The Brick October 19, 2026

The Brick #032: A Cheap Website Costs You the Jobs You Actually Want.

By Grant McNaughton, Co-Founder, DUO Digital
The Brick #032: A Cheap Website Costs You the Jobs You Actually Want.

October 2026 · 4 min read Most owners treat the website as a line item to minimize. Any site will do, the thinking goes, because the work speaks for itself and the referrals keep coming. That logic held when the website was a brochure. It does not hold now, because the website is the first thing a homeowner judges you on, and a cheap one does not just look bad. It quietly picks your customers for you.

From the team at DUO

If you look cheap, you attract cheap. We build custom-coded sites that look like the premium operator you are and read cleanly to both Google and AI, so you stop losing the big jobs before the phone rings. Want to know what it would take to stop looking like the cheapest bid? We will scope the rebuild and show you the number.

See what a rebuild would cost →
Grant McNaughton
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Grant McNaughton

Co-Founder · DUO Digital

Grant is a co-founder of DUO Digital, where he helps home service businesses tie their marketing back to booked revenue. He writes about what actually moves the needle for trades companies.

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