Local service businesses
Sole-traders, trade shops, and two-person firms. The goal is usually the same: look as careful online as you are in person.
Website Designer — Bemidji, MN
An independent studio building careful, honest websites for local trades, personal brands, and restaurants across the north. One price. No surprise invoice at the end.
Who you'll actually work with.
Hi — I'm Parker Watts, and Verdant Dev is me. That's my wife and me out on a hike — she's my favorite person and my first read on nearly everything, this studio included. I care about the businesses that hold Northern Minnesota together, and I think their websites should sound like the people who run them. So I start every project by listening, and I stay on long after launch to keep it honest.
The website he made for me turned out amazing, easy to use!
Four measured steps, no rushed parts.
01
~1 week · Discovery
Conversation
I ask about the business before I ask about the website. The brief comes from listening, not a questionnaire.
02
~1 week · Written
Proposal
Scope, sitemap, and a page-by-page plan with the reasoning behind each choice.
03
~4–5 wks · Design + Code
Build
Design and development in the same hands. Real copy, real photos, real data — placeholder content tells placeholder lies.
04
~1 week + care
Launch
A quiet handoff — a walkthrough, written instructions, and I keep the site running and watched.
If you are one of these, I can probably help.
Personal brands
Writers, consultants, coaches, and makers of quiet things. A home that reads as well as the work.
Restaurants & food
Menus that stay current, hours that stay true, and a reservation link that is never more than one click away.
What I do, on its own page.
One plan covers all of it. These are the parts, written out properly — including what it costs, before you ask.
Website design in Bemidji, MN
Hand-built sites for businesses here — findable, fast on a phone, and true to the shop it belongs to.
What a website costs
$150 a month, everything in it, and no invoice at the end of the build. The whole answer, not a "contact us for a quote".
Website care
The part that runs after launch — monthly updates, monitoring, and a plain-English report you can actually read.
Local SEO
The unglamorous groundwork that decides whether you turn up when somebody nearby searches for what you do.
Websites for electricians
One tap to call, the license said plainly, and a page for each job — panels, service calls, generators, EV chargers.
Websites for restaurants
Hours that stay true through every season, a menu that isn't a PDF, and one tap to call or find you.
Websites for realtors
Built for sellers as well as buyers, with MLS search handed off to your IDX vendor rather than faked.
One plan. Everything in it.
The plan
$150/ month
- A hand-built website, designed for your trade
- Monthly updates — and a yearly style overhaul
- Contact form, wired and tested
- Google Search Console + Business Profile, managed
- Backlink tracking and downtime monitoring
- A plain-English health report, every month
- One-Tap Review cards for your counter
Three-month minimum · then cancel anytime
No build invoice.
Most shops charge four or five thousand up front and hand you the keys. I fold the build into the monthly, so the day you say yes costs the same as the day after.
How it starts.
One free mockup before you enroll — a real page, your business, no obligation. If it's right, the first month goes through Stripe and the build begins.
You own it.
Once the three-month minimum is paid in full, the site code is yours to take anywhere. Reusable tools and hosted services stay with the studio.
The ones I get asked most.
Because a site that isn't tended goes stale in a year. The monthly keeps someone accountable for it — updates, monitoring, search, the lot — instead of handing you a file and walking away.
Roughly seven weeks end to end: a week to talk, a week to plan, four or five to build, and one to launch and hand off properly.
Then I rebuild it, and keep whatever is working — your domain, your photos, your ranking. Nothing gets thrown away for the sake of it.
No. That's the job. Anything you need explained gets explained in plain words, and nothing gets decided for you behind your back.
Look as careful online as you are in person.
Verdant Dev
Tell me about the work, and I'll write back within two business days.
Six fields. No salespeople. The more specific, the better — if you've got a date, a budget, or a competitor's site you admire, say so.