Welcome to 80five

What is 80five?

I am very pleased to introduce 80five. It is a concept and a business that I have been working on and testing for a while, so I am delighted and relieved to share it with you.

Previously, I ran my own Exeter-based web agency, focused on helping small businesses get their perfect website. Plus, I have worked for larger agencies based in Exeter and supported their web design work with small and medium-sized businesses.

The central goal of 80five is to help small businesses based in Exeter and Devon to get a website that helps them be found online.

There are industries, such as plumbing, cafes and hairdressers, where there is lots of local competition. These businesses need a website that explains what they do and who they serve, and is built with search engines and emerging AI tools in mind.

Who 80five helps

As previously mentioned, the core focus is on supporting small businesses based in Exeter and Devon. That being said, we would not turn down work from outside our local area! Making great websites that work locally would work in any local area.

With years of experience helping small businesses with their websites, I know who 80five can help. There are lots of small business owners who know they need a website, but know they do not have the time to manage and maintain their own site.

This is especially true for solo business owners, such as electricians, plumbers, builders, decorators, landscapers and other local tradespeople. Alongside that, I have worked with cafes, hairdressers, people working in the care sector and charities.

I have also supported quite a few business owners who have built their own website with tools like Wix and Squarespace. However, they quickly discover that those tools only provide a good sales pitch and building a successful business website is not so easy.

Whatever someone's situation, we can help people quickly and easily get a powerful, engaging website. One that is designed to increase leads and enquiries.

What a business website should do

There are some central tenets that all business websites should aim to achieve.

All small business websites must:

• Present the business professionally and reflect the quality of its work.

• Explain the business's services clearly.

• Work equally well on mobile phones as on laptops.

• Help potential customers find relevant information.

• Make contacting the business straightforward and obvious.

• Give the business a sound foundation for local search visibility.

Alongside these fundamentals, the website can be visually appealing, so that it is effortlessly easy for visitors to navigate the site. Design is not just about making a site look pretty; it is about removing visual clutter and making it extremely easy for anyone to move around a website.

With the modern world of tech and business advancing, there are some newer targets for all business websites.

They now also must:

• Provide clear, well-structured information that can be understood by search engines and AI tools.

• Be accessible, so that people with a wide range of disabilities and impairments can use the website.

• Load quickly, even on 5G mobile connections.

What 80five provides

With those goals in mind, 80five is designed to achieve all of the requirements and so much more.

At its heart, the goal of 80five is to provide effective websites for local small businesses. Each site should work well across devices, give visitors a clear understanding of the business, and make it easy to get in touch. I also build in local SEO foundations to support a business’s visibility in search.

The aim is to build websites that are going to work well for local SEO and AI. We do not sell a specific ongoing SEO service, as there are loads of experts out there who can focus on that much better than we can by offering it as an add-on service. But we do provide websites built to support ongoing SEO support, if you require it.

What we do offer as an ongoing service is website hosting and maintenance.

Support after launch

Once your website goes live, I don't disappear into the distance. I am committed to supporting you, your website, and your business going forward.

As part of my commitment, I provide website hosting and ongoing website support. This includes routine fixes, edits, advice and help with fixing domain or DNS issues.

All of the websites I build are designed to be ridiculously easy for you to edit. However, from my experience, I know that quite a lot of small business owners do not want to edit their own website. They do want someone to help them.

With my ongoing hosting and maintenance package, I am someone at the other end of a phone call, text, or email who can help. I don't charge for small website edits; that is included and provided because I want to give you the time to focus on what matters for your business.

Getting started with 80five

If you are interested in finding out more about how I can help you and your business, please get in touch.

By contacting me, I can answer any questions you have and provide you with a free quote.

I am committed to helping Exeter and Devon small businesses get a powerful website that helps their business grow and succeed.