Newtech Civil
Matt’s concrete and civil contracting business. Builders, councils and homeowners see the work, then ring him.
Maitland is growing fast. Your website should be keeping up.
Maitland is the fastest-growing local government area in the Hunter. There were 90,226 people living in it at the 2021 census and it has kept climbing since. That is good news and a problem at the same time: more customers, and more businesses turning up to compete for them.
Source: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats, Maitland.
It matters for a website more than it sounds like it should. When a town fills up, a growing share of the people who need what you do have never heard of you, and never will unless they find you the way everybody finds things now, which is by typing it into a phone. Word of mouth still works. It just stops being enough on its own.
I build websites for small businesses out of the Hunter Valley. Custom code, no page builders and no templates, and every price is published on this site so you can work out whether this is worth a conversation before you have one.
What a growing town does to a business that isn’t online properly
The businesses that get left behind in a place like Maitland are rarely the bad ones. They are usually the ones everybody already knows about, which works beautifully right up until the people who already know about them stop being the majority. New streets fill with people who have no history with your business at all. To them, you exist if you turn up on a phone, and you do not exist if you don’t.
The other half of it is that whoever is competing with you often arrives with a website already, because that is simply how a business starts now. You can be twenty years better at the actual job and still lose the enquiry to somebody who has been trading six months, purely because they were the one who showed up when it got searched for.
If somebody has already built you one
A fair bit of what I do is not a first website. It is a second one, for somebody who paid for a site a few years back and has been quietly disappointed in it ever since. Slow on a phone, impossible to change without asking permission, or just nothing like what they thought they were buying.
If that is where you are, send me the address before you do anything else. I will have a look and let you know whether it is worth fixing or worth starting again, and that answer costs nothing. Sometimes the honest version is that the site is fine and something else is the problem, and I would rather say so than sell you a rebuild you never needed.
Being found in Maitland specifically
Search on a phone leans heavily on where the person is standing, so a business here is mostly competing with other businesses in and around Maitland rather than with the whole country. That is a far smaller fight than it sounds like, and it is one of the few parts of getting found that you can genuinely do something about.
The practical version: the site says plainly where you are and what you cover, each service gets enough room to be a page of its own instead of a line on a list, and the words on those pages get kept in step with what people around here actually type into Google. That last one is not a build job, it is a monthly one, which is exactly why it ends up forgotten. On the Advanced plan I do it every month and send you a page on how you are showing up.
The prices are on the website
You should not have to get on a phone call to find out whether you can afford something. Every build is a “from” price, and you get the real number in writing before you agree to anything.
- One fast page covering who you are, what you do and how to reach you.
The Landing Page
from $1,200 - Up to four pages. A new website or a redesign of the one you’ve got.
Starter
from $1,950 - Up to eight pages, so every service gets a page of its own.
Standard
from $3,900 - Ten pages or more, mapped out before anything gets built.
Full
from $6,500
Every build includes your first month of me looking after the site. After that, keeping me on starts at $99 a month, and you can stop whenever you like. What is in each build, the monthly plans and the add-ons are all on the full pricing page.
Live sites
I have not built a site for a Maitland business yet, and I am not going to dress that up as something else. Here are three I have built, all live, two of them up the valley in Muswellbrook.
Revive Hub
Nat’s recovery studio, seven recovery services under one roof. Her customers find what they need and book it from their phone.
“Ben just got it. He took the time to understand my business, what I stand for and, more importantly, how I need to come across to potential clients. His communication is exceptional, he works bloody quickly and he made the whole process feel easy.”
Her Biz Bestie
Paige’s virtual assistant business. Small business owners find her on Instagram, land here and get in touch.
“Great experience, my website is exactly what I wanted. Easy to talk to and work with, highly recommend.”
All the case studies in full cover what the problem was, what got built and what it does now.
Common questions
How much does a website cost for a Maitland business?
The same as it costs anywhere, because the price follows the size of the job, not the postcode. A single landing page starts from $1,200 and a small business website from $1,950, with your first month of care included. You get the exact figure in writing before you agree to anything.
Can you fix the website I already have instead of building a new one?
Sometimes. Send me the address and I will have a look and tell you which one you actually need. If the bones are good, a small fix gets quoted as a small job. If it is slow, awkward on a phone or built on something nobody can log into any more, a proper rebuild usually costs less in the long run.
How long does a website take to build?
Most builds take between one and five weeks, not months. A single landing page is usually about a week, and a full site of ten pages or more runs four to five weeks. You get the exact timeline in writing before you pay anything, so the date does not move on you.
Will my website show up on Google?
Every build is set up properly for search from day one: fast, easy to use on a phone, connected to Google and written so search engines and AI answers have something clear to read. Nobody can promise you a ranking, and I will not pretend to. Keeping the words in step with what people search is part of the Advanced monthly plan.
Do I own the website once it is built?
Yes, always. You own the website, the words and the images. The domain is always in your name, with me added as a helper. While you are on a monthly plan I host the site on my account as part of the plan, and I move it and its code across to you free whenever you ask. If we ever part ways, you keep the lot.
If you are running something in Maitland and you are not sure a website would actually earn its keep, that is a fair question to put to me. I will tell you if the answer is no.
I work right across the Hunter Valley, and with small businesses everywhere else in Australia.
It starts with a conversation.
Tell me about your business and what you’d love it to become. No pitch, just a chat to see if I can help.