Websites, flyers, logos, Google listings and QR codes for small businesses. You send a few photos off your phone and tell me what you're after. I do everything else.
Gary's site was live four days after he messaged me · have a look
Ten minutes on the phone or a few messages. What you do, who for, what you charge, and any photos sat on your phone. That's your bit finished.
I write it, sort the pictures, buy the domain and put it online so you can look at it properly on your phone. Before you've paid anything.
Anything you don't like, I change it. Then it goes live on your own domain, and I get your Google listing sorted while I'm at it.
Same person does all of it, so nothing gets lost between the website and the printer.
Home, services and prices, about, reviews, contact. Built for phones first, with call, WhatsApp and Messenger buttons throughout. I write it, sort the photos, buy the domain and put it live. The website and the domain are yours — if you ever want to go elsewhere, I'll hand them over, no argument.
You tell me roughly what you want on it and I design it, then get it printed on decent paper and delivered to your door. You never speak to a printer. Gary's 5,000 went from a sketch to ordered in one afternoon.
Set up or fixed properly, under your own Google account, with the right categories, your hours, your area and your photos, plus a review link you can text to customers. I can't promise you the top of Google and I won't pretend otherwise — but I'll make sure you're on there properly.
A proper print-quality code that takes people straight to your website. Sent to your sign writer as a vector file so it stays sharp at any size, and scan-tested before it goes anywhere.
If you haven't got a logo, or the only version you own is a fuzzy photo of your van. Priced once I know what's needed, so ask.
More pages, online booking, event ticketing that people can buy through without leaving your site. All doable and priced properly rather than squeezed into a £300 job. Here's a concept I built for a festival with a working ticket checkout.
The bits you do over and over. Someone books and gets a confirmation without you touching your phone. A quote goes out as a proper PDF while you're still under the car. A missed call texts them back on its own. Day job I do the same sort of thing for a big company, so it's not new to me — it's just new to Bates Design, and I'd rather say that than pretend I've done fifty of them. Tell me the job you're sick of doing twice and I'll tell you straight if it can do itself.