From Woodbury across the East Metro and St. Croix Valley, we design custom websites for small businesses and solopreneurs. Explore real work, clear paths to inquiry, and support after launch.
Client websites you can explore
A useful website does more than introduce the business. It helps visitors understand their options and find the right next step. Explore these examples of our work.
See custom web apps, tooDrain and sewer services
We built a distinctive website that introduces the business and makes its residential and commercial services easy to explore.
Visitors can see the service area and find a direct way to get in touch.
Explore the live website (opens in a new tab)Spanish immersion education
We rebuilt the academy's website with program information, parent resources, and educational articles.
A clearer way for Woodbury-area families to understand the programs before taking the next step.
Explore the program pages (opens in a new tab)Professional services
We redesigned the website and supported its SEO around the services prospective clients need to understand.
The site explains the research services and provides a direct inquiry path.
Client-reported result: Jessica Schneider reports more qualified inquiries and new business following the website redesign and SEO work. Read her verified Clutch review (opens in a new tab)
Explore the live website (opens in a new tab)A beautiful website that does not convert is a cost center, not a growth engine. Most local service business websites fail in the same predictable ways. Slow to load. Unclear positioning. Buried phone numbers. Forms nobody fills out. Disconnected from the CRM, the follow-up, and the rest of the marketing system.
Visitors land and cannot tell what you do or who you help in under 10 seconds, so they bounce.
Most of your local traffic is on a phone. Every extra second of load time burns leads before they scroll.
Forms submit into an inbox that never gets read. Calls go unanswered. Leads cool off in hours.
No real SEO foundation, no schema, no local signals, no presence in AI answer engines.
We define the pages, integrations, and ongoing support together before work begins, so you know what is included and what comes next.
A search-ready website is the foundation, not an ongoing SEO campaign. Content publishing, active search work, advertising, and custom web apps are scoped around your next priorities.
Explore ongoing local SEO and AI search workOur best-fit clients are established local service operators who rely on inbound leads, referrals, and reputation to grow. If your business depends on people finding you, trusting you, and booking you, your website should do that work every single day.
We plan each site around its real service area and customer questions, whether you are a Woodbury contractor, a Stillwater venue, or serving customers across the border in Hudson, WI.
We dig into the business, the market, the audience, and the competition. We map the exact conversion path the site needs to produce. No assumptions.
Every page is architected around a single conversion intent. Positioning, hierarchy, visual system, and proof placement are all designed before a single pixel ships.
We build on performance-first infrastructure with full SEO, GEO, and AEO foundations. Every integration, form, and automation is wired before launch.
We host, monitor, update, and optimize the site every month. The site is never static. It evolves with the business and the market.
Every site built on connected SEO, CRM, and automation foundations. Portfolio spans home services, professional services, health and wellness, hospitality, education, and trades.
We build websites for local service businesses that get most of their work from people searching, calling, and referring. The work suits owners who want one partner accountable for the whole thing, from the first sketch to the form that fires at 9pm on a Saturday. It does not suit everyone, and we would rather tell you that on the call than three weeks into a build.
Worth Understanding
Most of the money wasted on local business websites gets wasted on things nobody warned the owner about. Here is what we would tell you on a call, whether or not you hire us.
When a site gets rebuilt, the URLs almost always change. The old page at /services/water-heater-repair becomes /water-heaters, and unless somebody explicitly tells search engines where it moved, every link and every ranking pointed at the old address hits a dead end. Traffic drops six to eight weeks later, and by then it gets blamed on a Google update or the new design. The fix is boring: crawl the old site, list every indexed URL, and map each one to its replacement with a permanent 301 redirect before you switch DNS. On a plumbing company rebuild we completed, that map was over 150 URLs long.
A typical WordPress page load asks a server to wake up PHP, query a database, run a dozen plugins, assemble the HTML, and only then send anything to the phone. A static site skips all of it. The HTML already exists, sitting on a server geographically near the visitor, and it starts painting immediately. That is why we build on Astro and host on Cloudflare Pages: not because it is trendy, but because the slowest step in the chain gets deleted entirely. The other half is images. An unoptimized 4MB photo straight off a phone will undo every other optimization you made.
Open your homepage on a phone, look at it for five seconds, then look away. Can you answer what the business does, who it serves, where it operates, and what to do next? If any of those four take more than five seconds, you are losing people before they scroll. This is also the test that settles internal arguments, because it replaces taste with a pass or fail. Most local sites fail on the where, they never name the towns, and on the what next, because the phone number sits in tiny grey text in a corner.
