What does a custom website cost for a trades business?

Builds start at $1,250 AUD, priced by how many pages you actually need and quoted on our call, with Google Business Profile setup included. The first three clients receive a founding rate.

Who owns the website and the accounts?

You do, outright. The site, the domain, the hosting login, and the analytics are all in your name. Growbly keeps no copies and no access after handover.

Will an AI ever contact my customers by itself?

No. There is no AI phone bot and no auto responder. Where AI is involved it drafts, and a person reads it and presses send.

For electricians, HVAC, plumbing, builders & specialist trades

Your work is the best thing you have. Most people never get to see it.

You do a job you would happily put your name on, then it disappears behind a website that has not been touched in years. I build the website that shows the standard you actually work to, so the person deciding who to call can see it. Owned by you, outright.

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A website you own outright. No monthly fee to keep it online.

01 Where it starts

People decide about your work before they ever speak to you.

Someone gets your name from a mate, then does what everyone does now and looks you up. What they find on that screen is the whole basis for whether they call. In trades the work is the product, and most websites show almost none of it.

What they see is years behind what you do now The photos are from the jobs you were taking when the site was built. The work has moved on. The website has not, so you are being judged on your old standard.
It is hard to use on a phone, which is where they are Most people are looking you up on a phone, standing in the room they want fixed. If they have to pinch and zoom to find your number, some of them stop looking.
Nothing tells them why you, rather than the next name on the list Three trades all look roughly the same online. The one that shows real finished work, clearly, tends to get the call.

That is the part a website fixes, and it is the part I fix first. The office side, chasing quotes and following up, matters too, and it is further down this page.

02 What I build

OliviaOwner, Growbly

A website that shows the work, then the office side if it is worth it.

It starts with the website, because that is what people see first and it is the part you can fix once and own outright.

A written brief you fill in when it suits you, then a 45 minute call to walk through it together
Sitemap and page structure, organised around what your customers actually look for
Custom visual direction, designed for your business rather than dropped into a template
The pages your business actually needs, built responsive, so it reads properly on a phone
Copy refinement, so the words sound like you and are easy to read
Contact and enquiry form, custom built and tested, with enquiries landing straight in your inbox
Page titles and descriptions written for search, privacy friendly analytics with no cookie banner, and pages structured so AI assistants can read and quote them correctly
Google Business Profile set up properly, included rather than charged as an extra
Deployment, testing, launch, 2 rounds of revisions, and 14 days of support after launch

A custom website build starts at $1,250 AUD, priced by how many pages the business actually needs and quoted on our call. Your Google Business Profile setup is included. The first three clients receive a founding rate on top of that. Payment is 50 percent to begin and 50 percent before launch, and it takes around 7 to 12 business days once your content and images are with me. You own the site, the domain, and the hosting login, with no monthly fee to keep it online.

If you would rather not think about domains, renewals, or small edits, Growbly Care is $79 AUD a month and covers all of it, including up to 30 minutes of changes. It is optional, never required, and never charged per page. Plenty of people happily run the site themselves.

Once the website is right, and only then, there is a second door: practical AI from $750 AUD, for one job in your business that eats your time every week. For trades that is often a quote or enquiry arriving and coming back to you as a drafted reply, ready to read and send. It gets mapped out so you can see it before it is built, and a person always presses send. If nothing is worth automating, I will say so.

03 Practical AI, if it is worth it

The office side, once the website is sorted.

Once the site is doing its job, the next thing that eats your week is usually the office. That is where a small, well chosen automation earns its money. Built in your accounts, and nothing ever sends without you.

Enquiry to drafted reply. A job enquiry lands, gets logged, and comes back to you as a written reply in your voice, ready to read and send.
Quote follow up on a schedule. Every unanswered quote gets chased on a set rhythm, drafted for you, instead of depending on you remembering on a Thursday night.
Job records that fill themselves in. Enquiries, quotes, and jobs land in one sheet automatically, so the office is not retyping things.
Review requests after a finished job. Drafted and timed for when the work is done, which is the cheapest way there is to grow a local reputation.

Practical AI starts at $750 AUD, quoted before anything begins, and it is only worth doing when it is genuinely cheaper than a subscription or doing it yourself. If nothing here is worth automating for you, I will say so.

A composing stick, where type is set line by line before it ever meets paper — Set once, carefully. Then it prints the same way every time.

04 Your name on every message

Your reputation is the business. I do not gamble with it.

Trades live and die on word of mouth. So nothing automated ever talks to your customers: the system drafts, you or your office approves, and a person sends. Your customer records stay in your systems and your accounts. I keep no copies, I never ask for your passwords, and my access ends at handover.

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05 Common questions

What does a website cost?: Builds start at $1,250 AUD, priced by how many pages you actually need and quoted on our call, with your Google Business Profile setup included. The first three clients receive a founding rate. Payment is 50 percent to begin and 50 percent before launch. Prices are in AUD. Growbly is not currently registered for GST, so no GST is charged.
Who owns the website and the accounts?: You do, outright. The site, the domain, the hosting login, and the analytics are all in your name. If you ever want to take the work elsewhere, you can.
How long does it take?: Around 7 to 12 business days depending on the size of the site, from the point your content and images are with me. Gathering photos and deciding what you want to say is usually what sets the pace.
Will an AI ever contact my customers by itself?: No. There is no AI phone bot and no auto responder. Where AI is involved it drafts, and a person reads it and presses send.
Will you guarantee I rank first on Google?: No, and be careful of anyone who does. I set your titles, descriptions, and analytics up properly so you can be found for your own name and services, and so you can see what is happening. Rankings depend on your market and time.

Let us talk about what your website should be doing.

A free 20 minute call. I will tell you plainly whether a rebuild is worth your money, and if it is not, you will leave with something useful anyway.

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