Website Design, Local SEO & Automation for Birmingham Small Businesses
Birmingham, MI · Oakland County
Upscale professional practices and boutique retail.
Built to Birmingham’s presentation bar, for the practices and boutiques clients compare before they call.
What clients say on Google
5.0★★★★★· 7 reviews
“Extremely helpful and dedicated to detail. I’m very satisfied so far and I’m hopeful this will help get me to the next level. Thanks Tony!”
“We truly cannot say enough wonderful things about our experience working with Tony of Marhardt Consulting!”
“Absolutely knocked it out of the park. Everyone’s AI website looks the same as another today.”
A single retained client pays for it.
The opportunity in Birmingham
- Residents
- 22K
- Median household income
- $154K
- Households
- 9K
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, via Census Reporter (2024 5-year)
What one retained client returns
Conservative for Birmingham, where a single retained client in law, finance or real estate is typically a large multiple of this.
One retained client clears
$2,000
The plan
$179–369/mo
Pays for
5–11 months
Month to month, no build fee: the risk is one month. Illustrative, not a projection.
What the alternatives cost
A design-led agency
$5,000 to $15,000 build
They will produce something beautiful, and where brand is the product that is right. What you often do not get is what happens after launch.
A local marketing retainer
$501 to $3,000 / mo
Plenty of choice here. Worth asking what is actually delivered each month, because retainers vary enormously for similar money.
Referrals only
Free, and it works here
How much of Birmingham operates. The gap is what a referred client finds when they look you up, which they will, before they call.
A managed presence instead
$179 to $369 / mo
Presentation that holds up next to firms several times your size, kept current rather than aging from launch day. No build invoice, and you can edit it.
The systems that turn searchesinto retained clients.
Birmingham firms are judged before the first meeting. Senior technology direction keeps the practice's systems in order, and a managed site holds up next to firms several times your size.
Fractional CTO
Senior technology leadership, without the full-time hire.
- Ongoing monthly advisory access
- Vendor and software evaluations
- Roadmap and modernization guidance
Website & Online Presence
Get found, look credible, and turn visitors into customers.
- Show up in local Google search
- A site that actually generates leads
- Reviews and reputation managed for you
What else law, finance and real-estate firms use us for.
Questions from law, finance and real-estate firms.
Our brand is everything — can you match it?
Yes. We build design-forward sites and reputation systems that reflect the quality of the work, and when a brand partner is already in place we build to their direction and handle the technology.
Our work comes almost entirely from referrals. Do we need this?
Possibly not as much as a business without them, and we will say so. What referrals do not survive is the lookup afterwards: a site that looks abandoned turns a warm introduction into a second opinion. That is the specific job here.
How does this compare to a design agency build?
A design-led build often produces a better single artefact. Ours is better a year later, because it is maintained, editable and does not need a new project every time something changes. If brand is your product, hire the design shop and let us handle what follows.
Can you match the standard our clients expect?
That is the bar we work to here, and it is the reason we would rather show you recent local builds than describe them. Look at the portfolio and judge it directly.
Ready to look as good online as you are in person? Get a free proposal.
Half an hour from Clarkston. We will give you an honest read on whether your presentation is costing you work, including if the answer is that it is fine.