Quick answer: A new Kent business usually needs one clear page before it needs a large site. Starter at £150 covers that page. Move to £450 or £900 when there are more services or towns to explain. Do not invent a trading history to fill the space.
Start smaller than your ambition
You can be ambitious and still launch on one page. The page should say what you do this month, where you will travel, and how to book you. A twelve-page site about services you do not offer yet looks like a brochure for a company that is not there.
Growth is available when the landing pages are real. An empty location page for every Kent town is not a launch strategy for a firm that has not taken its first call.
What you can say on day one
You can say you are new. Customers prefer that to a fake ‘established 1998’. You can show a price if you know it. You can show a photo of the van you parked this morning. You should not show awards, reviews or client logos you do not have.
Name, phone and area must match the Google Business Profile you create. Set them once. Changing them next month throws away the little consistency a new firm has.
Money and time
Budget the design fee and the separate items: domain, hosting, VAT, and whoever writes the sentences. Starter is often ready a few days after those sentences exist. Do not plan an opening day that assumes a Growth build finishes over a weekend.
There is no monthly design retainer in the published packages. There may be a hosting bill later. Ask for it before you announce the site.
When to add pages
Add a page when a second service is selling, or when a second town is a real part of the week. That is the moment to talk about Business or Growth, with revision rounds included as published.
Until then, put the energy into answering the phone. A new site does not replace the first fifty conversations.
Before you enquire
Launch the page you can defend in a conversation this week. Add the story of the first real jobs after they exist. A new firm that waits for a perfect twelve-page site often spends the season with no site at all.
Keep the first phone number. When you upgrade from Starter to a larger package later, that continuity matters more than a new look.
A first website should be able to survive a sceptical customer. That person will look for a real service, a real area and a real way to answer. They will not be persuaded by a founded-in date you rounded down, or by five stars you wrote yourself. Launch on Starter if one page can hold the truth. Move to Business when a second service needs room. Leave Growth until there are location pages you can maintain. The separate costs, hosting, domain, VAT and writing, should be known before you print the web address on a van. A few days is a reasonable hope for that one page after the words exist. A large site in a weekend is not the timing this studio publishes, and a new firm does not need to pretend otherwise.
Frequently asked questions
I have no photos yet. Can you still launch?
Yes, without fake ones. A plain page with a real phone number is better than a stock team presented as your staff.
Should a new business buy the £900 package?
Only if you already have 8–12 pages of true things to say. Most new firms start on Starter or Business.
Will the new site rank quickly?
Do not plan on it. Indexing can take a week or two and rankings take longer. The launch is the start.
If you want this scoped, call +44 7576 480744 on a weekday between 09:00 and 17:00, or use the contact form. Say the town and the package you think fits. The reply is a fixed design price. Hosting, the domain, VAT and content writing remain items to confirm before launch, and no search ranking is included in the fee.
Related reading: The one-page start Timings Brief a new business.