Coos Bay, Oregon
Web design in Coos Bay, Oregon
I have built for businesses on this coast, including here in Coos Bay. So I will skip the part where an agency tells a south coast town what it needs.
The money's going out the door where you never look.
A customer calls at 5:10. You're mid-job, hands full. It rings out to voicemail. They don't leave one. They just call the next name on the list.
Someone searches for exactly what you do. You're on page 5, where nobody scrolls. The click goes to the company with the bigger ad budget, not the better work.
And the lead that did get through? It's sitting in a voicemail you haven't heard yet, because you were too buried in quoting and paperwork to call back before they moved on.
Same problem every time: work that was yours, gone somewhere you never looked. That's what I fix.
Work I've built on this coast
Christ Lutheran is a Coos Bay project. It is a church rather than a trade business, so take it as evidence I have worked here, not as trade proof.
A town that has heard a lot of promises
The harbour used to see around 350 deep-draft vessel calls a year. It now sees 60 or 70. Everybody here knows what happened and how long the recovery has taken.
The container terminal project has federal money behind it and projections of thousands of jobs. It might happen. Jordan Cove had a decade of the same projections and then it did not.
I am not going to build you a website on the assumption that the port fixes everything. What I will say is this: if the work does arrive, the businesses that are already easy to find will get the first call, and the ones that are not will be starting from zero at exactly the moment everyone else is busy.
The work that exists now
There is a working economy here regardless of the port. Timber and wood products, seafood out of Charleston, healthcare, the community college, and a housing stock that is mostly older and needs maintaining. Coos Bay homes tend toward mid-century and earlier, which means roofing, wiring and foundation work is steady and will stay steady.
That is not glamorous but it is reliable, and reliable is what a website should be built to catch.
Who gets the call, and who gets skipped
In a town this size a lot of work comes through people you know. That is real and it is not going away.
What it misses is everyone who does not know you yet. The family who moved from California last year. The out-of-town owner of a rental. The insurance adjuster looking for someone local. None of them will ask your neighbour. They will search, and they will call whoever comes up.
With very few registered contractors in town, coming up is not the fight it would be in Bend or Eugene. It is mostly a matter of having something real to find.
What word of mouth cannot reach
Say five households a month move into the area or need work and have nobody to call. If two of them would have hired you and an average job is $1,200, that is $28,800 a year going to whoever appeared in the search.
They were never going to hear your name at the store. They were only ever going to find you one way.
What I do for Coos Bay businesses.
Built for the trades.
Trades are where I've gone deepest. But a missed call is a missed call in any local business.
Questions from Coos Bay.
- Have you actually worked here?
- Yes, and elsewhere on the coast. It is a good part of the archive.
- You are three hours away.
- I am. The build and the SEO happen the same regardless, and you get one person who answers instead of an account manager.
- Is it worth it for a business this size?
- Depends on what a job is worth to you. If a handful of new customers a year covers it, it usually is. If it does not, I will tell you.
Want to see where you're leaking?
Tell me about your business and your website. Within one business day I'll send back three specific places you're losing work, and what it would take to fix each. No charge.