Question 1

What does a small business website actually cost around Vancouver, WA?

Accepted Answer

Locally the range runs about $4,000 to $20,000 for a designed site, based on the published quote ranges of design studios in this market, and most shops won't tell you a number until you've had a sales call. Ours are on this page. One page built around a single booking action is $1,800. A connected build across several pages, a lead path, and analytics starts at $4,500 and gets a written proposal before anything is committed. If a quote you're comparing has no number on it anywhere, that's usually a sign the number depends on what they think you'll pay.

Question 2

Do I need a new website, or SEO, or something else entirely?

Accepted Answer

Often none of the three. The most common thing we find is that people are already finding the business and there's nowhere obvious to act once they do, which is a much cheaper problem than a rebuild. Sometimes it's the Google profile rather than the site. Sometimes the site is fine and enquiries are landing in an inbox nobody checks on a Friday. That's the whole reason the Lead-Path Map is free and comes before any of this: guessing which one it is costs more than finding out.

Question 3

Why not just use Squarespace or Wix and do it myself?

Accepted Answer

If you're at the very start and need something on the internet this week, do exactly that. It's a good answer to that question. Where it stops being a good answer is when the business is real and the site is the thing standing between someone deciding and someone booking. A builder gives you pages. It doesn't decide what a customer needs to see before they'll act, or where an enquiry goes so it reaches you within the hour. That judgment is the thing you'd be paying for, and it's the part no template ships with.

Question 4

I don't want to start over. Can you improve what I already have?

Accepted Answer

Usually, and we'd rather. Starting over is the expensive answer and it's often the wrong one, especially if your current site already ranks for your own name and has history behind it. Plenty of engagements here are one page added to an existing site, or a quote flow attached to what's there, or the Google profile fixed and the site left alone. We'll tell you honestly if the existing thing is worth keeping. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll say that too.

Question 5

How long does each of these take?

Accepted Answer

Google profile and review setup is five business days. A privacy audit is five to seven. One page is ten business days. A connected build is four to six weeks after kickoff. Every one of those clocks starts when we have what we need from you, not when you pay, which means your busy fortnight doesn't quietly become our late delivery. Ongoing Care is monthly, with routine requests scheduled inside three business days.

Question 6

Can you guarantee I'll rank higher or get more leads?

Accepted Answer

No, and nobody honest will. Google decides placement on signals nobody fully controls, including how close the searcher is standing when they search, and whether a visitor becomes a customer depends on your pricing and how fast you follow up. What we'll guarantee is what we control: the page is live in the time quoted, the profile is complete and accurate, and the response time is what we agreed. Those are checkable. Rankings aren't ours to sell, and we'd rather lose the job than pretend otherwise.

Question 7

How does an engagement actually run?

Accepted Answer

One call to work out what the problem is, then a written scope with the price and the boundaries in it before anything starts. Then the work, with one or two consolidated review rounds depending on the package rather than an open-ended revision loop. Then a handoff, usually recorded, so the person who has to use it afterwards has seen it explained once. You deal with us the whole way through. There's no account manager, because there's no account team.

Question 8

What does each one cost, in one place?

Accepted Answer

Google + Reviews is $500 flat. The Website Privacy Audit is $650 standard, or $900 expanded for more pages and flows. One Page That Books is $1,800 fixed, sold after a short fit check rather than a blind checkout. Connected System Builds start at $4,500 and are quoted in a written proposal. Ongoing Care is $450 a month for systems we built. Two of those have a public buy button; the rest deliberately don't, because nobody should be able to purchase a $4,500 build without a conversation first.

Question 9

Do I own it after you build it?

Accepted Answer

Yes, all of it, on delivery. Source code, design files, content, images, domains, and any accounts or automations built as part of the work. Everything gets built inside platforms you already own and control, under your logins, not inside a Seal & Co. product. There's no buyout, no license fee, and nothing that expires if we stop working together. If you want to bring it in-house or hand it to someone else next year, you take the whole thing and nothing breaks. Worth asking anyone you're considering, because most agencies build you into their software and that's a retention plan rather than an asset.

Start with the problem you actually have.

One focused piece of work.

One Page That Books

Website Privacy Audit

Google + Reviews

Connected System Builds.

Ongoing Care.

The packs.

Not sure which of these it is?

The Speed Check

The Lead-Path Map

The Exposure Scan

Questions before you pick one.

Tell us what's going wrong and we'll tell you what it needs.