A website, and a postcard if you want one.
Suncoast Local offers two things to local businesses, both through Postcard Advantage LLC: a complete six-page website for $499 a year, and a place on a shared postcard mailed in the Sarasota area.
The website: six pages, written and run for you
This is the main thing we do. You fill in one order form about your business, and we write, design and publish a six-page website on your own web address. The six pages are home, about, services, areas served, common questions and contact. Terms, a privacy policy and an accessibility statement come with it.
The price is $499 a year, everything included. That covers the writing, a logo and images if you do not have them, your domain with a hello@ email address forwarded to the inbox you already use, hosting, the security certificate, backups and a login to change anything yourself. There is no setup fee and no monthly bill. The site renews on its own each year, with reminders first, and automatic renewal can be turned off whenever you like.
Your site goes live 24 to 48 hours after payment. There is nothing to approve: we email you the link, and if you want anything changed, you tell us and we change it.
What you get for $499 a year
Tell us about your business and we write, build and host a complete website for it. You will never have to choose a template or install an update.
Six pages, written for you
Home, about, services, areas served, common questions and contact. Every page is written from what you tell us about your business, never filled with placeholder text.
A logo and images
Use your own logo and photos, or we make a clean logo and an image for every page. Either way the site looks finished the day it goes live.
Your own web address
The site runs on your own domain, with an email address to match: hello@ your domain, forwarded to the email you already use. If you need a domain, we can buy it for you: its price is shown on the order form and added to the yearly bill.
Hosting, security and backups
Fast hosting, a security certificate so browsers show the padlock, and backups, kept current all year without you having to think about it.
A login to change anything
Change a price, a phone number, a sentence or a photo yourself, whenever you like, from a simple login.
The legal pages
Terms, a privacy policy and an accessibility statement, so the site covers the basics a business website is expected to have.
Optional, paid separately: call tracking and an AI receptionist for your phone. See the phone extras.
Need more than six pages?
We also quote custom work. If your business needs more than the $499 six-page site, we build websites from $2,500 to $100,000, and almost anything is possible. Call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@suncoastlocal.com for a quote.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
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Tell us about your business
One form about what you do and where you work. Add your services and prices if you want them shown, plus any photos or logo you have. Anything you leave out, we simply do not claim.
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We build it
We write every page, design it, and set it up on your web address, 24 to 48 hours from payment.
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It goes live, and we look after it
There is nothing for you to approve. Your site goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link. If you see anything you want changed, tell us and we change it. Then it runs all year and renews on its own, with reminders before every renewal.
Phone extras for your website
None of these is needed for your website, and none is included in the $499. They are for owners who want to know how many calls the site brings, and to catch the ones they miss. Add them on the order form or later from your account.
Call tracking, $49 a year. A local number of your own shows on your website in place of your phone number and rings straight through to you, with the caller's number showing. When you answer, a short message says "Postcard Advantage call. Press 1 to accept," so a phone app or voicemail that picks up first never counts as an answered call. Calls are counted for you, and you get an email whenever you miss one. Nothing is recorded, and your Google listing keeps your own number.
AI receptionist, $99 a year, on top of call tracking. A virtual assistant for the calls you cannot take; it needs call tracking, so the two together are $148 a year. It says it is your virtual assistant, takes a message (name, number, what they need, where, how urgent and when to call back) and we email it to you within seconds. It never quotes prices or books jobs, and calls are never recorded.
Allowances. Call tracking includes up to 1,500 forwarded minutes a year and the AI receptionist up to 300 messages a year. For phones that ring all day there are larger plans: Busy call tracking at $149 a year with 5,000 minutes, and the Busy receptionist at $249 a year with 1,000 messages. Nothing is cut off if you go over; if your line is regularly busier than its plan, you will be told and offered the larger one.
Text alerts are coming soon: a text when you miss a call or when your assistant takes a message. Full details are on postcardadvantage.com and in the Postcard Advantage questions.
Eleven styles to choose from
Every site is built in one of eleven styles, from quiet and classic to bold and loud. You pick the one you like on the order form. A pool service on Longboat Key might suit the dark, spacious Luxe style, while a junk hauler in Sarasota might want the big buttons and bright colors of Pop. Whichever you choose, the six pages, the hosting and the login are the same, and so is the price.
