Get found firstwhen a neighbor
searches for you.

Every project is scoped to what the site actually needs to do, so there’s no fixed package price. Most custom sites start in the low four figures and scale with page count, copywriting, and functionality.

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Most sites go from kickoff to launch in about three to six weeks. The biggest variable is how ready your content is: copy and photos. I help with both, so a slow start doesn’t stall the build.

No. I’m based in Shelby and know Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Rutherford, and Catawba counties well, but I work with independent businesses anywhere in the Carolinas and beyond. The work travels; the local roots are a bonus, not a limit.

You do, completely. Full source code and ownership transfer to you at launch. No proprietary builder lock-in, no platform you have to keep renting to stay online.

Yes. On-page SEO and Google Business Profile setup are built into the work, especially for local businesses. Showing up when someone in your town searches for what you do is the whole point of the site.

That’s common, and it’s fine. I help with structure, copywriting, and photo direction from scratch. Businesses with nothing online yet are exactly who the Storefront Project is built for.

Look for someone local who handles the website and the Google Business Profile together, because for most small businesses the map listing brings more calls than the site does. Ask who owns the finished site, whether local search setup is included, and to see work in your industry.

Studio O’Brien is based in Shelby and does both as one job. There are other good local options, so get more than one quote and compare what is actually included.

Menu that opens fast on a phone and is real text rather than a PDF. Hours, address and a tap to call, all visible without scrolling. Directions that open in maps. Online ordering or reservations if you use them.

Photos of the actual food and room. A way for you to change prices and specials yourself without calling anyone. Most restaurant traffic is someone nearby deciding where to eat in the next twenty minutes, so speed matters more than anything clever.

Claim or create your Google Business Profile first. It is free and Google never charges to be listed. Then verify it, set the correct primary category, and fill in hours, holiday hours, phone, menu link and website. Add real photos of the food, the room and the outside.

Keep your name, address and phone identical everywhere else online. Ask for reviews and answer them. Proximity to the searcher is the one thing you cannot change, so the work goes into everything else.

Not always. If your hours are steady and you can spend half an hour a week on photos and reviews, do it yourself. It is worth paying when reviews need consistent answers, when the listing has duplicates or a wrong pin, when categories and menu links keep drifting, or when you want it tied to the website and local search rather than handled separately.

Be careful of anyone charging a monthly fee to post occasionally, or promising a number one ranking. Nobody can promise that.

The work shown on this site is concept builds. They are designed and paid for by the studio to show what a finished site looks like, and they are not commissioned client projects. That distinction is about the local studio being new, not about a thin resume.

Jarred has been freelancing for over nine years, building websites, web apps, marketing and graphics packages, and search visibility work for clients around the world, including real estate agents competing on Google. On Upwork he holds Top Rated status with a 4.9 star rating and over one hundred thousand dollars earned, both public on the platform and easier to check than to describe.

What is new is Studio O’Brien itself. There is no delivered Cleveland County client yet, so nothing here is dressed up as one, and the Storefront Project spots are open. Anything presented as a local client result would be made up, so it is not here.