Web Design & Hosting for Home-Service Contractors · SF Bay Area
They found a directory selling your leads to somebody else — or nothing at all. I build websites for Bay Area contractors that turn that search into a booked job. And you see the finished design before you pay a dollar.
No sales call required — every price is published on this page.
01 — Selected Work
Every site below was designed around one question: what does this business's customer need to feel before they reach out? Two kinds of work here, both labeled honestly: live client builds — screenshots only, no links, because my clients' sites exist to win them customers, not to advertise me — and studio concepts, so you can see your trade done right before you ask for your own.
The owner built his first website himself — and got stuck where most owners get stuck: it never felt right. We rebuilt it around the person actually visiting: someone nervous, deciding whether to make a hard phone call. Calm colors, plain words, zero friction to reach out. The reaction from his colleagues — “who built this?” — is half the reason this studio exists.
A studio concept showing what a Bay Area paver company's site should do: sell the evening, not the stones — then back it with licensing, itemized quotes, and a one-crew promise.
This owner got stuck the same way — a do-it-yourself builder, nights lost, a site that didn't look like her work. The rebuild positions her as the obvious choice to listing agents and cuts booking to under a minute: no account, no deposit, no phone tag.
The next spot here is reserved for a Bay Area contractor. It could be your company — request your free draft →
02 — Built for Your Trade
A painter is hired on trust. A paver company is hired on the after-photo. A concrete crew is hired on a firm number. Each trade below gets its own page — what loses jobs online in that trade, what its buyer needs to hear, and a studio concept built to show it.
Sell the finished evening — and qualify $20k budgets before the free site visit.
How I build for paver companies →
Win the trust screen — you're the crew a homeowner lets inside the house.
How I build for painters →
Sell the yard in August, not the plant list — and filter out mow-and-blow calls.
How I build for landscapers →
Turn flatwork back into a craft — and kill change-order fear with firm-quote positioning.
How I build for concrete contractors →
Answer the per-foot question everyone dodges — and win the speed game.
How I build for fence companies →Decks, cleaning, tree care, junk removal, pressure washing — the free homepage draft works exactly the same way. Tell me your trade and I'll show you.
Request your free draft →03 — Why Me
I'm Ben Beck. I own and operate Thrive Cleaners, a residential cleaning company serving Contra Costa and Alameda Counties — look it up. Scheduling crews, quoting jobs, answering the phone while driving between them: I know exactly what a missed call costs, because I've missed them.
The web design started as favors — for owners who'd tried the do-it-yourself builders and gotten stuck. I built my own company's site, then a counselor's, then a real estate photographer's, and watched what happened when a small business finally looked as good online as it is in person. When the counselor's colleagues started asking who built his site, I stopped calling it a favor. It's the thing I'm best at.
Agencies design for their portfolio. I design for the homeowner at 9pm comparing three contractors on her phone — because as an operator, that homeowner is who pays my bills too.
04 — How It Works
Every web designer says "trust me." I'd rather show you. That's the whole model — it's why my clients never buy a promise, only a finished thing they've already seen.
Tell me about your business below. I research your trade, your county, your reviews, and your competitors — then design your actual homepage and send you a private link. No deposit, no meeting, no obligation. If you hate it, delete the email.
You like it, we talk — 15 minutes. Half the build fee starts the work. Your real photos, your reviews, your license and warranty details go in, and I write every page in words your customers actually use. You approve everything.
Live in days, on a domain registered in your name. Hosting and care is $149 a month — and every month you get a plain-English report: visits, calls tapped, forms filled. You'll never wonder what your website is doing.
You don't pay the balance until you approve the finished site. Not "satisfaction guaranteed" — approval, in writing, before the second half of the invoice exists. If I can't make it something you're proud of, the deposit covered my work and you owe nothing more.
05 — Why the Words Matter
Most contractor sites are written from the owner's side of the truck — years in business, equipment lists, trade acronyms. Your buyer is a homeowner at 9pm with three tabs open and one fear: choosing wrong. I write every page for that person, in their language, mined from what your customers already say about you in reviews.
That translation is the product. The design earns the stay; the words earn the call.
06 — What I Do
Custom-designed, hand-built pages — no templates, no page builders. Fast on a phone, obvious where to tap, and shaped around your trade's actual buying decision.
I write every headline and page from your real reviews and your customers' own language. You read it, you approve it, and it sounds like you — not like a brochure.
Per-city and per-service pages, structured data Google reads, clean titles, and a tuned Google Business Profile — the foundation local rankings are built on.
Fast hosting, SSL, backups, security, and small content updates when you need them — plus a monthly plain-English report of what the site produced. $149/mo, cancel anytime.
07 — Pricing
Most agencies hide pricing behind a "discovery call." Here's mine, same as I'd want it: flat, in writing, before we've ever spoken. Half to start, half only after you approve the finished site.
The essential site, done right
First five clients: $2,000
For ranking across your service area
For being the first name in your county
Hosting, SSL, backups, security, small content updates, and a monthly plain-English results report. Month-to-month, cancel anytime — and if you ever leave, you take the whole site with you, free.
The fine print, in plain sight: 50% deposit to schedule the build; the balance is only invoiced after you approve the finished site. Your domain is registered in your name from day one — non-negotiable, even if you leave. Founding pricing: my first five clients get the Launch build for $2,000; it ends permanently at client #5.
08 — The Honest Comparison
| DIY builder (Wix, etc.) | Beck Web Studio | Marketing agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $200–$500/yr + your weekends | $2,500–$7,500 flat + $149/mo | $5,000–$25,000+ or $1,000+/mo retainers |
| Who does the work | You, at 10pm, after a full day on the job | Me — designed, written, and built for you | A rotating team; you're one of forty accounts |
| See it before you pay? | No — nothing exists until you build it | Yes — your homepage is drafted free, first | No — pay, then wait for round one |
| Do you own it? | No — leave Wix and you keep nothing; there is no export | Yes — your domain, your files; full export free, runs on any standard host | Sometimes — read the contract twice |
| Built for your trade? | Generic template, generic words | Home-service contractors only, one per county — that's the deal | Depends who they hired this quarter |
| Time you'll spend | 40+ hours, then it still looks DIY | About an hour, total | Weeks of meetings and email threads |
One of us is renting you a website. It isn't me — my clients own every file, and I have to stay good to keep them.
09 — Good Questions
10 — Start Here
Two minutes of your time. Then I go build your homepage and send you a private link — free, no obligation, no follow-up barrage.
Here's exactly what happens after you hit the button:
Rather just write? ben@beckwebstudio.com