Website Design, Local SEO & Automation for Lake Orion Small Businesses
Lake Orion, MI · Oakland County
Small-town downtown meets big manufacturing next door.
A web designer and website company for Lake Orion and Orion Township, with systems for the suppliers on M-24.
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.”
It takes one contracting job a month.
The opportunity in Lake Orion
- Residents
- 39K
- Median household income
- $119K
- Households
- 15K
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, via Census Reporter (Orion Township) (2024 5-year)
What one contracting job returns
Set for the trades working out of Orion Township, and kept modest: one mid-sized job, not a whole remodel. A downtown shop should substitute a weekend of covers, and a supplier one recovered contract.
One contracting job clears
$800
The plan
$179–369/mo
Pays for
2–4 months
Month to month, no build fee: the risk is one month. Illustrative, not a projection.
What the alternatives cost
A local agency retainer
$501 to $3,000 / mo
Fine for the supplier firms with budget. Steep for a downtown shop, and agencies rarely have anything useful to say about shop-floor systems.
A website builder and a free weekend
$0 plus your weekends
A careful owner can get a decent page up. What rarely survives the first busy month is the Google profile, the reviews and the pages people actually search for.
Word of mouth only
Free, and genuinely effective here
Referrals carry a lot here. The gap is the next step: the person searches your name, and if nothing credible comes up the referral stalls.
A managed presence and the systems
$179 to $369 / mo
The site, the Google profile and the local search work first, because that makes the phone ring; dashboards for the suppliers who need them.
Through the directories you pay $250 to $500 per booked job on Angi or HomeAdvisor, and paid search in this trade runs about $166 per lead. And 3 to 8 contractors get sold the same lead.
Sources: Homeshowoff, cost per contractor job; LeadTruffle, Angi lead guide; LocaliQ, home services search advertising benchmarks (2024 to 2025)
The systems behindevery paid contracting job.
Orion Township owners come here for a web designer first and for help showing up on Google second, so that is the order we work in.
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
Local SEO & AI Search
Get found by people searching — and by the AI answering them.
- Rank for what your customers actually type
- Get cited in AI answers, not just blue links
- A monthly report showing what moved
Other work we do for contractors.
Asked by contractors around Lake Orion.
Do you build websites for businesses in Orion Township, or only downtown Lake Orion?
Both. The village is a small part of Orion Township, and a trade working from a truck needs a website more than a shop with a window does. We cover the village, the township and the M-24 corridor from twelve minutes away.
What does a website cost for a Lake Orion business?
Website plans are $179 to $369 a month with no upfront build fee. That is deliberately sized so a Main Street business can say yes without a capital decision, and it includes hosting, local SEO, and review management rather than billing those separately.
Do you do SEO for Lake Orion and Orion Township businesses?
Yes. Our $265 plan is the website plus local SEO: keyword and competitor research, Business Profile work and pages for specific Lake Orion and Orion Township searches, not an extra retainer on top.
We supply a manufacturer. Can you work inside our existing systems?
Yes, and that is usually the better first move. Most supplier engagements start by mapping what you already pay for; the common finding is three overlapping tools with no connection between them. Removing a subscription is a good outcome.
Ready for more Lake Orion contracting jobs? The proposal is free.
Twelve minutes from Clarkston, and we work both sides of Lake Orion. Tell us which one you are and we will scope it honestly.