A page presents information. An app takes input from the visitor and gives back something calculated, scheduled, or personalized. The threshold is usually this: if a customer has to email you and wait for a human to do arithmetic or check a calendar before they can move forward, that step can often become a tool. We have built a multi-step quote estimator for a video production company, a six-step booking flow spanning multiple service brands, and a map that tells homeowners their local water quality and routes them to the right service. Each one replaced a phone call that used to happen before the sale, which means fewer leads leaking out while they wait on you.
Featured Recent Projects
A closer look at four recent builds spanning community events, plumbing, education, and roofing. Every one is live and built on the same connected SEO, CRM, and automation foundation.
Neighborhood Halloween event in Woodbury, with a volunteer run admin panel, sponsor showcase, photo gallery, and a live alert banner for weather or closures.
Plumbing and water conditioning experts serving the Twin Cities East Metro since 1989.
Spanish immersion early childhood education with a warm, family-focused brand.
Locally owned residential roofing, repairs, and storm damage restoration across the East Metro.
Custom Web Apps
Some business problems need more than a marketing page. We build focused tools that quote, qualify, book, and guide customers, then connect the result to the system behind it.
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A guided, multi-step estimator that turns video production inquiries into instant personalized quotes.
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A six-step booking flow that lets customers select services and schedule across multiple service brands in one place.
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An interactive assessment that scores a visitor's financial health and converts them into a qualified advisory lead.
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A location-aware tool that shows East Metro homeowners their local water quality and routes them to the right service.
Open live toolA sample of websites designed, built, and managed by McKinney Creative Ventures across local service, professional, health and wellness, hospitality, education, and creative industries. Every site below is live, actively maintained, and built on the same connected systems approach.
Family-owned drain and sewer service based in Somerset, serving nearby Wisconsin and Minnesota communities
Plumbing and water conditioning experts serving the Twin Cities East Metro since 1989
Locally owned residential roofing, repairs, and storm damage restoration across the East Metro
Collision repair, custom paint, and classic restoration in the south metro since 1966
Commercial and residential service operations
Professional steam cleaning services
Residential and commercial gutter systems
Full-service handyman solutions
Event and construction portable sanitation
Foundation repair and concrete services
Custom residential and commercial concrete work
Heating, cooling, and indoor air quality
Residential and commercial carpet cleaning
Post-construction and deep cleaning
Air duct and dryer vent cleaning across the Twin Cities East Metro
Owner operated residential and commercial window cleaning across the Twin Cities metro
Veteran owned moving company serving Peachtree City and metro Atlanta
Professional genealogy research and services
Personalized financial advisory
Personal mortgage lending services
Network marketing and business development
Business technology and IT consulting
Neighborhood Halloween event with a volunteer run admin panel, sponsor showcase, and live alert banner
Event venue and hospitality experiences
Private lakeside retreat and hospitality
Historic Saint Paul neighborhood bar, restaurant, and private event venue, established 1979
Connect the website to a CRM that answers in seconds, follows up on its own, and shows you where every lead sits.
Build useful service content and accurate local signals, then measure how customers find you across Google Search, Maps, and AI answers.
A logo you are proud to put on the truck, and site copy, blogs, and proposals written to sound like you talk.
Listen
Sam hosts East Side Enterprise and records a short Tech Tips episode most weeks. Here is the one on how a site gets judged in seconds, plus two long conversations with local owners we have built for.
Four minutes on whether a stranger can tell what you do before they leave. Run it on your own homepage before you ask anyone to rebuild it.
Episode 5 · 3:56
Henry Schneider runs Open Window Productions in Oakdale, and we built the instant quote tool that sits on his site, so the custom build side of this service has a face on it.
Episode 3 · 1:00:33
Steve Grohn owns AJ Alberts Plumbing and Water Conditioning in Woodbury, and we build and manage their site, so you can hear the kind of owner we work with before you call us.
Episode 1 · 1:04:27We share what we learn building these systems. These articles go deeper than a service page can.
Our detailed breakdown of what separates a site that books jobs from one that just looks fine. Read this before you approve anybody's design.
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Seven specific failures we find over and over in audits. Open your own site next to this list and count how many you have.
Read the articleThe fastest way to judge your own homepage without needing an opinion from a designer. Takes about a minute and settles a lot of arguments.
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Where the line sits between a page and a real tool, and how to tell which side of it your problem is on before you spend anything.
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A fair question now that AI answers and Google Business Profiles do so much of the work. The answer is yes, but not for the reason most people assume.
Read the articleBook a 30 minute strategy call. We will walk through your current site, your goals, and whether a rebuild makes sense. No pitch. Just a plan.
Book a Strategy CallOr call/text +1 651-661-3551. Based in Woodbury, MN. Serving the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin.
Still deciding? Look through the portfolio and see whether the work holds up.
