About
One question, asked every month.
Did the website earn more than it cost. It’s an obvious question and most of this industry is set up to avoid answering it. Design firms hand over a build and vanish. SEO firms report impressions that never became a customer. The owner ends up with an invoice and a hunch. We build the site and then stay for the part where it has to earn, which means we take on fewer jobs than we could and you deal with the people doing the work.
◆ What we believe
Six things we won’t budge on.
01
Traffic isn't the product
Visitors who were never going to buy cost money to get and make a report look good. We chase the searches that end in a job, even when the numbers are smaller.
02
Structure beats decoration
How a site is put together decides what it can rank for. Get that wrong and no amount of polish saves it. Get it right and plain design does fine.
03
We'll tell you what flopped
Every campaign has months where something lands flat. A report with only good news in it has stopped being any use, so ours says what missed and what we changed.
04
No lock-in
Code, domain, content, hosting, analytics. Yours from day one. The only reason to stay should be that it's working.
05
You deal with whoever does the work
Nothing gets passed to an account manager who then asks the person you wanted in the first place.
06
Nothing clever that gets you burned
Tricks that exploit a gap in an algorithm collect the penalty eventually. We build the sort of visibility that survives an update.
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◆ Fit
Who we’re good for, and who we aren’t.
Saying no early is cheaper for both of us than finding out four months in. So here it is.
Good fit
- Owner-run businesses where one more good customer a week changes the year
- Trades, clinics, professional firms, considered e-commerce. Anywhere people search before they call
- Anyone sick of a site that looks fine and produces nothing
- People who can give it two or three quarters to build
Bad fit
- Anyone who needs it working by the end of next month
- Anyone shopping for the cheapest template going, with nothing after it
- Anyone wanting tactics that break the rules and eventually get caught
- Anyone who wants a supplier that takes orders rather than argues back
About the name.
Winning doesn’t mean a design award or a screenshot of a rankings chart. It means you get picked instead of the firm down the road, because you came up first, you answered the question better, and you were easy to ring. That’s a slower and duller kind of win than this industry usually sells. It’s the only one that shows up in the accounts.