01 · Websites, Google listings and reviews for small businesses · Metro Vancouver
Websites for small
businesses.
Plainly Digital helps small businesses in Metro Vancouver get online and get more customers. We build the website, set up the Google listing and reviews, and keep it all current, so you can focus on your work.
Free 20-minute call. No contract.
- Live in about a week
- Month to month
- Domain registered in your name
02 · Recent work
BRB Landscape & Trucking, Vancouver.
A landscaping and trucking company in Vancouver. The old site had no phone number, didn't mention Vancouver, and the quote form asked for your country. Here's what we changed.
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Phone number top right, on every page. The old site didn't have one.
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The first line on the page is what people search for: lawn mowing, junk removal, snow, the city.
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One button and a short form. Name, phone, what you need.
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His truck in his driveway, instead of a stock photo.
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The old site and the new one.
Left is the Squarespace site he had. Right is the new one. Drag the handle.
Open the live site
Brandon’s words go here once his site is fully live.
Prana Ayurveda and Massage, Burnaby.
A massage and Ayurveda clinic run by two practitioners. They wanted to keep their look. The old site had four pages and no menu, and every treatment lived on the home page. Here is what we changed.
What changed
- A page for each of their 12 treatments, with every length and price
- Book buttons that open their booking system on the exact treatment and length
- A page each for Priya and James, with their certifications
- Their own green and gold, their own words, and their 5.0 Google rating up front
- Built to show up when people in Burnaby search for a treatment by name
Left is their old site. Right is the new one. Drag the handle.
Open the live site
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Load time on the BRB site, measured
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Pages, one for each service
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From the visit to the site being live
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Point of contact, start to finish
03 · What's included
Set up once. Kept current every month.
The setup
One-time. One call, one visit, live in about a week.
Most small business sites are a template with the business name typed in. They rank for nothing, because Google ranks a page for what is written on it. Every page here is written for one service and the area you cover.
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A website people can find
One page per service, your area, your number on every screen, built for phones first. If you already have a site, we fix it or rebuild it, whichever is cheaper.
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Your Google listing, on the map
The map result people tap first. Set up and verified with you, with photos, hours, services and the area you cover filled in.
- A3
Reviews, set up so they actually come in
Your review link, a QR code for the invoice, and a short text to send when a job is done. Reviews are what move you up the map.
- A4
Quote requests to your phone
A short form and a text-a-photo button, so a customer can send you the job in under a minute and you can price it before you drive out.
- A5
Your own domain and email
yourbusiness.ca, registered in your name, and an email address at it. Looks more established than a Gmail.
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The rest of the internet lined up
Facebook page, Yelp, Apple Maps, Bing. Same name, number and photos everywhere. Google checks that they match.
Kept running
Monthly. This is the part that makes it work.
Most sites get built once and never touched again. The hours go wrong, a service that stopped stays listed, the domain lapses. The monthly fee covers keeping yours current.
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Hosting and the boring stuff
The site stays up, fast and secure. The domain and email renew on time. Nothing lapses.
- B2
Edits when you need them
New hours, a new service, a photo of last week's job. Text us and it is done the same day.
- B3
Seasonal swaps
Snow removal up top in November, spring cleanups in March. The site follows your year without you thinking about it.
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A short monthly note
How many people found you, how many called or sent a form, and what they searched to get there.
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More calls, when you want them
Once the basics are working, Google ads for your area are the fastest way to more jobs. Only if you want them.
04 · How it works
One call, one visit, live in a week.
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Step 01
A 20-minute call
What you do, where you work, what you've got online now. No prep needed.
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Step 02
One visit
We come by, take photos of your place and your work, set up your Google listing with you, and get your hours, area and the details customers ask about.
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Step 03
Live in about a week
You check it on your phone, we fix what you want fixed, and it goes live on your domain.
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Step 04
Then we keep it running
Text us when something changes. Once a month you get a short note on how it went.
05 · About Plainly
A small Vancouver company that does the online part.
Plainly Digital started with a friend who runs a landscaping and trucking company in Vancouver. He was paying for a Squarespace site that didn't have his phone number on it. We rebuilt it, set up his Google listing with him, and it turned out that's what most small businesses need: someone to do the online part properly and keep it current. Since then we've done the same for a massage and Ayurveda clinic in Burnaby.
We're a small Vancouver company and we take on a few businesses at a time, so texts get answered the same day. We don't do logos, video or social media. If you need those, we can point you to people who do.
Book a free call06 · Questions
Common questions.
I get all my work from word of mouth.
That's the best kind. The site is for the next step: someone gets your name from a friend, searches it, and finds a proper page with your number, photos and reviews instead of nothing. It backs up the referral.
I already have a Facebook page.
Keep it. It's good for showing work to people who already follow you. It doesn't show up when someone searches "plumber Burnaby". A website and a Google listing do.
My nephew can build me one.
He can, and it might be fine. The part that usually gets skipped is everything after: the Google listing, the domain renewal, updating the hours, getting reviews. That's the part we're for.
I got burned by an agency before.
A lot of small businesses have, usually a long contract and a site they couldn't get into. Here it's month to month, the domain is registered to you, and if you leave you keep the site.
What does it cost?
A setup fee and a flat monthly fee. It depends on whether you already have a site and how many services you offer. You get the number on the call, before anything starts.
How much of my time does it take?
A 20-minute call, about an hour when we come by, and a few texts. We do the rest.
Do I own it?
Yes. The domain is in your name and the site files are yours.
07 · Book a call
Book a free call.
Twenty minutes on the phone. We'll look at what you've got, tell you what we'd change, and what it would cost.
- Small businesses in Metro Vancouver
- A number before anything starts
- You own the domain, always