Web design & marketing · Boulder County
I'm James Lerner. I build fast, clear websites for small businesses across Boulder County — then run the marketing that keeps the phone ringing. You work with me directly, start to finish.
The math
Most small businesses don't have a design problem. They have a "nobody finds us, and the ones who do leave in four seconds" problem. Here's roughly what that's worth in a year.
Estimated revenue walking past you each year.
Rough math on your own numbers, not a promise. We'd pin down the real figures on the call.
Drag the sliders. Most owners guess low on the second one.
What I do
A beautiful site nobody visits is an expensive business card. So the work runs in sequence: get found, convert, follow up.
Show up when someone in Boulder County searches for what you do — on the map, in the results, on their phone at 9pm.
A site that loads in under two seconds, says what you do in five words, and makes booking obvious on a cracked phone screen.
Most revenue is in the second job, not the first. Steady follow-up that doesn't need you to remember it.
Who you're hiring
I'm James Lerner. When you hire me, I'm the person who takes the call, writes the scope, designs the pages, writes the copy, and answers the phone eight months later when something needs changing. There's no account manager, no junior handoff, and no team I'm quietly outsourcing to.
That's the trade. I take on a small number of projects at a time, so I can't start six clients next Tuesday. What you get instead is someone who knows your business well enough to make the small judgment calls without a meeting.
I work with local businesses because the results are measurable. You know whether the phone rang. I'd rather be judged on that than on how the homepage looks.
— James
How it works
Twenty minutes. You tell me what's broken and what a good month looks like. Free, and if you don't need me I'll say so.
A one-page scope with a fixed price and a date. Nothing starts until you've read it and said yes in writing.
Design and copy together, not one after the other. You see it live at the halfway point and again before launch.
I handle the domain, hosting, email, and the boring redirect work. You get a short video showing how to update it yourself.
Calls, forms, and where they came from — one page a month, no dashboard homework.
The guarantee
You pay a deposit, I design the homepage, and you look at it. If it isn't right and you don't want to keep going, I refund the deposit in full and you owe nothing. No argument, no invoice for hours spent.
I can offer that because I've had the twenty-minute call first. By the time I'm designing, I already know what your customers are looking for. The risk sits with me, which is where it belongs.
Recent work
Concept rebuilds of real Boulder County businesses, done on my own time, plus a platform I built end to end. Client projects replace these as they finish.
Concept · Trades
One line on what was wrong. One line on what you changed.
Concept · Clinic
One line on what was wrong. One line on what you changed.
Project · Aragocor Minerals
Searchable mineral catalog, freight and stowage calculator, and an embeddable quote-request widget.
Pricing
Fixed price, agreed in writing before anything starts. If your project doesn't fit one of these, I'll quote it the same way — one page, one number.
Starter
$2,400
one-time
Growth · most common
$4,800
one-time
Care & marketing
$850
per month · cancel anytime
Straight answers
You do. The domain is registered in your name, the site and all its content are yours, and if you ever want to move it elsewhere I'll hand over everything and help the next person get set up. I don't hold work hostage.
Email me and it stops at the end of that month. No notice period, no exit fee. The site keeps working — you'd just need somewhere to host it, and I'll help you move it.
An agency has an office, salespeople, and account managers built into the quote. I don't. My nephew equivalent isn't going to write the copy, set up your Google profile, or still be answering emails next spring. You're paying for the middle.
The site goes live in two to three weeks. Local search results usually move in six to twelve weeks — that's how long Google takes, and anyone promising faster is guessing. If we run ads, you'll see traffic within days, though it takes a few weeks to tune.
About three hours total: the first call, a session where I ask about your customers, and one round of feedback on the draft. I write the copy, so you don't have to. If you have photos of real jobs, send them — they beat stock photography every time.
Yes, though most of my work is around Boulder, Longmont, and Louisville. If you're further out, everything happens over video calls, which works fine — I'd just want to understand your market before quoting.