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.
Ben Beck, owner. Got a draft from me by email? You're in the right place. Here's who built it and what it costs. Reply to that email or call me.
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 first project is the exception: my own company, linked live — I don't need my own permission.
The one site I can show you live, because I own the business it books jobs for. It's now Thrive's biggest single source of new customers: 43% of them come through it. Every promise on this page — phone-first design, plain-language booking, speed — gets tested here first, with my own money on the line.
Visit the live site →
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.
“I used to spend so much time trying to explain what I do. Now I just send people to my website, and I’m proud to.”Joel, counselor, Colorado
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.
“My job is making listings look their best, and my own website didn’t. Now it looks like my work, and agents can book me in under a minute.”Chelsea, real estate media, New England
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 — see for yourself. 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.
“I tried building my own site first and could never get it to feel right. Ben built one that sounds like me and speaks to the people I actually work with. The first thing my colleagues asked was ‘Who built this?’ I used to spend so much time explaining my practice. Now I just tell people to check me out online.”Joel, counselor, Colorado
“I lost a lot of nights to a do-it-yourself website builder, and it never looked like the work I actually deliver. Ben rebuilt it so my photography finally shows the way I shoot it, and booking is simple: no account, no deposit, no phone tag. It’s the first site I’ve had that I’m happy to send an agent to.”Chelsea, real estate media, New England
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 on a domain registered in your name. Every site comes with a monthly plan, from $99 for hosting. On Care, your newest reviews go up every month and a plain-English report lands on the 1st: calls from the site, visits, the towns they came from, and your new reviews. 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 built from your real jobs, structured data Google reads, and clean titles — the foundation local rankings are built on.
Fast hosting, HTTPS, backups, and security from $99/mo. Care adds your newest reviews every month, new jobs in your portfolio, changes when you ask, and a monthly plain-English report — $199/mo, cancel anytime.
07 — Pricing
Most agencies hide pricing behind a "discovery call." Here's mine, flat and in writing, before we've ever spoken. Every build includes your changes. Half to start, half only after you approve the finished site.
The pages your customers need
More than one location? That’s a quote, not a tier.
Month to month. No contract. Cancel anytime and take the whole site with you.
Keeps it live
Keeps it current, without you thinking about it
More of the work you want
The fine print, in plain sight: Half to start the build; the balance is only invoiced after you approve the finished site (approval is assumed 5 business days after I send it, if I haven’t heard from you). Pay a year of any plan up front and get two months free ($990, $1,990, or $3,490). Rather not write a check? Nothing down is $349 a month for twelve months, covering the $2,000 website and Hosting, then whichever plan you pick — paying up front saves you $1,000. One change is one request about one thing: a price, a sentence, a photo swapped. Your domain is registered in your name from day one. Read the full terms.
08 — The Honest Comparison
| DIY builder (Wix, etc.) | Beck Web Studio | Marketing agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $200–$500/yr + your weekends | $2,000 flat + from $99/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 there's no usable export; you start over | 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 — 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
Rather talk? Call or text (925) 488-4064