Websites and marketing for local service businesses
See your new website before you pay a dollar.
Tell us what you do and where. We build a working preview of your site with your real services and your real reviews, and get back to you with the link. Like it? We launch it and run it every month, so you stay easy to find and easy to call.
Free. No card, no contract, no sales pitch. Send the form and we get back to you with your preview link. Agency-quality results without the agency price or the agency runaround.
A note from Jacob
A website nobody runs is a business card in a drawer.
Hey, I'm Jacob. I run Vendly, a small web shop for local service businesses.
Here is what I keep seeing.
Putting a website up stopped being the hard part. You can get one stood up in an afternoon now.
It still will not answer a customer at nine at night. It will not keep you showing up on Google. It will not post for you, or tell you what it did this week.
So the job goes to whoever looked more put together when the customer searched. Usually not the better contractor. Just the one whose site was finished and kept up.
That is the part we do. We show up with your site already built. You look at it before you pay a dollar. Then we keep it running while you do the work you are actually good at.
Jacob
Pick your starting point
Where are you right now?
See your new site first
We build a working preview with your real services and reviews. You pay nothing unless you want it.
Get my free preview Have a site, not sure it worksScore it in two minutes
Six yes-or-no questions. A real score and the exact fixes, on the spot, free.
Score my website Rather do it yourself for nowThe $19 Growth Toolkit
The site checklist and review-ask scripts we use for our own paying clients. One time, yours to keep.
Get the toolkit Want the whole job handledSee the plans
Website, posts and a maintenance plan for your customers, run for you. From $100 a month.
See plans and pricesHow it works
Four steps. You only do the first one.
- 1
Tell us about your business
Your name, your town, what you do. Two minutes on the form, or send a text. That is your whole to-do list.
- 2
We build your site first
A working preview with your services, your photos where we have them, and your real reviews. Free, and no card.
- 3
You say yes, we launch it
On your own domain, in your name. You own the store and the domain from the day it goes live.
- 4
We run it every month
Updates, a weekly check on your Google listing, your posts if your plan includes them, and a plain-English report on what your site did that week.
What we handle
The agency work a local business actually needs. None of the runaround.
One team, one monthly price, and a person who picks up. Here is what that covers.
Your website, built and run
Written around the jobs you want more of, fast on a phone, with a clear way to call you on every page. Changes handled by the people who built it.
Found on Google
Your Google Business Profile checked every week, with anything missing or wrong flagged to you, and your site set up for the searches people in your area actually type.
Social posts, done for you
Facebook and Instagram posts written in your voice and posted on a schedule, starting once you connect your page to us, so your page looks alive when a customer checks you out.
A maintenance plan for your customers
A plan that brings your customers back on a schedule, like a monthly lawn visit or a yearly tune-up. We set it up after you sign on, and we run it for you.
Vendly Concierge Live
Answers questions on your site around the clock and takes the customer's name and number, so nobody slips through at 9pm.
A weekly report you can read
Plain English, once a week: how many people found you, what they looked at, and what we did about it. No logins, no jargon.
Coming soon: Vendly Callback, which texts back the callers you miss. No buy button until it is live and tested.
A real Vendly build
He needed a store that could do the one thing Shopify couldn't.
Zach Mitchell builds custom archery bowstrings at Palmetto Precision Strings. Every string is made to the customer's exact bow, so no off-the-shelf store could take his orders. We built him one with a custom string-builder that lets his customers spec it themselves. When he wants a change, he sends one message and it gets done by the people who built it. And we run it for him month to month.
"Social media was working, but I kept getting 'do you have a website' questions. Now it makes keeping track of orders much easier and simplifies things for customers. To any owner on the fence, you will not regret it."Zach Mitchell, Palmetto Precision Strings
Plans and prices
One flat monthly price. Listed right here, not on a sales call.
Every plan starts the same way: we build your preview first and you see it before you pay anything. No build fee on any plan.
The whole job handled
All-in
$250 /month
Your website, your social posts, and a maintenance plan for your customers. The one that does the most for you.
- Your website, built and run for you, in your name
- Your Google Business Profile checked every week, with anything missing or wrong flagged to you
- Facebook and Instagram posts in your voice, on a schedule, starting once you connect your page to us
- A maintenance plan for your customers, set up after you sign on and run by us
- A plain-English weekly report and a direct line to a real person
Pick your two
Any two
$200 /month
Choose any two of the three: your website, your social posts, or a maintenance plan for your customers.
- Any two of website, social posts, maintenance plan
- Your Google Business Profile checked every week, with anything missing or wrong flagged to you
- A plain-English weekly report
- A direct line to a real person
Just the website
Website
$100 /month
A professional site, built for you and kept running every month, so you look established and get found.
- Your website, built and run for you
- You own the store and the domain from the day it goes live
- Your Google Business Profile checked every week, with anything missing or wrong flagged to you
- Updates and changes handled for you
Why now: our prices go up as we grow, and whatever you start at stays your price for as long as you stay with us.
Our promise: you see your finished site before you pay a dollar. After that it is month to month, and if you ever leave, the site and the domain stay yours. The only other costs are your Shopify plan (about $39 a month) and your domain, which you pay to them directly, in your name.
Side by side
Agency-quality work, without the agency way of doing it.
| What matters | The usual agency | Vendly |
|---|---|---|
| See it before you pay | Rarely. You pay, then wait. | Yes. Your preview comes first. |
| Build fee | Often thousands up front | $0 |
| Price | Quoted after a sales call | $100 to $250 a month, listed here |
| Contract | Often 6 to 12 months | Month to month |
| Who owns the site | Sometimes they do | You do, from the day it goes live |
| Who you talk to | An account manager | The people who built it |
Straight answers
The questions owners ask us first.
How does the free preview work?
You tell us your business name, your town and what you do. We build a working preview of your site using your real services and your real reviews, and get back to you with the link. There is no card and no obligation. If you like it, we launch it on your own domain. If you do not, you owe nothing.
Do I own my website?
Yes. The store and the domain are in your name from the day it goes live. You pay Shopify (about $39 a month) and your domain registrar directly, so if you ever leave us, the site stays yours.
Is there a contract?
No. Every plan is month to month and you can cancel anytime. We would rather keep you by doing good work than by holding you to paperwork.
I already have a website. Can you still help?
Yes. We can build you a better one and show it to you first, or keep your site and add the pieces it is missing, like your Google listing, your posts, or the Concierge. Not sure where yours stands? Score your website free in about two minutes.
What kind of businesses do you work with?
Local service businesses, trades first: roofers, plumbers, HVAC, electricians, landscapers, tree services, pressure washers, towing, auto repair and the like. If your customers call you or book you, we are probably a fit.
Who will I actually talk to?
The people who built your site. Call or text (774) 426-9684, or send us a note. No call center and no ticket queue.
Already have a website?
Find out in two minutes if it is quietly sending customers to the guy down the road.
Six yes-or-no questions. You get a real score and the exact fixes on the spot, free. No email needed to see your results.
Your site could already be built by the time you check back.
Every week your site is missing or unfinished, the customer who searched for you calls somebody else. It takes two minutes to tell us about your business. We do the rest, and you see it before you spend a dollar.
P.S. The preview is free whether you go ahead or not. The worst case is you get a look at what your business could look like online, for nothing. Get started here.