What businesses actually pay for websites
There are three common routes, and they’re priced in different shapes:
- DIY builders (Wix, Squarespace and similar): roughly $20–$50 a month for business tiers — cheap to start, rented forever, and the work of building it is yours. $40 a month is about $1,440 over three years, plus your weekends.
- Agencies: custom builds commonly run $3,000–$10,000+ in the Houston market, and ongoing “maintenance plans” of $50–$200 a month are the industry’s quiet subscription.
- Ours: from $3,000, one-time (the full offer →). No maintenance plan, because you own it — hosting runs on your accounts at cost, typically a few dollars a month paid to the host, not to us.
Why ours includes things agencies quote as extras
A website that just sits there is a brochure. At the $3,000 floor, ours ships working:
- Automated emails — an inquiry gets an answer immediately, and a follow-up if it goes quiet, without you touching it
- Forms that land somewhere real — every submission in one place of record, not a lost notification
- Booking built in — customers book appointments from the site directly
- SEO wiring and traffic tracking — set up and connected on day one, with your numbers where you can see them
- Your name on everything — the code, the accounts, the domain: yours
When a $40-a-month builder is the right call
If you need one page with your phone number this weekend, use a builder — genuinely. A built website is the right purchase when the site has a job: answering inquiries, booking work, and showing up in search. If it’s doing none of those, don’t pay anyone $3,000 for it yet.