The Essential Site
A premium website you can finally afford.
For the small service business with a dated site, or none at all. A custom, professional presence that earns trust, built by the studio behind our full client roster. From $899.
Custom-built for small businesses. No templates, no agency invoice.
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Client Retention Rate
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Avg. Google Rating
Premium does not have to mean expensive. Same studio, same standards, a leaner scope that keeps it affordable.
The Essential Site
$899
starting price
A custom site designed around your brand and your offer. The kind of professional presence that usually costs several times this. Not a template with your logo dropped in.
- A 30-minute call to learn your business
- Competitor research before we design a thing
- A custom design matched to your brand, up to 5 pages
- Your first draft within 2 business days of kickoff
- One round of revisions
- Mobile-ready on every device
- On-page SEO foundations and Search Console setup
- A contact form and Google Analytics
- A simple CMS so you can make everyday edits yourself
- Launch, plus a recorded walkthrough so you can run it
Not included
Domain and hosting, Copywriting, Photography, Logo and brand identity design. You bring the words and photos. A logo, an advanced CMS, ongoing management and deeper SEO are available as add-ons and monthly care, all below.
Studio work, without the agency invoice
Most studios start in the thousands for a custom site. We built a tighter, repeatable process so a small service business gets the same standard of work for $899. The look is premium. The price is not.
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We learn your business. A 30-minute call about who you serve, what you sell, and what the site needs to do. No prep, no jargon.
- 02
We design, you react. A real, custom-designed site built around your brand and your offer. Not a template with your logo dropped in. You will have your first draft within 2 business days of the kickoff call.
- 03
You mark it up once. One round of revisions. Tell us what to change and we turn it around while the project is hot.
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You launch. Most sites go live within a week, with a recorded walkthrough so you can run it. Want us to keep it maintained and growing after? That is the Care Plan and options below.
What to have ready
The sooner these land, the sooner you launch. We send the exact list after the call, so there is nothing to prepare beforehand.
- Your copy, or rough notes we can shape into it
- Photos and your logo, if you have them
- Your domain login, if the name already exists
Santa Barbara Work
For businesses you already know.
SYNRGY is the studio behind work for Paseo Nuevo and the Scheinberg Orthopedic Group. Hover over a frame and it scrolls the whole page for you.
Local Reviews
Santa Barbara businesses, on the record.
Every one of these is public, named, and a short drive from our office.
“Nick was super easy to work and communicate with. He's quick with revisions and takes critiques well. He gave me all the freedom I needed to create exactly what I envisioned for my website, all while still handling the technical aspects of web design that I'm not familiar with. He's also been very responsive when it comes to website maintenance and updates, long after the completion of the site. Super professional (and affordable).”
“Exceeded my expectations! I'm the Marketing Manager for Paseo Nuevo mall in Santa Barbara, and our company PRISM Places has hired SYNRGY repeatedly for various different photo & video projects. Nick continuously goes above & beyond to ensure we receive the exact content we need, not to mention he's a pleasure to work with! 10/10 recommend”
“Working with Nick and his company, SYNRGY Creative, has been a complete game changer for our architecture firm. The results have far exceeded our expectations. When we first started, our digital presence was virtually nonexistent. Thanks to Nick's strategic SEO work, we're now ranking on the first page of Google; something we thought would take months or even a year, but happened in a fraction of the time. Nick is smart, responsive, and genuinely knows how to deliver results. We're incredibly grateful for his help and can't recommend him highly enough to anyone looking to elevate their online visibility.”
Add-Ons
Build on the $899, then book.
Start with the base, toggle on what you need, and book your call right here with your build attached. The estimate is a starting number. We quote the whole thing for real on the call.
The Essential Site
The whole $899 base, always included.
Bigger build
More site than the five pages.
- Extra pagesfrom $150 ea
Service pages, a team page, a second location. Flat rate each, past the five the base covers.
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Brand & polish
Look the part beyond the build.
Get found & grow
Turn the site into a channel.
Your estimate
from $899
Toggle add-ons above to shape your build. A starting estimate; we set the real scope and price on your call.
Something else in mind? If it belongs on a small-business website, we've almost certainly built it. Bring it to the call and we'll quote it straight.
After Launch
A site is the start, not the finish.
Launching gets you found. Staying found is a different job. The Care Plan is a flat $100 a month, the rest get scoped on a call, and all of it is cancellable whenever.
Care Plan
$100 a month
Hosting, updates, backups, security, and a monthly allowance of edits. Your site stays fast and current without you thinking about it.
Ongoing SEO
Scoped on the call
Setup gets you on the map. Staying there takes upkeep: listings, reviews, rankings watched and defended month over month.
Content Growth
Scoped on the call
Keyword research, ongoing content, and monthly reporting. For when the site stops being a brochure and starts being a channel.
Right Fit
Made for small businesses. Not for everyone.
The Essential Site fits when
- You run a small service business
- Your current site is dated, thin, or does not exist yet
- You want to look established without an agency budget
- You have a clear, simple offer to sell
- Five pages or fewer covers what you need
Talk to us about the full engagement when
- You need a full brand identity built first
- You want custom integrations or a large online store
- You have dozens of pages or multiple locations
- You have the budget for a full custom engagement
Questions
Before you book the call.
The things we get asked most. Anything else, bring it to the kickoff call and we will talk it through.
It is not cheaper work, it is a leaner scope. We kept the offer to what a small service business actually needs: five pages, one clear offer, a proven process we have run many times. That is what makes a custom, professional site possible at this price. The design standard is the same one behind our full client roster.
No. Every site is custom-designed around your brand, your offer, and your photos, not a template with your logo dropped in. The whole point is that a small business can look established without paying agency rates.
A 30-minute call, competitor research, a custom-designed and mobile-ready site of up to five pages, a fast first draft, one round of revisions, on-page SEO foundations, a simple CMS so you can make everyday edits, and launch. Advanced CMS, ongoing management, and deeper SEO are available as add-ons or monthly care, covered below. Domain and hosting are billed by your provider, and we will point you at the right one if you do not have it yet.
You bring the words and images, and we tell you exactly what to send on the call. If they are not ready by then, we build the first draft around the structure and what you told us, and your copy drops in during the revision round. What that delays is launch, not the draft.
Quick, without cutting corners. You will have your first draft within 2 business days of the kickoff call, and most sites go live within a week. Speed is a bonus here, not the point. The point is a site that finally looks the part.
Before we design, we study your top three local competitors: what they rank for, what their sites do well, and where they fall short. That research shapes your page structure and keywords. The deeper version, a full written analysis alongside your Google Business Profile build-out, is part of the Advanced SEO setup.
Additional rounds are $200 each, and most clients do not need one. The revision limit is part of what keeps the price where it is, so we front-load the thinking on the call to get the first draft close.
Yes, and plenty of clients do. Start with the essential site and add a Care Plan for hands-on upkeep, layer on advanced SEO and monthly content when you are ready, or step up to a rebrand and a full growth engine later. The work you paid for here carries forward either way.
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