Websites, SEO and CRM in Glen Ellyn, IL

What it costs here, same as it costs anywhere.

Two plans. Foundation runs $250 a month with a $250 setup — the site, the Google Business Profile, Google Workspace email at your own domain instead of a Gmail, the SEO, and one update a month for the asking.

Growth runs $500 a month with a $500 setup and switches on the rest: a booking page synced to your Google Calendar, automated review requests, the full CRM with invoicing and cold-lead follow-up, the reminder and thank-you texts, payment integration, expenses filed alongside everything else, monthly reports on what came in and who's due back, and a sync to QuickBooks so your accountant gets a clean P&L.

On top of either, 24/7 automated phone answering is $100 a month and automated Google review replies are $130 a month. Prepaying a year takes 15% off. Both plans commit to twelve months, because a new site needs roughly three months in the water before it pays for itself — and the first ninety days are when most of the building happens. If you want out early, tell us in writing: you pay the current month plus one more, and the domain, the Google profile and the customer list leave with you.

Start wherever it makes sense. Moving up later doesn't mean rebuilding anything; it's the same system with more of it turned on.

Glen Ellyn recognizes three business districts, and they don't behave alike.

The village names three: the historic downtown, the Roosevelt Road corridor, and Stacy's Corners at Main and Geneva — the Five Corners, if you've lived here a while. One village, one ZIP code, three completely different ways a customer ends up at your door.

Downtown is over a hundred shops in roughly 265,000 square feet, wrapped around the Metra station at 551 Crescent Blvd. Somebody there is already on the sidewalk with an hour to spend, so your website's job is smaller than most owners assume — confirm a decision that's half made, with hours that are right and a photo of the actual room instead of a stock interior.

Roosevelt Road is a different animal. Tens of thousands of cars a day, most of them doing forty-five, and the village's own corridor plan admits nobody walks it. Nobody's strolling past your sign out there. You're found on a phone or you're not found.

Most owners optimize hard for the district they're standing in and never think about the other two. What's below is built to cover all three at once.

We're based here, and here's what that actually buys you.

Project Knox works out of Glen Ellyn. On its own that's not a credential — plenty of good people build websites three states away, and for most of this work the distance stopped mattering years ago.

What it means in practice is that we're not guessing. We know downtown and Roosevelt Road are two different businesses inside one village. We know which corner somebody means when they give directions by landmark instead of address. And when you say your customers come off the train, we don't have to look up which train — it's the Union Pacific West line, 22.4 miles out from Ogilvie, and that shapes who's on your block at the end of a weekday and who isn't there at ten in the morning.

There's a plainer version of all this. When something breaks at nine at night, you're calling a number in your own area code, and whoever picks up has driven past your shop.

Six trades we've already built end to end.

A barbershop and a lawn crew aren't the same business in different shirts. One lives or dies on whether the chair's full at two on a Tuesday. The other lives on a route, a season, and a customer who forgets in July that they signed up in April — the follow-up that rescues one of them would irritate the other.

So the six trade pages aren't one page written six times. Each starts from how that trade actually gets paid — the booking pattern, the no-show, the repeat cycle, the busy month — then works backward to what the site and the ledger have to do about it. Every one of them has a working demo behind it that you can book an appointment in right now.

Four services, whichever door you came in through.

Some owners here need a website and nothing beyond it yet. Others have a perfectly decent site and a Google profile that's been wrong for years. The work splits four ways, and you can start with whichever one's bleeding.

• Website design — on your own domain, shaped around your trade, and quick enough to open in a parking lot on one bar of signal.
• Local SEO and the Google Business Profile — claimed, categorized, hours right, services listed, aimed at Glen Ellyn searches rather than the whole western suburbs.
• The CRM — one ledger for the appointments, the money and the regular who hasn't booked since March.
• Booking and payments — an appointment page tied to the Google Calendar you already keep, and money you can take online or at the counter.

What being new means, and what it doesn't.

Project Knox is new. There's no wall of five-star reviews on this site that we haven't earned, and no row of client logos we've no business putting on a page. If that rules us out for you, we'd rather you knew now than in month three.

What stands in place of it is six complete businesses, built end to end and left running — a barbershop, a taqueria, an auto shop, a nail salon, a chiropractic office and a lawn crew. Book a haircut in one and a real confirmation email lands in your inbox in about ten seconds. That's the same booking flow, the same calendar sync and the same ledger you'd be handed.

And if what you honestly need is a five-page site you'll never touch again, Squarespace will do it for less than we charge. We'd rather say so than sell around it.