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Metro Detroit · Web design & SEO

A website that actually brings you work.

We build fast, easy-to-find websites for small businesses across Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties — then keep them ranking. No templates you have to fight, no twelve-month contracts.

  • Launch in 3–5 weeks
  • Flat project pricing
  • You own the site outright
A small business website designed by Marino Flow, shown with its performance scores
Local businesses launched
60+Local businesses launched
Median load time at launch
1.2sMedian load time at launch
Average lift in calls from search
3xAverage lift in calls from search
Serving metro Detroit since
2019Serving metro Detroit since

Trusted by contractors, clinics, restaurants and shops from Ferndale to Sterling Heights.

Why Marino Flow

Built the way a small business actually needs it built

Most agencies sell hours. We sell the outcome you hired us for: the phone ringing, the inbox filling, the calendar booking.

Fast, not just pretty

Every site ships under a 1.5-second load target on a mid-range phone over LTE. Speed is the cheapest ranking factor you will ever buy, and it is the one most agencies skip.

Found where locals look

Google Business Profile, service-area pages, schema markup and citations — the unglamorous work that puts you in the three-result map pack for your town.

Written to convert

Clear headline, obvious phone number, one thing to do on every page. We write the copy with you instead of dropping lorem ipsum and hoping.

Yours to keep

You own the domain, the code and the content. Cancel maintenance any month and the site keeps running — we hand over everything, no hostage situation.

What we do

Three services, one goal

Take one or take all three. Most clients start with a website, add SEO once it launches, and keep us on a care plan after that.

Website Design

A site that loads fast, reads clearly, and asks for the call.

Custom design and build for service businesses, shops and clinics. Mobile-first, quick to load, and structured so search engines and customers both find what they need.

Starting at

$2,400

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Local SEO

Show up when someone two towns over searches for what you do.

Google Business Profile optimization, service-area pages, technical fixes and local citations — the work that gets you into the three-result map pack and keeps you there.

Starting at

$650/mo

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Care & Maintenance

The site stays fast, secure and current. You stop thinking about it.

Hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and a monthly allowance of content edits. Send an email, it gets done — usually same day.

Starting at

$95/mo

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Our process

How a project runs

Same process every time, so you always know what happens next and what we need from you.

  1. 0130 minutes

    Free quote call

    Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We ask what you sell, who buys it and what is not working, then send a fixed price in writing within two business days.

  2. 02Week 1

    Plan and content

    We map the site, interview you once, and write the copy ourselves. You review a single document rather than chasing half-finished pages.

  3. 03Weeks 2–4

    Design and build

    Homepage first for approval, then the full build on a private preview link. You watch it come together and comment as it does.

  4. 04Week 5 onward

    Launch and grow

    Speed pass, redirects, DNS, Search Console, training. Then SEO or a care plan if you want us to keep going.

Selected work

Sites we have shipped for local businesses

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Whitfield Heating & Cooling website shown on a laptop and phoneHome services
Warren, MI2025

Whitfield Heating & Cooling

From a nine-second page to two jobs a week from Google

Load time
9.1s → 1.1sLoad time
Calls from search
+212%Calls from search
Map pack, 6 cities
Top 3Map pack, 6 cities
Woodward Family Dental homepage with an online booking panelHealthcare
Royal Oak, MI2025

Woodward Family Dental

Ranked in four suburbs the practice had never reached

New patients / month
+38New patients / month
New map pack coverage
4 citiesNew map pack coverage
Cost per new patient
−61%Cost per new patient
Bell & Sons Remodeling project gallery on a desktop screenHome services
Ferndale, MI2024

Bell & Sons Remodeling

A project gallery that turned browsers into booked estimates

Estimate requests
3.4xEstimate requests
Lighthouse performance
98Lighthouse performance
Ahead of schedule
11 daysAhead of schedule

Client results

What clients say

Small business owners across the metro who put their name to it.

Our old site took nine seconds to load and never once got us a call. Six weeks after the new one launched we were booking two or three jobs a week off Google alone. It paid for itself before the second invoice.

Dana Whitfield

Owner, Whitfield Heating & Cooling

Warren, MI

We were invisible outside our own zip code. They built pages for each town we cover and rebuilt our Google profile, and within four months we were in the map pack in Troy and Birmingham. New patients found us without us paying per click.

Dr. Priya Raman

Practice Owner, Woodward Family Dental

Royal Oak, MI

What sold me was that they wrote the copy. Every other quote handed me a content spreadsheet and a deadline. Marino Flow interviewed me for an hour and came back with better words than I would have written.

Marcus Bell

Co-owner, Bell & Sons Remodeling

Ferndale, MI

Pricing

Straightforward pricing

Flat project fees, quoted before we start. Care plans are month to month — cancel any time, keep the site.

Serving

  • Detroit
  • Royal Oak
  • Ferndale
  • Birmingham
  • Troy
  • Warren
  • Sterling Heights
  • Dearborn
  • Starter Site

    $2,400

    one-time

    Solo operators and small crews with no site, or one they are embarrassed by.

    What is included
  • Growth Site

    $4,800

    one-time

    Established businesses covering several services across multiple metro suburbs.

    What is included
  • Local SEO

    $650

    per month

    Businesses that need to appear in the map pack across more than one town.

    What is included

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What a slow website actually costs a small business

Speed is not a technical vanity metric. Here is the arithmetic on what a four-second load time costs a local business every month, and the five fixes that matter.

4 min read

FAQ

Common questions

The things owners ask us on the first call.

  • Fixed quotes, in writing, before work starts
  • No long-term contracts on any plan
  • You own the domain, code and content
How much does a small business website cost in metro Detroit?
Our sites start at $2,400 for a five-page custom build with copywriting included, and most projects for local service businesses land between $2,400 and $6,000. Every project is quoted in writing at a fixed price before work starts, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
How long will my project take?
Three to five weeks from kickoff for a typical small business site. Local SEO is ongoing work with first meaningful movement usually visible in 60 to 90 days.
Do you only work with businesses in Detroit?
We specialize in the Detroit metro — Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties — because knowing the local market makes the SEO work sharper. We do take clients elsewhere in Michigan and beyond, but local is where we are strongest.
Do I have to sign a contract?
Website projects have a simple project agreement covering scope, price and timeline. Monthly plans — SEO and care — are month to month with 30 days notice. There is no long-term lock-in on anything we sell.
Who owns the website when we are done?
You do, entirely. The domain stays registered in your name, and the code, content and every login are handed to you at launch. If you ever leave, you take the whole site with you.
Can you fix or improve my current website instead?
Frequently, yes. If the bones are sound and the problem is speed, structure or search visibility, that is cheaper than a rebuild and we will say so. If the platform is holding you back, we will explain exactly why rather than sell you a rescue plan that cannot work.
What do you need from me to get started?
A thirty-minute call, your logo and any photos you have, and one round of feedback at design approval. We handle the writing, the build, the launch and the technical setup.

Free quote, no obligation

Ready for a website that pulls its weight?

Tell us about your business and we will send a fixed price in writing within two business days. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

(313) 555-0142hello@marinoflowdigital.com

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