Northfield, Minnesota
I build the website first. You decide after you have seen it.
Townwick makes websites for local businesses in and around Northfield — barbershops, salons, restaurants, trades. I build yours before we talk about money: a real site with your services, your hours and your prices on it. If you want it, it goes live on a domain in your name and I keep it running. From $149/mo.
- Days, not months. The first version exists before the first invoice.
- Nothing to log into. No dashboard, no CMS, no password to lose.
- The domain is yours. In your name from day one, and it leaves with you.
How it works
Three steps
- 01
I build it first
You tell me the basics — what you do, what it costs, when you are open. I build the whole site from that and send you a private link. Nothing is public, nothing is owed, and there is no meeting to schedule before it exists.
- 02
You look at it in person
We go through it on your own phone. Wrong hours, a missing service, a photo you do not like: say so and it changes while we are sitting there. If it is not for you, that is the end of it.
- 03
It goes live
A domain registered in your name, HTTPS, your Google listing pointed at it, and the message form landing in your inbox. From yes to live is about a week, and most of that week is waiting on the domain rather than on me.
What the monthly fee covers
Every month
- Hosting and the domain
- Static hosting, HTTPS, and a domain registered in your name from the first day. You own it. If we part ways it leaves with you.
- Edits, by text message
- Hours, prices, a new service, a holiday closure. Send it over and it is usually up the same evening. Around two changes a month is the normal rhythm.
- Your Google Business Profile
- Hours, photos, categories and the website link kept accurate, plus a hand with review replies. Most of the calls a shop gets start there rather than on the website.
- Photographs
- I come and shoot the place. Every image is stripped of its location data, straightened, and cut to the sizes a phone actually needs, so the page still loads on one bar of signal.
- Reviews on the page
- Your Google reviews, refreshed weekly, each shown with the reviewer’s name and a link back to the original. Up to five — that is the limit Google returns, and the page says so rather than pretending otherwise.
Not included: rebrands, logo design, online ordering and e-commerce. Booking stays with whoever you already use — Booksy, Vagaro, Square — because that is the flow your customers already know, and replacing it would be me breaking something that works.
Price
From $149/mo
One number, billed monthly. It covers the hosting, the domain, the edits, the Google profile work, the photographs and the review sync above — there is no line item for any of it.
Twelve months to start, then thirty days’ notice. The domain and everything on the site are yours throughout, not held against the invoice.
Seeing the site costs nothing. The build happens before you decide, which is the only honest way to sell a website to someone who has been sold one before.
Run from Northfield
Rice County
I live here. This is one person: I answer my own email, I do the work, and there is nobody between us. I take on a few businesses at a time on purpose — a site nobody maintains is the site you already have. Northfield, Dundas, Faribault and the rest of Rice County.
Questions people actually ask
Six of them
Do I own the domain?
Yes, and it is registered in your name rather than mine. If you leave, it goes with you and I will help move it. Agencies holding a client’s domain hostage is common enough that this is the first question here.
What if I want to cancel?
After the first twelve months, thirty days’ notice — and it is a phone call, not a form to hunt for. If you want to keep the address without the monthly work, the site can be frozen at a hosting-only rate instead.
How long does it take?
You see a finished site within a few days of the first conversation. From your yes to a live site on your own domain is about a week; most of the wait is the domain and the Google listing.
What about photos?
I take them, on site, once you are a client. Until then a demo uses stock that is labelled as stock on the page itself — so you are looking at a layout, never at a claim about your business.
Do I have to learn anything?
No. There is no login, no dashboard and no password to lose. Every change comes through me, which is the point: you have a shop to run.
I already have a site. Can you replace it?
Usually. I rebuild it, we look at both, and the domain only points at the new one once you are happy. Anything that already works — ordering, booking, gift cards — gets linked to rather than torn out.
Tell me about your shop
The form works
Your name, a way to reach you, and what the business is. I come back with a few questions, and if it is a fit the next thing you see is a website with your name on it.
No newsletter, no follow-up sequence, nothing sold on. One person reads these.