Frequently Asked Questions

The average price for a fully custom new website is around $15,000. It is important to understand what a custom website actually is though. Some web companies will use purchased pre-made themes or templates to use for client websites. These themes and templates can be purchased for as little as $50. They come with a ton of bloat and inefficient code. However, most importantly, the look of the site is cookie cutter and not created to represent your brand and audience.

Yes! Powderkeg is happy to take over additions and maintenance for websites we did not make. We typically start this process with an onboarding to our development environment which will then allow us to work on your website locally before deploying any changes to the live website. Oftentimes a website audit is performed as part of this process to identify any issues. 

Powderkeg does offer managed hosting. This is our worry free solution which provides free wordpress and plugin updates, high end firewall protection, speed optimizations and more.

Will I be able to easily make changes to my new website?
For every website Powderkeg creates, we also provide training on how to use your content management system. Powderkeg makes some of the most easy to use content management systems in the world, ensuring updating your website will be a breeze!

Powderkeg offers a variety of digital marketing services including; Paid advertising (Google & Meta), Organic Social Media Marketing, Email marketing, SEO, Content elevation and more!

Yes! Powderkeg can help you with all aspects of your paid advertising. Initial setup, account audit, reporting, and more. 

Powderkeg can help you with your organic social media marketing needs. We can help you with strategy, scheduling and more. 

Powderkeg can help with your SEO in a variety of different ways. We can do an SEO audit of your existing website, we can complete recommended actions, or we can enhance your content for the agreed upon SEO strategy for your website pages.

All of the websites Powderkeg makes are built with the Google Schema in mind to ensure your website is built to be SEO friendly! Beyond that, Powderkeg can help with SEO strategy planning and content enhancement for SEO.

Powderkeg’s design team are ADA experts. We will ensure your website is ADA compliant through the design and development phases. 

Powderkeg knows how important it is to have your website look good on all screen sizes. We will ensure your website is fully responsive so that your website will look its best and function well on them all.

If your CRM allows for integration, Powderkeg can integrate with it! We have integrated with dozens of CRM’s so it is likely we already have worked with yours. Our developers are experts at integrating your website with your CRM to make it work for you.

The Powderkeg development team has integrated with hundreds of API services. As long as the API allows access, we can integrate with it! It is important that your website makes your job easier, not harder, so we understand the importance of making sure your website can talk to a variety of services that your business uses. 

All websites that Powderkeg creates come with included training at the end of the project. Our goal is that the client has a full understanding on how to easily add/edit/delete the content on their website.

Yes, your website will be hooked up to Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager to ensure all of the tracking items you need to be in place are installed and tracking properly. Need help setting up specific tracking items like purchases or goals? We can help!

No! Powderkeg takes pride in having our entire team be local and in-house. We will not outsource any design or development. This ensures the person who wrote the first line of code on your website is the same person who will be launching your website when the time comes.

Yes, our team is local and in-house. There are lots of benefits to having our team be local including close collaboration throughout the entire team. This results in a much better end product for our clients as there is cohesion across the entire team for every project we do.

We work will all sorts of industries! One of the most exciting parts of our work is learning about your business and your industry so we can tailor the website to the specific goals and challenges yours brings. We have worked on websites in a wide range of industries; healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, real estate, security, construction, education, insurance, retail and ecommerce, municipality, banking, finance, agriculture, law firms, gaming, just to name a few…

No. Powderkeg does not charge our customers a monthly retainer. If we are not doing work for you, why should you pay us?

Yes we do! We have a 5 star rating on Google and Facebook as well as video testimonials available on our website. 

We can help with content creation! We have experts on the team who can assist with your content, ensure it is written for SEO and has the right tone and voice to get your message across.