Your own business
01- Your real photos. No stock photos.
- Colors taken from your logo
- Your real reviews, shown as testimonials
- Your hours, address and phone number, kept accurate
- No templates and no lorem ipsum placeholder text
We design websites for businesses in Sarasota and Manatee counties, starting from what's already yours: your photos, your logo colors, your reviews, your hours and your address. There are no templates and no stock photos. Every site is built for the phone first and set up to be found in Google and AI search.
Before we design anything, we study your current site. The new one has to beat it on every count, and this is what that takes.
You can use this whether or not you ever hire us. None of it is complicated, and you can check your current site against it on your own phone.
01
Open your site on your phone. If calling you takes more than one tap, fix that first. The number should be a real tap-to-call link near the top of the page, not a picture of a number and not buried in the footer.
02
Wrong hours send people to a locked door, and some of them will say so in a review. When your holiday or seasonal hours change, update your website and your Google listing on the same day.
03
Show your actual dining room, your actual chair, your actual work. People want to see the place they're about to walk into, and a stock photo tells them nothing about you. A clear phone photo taken in daylight is enough.
04
If customers already praise you on Google, put a few of those reviews on your site, word for word. Never write your own, and never edit theirs. Real ones are more convincing anyway.
05
Your name, address, phone number and hours should read the same on your website, your Google Business Profile and anywhere else you're listed. When they disagree, customers don't know which one to believe.
06
A slow page loses people before they see your name. Shrink photos before you upload them and drop pop-ups you don't need. Then load your site on your phone over cellular data, not the office Wi-Fi, and see how it feels.
STEP 01
Your current website and your Google listing: what they say, what's missing and what's out of date. This is the free 30-minute audit, by phone or in person.
STEP 02
Your real photos, logo colors and reviews go into the design. The goal is to beat your current site on every count.
STEP 03
You see the site before anyone else does. Tell us what's wrong or missing and we change it.
STEP 04
The site goes live on your own domain, which stays registered in your name.
STEP 05
On a monthly plan we host the site and update it when your hours, menu or prices change. Or choose a one-time project instead.
A website is often the first piece. Once it's running, it can grow into more: an AI receptionist that answers your phone and website chat, online booking, and automation for the paperwork behind the scenes. That's covered on our AI consulting & automation page.
Sarasota Consulting was founded by Lennart Lopin and has worked from Sarasota since 2012. Websites were part of the work from the start. Our own site from 2012 to 2016 already showed websites, web applications, eCommerce and mobile work.
You can see sites we've designed on our portfolio page. Most of them are restaurants, salons, cafés and shops around Sarasota and Bradenton. We'll meet you at your business anywhere in Sarasota and Manatee counties, and we work remotely with businesses anywhere.
In person across
Yes. Your domain stays registered in your name, not ours. The site launches on it, and it stays yours if you ever stop working with us.
Yes. We study your current site and your Google listing first, then design a new one from your real photos, reviews and details that beats the old one on every count.
Typically days, not months. You review the site before it goes live, and we make your changes before launch.
Yes. Our monthly plans include hosting, and we update the site when your hours, menu, prices or photos change. There are no long contracts and no setup fees, and you can cancel anytime. If you'd rather pay once, we also build sites as a one-time project.
We build it to be found and set up the basics: page titles and descriptions, structured data with your real name, address, phone and hours, and fast hosting. Nobody can honestly guarantee where a site will rank, and we won't pretend to.
No. We're based in Sarasota and meet in person across Sarasota and Manatee counties, including Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Venice and North Port. We work remotely with businesses anywhere.
With a free 30-minute audit, by phone or in person. We look at your current website and Google listing and tell you plainly what we'd change first.
Call or send us a message. We'll look at your website and your Google listing and tell you plainly what we'd change.