Tupelo, Mississippi
Web Design in Tupelo, Mississippi
Twenty years in this town, and most of my work is still here
The local picture
What’s actually different about a Tupelo website
I built my first sites in Lee County.
Most of the businesses I look after are still within twenty minutes of downtown Tupelo — Fast Wrapz, Quick Stitch, Rent-A-Box, Transport Trailer, Kirksey Brothers, Precision Machine. I know what a Tupelo customer looks like because I have been watching them use these sites for two decades.
It’s a trade town, and trade customers check you are real before they call.
Machine shops, trailer repair, embroidery, wraps — a lot of the business here is one business selling to another, and the person on the other end is checking three things: are you still open, do you do the specific thing I need, and can I reach somebody today. A site that buries the phone number or describes its services in vague marketing language loses that call to whoever was clearer.
Your customers are spread over a wide area.
Saltillo, Verona, Belden, Baldwyn, Shannon, Plantersville, New Albany, Pontotoc. Somebody deciding whether to make the drive into Tupelo needs to know it is worth the trip before they set off. Correct hours, a real address and a map that works on a phone do more for you here than another paragraph of copy.
Word of mouth is still how most work moves here — and your website is where it lands.
Somebody recommends you at church or at work. The very next thing that happens is that person looks you up on their phone. If what they find is a copyright line reading 2019 and a contact form that goes nowhere, the recommendation is wasted. That is the real job of a small-business website in this town: don’t lose the referral you already earned.
A lot of businesses here have a busy half of the year and a quiet one.
If your website says the same thing in January that it says in July, it is out of step with your own business half the time, and the places that keep up are catching that traffic instead.
How it works
One person builds it, hosts it and answers the phone
Not three companies pointing at each other. When something breaks on a Saturday night, I’m the one who fixes it, and I already know where everything is.
- Built for phones firstBecause that’s where your customers are standing.
- Hosted on my own hardwareWith a backup taken before anything gets changed.
- Kept up to date every monthWordPress, plugins and security patches, without you thinking about it.
- Set up properly for searchIncluding the structured information Google and the AI assistants read to answer questions about local businesses.
- Forms that are testedAnd actually deliver. Which is not as common as it should be.
- Your Google Business Profile sortedFor most local businesses it brings in more than the website does.
What it costs
WEBSITE, HOSTING & UPKEEP
No build fee. That covers building it, hosting it on my servers, keeping it updated and backed up, and the small changes you’ll want along the way.
WITH EMAIL AND EXTRAS
Business email on your own domain and the services that go with it, depending on what you actually need. Custom software and portal work is quoted separately.
The work
Some of what I’ve built
Six of the thirty-odd sites I build, host and look after. Different trades, different jobs, same person answering the phone.
Arkansas Reading Vine
Literacy nonprofit working out of the adult education building in Malvern. Site, donations and the internal systems the tutors use.
Automated Boating Solutions
Launch site for a solar Bluetooth fender system. Built to explain a product nobody had seen before and take quote requests.
Wolf Creek Lodge
Wedding and event venue. Photo-led, because for a venue the pictures are the product and the inquiry form is the sale.
Fast Wrapz
Custom vehicle wraps, banners and signs. A gallery-first build for a business judged entirely on what its work looks like.
Precision Machine & Metal Fabrication
Full-service machine shop. Written for engineers and buyers who want capability and tolerances, not marketing.
Charlie McDaniel’s Cleaning & Installation
Family-owned since 1982. Phone number above the fold, free-estimate button on every screen, because that is the whole job.
Every one of these is hosted on my own servers, backed up before anything changes, and updated every month.
No charge, no obligation
Have a look at your site with me
Call or text and I’ll tell you honestly what’s working on your website and what isn’t. If it’s fine, I’ll say so. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you what it would take to fix and what it would cost, and you can decide from there.
662-422-1809Jeff McDaniel · JM Marketing · Malvern, Arkansas
Serving Hot Springs, Hot Springs Village, Benton, Bryant and Malvern