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Barnabas · For creative & marketing pros · Mpls – St. Paul – Hudson

You handle the craft. We handle the site it lives on.

You're the one Twin Cities small businesses call for video, photos, branding, wraps, or ads. We're the ones contractors call for the website. Put the two together and your client gets the whole package — and your work gets a home that can show what it did.

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Contractor websites · Flat $600 build · Care plans from $300/mo

Who this page is for

You already serve the trades. So do we.

This page is for the Woodbury videographer whose roofer client just asked about a website. The wrap shop in St. Paul lettering a plumber's third van. The Stillwater designer handing off a logo package and wondering where it will end up online. The freelancer running Google Ads or Local Services Ads for an HVAC crew in Oakdale, and the photographer in White Bear Lake who shoots job sites all summer.

You make contractors look good — on film, on paper, on a truck, or in an ad auction. We do one thing that sits right next to all of it: websites for contractors, with hosting, local SEO, and a care plan behind them. Different lanes, same clients, and the work stacks instead of competing.

The short version of the offer your clients would get is on the pricing page — a flat $600 build, care plans from $300 a month, and a build that typically runs two to four weeks from kickoff.

You've heard this before

Five things your contractor clients keep saying.

Each one lands on your desk sooner or later — usually right after you've delivered your best work. Here's what's actually going on, and what to say the next time you hear it.

Heard before · 01

"I can't tell if any of this is working."

You delivered the brand film. It's the best thing their company has ever put out. Six months later they're asking whether it "did anything" — and nobody can answer, because their website has no analytics, no call tracking, nothing that counts.

Barnabas builds ship with analytics and call and form tracking wired in from day one, and the care plan includes a monthly report in plain English — visits, calls, form fills, and where they came from. When your video goes up, there's a number next to it.

Next time: "Your video didn't fail. Their website just can't count. I know who can fix that."

Heard before · 02

"My website guy disappeared."

An orphaned site, plugins three years stale, hosting billed to a card nobody remembers. You need one headshot swapped for the team page you shot, and there is no one to email.

Barnabas is two people, and you talk to the builders — not an account manager. The care plan covers hosting, updates, and security month after month, so there's a phone that rings and a person who answers it.

Next time: "There's a two-man shop out here that builds these and actually picks up."

Heard before · 03

"I paid five grand and I can't even update it."

You've watched clients get burned: a big invoice, a long timeline, then a standoff over logins when they want to change a phone number. It makes them gun-shy about every vendor after that — including you.

Our whole rate card is public: a flat $600 build, care plans from $300 a month, no hourly meter, no change orders. Same terms on every bid, printed on the pricing page where anyone can read them.

Next time: "Before you sink another dollar into that thing, look at what a rebuild actually costs now."

Heard before · 04

"The site's too slow to send traffic to."

If you run Google Ads or Local Services Ads, you know this one from the inside. You're managing a tight campaign that lands on somebody's 2019 template. Google's own Quality Score documentation lists landing page experience — usefulness, relevance, ease of navigation — as a component, and you're the one explaining the cost per lead.

We build fast, static pages with click-to-call up top, clear calls to action, and conversion tracking you can plug a campaign into — a page worth paying for clicks to. Landing pages for specific campaigns are a standing service, not a favor.

Next time: "The campaign's fine. The landing page is the leak."

Heard before · 05

"I don't show up on Google."

The wrap looks great, the trucks are all over the east metro — and the company is nowhere in the Map Pack. Google Business Profile half filled out, reviews sitting unanswered, no pages for the services or suburbs they actually work in.

That machinery is our daily work: local SEO plans covering Google Business Profile management, review strategy, and service-plus-city pages. Google's own guidance for local rankings points at profile quality, reviews, and responsiveness — so that's where the plan puts its hours.

Next time: "Your trucks show up everywhere but Google. That's fixable."

Where the lines are

We build and manage websites. We don't shoot video, run ads, or design brands — that work stays yours.

One lane, done well. If a client asks us for the things you do, that's a conversation about you — not about us.

What you get out of it

Built to make your work look better.

Craft · Video & photo

Your footage gets a real home

Fast pages, clean layout, your work placed where it sells instead of buried on a Facebook timeline. And because tracking is wired in, the monthly report shows what happened after a release — so the conversation about your work starts from data, not vibes.

Craft · Ads & PPC

Plumbing your campaigns can use

Conversion tracking, call attribution, fast static landing pages. We build the site. You run the traffic. Ad management isn't something we sell — websites are the whole business here.

Craft · Brand, wraps & print

One company, everywhere it shows up

The truck, the shirts, the yard signs, and the site should read as one outfit. We build to your brand standards — your logo files, your colors, your rules — because the website is where the brand you built greets a homeowner searching at midnight.

How a hand-off works

Four steps, none of them awkward.

Step 01

You make the intro

Forward an email, pass along a number, or point them at this site — whatever's natural for how you work.

Step 02

Free 20-minute consult

No pressure and no pitch deck. We look at what they have and lay out what a build would look like, in plain terms.

Step 03

The build

Kickoff to launch typically runs two to four weeks. You stay in the loop as much or as little as you want.

Step 04

The site goes to work

Tracking wired in, care plan running, and an online presence that finally matches the craft that went into everything else.

Live builds

Click through the work itself.

Three Barnabas builds, live right now. Open one on your phone — load speed is the first thing a homeowner notices, so it's the first thing worth checking.

Build 01 · Electrical

Your Electrician

A licensed electrician serving homes and businesses across the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro — wiring, lighting, EV chargers.

yourelectrician.co ↗
Build 02 · Exterior cleaning

S&S Exterior Services

Gutter cleaning, window washing, and pressure washing in Wausau, Wisconsin — a seasonal business with a site that sells the season.

exteriorservices715.com ↗
Build 03 · Design-build

North Haven Design Build

A Twin Cities custom home builder and luxury remodeler serving Edina, Minnetonka, and the southwest metro.

northhavendb.com ↗

Straight answers

The questions people ask before sending a name.

Do you pay for referrals?

No. There's no fee, no cut, and nothing to sign up for. Work moves here the way it moves on a job site: good names get passed along. When our contractor clients ask for video, photography, ads help, or brand work — and they do ask — we pass along people whose work we've seen hold up.

Will you sell my clients the services I already provide?

No. We build and manage websites — design, hosting, local SEO, and care plans. Video, photography, ad management, and brand design aren't things we sell. That work stays yours.

What does the client pay?

The same as anyone who walks in the front door: a flat $600 build and a care plan from $300 a month, with local SEO and Google Business Profile plans above that. The whole sheet is public on the pricing page.

How fast do builds go?

Most builds run two to four weeks from kickoff to launch — the same schedule quoted everywhere else on this site. The process is identical whether the introduction came from you or from a Google search.

Where to look next

See what your clients would be getting

The service, the terms, and the trade pages — laid out the same way we'd lay them out for a contractor.

The other desk

For suppliers & trade advisors

Behind a counter or a ledger instead of a lens? The counter version of this page.

Read the supplier page
The service

Contractor website design

What a build includes, how the process works, and what happens after launch.

See the website service
The trade

Plumber website design

What plumbing companies need from a website: trust signals and fast ways to call.

View the plumbing page
The city

Website design for Woodbury contractors

How we build for contractors working the east metro and St. Croix Valley.

Open the Woodbury page

No forms in triplicate

Know a contractor who needs this?

Send a name, make an intro, or have them call us directly. Twenty minutes, no pressure, and your name only comes up the way you'd want it to.

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