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Can customers find you when they search?

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Someone in your suburb searched "electrician near me" today. Or "plumber Penrith", or "cafe near me open now". Did they find you, or the business two suburbs over that has a website? Try it yourself. Pick up your phone and search your own trade and suburb, the way a customer would. If you are not on the first page, that job went to whoever was. Why a Facebook page is not enough A Facebook page is a good place to show your work. It is a poor place to be found. Someone searching is in a hurry: they want to see what you do, where you work and how to reach you, on one page that loads fast on a phone. That is the job of a website. What a small site needs for local search Your trade and the suburbs you cover, in plain words A phone number that can be tapped Pages that load fast on a phone Your own .com.au domain, with email on it Google Search Console and Analytics, so you can see who finds you That is what Spark is: a five-page website set up for local search, ...
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A website for $0 upfront and $39 a month

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A setup fee is a hard thing to say yes to in a week when the ute needs tyres. So the website waits another year. That is why we added a package without one. Glow: $0 upfront, $39 a month No photos and no time to write anything? This is for you. We design the site, write the words and choose the photos. Hosting, backups and updates are in the $39. The site goes on your own .com.au domain, registered in your name. On Glow the domain registration is a small fee you pay yourself. Spark: your own photos and business email Spark is from $745 at the moment, half the usual $1,490, plus $39 a month. You get up to five pages with your own photos, your .com.au domain, business email, and Google Search Console and Analytics set up. Either way, you see three designs before you pay anything. Compare the packages , or: Answer five questions and get three free designs .
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Start with a glow: three stages of growing online

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Start with a glow. Light up the sky. That is our tagline, and it is also how most small businesses grow online: in three stages. Stage one: people can find you A website, a domain and business email. Someone searches for what you do, finds you, and can get in touch. Stage two: the website does the work Bookings, payments and enquiries land in one place, instead of in texts, DMs and a notebook. Stage three: software shaped around your business Tools built for how you actually run things, connected to what you already use. The admin that eats your week disappears. Most agencies stop at stage one, because stage three is engineering. We build stage one the same way we build stage three, so when you need more, the people who built your website build the rest. Answer five questions and get three free designs .
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One quote, no hidden costs

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Ever been quoted one price for a website, then found out hosting was extra? Then the domain. Then email. Most website quotes cover the build. Everything else turns up later as separate lines, and the domain often sits in the agency's account, which makes leaving hard. What a quote should include The build Hosting, backups and updates Your .com.au domain Business email We quote the lot together: one fixed quote before you pay anything, and that is the price you pay. The domain is registered in your business name from day one, so nobody can hold it hostage. Want to move on? Cancel anytime. We hand you the transfer code and help you move, free. No hidden costs is not a clever offer. It is what a quote is supposed to be. Answer five questions and get three free designs .
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Who owns your domain?

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A quick check for anyone with a website: who owns your domain? If the answer is "my web guy", you have a problem waiting to happen. The domain sits in his account, the site sits on his builder, and when he stops replying, so does your email. Leaving means starting again. How to check Look up your domain on a whois search and see whose name is on it. Ask who holds the login for the domain and the hosting. Ask what happens, and what it costs, if you want to move. How it should work Every GlowIt site is registered to the business that pays for it: the domain, the site and the hosting. Support is month to month, with no contract. If you ever leave, we hand you the transfer code and help you move, free. It is not a clever offer. It is just how it should be. Answer five questions and get three free designs .
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See three designs before you pay for a website

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Would you buy a website you had never seen? Most people do. They pay a deposit, wait a few weeks, and hope they like what comes back. We do it the other way round. How it works Answer five questions. It takes about two minutes on your phone. Get three homepage designs for your business on a private link, with a fixed quote next to them. Pick one and pay. Your site is live in two to three weeks. If you do not like any of the three, you owe nothing. After that we keep the site running: updates, backups, security and a person who answers. The plan is month to month. Answer five questions and get three free designs .
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Welcome to the GlowIt blog

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Your website is page one of your business. It is the first thing a new customer reads about you, usually on a phone, usually before they decide whether to call. GlowIt builds websites for small businesses in Sydney, and we build them properly: fast on a phone, found on Google, email that reaches the inbox, and the domain and the site in your name. What you will find here Short, plain posts about getting a small business online: what a website should cost, what to ask before you sign anything, and how to tell whether yours is working. When your business needs more than a website, the same people build that too. For now, start with page one. Answer five questions and get three free designs .
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