A website built for you.
Not another template.
Hand-coded, fast, and built to turn the people who find you into people who call you. You see a real working demo of your own site before you pay a dollar, and every price is published right on this page.
Eleven builds, labeled exactly.
Client work, our own businesses, and demonstrations we built unpaid for real local businesses to show what the process produces. Every label below is exact. Nothing here is dressed up as something it is not.
Yours gets built and shown to you before you pay a dollar.
Get your demo websiteThe price is on the page, because you deserve to know before you ask.
One-time build, yours at go-live. Every build includes a required monthly care plan. That is not just hosting. It is us keeping your site online, updated, and working to bring you customers, so you never touch it yourself.
Spotlight
- A focused site built to do one job well: get you the call
- Hand-built custom design, no template
- Fast, secure, and accessible on every phone and screen
- Built so Google can find and rank you
- Contact form that sends straight to your inbox
- Your words and photos, cleaned up and made to shine
Showcase
Most chosen- A complete site that tells your whole story
- Everything in Spotlight, built out further
- A custom look and feel made only for your business
- One signature interactive feature that sets you apart
- Original photo editing and custom visuals
- Your message rewritten in your voice, 2 rounds of changes
Premiere
- Everything in Showcase, with room to do more
- Space for a full service menu, gallery, or catalog
- Sell products, take bookings, or run subscriptions
- Two to three interactive features, deeper custom graphics
- Full professional copywriting and priority scheduling
- 3 rounds of changes
The Production
- For multi-location businesses and franchises
- Full online store or large catalog
- Connects to the tools you already run your business on
- Advanced features scoped to what you need
- Planned and quoted together on a call
Every build includes a required Care or Care+ plan. This is how your site keeps earning after launch instead of slowly going stale. It is the difference between a site that works for you and one you have to worry about.
Marquee Care
- We keep your site online, backed up, and updated for you
- Send us an email, we make the change. One per month included
- Secure hosting, SSL certificate, and round-the-clock uptime monitoring
- Automatic backups every month, so nothing is ever lost
- We test your links and forms every quarter so leads never vanish
- A monthly snapshot of who is visiting and where they come from
- You are in the priority queue, we respond within 2 business days
Marquee Care+
- Everything in Care, plus active work on getting you found
- Up to 3 changes a month, not just one
- We build out and manage your Google Business Profile, the listing that shows up in Maps and local search
- Ongoing local SEO upkeep so you climb in your area, plus review monitoring
- A monthly report on your traffic, ranking, and what to do next
- A fresh seasonal update every quarter, same-day response to your requests
The Residency
- Everything in Care+, with us acting as your on-call studio
- New branded marketing material every month, made for you
- Your site keeps growing and improving instead of sitting still
- Seasonal campaigns planned and built around your busy periods
- A strategy call every quarter to plan what is next
Priced on the page, same as everything else.
Not sure which one fits? The audit answers that before either of us guesses.
Find out what you needSix steps. You see the site before you owe anything.
Recon
The Marquee OS audits your full online footprint and your local market. No guessing, real signal.
The Report
You get an honest breakdown: real issues, clear pros and cons, and exactly what is costing you customers.
The Demo
We build a real, beautiful demo of your new site before you commit to anything. Not a mockup, not a placeholder. You see and feel your actual new site first, then decide.
Your Input
You react, we refine. Your real photos, words, and details go in until it is unmistakably yours.
Launch
We take it live safely, protecting your domain and your email, and handle every technical step for you.
Care
We keep it hosted, secure, and current. Need a change? Send an email. If you can send an email, you can update your site.
It starts at step one, and step one costs you nothing.
Start with the reconMost of your customers meet you online before they ever meet you.
Your website, your reviews, your social, and the way you stack up against the business down the street. Right now all of it is either winning you customers or quietly losing them. Most local businesses are losing, and cannot see exactly why. We can. Then we fix it.
Right now you are on one side of that or the other. We will tell you which, free.
Show me where I standFive things we audit. And what we do about each one.
Anyone can build you a page. The Marquee OS reads your entire online footprint first, then directs everything we build from what it finds. Here is what we look at, and what happens next.
Website
How fast it loads, whether it turns visitors into calls, whether it is secure, and how old it looks to someone comparing you to the shop down the street.
We rebuild it. Modern, fast, secure, and built to convert. The core of what we do.
Reviews
How many you have, how recent they are, how you rate next to your direct competitors, and whether anything is currently asking a happy customer to leave one.
We show you where you stand, then build a system into your site that earns more real ones.
Social
What you post, how often, and whether any of it is doing real work for the business or just filling a feed.
We give you direction on what to do next. We do not post for you. That is a moving target we will not pretend to own.
Local SEO
Whether you show up when someone searches your service plus your city, and what is holding you back if you do not.
Clean structure, schema, and fundamentals baked into the build so the right customers find you.
Competitors
Who is taking the customers you are not getting, and exactly what they are doing better than you online.
We hand you the full picture of where you stand, and a clear read on how to get ahead.
We grade all five on your actual business. No cost, no obligation, about a day.
Get my five gradedThis is what the audit looks like.
Every engagement opens with a real audit of everything a customer sees before they call. Below is a complete one.
