About

Judge us by the website, not the pitch.

That’s the whole philosophy behind Local Business Growth.

A classic San Francisco street with small businesses at golden hour
Our story

A studio built for Main Street, from San Francisco.

Local Business Growth started with a simple observation: the businesses that keep towns running — the electricians, the dentists, the auto shops, the family restaurants — kept getting the worst end of the web design deal. Thousand-dollar proposals, jargon-filled sales calls, and websites that looked like they were built in 2012.

So we flipped the model. Instead of selling promises, we build the website first and show it to you. If you love it, we put it live and take care of it for $169 a month. If you don’t, you’ve lost nothing but the few minutes it took to read our email.

We’re a small studio based in San Francisco, California, and we work with local service businesses across the country. When you email us, a real person — Harry — writes back.

What we believe

Three rules we work by.

01

Show, don’t sell

A finished website is worth a hundred proposals. We’d rather spend our time building than pitching.

02

Plain dealing

One plan, one price, no fine print. $169 a month, and we tell you exactly what it covers.

03

Handle everything

You didn’t start a business to manage a website. Hosting, updates, changes — that’s our job, not yours.

Say hello

Let’s build yours.

Email harry@localshopweb.com — Harry reads every message personally.