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Who I work with

Small Businesses

Plain-English design, branding and digital work for small businesses clients.

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Bespoke design, branding, UX, SEO and marketing for small businesses clients — built around how owner-led businesses actually work.

Small Businesses clients

Trusted in Small Businesses.

Sector-relevant businesses on the studio roster. Logos link out to live sites.

Appaloosa Painting Co. Bygram Chiswick Location Frenchie Autos Ltd Fulham BM Maureen Gomez Interiors The Bread Basket Bakery Fencing Strength
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Small Businesses work.

A small selection of small businesses-adjacent projects.

Logo · Print Increasing the sales of home-made food items through better packaging design Logo · Print Promoting new menu items with a window poster Logo · Print Tweaking the menu design for better readability Website · WordPress Digitising wholesale cake orders with a new website
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Small Businesses clients say

What Small Businesses clients say.

★★★★★

J4G Design has been a god send! Chris is communicative, fast, and most importantly great at what he does. He took over our website and google page management for my local painting company and I already feel in better hands. The amount of analytics, clear decision making to improve our results, and professionalism is unmatched. I recommend Chris to everyone who needs websites, logos, or google page optimization!

Richard Schreiber Appaloosa Painting Co. via Google →
★★★★★

I have had an excellent experience with Chris at J4G Design. He listened well to my requirements, turned them into a great first draft of a website, and then was very responsive to feedback, promptly actioning suggested changes and tweaks. As a result, he has designed a fantastic website for me and I am very happy!

Alan Flitcroft via Google →
★★★★★

I asked Chris if he would re-vamp and update my existing website, which isn't always easy to do. Yet he has managed to really improve the overall look and navigation of the site so I'm really happy with it!

Tanya Bradbury via Google →
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Common questions

What people ask before starting.

How much does a website cost?

It depends on the scope, but our builds start at £650 for a landing page and £1,400–£5,866 for a custom website. E-commerce starts at £4,150. For ongoing support, WP Care plans start at £59/month, SEO retainers from £549/month, and our all-in Studio packages from £270/month.

However a project is priced, we break it into milestones — each with a fixed price tied to a working deliverable. You never pay 50% of the total cost up front. Instead, you pay 50% of the first milestone to start it. When that milestone is complete, you pay the remaining 50% of it together with the 50% deposit on the next milestone — and that's what unlocks the next phase of work. The pattern continues until the final milestone is delivered, at which point you pay the remaining 50% of it.

The effect: cash flow stays smooth, you always see a working deliverable before paying for the next, and we never carry more than half a milestone of unbilled work.

How long does a project take and what does delivery look like?

Indicative timings:

  • Landing page: ~4 weeks from kick-off
  • Custom website: 4–8 weeks
  • E-commerce build: 8–12 weeks
  • Brand work: 2–8 weeks depending on tier

Delivery is broken into milestones built around working functionality, not internal phases like “design” or “build” in isolation. Think of it like an MVP and then MVP+1, MVP+2 — at the end of every milestone you have a live, usable thing you can see and sign off on.

For a typical website project, the milestones look something like this:

  1. MVP — A working homepage and core navigation on staging, with your brand applied. Real, clickable, mobile-friendly.
  2. MVP+1 — All inner pages built, forms wired, analytics installed.
  3. MVP+2 — SEO foundations, schema, performance optimisations, content polish.
  4. Launch — Final QA, DNS cutover, hand-over docs.

You'll always know what we're working on each week and what's due back from you. We never start the next milestone until the previous one is signed off and paid for, which keeps surprises out of the project.

What if I need a bit of everything — can you do that?

Yes, and this is what our Studio packages are built for. Instead of piecing together a freelance designer, a marketing agency, a developer, and a hosting account, you get all of it from one team on one monthly fee:

  • Studio Lite — £1,200/month. SEO retainer + GBP management + WP Care + 6 hours/month of design, dev or content time.
  • Studio Standard — £2,250/month. Bigger SEO scope, 13 hours/month design + dev, quarterly brand reviews.
  • Studio Pro — £3,500/month. The whole stack — 18 hours/month of flex time, weekly GBP posts, monthly cross-discipline strategy session.

Studio is best for businesses who'd otherwise hire a junior designer plus a part-time marketer. It's also how we work with most of our long-standing clients — they like having one point of contact for the whole digital side.

Do you offer ongoing maintenance after launch?

Yes — four WP Care plans, £59–£259/month, covering plugin and core updates, daily backups, security and performance monitoring, and content tweaks. Most clients pair their build with at least our Essentials plan so the site stays healthy and up to date.

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