Web design in Leyton
A lot of Leyton businesses run on an Instagram account, a phone number and word of mouth, and they do genuinely well on it. The problem only shows up later, when the account gets restricted or the algorithm moves on and there is nothing underneath it. I build the thing underneath it, for £240 to set up and £179 a month.
Renting an audience versus owning one
Social media is somebody else's platform and the terms change without asking you. A website, a domain and a Google listing in your own name are assets you keep. That is a boring argument right up until the day it is not.
Francis Road runs on reputation
The independents around Francis Road built their trade on being genuinely good and being talked about. A website does not replace that, it catches it. When somebody hears your name at the Saturday market and looks you up that evening, the search result is the first impression you do not get to be present for.
Instagram is a shop window, not a shop
Keep posting, it works. But an account can be restricted, hacked or throttled overnight, and you cannot export your customers out of it. The site holds your prices, your hours and your contact details somewhere nobody can switch off.
Central line footfall, and new arrivals
Leyton keeps gaining people who do not know the area yet and are looking up everything from scratch. They are not asking a neighbour, they are asking Google. That is a stream of first-time customers who only find the businesses that are findable.
Market stalls and traders count
You do not need a shopfront to need a website. If you trade at a market, take orders by message or run out of a unit, a single page with what you sell, where you will be this weekend and how to order does more work than most full sites.
Prices where people can see them
The most common reason somebody does not enquire is that they could not work out what it would cost and did not want to ask. Putting real numbers on the page loses you the wrong enquiries and gains you the right ones.
Your Google listing, in your name
Set up properly as part of the monthly fee, with the right categories, real opening hours and photos. For a business without a prominent shopfront this is often the single biggest source of new customers.
One price, everything in it
£240 to set up, then £179 a month. Something you own underneath the Instagram account, for one monthly price. Three months minimum, then 30 days' notice.
The site
Your own address on the internet that no algorithm can restrict, designed for you and live within a week.
Hosting
Fast and backed up, on hosting that answers to you rather than to a platform.
Google Maps
A listing in your name so E10 searches find you even when nobody is scrolling.
Your numbers
See who found you through Google rather than through the feed, month by month.
Social accounts
Your existing ones matched to the site and linked both ways, so followers become enquiries.
Updates
A new menu, new stock, a pop-up date. Send it and the site keeps up with your posts.
Money back: not happy in the first two months? Every monthly payment comes back and you keep the site. The £240 setup is not refunded.
Branding is £199 extra if you want it. Comparing? Website costs in London, us vs Wix or Checkatrade, or check your current site.
Designs you can click through
These are example designs built to show the range, not real businesses and not clients. The names and the addresses on them are invented. Have a look on your phone if you can, that is where nearly everyone will see yours.
Things Leyton businesses ask me
My business does fine on Instagram. Why would I pay for a website?
Because you do not own Instagram. Accounts get restricted and reach gets throttled with no warning and no appeal you can rely on. Most Leyton businesses I speak to are one bad morning away from having no way to reach their customers. Keep the account, just do not let it be the only thing.
Do you work with market traders and businesses without a shopfront?
Yes, and they are often the ones it helps most. If people cannot walk past you, being findable online is not a nice extra, it is the whole shopfront.
How long before it is live?
Within a week of the setup fee and your content coming in. You see a preview and approve it before anything goes public, so nothing appears with the wrong prices on it.
What does a website cost in Leyton?
£240 to set it up, then £179 a month, everything in. Three months minimum, then month to month on 30 days' notice. No quote to wait for, it is the same for everyone.
Want something underneath the Instagram?
A short call with nothing to prepare. Tell me how customers find you now and I will be honest about whether a site would add to it.