Alder & Pine
Time to first byte measured around 40 seconds. Healthy is under one second. The store runs WordPress with WooCommerce, a page builder, and several heavy plugins on shared hosting with no caching, rebuilding every page from scratch on each visit. Google treats a page this slow as broken, and most visitors leave within three seconds.
The homepage and one interior page carry injected spam links pointing to offshore gambling sites. No one on the team added these. It is the signature of a hacked WordPress install, usually a vulnerable plugin or a stolen login. Mostly invisible to visitors, but search engines index it, which damages ranking and can get the domain flagged or suspended.
The store displays 4.8 out of 5 from 900-plus reviews, shown as short first-name-only testimonials that appear app-generated rather than from real customers. Displaying a fabricated rating or non-genuine testimonials violates FTC rules, which now carry civil penalties.
The homepage still shows placeholder content that shipped with the theme, including demo listings and paragraphs of Latin filler. One policy page appears in another language entirely. To anyone who scrolls, the store reads as unfinished.
Besides the live WooCommerce store, a newer Shopify build sits on a temporary address that is not connected to the domain. There is no single source of truth, and the checkout that actually works is not on the brand’s own domain.
An age gate asks visitors to confirm they are over 18, a holdover from a restricted-product template and pointless here. Generic worldwide-shipping copy and stock trust badges make a premium, hand-made brand look mass-produced.
What actually justifies the price, the materials, the craftsmanship, and the story, sits far below the fold. The funnel breaks before a visitor is given a fast reason to buy or a fast way to check out.
No structured data, weak page titles and descriptions, a shallow hierarchy, and at least one product URL with a typo. The right customers struggle to find the store at all.
| Business | Rating shown | Load time | Mobile | Review system | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bindery | 4.5 real | 0.9s | Strong | Active | 1st |
| Maker’s Row | 4.6 real | 1.2s | Strong | Requests reviews | 2nd |
| Hearth & Hand Co. | 4.3 real | 2.1s | Fair | Some | 3rd |
| Alder & Pine (you) | 4.8 fabricated | ~40s | Poor | None real | 4th |
| Copperleaf | 3.9 real | 3.4s | Weak | Few | 5th |
- Rebuild as a fast, secure static site. Fixes the speed and closes the hack’s attack surface.
- Lead with what sells, and a clean path to checkout through Stripe.
- Remove the fabricated rating and build an honest review-growth system in.
- Build the SEO foundation into the structure so the right customers find you.
- Hand you the full competitor picture and a clear direction on social.
- Then keep it hosted, secure, and current with ongoing care.
That one was a sample. Yours gets built from your real site, your real reviews, and your real market.
Get your own reportWhy not just use Squarespace, or take the cheapest quote?
You could. Plenty of businesses do. Here is the honest tradeoff before you decide.
A DIY builder
Squarespace or Wix can work. But a template puts you in a crowd of businesses using the same one, you maintain it yourself forever, and to the customer choosing between you and the shop down the street, it reads as generic. Your time is better spent running your business than tuning a website.
The cheapest freelancer
A cheap one-time build with no one accountable after launch tends to age badly. It slowly breaks, goes stale, and quietly loses you customers you never see leave. Cheap up front gets expensive the moment it stops working and no one answers.
A full agency
Agencies bring account managers, handoffs, and often a junior doing the actual build. You pay for the layers. With Marquee you get the founder start to finish, and the same person still there after go-live when you need a change.
And you see a real demo of your actual site before you commit a dollar. You are deciding on something you can see and feel, not betting on a promise.
Easier to judge on your own site than in the abstract. We will read yours free.
See it on my own siteQuestions we get before the first call.
How much does a website cost?
It is on the pricing above, in full. Spotlight is $1,995, Showcase is $2,995, and Premiere is $4,995. Bigger projects are quoted on a call. Every build includes a required monthly care plan, either $295 or $449 a month.
Do I see it before I pay?
Yes. We build a real, working demo of your new site before you commit to anything. You see and use your actual site first, then decide. No mockup, no guessing.
What does the monthly care plan actually do?
It is not just hosting. We keep your site online, secure, backed up, and updated for you. You email a change and we make it. Care+ adds active local SEO, Google Business Profile management, and review monitoring, so the site keeps bringing in customers after launch.
Do I have to know anything technical?
No. We handle every technical step: the build, going live, your domain, and your email. If you can send an email, you can run your site with us.
What areas do you serve?
We are based in Bexley and work with businesses across the Columbus metro area and beyond. The work is remote-friendly, so location is rarely a barrier.
Question we did not answer here? Send it along with your website.
Ask us anything
You work directly with the person building your site.
“I spent twenty years building businesses of my own before I built this one. I know what it feels like to see exactly what your presence should be and have no way to reach it. That is the gap I close now, for you.”
No account managers. No outsourced communication. No disappearing after launch. When you hire Marquee you get one accountable person who understands your customer, builds the work, and stays in your corner long after you go live.
Because it is just me, I take on a limited number of builds at a time so each one gets my full attention. If the calendar is full when you reach out, I will tell you the next honest opening.
“WOW, amazing transformation, this website changes everything for us!”
Not sure where you stand?
Answer five questions for a rough read on your website, your reviews, your social, your local search, and how you stack up against the business down the street. Then send us your site below and we will grade the real thing, by hand, free.
Start with a free visibility audit.
Give us your website. We run it through the Marquee OS and show you honestly where you stand. No pressure, no cost.