPTOMIZED
Over 50% of website traffic comes from phones. We’ll help ensure your website looks stunning on mobile.
ESSENTIAL PLUGINS
We’ll install all of the key plugins you’ll need for your website to be optimized for SEO, load speed, and security.
FAST LOAD TIMES
We’ll make sure your website visitors don’t wait a millisecond longer than they have to when loading your site.
SEO REAFY
We’ll install Google Analytics and Google Search Console so you can track your visitors and your popularity on search engines.
100% CONTROL
We’ll show you how to edit your own website so that you won’t ever have to hire a developer to make updates or changes in the future.
Frequently Asked Questions
The reason we do this is simple: it’s a great way for us to build connections with entrepreneurs who might hire us for larger paid projects as their businesses grow. 97% of the people for whom we’ve built website for free have been happy with the results and 10-20% go on to hire us for other paid projects down the line. They might hire us to build more complicated websites, an app, or do ongoing development work for them.
To put a website online – and to keep it online – you’ll need web hosting, which costs a few dollars per month. We cover our website development costs by asking you to sign up for web hosting with Loyalty Ignite, using our affiliate link. (That affiliate link also has a special discounted rate that we’ve negotiated with Loyalty Ignite specifically for our clients.)
When you use our link, we get a commission. This commission is paid to us by Loyalty Ignite. You pay nothing extra yourself.
That’s it! We simply recoup some of our costs by receiving the affiliate commission when you sign up for web hosting.
You’ll need to sign up for one of our preferred web hosting companies to get access to our free-website service.
Nope.
We won’t request your credit card. We won’t have you sign any kind of payment contracts with us. Nothing like that.
What you will need to do is to sign up for website hosting with Loyalty Ignite, using our affiliate. But the commission we receive from the hosting provider is paid by them, not you.
If you’ve already bought a domain name, that’s great. If you haven’t chosen one yet, that’s completely fine. We’ll show you how to do that.
You can apply here.
We carefully review every application that comes our way. Our Applications Committee considers the following:
- Do we like the concept for the website?
- Is it ethical?
- Is this a highly complex website that’s outside the scope of our free-website program?
We review most applications within 48-72 hours.
We use WordPress, the most popular content management system for websites. In fact, about 30% of the internet runs on WordPress. In our opinion, it’s the best platform to use for the vast majority of websites (unless you’re looking to build something that’s super complex).
WordPress is free to use, and we’ll be able to load it onto your web hosting platform once you’ve signed up for web hosting.
We build people simple but professional websites as part of our free-website program. (You can see some examples here). We don’t do highly complex websites with lots of bells and whistles.
Nope, definitely not. We walk you through everything you’ll need to do in a clear, step-by-step way. Plus, once we’re done working on your website, we’ll send you a detailed instruction video showing you how to make additional edits and changes to your website so that you won’t ever need to hire a website developer.
Assuming you get back to our emails promptly and don’t request any complex additional features, we aim for a completion time of no more than 3 weeks. If you take longer to think about your content, design, logo, etc., that’s no problem for us and we can work at your pace.
Yes, 100%. Once we’re done working on your website, you’ll delete our user account (which is what gives us access to the back-end of your website) and we’ll have no additional ability to make edits or changes. We will not own your website nor control it in any way.
Absolutely. When we finish the website, we’ll send you a detailed video breaking down how to make additional edits yourself (so you don’t need to hire a web developer). You’ll be in full control, in other words, and you’ll have the training you need to continue to make refinements and updates yourself to whatever you wish: the buttons, text, content, photos, and every other element of the website.
We set up the website for you, including doing both backend and frontend work. At that point, all you have to do is to edit the text on your website, upload photos, etc. We send you a very detailed instructional video showing you how to do this, including some great resources for where to find high quality free photos you can use.
Nope, there’s no rush.
You’ll be able to update/change the content on your website whenever you like. We’ll show you how to upload and change content so that you can do it at at your own pace once your website is ready. It’s quite easy, and you’ll need no knowledge of coding.
We don’t provide long-term support for free, no. However, unless you’re building something highly complex, you shouldn’t need our support. We’ll be showing you how to make edits to your own website so that you’ll never need to hire another web developer. WordPress is quite easy to use, and we’ll be providing you with the training you need in order to manage your own website (which is pretty easy).