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Solas Web Design currently offers some of the most affordable rates for professional Web Design, SEO and Copywriting in the U.S.

We are a small firm, and our rates are small-business-friendly. Don't get mixed up with those big, faceless corporations that are charging you X dollars per month and don't even know you by your first name.

We create custom quotes for each and every project because we don't believe your business is quite like anyone else's! We structure fees in the following ways:

  • We accept project-by-project contracts and quote flat fees for these. Initial consulation is always free of charge to the client.
  • We accept salaried positions from companies wishing to retain our services for a set or protracted period of time. Retainers will be agreed upon by both parties.
  • We accept contracts for companies who require professional consultation or ongoing webmastering services. Such work will be contracted at our hourly rate of $100/per hour.
  • We require a written contract between both parties and a deposit at the commencement of work which will be relative to the overall project cost.
  • We do not accept contracts with anyone wishing to publish offensive materials of any kind.

Whether you need a complete website design, a redesign, a little work on an existing site, copywriting or local search consultation, our skills are at your service.

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Straight Talk About Your Investment In Your Online Presence
We're very involved in our industry and spend part of every work day following search marketing news and networking with our industry colleagues. The years we've spent amongst our peers and working one-on-one with small business owners have helped us to gain a bird's eye view of the lay of the land when it comes to rates for web design and SEO/SEM services. Let's break this down into three different groups:

Cheap and Risky
Hoping to do business on the web without making a genuine investment in your website and its promotion almost guarantees disappointment. Phony offers of 'instant success', 'instant rankings' or 'instant' anything play on people's dreams and create a false picture of what it really takes to succeed on the web. It's going to take a great idea, tremendous effort, skills and money. The best analogy we can make is that if you're having a brick-and-mortar business built from the ground up, hiring a cheap construction company may lead to disaster. Disaster happens on the web when hopeful business owners buy into offers that are simply too good to be true.

Cheap websites include template sites where you buy into a big company's monthly plan for $20, $50, $100 a month on the assurances that you can build a professional website, all on your own, even if you've never built one before. Sure, the template will let you build something, but without spending the time to educate yourself about usable design, search engines and search marketing, the result is not going to be professional. It can serve you as a great learning tool, but there's a reason some 75% of the redesign work we get comes from small business owners who went the template/monthly fee route and found they weren't ranking anywhere or seeing any profit.

Cheap websites might be built by a friend, a relative or a student. Hobbyist websites of this kind can be great if you're just starting out and really don't have any serious investment to make in your web presence, but they tend to outlive their purpose when the owner realizes they are missing the opportunity to present their business in a professional manner or that they aren't being found by search engines for the right searches.

The risk factor comes into play in a couple of ways. The simplest one is that any time lost representing yourself in an unprofessional way means lost money. The more complicated risk involves what can happen to your business when you hire someone who doesn't know really what they are doing. At best, your site may spend months or years buried pages and pages deep in the search engines because it has been poorly constructed. At worst, unskilled or unprincipled website designers may get your company's website penalized or banned by search engines. Remember, your website is the home of your online reputation. Something as important as this deserves to be in safe, skilled hands.

Good Investment, Good Return
If those something-for-nothing offers you've run across have given you false hopes that you can succeed on the web without a real investment, you'll doubtless be heaving a small sigh when a legitimate, professional web design firm quotes you a price for your project. You may say to yourself, "well, now I know it's going to cost me something to make my business goals a reality." But somehow, you probably already knew that.

Maybe your quote will be for $2000, maybe it will be two, three or four times that much, depending upon the complexity of your needs. Your budget has to be a deciding factor, and talking to trusted web design firms will help you gain a realistic view of what your budget will need to be to get what you want. Any good firm will be happy to provide you with a quote, once they understand the scope of your project, and within this segment of good investment/good return companies there is some leeway when it comes to a final price. Some firms won't take on projects valued at less that a set dollar amount. Others are more flexible, depending upon the availability on their books. Finding the right match for your project should be a combination between budget and absolute trust that the firm you hire will do a professional job for you.

Making a real investment in your web presence is your best plan for seeing a good return on your efforts. A qualified web design company will save you headaches, save you from common pitfalls associated with unskilled workers and will offer your company the qualified services you need.

Big Time and Totally Unaffordable
We have colleagues who only work with big companies. One of our industry's best-known SEM firms charges $10,000 just to consult with them, once! The truth of the matter is, this particular firm is worth it because of their incredible skills, but they aren't the right choice for the small business owners who become our clients.

If you're a small business owner, we know you don't have that kind of money to invest at this point. Maybe one day, you'll be at the point where you can hire one of those $10,000/hr consultants, just to see what they can teach you, but for now, this category of service providers and your budget probably aren't a match made in heaven.

Where Does Solas Web Design Fit Into All Of This?
We're definitely in category #2. We'll be expecting a realistic investment from you in our skills and services, but we won't break the bank. Our rates tend to be somewhat lower than many of our colleagues' in this category because we are so committed to serving the small business owner. If you're just starting out, working with us may require that you save up for a couple of months before we get going, but your business is definitely worth that kind of realistic commitment.

Why Clients Tell Us We're Offering Tremendous Value
The unseen value of a qualified web design and SEO firm is the pitfalls and hassles avoided by the client because they've hired professionals. The visible value shines in the word-of-mouth referrals and exuberant testimonials only worthy firms win. Here are a few example of how our clients feel about working with us:

"Having my site professionally designed by Solas Web Design was the single most significant decision I could have made for my business..." - Ann Shaw, Owner, Classic Quilts of Vermont

"Numbers do not lie! In one year since the Solas web team redesigned our site, our online sales have shot up over 125%!!!!!" - Dawn Perry, Owner, Cape Cod Treasure Chest

"I can't say enough good things about the folks at Solas Web Design. We've had a website for years and years, but were never able to get any real benefit from it until we got hooked up with Solas. We're now getting enough sales from the web to make a real difference."
- Jim Leavitt, Owner, Emerson Creek Pottery

"I just wanted to thank you for all the help you gave in creating ITechRecovery.com. You not only created a great web site but you also helped me learn a few things along the way. I'm not sure how many other companies would have taken the time to explain things the way you did. From start to finish you walked me through everything and made me feel like I was really involved. This investment was truly money well spent. I will definitely be recommending Solas Web design
to my friends and colleagues." - Jim Ulik, Owner, ITR Consulting Group, LLC.

You don't win words like those by being the cheapest, the biggest or the flashiest. You win those words with consistent, daily effort and a real commitment to the well-being of your clients' businesses. Our clients are happy to recommend us to their colleagues and friends because we have proven our worth to them. We'd like a chance to prove it to you. We understand that getting a quote is very important to your plan of action. Let's get talking today about your needs so that you can discover whether Solas Web Design will be the most valuable match for your business.

Reach Us By Phone: (707) 981-7651
By Email: info@solaswebdesign.net

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Solas Web Design is a San Francisco Bay Area-Based Web Design
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Phone: (707) 981-7651
info@solaswebdesign.net

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What Our Clients Are Saying:

Happy Web Client 1 "Not just designers, but innovators,
I believe. When you're working with people who have a passion for what they do, and also have a great work ethic, it shows in their work. That's what Solas Web Design to me is all about: passion and work ethic. What more could you ask for?"

- John W. Tuggle, Learning Guitar Now

Happy Web Client 3 "Working around the challenges, coming up with creative solutions and using best in class and state of the art web design principles, Solas gave us much more than expected. If you are in a situation where you would like to stand out as an exceptional company, Solas Web Design should be your first call."
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