Websites, flyers, logos, Google listings and QR codes for small businesses. You send a few photos off your phone and tell me what you're after. I do everything else.
Gary's site was live four days after he messaged me · have a look
How it works
Three things happen. One of them involves you.
1
You tell me what you do
Ten minutes on the phone or a few messages. What you do, who for, what you charge, and any photos sat on your phone. That's your bit finished.
2
I build it and show you
I write it, sort the pictures, buy the domain and put it online so you can look at it properly on your phone. Before you've paid anything.
3
You say yes and it's live
Anything you don't like, I change it. Then it goes live on your own domain, and I get your Google listing sorted while I'm at it.
The job so far
One client. Here's everything I've done for him.
Gary runs Crisp & Clean Carpet & Upholstery out of Pontefract. He had a Facebook page, good work, and nothing else. This is the whole thing, start to finish.
Day oneI messaged him on Facebook. He had no website and nothing on Google, so nobody could find him unless they were already on Facebook.
Day twoI built his homepage from his own photos and sent him the link. No charge, no obligation. He said he loved it and sent me his price list.
Day fourcrispandcleancarpets.co.uk went live — four pages, his prices, tap-to-call and Messenger booking, on his own domain.
ThenHe asked for a QR code for the van. Scan-tested, sent to his sign writer as a print file.
And thenHe asked for flyers. He sent a sketch on a bit of paper in the morning. That afternoon the design was done and 5,000 A5 flyers were ordered and paid for, delivered straight to his door.
His website — crispandcleancarpets.co.uk
His flyer — 5,000 printed
I love the website.Yes I definitely would recommend you, made it all very easy.
Both from Gary — Crisp & Clean Carpet & Upholstery, Pontefract. He's my only paying client so far, and he's bought three times.
Being straight with you
I'm new at this.
Bates Design is a few weeks old and I've got one paying client. That's why everything on this page is his job, shown in full, rather than a list of logos and badges. You can ring him if you want.
I started out doing websites. Then Gary asked for a QR code, then flyers and printing. That's why it's Bates Design and not Bates Web — the work decided it, not a marketing meeting.
You don't pay me a penny until you've seen it. I'll build your homepage with your own photos and your own words first. If you don't like it, you've lost ten minutes on the phone and nothing else.
What I do
Things I'll take off your hands
Same person does all of it, so nothing gets lost between the website and the printer.
A five-page website
Home, services and prices, about, reviews, contact. Built for phones first, with call, WhatsApp and Messenger buttons throughout. I write it, sort the photos, buy the domain and put it live. The website and the domain are yours — if you ever want to go elsewhere, I'll hand them over, no argument.
£300then £25 a month
Flyers, leaflets and printing
You tell me roughly what you want on it and I design it, then get it printed on decent paper and delivered to your door. You never speak to a printer. Gary's 5,000 went from a sketch to ordered in one afternoon.
£65design only £150with 5,000 printed & delivered
Google Business Profile
Set up or fixed properly, under your own Google account, with the right categories, your hours, your area and your photos, plus a review link you can text to customers. I can't promise you the top of Google and I won't pretend otherwise — but I'll make sure you're on there properly.
Includedwith your website
QR codes for the van, the window or a flyer
A proper print-quality code that takes people straight to your website. Sent to your sign writer as a vector file so it stays sharp at any size, and scan-tested before it goes anywhere.
Includedwith your website
Logo and artwork
If you haven't got a logo, or the only version you own is a fuzzy photo of your van. Priced once I know what's needed, so ask.
Ask me
Bigger jobs
More pages, online booking, event ticketing that people can buy through without leaving your site. All doable and priced properly rather than squeezed into a £300 job. Here's a concept I built for a festival with a working ticket checkout.
from £750
Prices
Why it's £300 and not £3,000
I haven't got an office, an account manager, a sales bloke on commission or a receptionist. When an agency quotes three grand, a good chunk of that is the building. You're paying for my time and nothing else.
Over three years
You pay
You own
A directory listing at about £100 a month
£3,600
Nothing
A typical agency build plus hosting
£2,000+
The website
Bates Design — £300 build, £25 a month
£1,200
The website and the domain
Rough figures for comparison, not quotes from anyone in particular. The point is the last column.
What the £25 covers
Hosting, security, your domain renewed every year, and small changes whenever you want them — a new price list, changed opening hours, swapping a photo, adding a review. No contract. Cancel it whenever and the site is still yours.
What it doesn't
It's not unlimited design work. A whole new page every fortnight, an online shop, or a full redesign is a separate job and I'll tell you what it costs before I start. Nobody likes a surprise invoice.
Some of the work
Have a look on your phone
That's how your customers will see it. Each one below says exactly what it is.
That's the whole point of paying someone. Ten minutes on the phone and a few photos off your camera roll. After that it's my job, not yours, and I'll come back to you when there's something to look at.
You don't have to. Tell me what you do and who you do it for, and I'll write it. You just read it back and tell me if it sounds like you.
Gary's entire website came off the pictures on his phone. If they show work you're proud of, they'll do the job.
Gary's was live four days after he first messaged me. That was one job in a quiet week, so I'm not going to dress it up as a guarantee — but it's days, not months, and it mostly depends on how quickly you get me the photos.
Correct, and I'd rather say so than pretend otherwise. He's bought three times in a fortnight — website, then a QR code, then flyers — which tells you more than a wall of logos would. Ring him if you like.
The domain and the website are yours, not mine. If anything happened, another developer could pick it straight up — it's a normal website on normal hosting, nothing locked to me. Ask me and I'll show you exactly where everything lives.
I can't promise that and I won't pretend I can. What I can do is set your Google Business Profile up properly so you turn up on the map with your number, your hours and your photos, and make sure that when someone does land on your site they can ring you in one tap.
Yes, and I'll get them printed and delivered too. You don't deal with the printer, that's my end. £65 for the design on its own, or £150 for the design plus 5,000 printed on decent gloss and sent to your door.
No contract. Cancel whenever you like and the website and domain are still yours — I'll hand them over. The £25 covers hosting, security, the domain renewal and small changes whenever you want them.
A lot of people have. That's why I build the thing first and show you before you pay anything. If it's not right, you've lost nothing.
Right then.
Tell me what you do and I'll usually have a homepage to show you within a day or two. No forms with fifteen boxes in them — just ring me or send a message.
ben@batesdesign.uk
Ben Bates · Rotherham, South Yorkshire · working anywhere in the UK If I miss you I'm probably driving. I'll ring you back the same day.