Booneville, Mississippi
For Prentiss County businesses whose customers pick up the phone
JM Marketing builds, hosts and maintains websites for businesses in Booneville and the rest of Prentiss County, Mississippi, and sets them up to be found in search. Jeff McDaniel already has clients in the Booneville area and works there regularly.
What JM Marketing does
JM Marketing’s work for a Booneville business covers four things: building the website, hosting it, maintaining it and setting up its on-site SEO. Jeff McDaniel does all four himself, so one phone call reaches the person who built the site.
Phone-first pages with the number, hours and location at the top of every one.
Hosted on JM Marketing’s own servers, with a backup taken before anything is changed.
WordPress, plugins and security patches kept up to date every month.
Titles, headings and structured data that name the service, Booneville and Prentiss County.
The local picture
Booneville is a town of about 8,700 people in Prentiss County, on the US-45 corridor between Tupelo and Corinth. Northeast Mississippi Community College is in town, and larger employers include ACCO Brands, Baptist Memorial Hospital and Caterpillar. Manufacturing (furniture and automotive parts), healthcare, retail and education are the main sectors. Median household income is around $34,000, below the national average.
A Booneville business’s customers mostly live nearby, and almost all of them arrive by phone. That makes the phone number the most important thing on the website. It belongs at the top of every page, as a link that dials when it is tapped, written the same way everywhere it appears. A site that hides the number behind a contact form asks a Prentiss County customer to do more work than most of them will do.
Many established Booneville businesses, from trades to suppliers to services, have no real website, or one that has not been touched in years. For a firm like that, the website’s job is narrow and specific. When somebody hears the name and looks it up, the site should confirm that the business is open, say what it does and show how to reach it, with nothing on the page out of date.
A Booneville customer may be looking a business up on a phone with a weak signal. A page that has to download several large images and scripts before it shows any text can lose that customer before it finishes loading. Small, properly sized images and a light page that shows its words and its phone number first matter more for a business this size than decoration does.
Most small Booneville businesses are known for one main thing. Web design for a Booneville business starts by saying that thing in plain words, in the page title and the first heading, with Booneville and Prentiss County named, so a local search for it finds the business. The hours and the location belong in text and in the structured data search engines read, not only inside a picture.
Phone number, hours and location are the three facts a Booneville customer checks, and each one has to be correct today. Website maintenance in Booneville is mostly that: changing the hours the day they change, keeping the number right and keeping the page loading quickly, so the site never sends a customer to a locked door.
For a longer look at this, read What Matters on a Small-Town Business Website.
Clients in the area
JM Marketing has paying clients in the Booneville area, and Jeff McDaniel still does a lot of work there. Other sites he builds, hosts and looks after are on the Our Work page.
Talk to Jeff
Jeff McDaniel answers 662-422-1809 himself. Call or text about your Booneville business, and he will tell you honestly what is working on your website and what isn’t.
or email jm@jeffmcdanielmarketing.com
Jeff McDaniel · JM Marketing · Malvern, Arkansas
Serving Booneville and Prentiss County, Mississippi
Areas we serve
Each area JM Marketing serves has its own page, and all of them are listed together on the Areas We Serve page.
Tennessee: Savannah and Hardin County
Alabama: The Shoals · Florence · Muscle Shoals
Arkansas: Hot Springs · Malvern · Benton · Bryant