Web design in Dudley
Some of the craft skills held by firms around Dudley are genuinely scarce — there are only so many places in the country that can still do certain kinds of glasswork or metalwork.
Almost none of them say so anywhere on their website, which means the people searching for exactly that capability never find them.
- Metalwork and manufacturing
- Glass and specialist crafts
- Construction and trades
- Retail
- Logistics
Selling to Dudley
Worth knowing hereSpecialist craft firms here have skills that are genuinely rare, and almost none of them say so anywhere on their website.
Scarcity only helps if it is stated
When a customer needs something unusual, they search using the name of the process, not the name of a trade. If the technique is never written down on your site, you are absent from that search entirely.
Naming the processes, the materials and the kinds of work you take on puts you in front of a small but highly motivated audience who are not comparing on price.
This is one of the few situations where more technical language is better. The people looking know what they are looking for.
Rare work travels
Customers will come a long way, or ship the work, for a capability they cannot find nearer. That makes it worth saying plainly that you take work from anywhere.
Otherwise a local-sounding site quietly restricts a national or international market to whoever happens to be down the road.
An ordinary trade economy alongside
Dudley also has a substantial construction and trades market that works on reviews, coverage and responsiveness like any other.
Questions people here ask
- Should we name the processes we use?
- Yes. People needing specialist work search by technique, and a site that never names it cannot appear in those searches.
- Is technical language a problem?
- Not here. The audience for rare capability already knows the terms, and using them is how they recognise you as the right supplier.
- Do we need to say we work nationally?
- If you do, yes. People travel or ship for scarce skills, but only if the site does not read as local-only.
Sites we have built
Live, working businesses. Visit them and judge the standard yourself.
Also across the West Midlands
Tell me about your business.
One message is enough to start. I’ll read it and reply myself, usually with a couple of questions and a clear price.
Liam Tapp, Website Builds