Locations Greater Manchester
Web design for Manchester businesses, run from London.
Manchester SMBs are competing in a market that's added a top-tier tech scene in the last five years: the local buyer's bar is now closer to Shoreditch than to its older industrial self, and dated sites get filtered out fast.
Greater Manchester, North West England tech and digital · independent food and drink · professional services · creative
Distance, priced at zero
We are in London; you are in Manchester; the work does not care. Briefs run as a 30-minute video call, drafts and edits move over email, and the fee is identical everywhere in the UK. What you give up is a coffee. What you keep is a studio chosen on its work rather than its postcode.
Running a Manchester website from London
The work that makes a local business visible does not happen in the town; it happens in the Google Business Profile, in service pages that match what local customers type, and in a site fast enough to keep them. All of it is done remotely, and done every month rather than once at launch.
One flat fee covers the build and the running: hosting, domain, SSL, edits, search work, profile upkeep. You email what needs changing and it changes. No CMS to learn, no tickets, no per-edit bill.
Advice firms and consultancies in Manchester
Buyers of professional advice compare two or three firms in an evening, and they screen on credibility cues that are cheap to get right and expensive to get wrong: a stale news page, a copyright line two years old, a partner who left still listed. Keeping those details true is the core of the monthly service.
What "found in Manchester" really takes
Most searches that bring custom carry local intent: the service with the city name attached, or "near me". The map block answers them first, ranked from Business Profiles, and the ordinary results underneath reward pages that load fast and answer plainly. Both are worked on remotely, both monthly.
In a city of Manchester's size the mistake is trying to rank for everything city-wide at once. The realistic wins are your services in your part of the city, the searches your actual customers make, and your own name searched by someone who was told about you. We aim there and say so.
The price, flat and published
Essentials is £49 a month, Growth is £79 a month, and Pro is £200 a month for owners who want weekly publishing, with £0 setup on all three. Pay the year up front for a 10% discount. The price is the same in Manchester as anywhere else in the UK. The pricing page lists what sits in each tier.
Inside the first 30 days, if it is not what you asked for, we refund every month you have paid, no questions, and you keep the work and the domain.
Questions
Fair questions from Manchester owners
You are in London and I am in Manchester. How does that work?
Entirely remotely, by design. The brief is a 30-minute video call, drafts arrive by email, and edits are a plain-English email away. Your customers are in Manchester; we do not need to be. The one thing distance never touches is the price, which is the same everywhere in the UK.
Who am I actually dealing with?
One person: the founder, based in East Dulwich, London. The same person briefs, builds, writes and maintains every site we run. No account managers, no handoffs, no outsourced studio behind the curtain.
Can a London studio do local SEO for Manchester?
Yes, because the work is not done by standing in Manchester. It is done in the Google Business Profile, in service pages that match what Manchester customers type, and in a site that loads fast on a phone. Google ranks the map block on relevance, distance and prominence, and all three are worked on remotely.
How do changes get made after launch?
You email what needs changing in plain English and it happens: about two working days on Essentials, next working day on Growth. No CMS to learn, no tickets, no per-edit invoice.
If I cancel, what do I keep?
Everything: the domain in your name, the content, the code and the design files. A working copy is handed over within seven working days and there is no exit fee. Inside the first 30 days, cancelling also refunds every month paid.
How long until launch?
Usually about a week: a 30-minute brief call, a draft within two working days, one or two rounds of revisions, then live.
Read before you buy
Published homework, free either way
- Pay-monthly vs one-off websites, the 5-year maths : when each model wins, including where one-off does.
- 7 red flags in a website maintenance contract : what £50 to £300 a month should actually buy.
- Zero enquiries from your new website, 4 things to fix first : diagnostics in fix-order.
Nearby
Describe your Manchester business in two or three sentences and send it over. A reply comes within two working days, from the person who would do the work.