The fastest way to decide is to look at real sites. Our portfolio shows eleven Suncoast businesses, one in each style except Workshop, which appears twice. Open them on your phone, because that is where most of your customers will see yours.
Who the website suits, and who it does not
It suits a local business whose customers need to find it, trust it and call it. Trades and home services are the obvious fit: pool care, lawn and landscaping, screens and lanais, roofing, air conditioning, docks and seawalls, cleaning. So are salons, small practices, caterers and shops that mostly need to show who they are, where they are and how to reach them.
The six-page site does not take online payments, run a shop, take appointments or connect to other software. If you need any of that, ask us for a custom quote instead: we build websites from $2,500 to $100,000, and almost anything is possible. It also does not suit somebody who wants to design every detail personally; a do-it-yourself builder is a better match for that, and we would say so.
If you are not sure which side you are on, call (888) 348-1992 or send us a question. A plain answer costs nothing.
Shared postcards in the Sarasota area
Postcard Advantage, the company Suncoast Local is part of, mails shared postcards in the Sarasota area. Each shared card has sixteen ad slots for sixteen different local businesses, never two in the same category. The postal service delivers it through Every Door Direct Mail to every home on a set of carrier routes.
There are two sizes. The 9 by 12 inch jumbo card reaches about 5,000 homes, and the 6 by 11 inch card reaches about 2,500. Your slot covers the design of your ad, the printing and the postage. A card only prints once every slot is sold, and if it does not fill by its date you can take a full refund.
Postcard Advantage handles reserving slots, the artwork and the mailing directly. Read how the shared postcards work here, or go straight to the details of the jumbo card and the 6x11 card on postcardadvantage.com.
Why the two work well together
A postcard puts your name on the kitchen counter. A website is where people go next. Plenty of homeowners who see a card will look the business up before they pick up the phone, especially for a bigger job like a roof or a new pool cage. If they find a clear site with your services and your service area spelled out, the card has done its job. If they find nothing, or an old page with a wrong number, the card was paid for and the call never comes.
You do not need both. Many businesses start with the website and add a postcard later, once they know which neighborhoods they want more work from. Others are already busy with word of mouth and only want a site that backs it up. Either order works, and each service is bought on its own terms.
What we do not offer
We keep the list short on purpose. We do not run Google Ads or social media accounts, and we do not sell monthly blog writing or search ranking packages. Online shops, appointment systems and larger sites are custom work, quoted separately from $2,500 to $100,000. We also do not promise rankings, calls or sales, because nobody honestly can.
What we do promise is narrow: a clear, accurate, fast website on your own address, kept running all year for one price, and, if you want it, a fair place on a shared postcard. For questions about either, the contact page reaches the same people who would build your site.
Questions about our services
Yes. The website is its own order and does not ask you to buy anything else. The same goes the other way: you can advertise on a shared postcard without a website from us.
Only a domain, if you ask us to buy one for you. Its price is shown on the order form before you pay and is added to the yearly bill. Everything else is in the $499 a year.
Yes. Every site in our portfolio is a live local business website built the same way yours would be. Open a few on your phone and look around.
No. Both are optional and paid separately from the $499 website, and most owners start without them. Add them on the order form or later from your Postcard Advantage account.
No. The tracking number only replaces the phone number visitors see on your website. Your Google Business Profile and the business details built into the site for search engines keep your own number.
In the Sarasota area, to zones built route by route from postal carrier routes. Postcard Advantage tells you which routes and how many homes before you pay. A jumbo card reaches about 5,000 homes.
One flat price: $499 a year, with the writing, design, hosting, security certificate, backups and your login all included. There is no setup fee and no monthly bill. It renews automatically each year, and you can turn automatic renewal off at any time.
24 to 48 hours from payment. It goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link.
We do, from what you tell us on the order form. If you see anything you want changed once your site is live, tell us and we change it.
Yes. Tell us which domain on the form. We send you two settings to change, and your site goes live once they are changed. We also check that any email you already have on that domain keeps working.
Suncoast Local is a division of Postcard Advantage LLC. Your order, billing, website and support are all handled by Postcard Advantage, and you can reach us at (888) 348-1992.
Then we quote custom work. Beyond the $499 six-page site, we build websites from $2,500 to $100,000, and almost anything is possible. Call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@suncoastlocal.com with what you have in mind, and we will send you a quote.