I build fast, clean websites for East Tennessee businesses — cabins, restaurants, trades, guides, shops. $950 once, done in under a week, and the site is yours outright.
$950, once · done in under a week · yours outright · hosting $40/mo, first three months included
Hand-coded, quick to load on a phone, and set up to show on Google. No page builders, no bloat, no contracts — and if you ever leave, the site goes with you.
Cleaners, detailers, HVAC, guides, gyms, shops. A site that shows up when your town searches for what you do, with a contact form that lands straight in your texts.
Menu that's easy to update, hours, directions, and ordering links that don't hand a third of your ticket to a delivery app.
Sites that send your repeat guests to you instead of back to Airbnb — your availability on the page, inquiries straight to your inbox. My home turf — more below.
Management companies, multi-location outfits, anything past a handful of pages. Scoped flat after I look at what you've got now.
There's no tier grid here and no calculator to play with. A build is $950 whether you're a plumber, a restaurant or a cabin — and it's the same $950 at Smoky Mountain Connection, because it's the same company. One price is easier to keep honest than four.
Four tiers across four categories meant sixteen numbers, and I couldn't defend most of them. The work is about the same every time: I already know how to build these, so what you're paying for is the three hours it takes me and the years it took to get to three hours.
Past one businessMulti-location, a franchise, custom tooling — that gets quoted flat after I look at what you've got. I don't publish a number for it, because I'd be guessing at your job to make my price list look tidy.
Hosting, the honest versionI used to eat the hosting bill and call it $0. There are enough sites on my rack now that free stopped being true, so it's a real number instead: $40/mo while I host it, and your first three months are included in the build. Rather run it yourself? The files are yours — I hand them over free and the site keeps working. Tended, $85/mo, is the plan most people end up on — details below.
That's the number, not a teaser. If your job needs something odd I'll tell you before you pay, and once I give you a number it doesn't move. The $250 is a deposit against the $950 — it's refundable in full any time before I start building, and the balance is only due when you approve the finished site.
It buys a brand and a site you own outright. The Registry is a different thing entirely, and it isn't for sale.
Artwork gets prepared once, which is the whole trick — every application after that is a printing cost, not a design cost. That's why the print pack and the cards ride along at no extra charge, and why a second shirt order later costs you the shirts and nothing else.
A Registry listing is not part of the price. Admission to the Smoky Mountain Registry is a published standard — a real phone number, license and insurance verified with a date, every figure traceable — and it is open to anyone who meets it whether they bought anything or not. No position in it is for sale at any price.
See what the $950 covers →Your site gets built for a one-time price. After the three included months, hosting is $40/mo while it lives on my servers — or take your files to any host, free, whenever you like. The bigger plans exist so you never have to think about your site at all. No contract; cancel or move with a text.
Tended and Managed include the $40 hosting — you pay one number, not two. Secure recurring checkout through Square, same as the deposit. Not sure which fits? Text me and I'll tell you straight.
Keep scrolling — I'll build one right in front of you.
Guests bounce back to Airbnb — and the platforms keep about 15% of every booking.
Live 3D, real motion, one fast page. This animation runs on the same stack your site gets.
One re-booked repeat guest usually covers the whole site. Run your numbers below.
Between host fees and guest service fees, Airbnb and VRBO take around 15% of every booking. Your repeat guests already ask, "can we just book with you?" A direct-booking site is the yes.
Start my cabin site — $250 deposit
Not sure it's worth it for your cabin? Ask me first — I'll tell you straight.
Based on a combined ~15% platform take — the host service fee plus the guest service fee Airbnb and VRBO publish in their own fee schedules. Check yours; they vary by plan and by listing.
The honest other half: that fee is not pure loss. It buys you Airbnb's demand, and a stranger who has never heard of your cabin is a guest worth paying for. The argument on this page is narrower than "stop paying the platforms" — it is about the guests who already stayed with you and would have rebooked anyway. Those are the ones you are paying a finder's fee on twice.
Airbnb doesn't let reviews, rankings, or bookings transfer to a buyer — the cabin's own direct-booking site can convey with the sale, like the hot tub. I build it while the cabin is listed, it flips to book-now mode at closing, and you collect a $100 referral on every site that launches from your deal.
These aren't mockups — they're live builds you can poke around like a customer would. Every one loads fast on a phone, because that's where your customers are.
The template for our cabin package — direct booking, the owner's real numbers on the page, and a listing in the Cabin Index.
Tour the template → Cabin · Direct booking Daydreamin'Superhost cabin with direct booking, save-vs-platform page, and guest guide baked in.
Client chose the free .netlify.app address that ships with the build. The site is theirs; a custom domain is a decision they get to make, not one I make for them. Visit site → Local ISP Wifi SquaredFixed-wireless internet provider — coverage, plans, and sign-up built for rural East Tennessee.
Client chose the free .netlify.app address that ships with the build. The site is theirs; a custom domain is a decision they get to make, not one I make for them. Visit site → Trades · Low voltage · Full disclosure: mine Brody's Low-Voltage & CablingMy own trade — I pull wire around the Smokies, from new-build prewire to the TV on your wall. This is the site that books my own jobs, which makes it the one build here I can vouch for from both sides of the invoice.
Telling you it's mine matters more than looking like I have one more client. It's exactly what I build for other trades — I just happen to be the customer who can prove it works. Visit site → Cabin · Direct booking Logan's Lair5.0-rated Guest Favorite on Douglas Lake — 3BR/3BA with hot tub, game room, and private boat ramp, booking direct.
Client chose the free .netlify.app address that ships with the build. The site is theirs; a custom domain is a decision they get to make, not one I make for them. Visit site → Community · Free sites The Sevier County ProjectA free one-page website for every small business in Sevier County — already built, no cost, no catch.
Client chose the free .netlify.app address that ships with the build. The site is theirs; a custom domain is a decision they get to make, not one I make for them. Visit site →I also run Brody's Low-Voltage & Cabling — prewire for new builds and remodels, plus TV mounting, WiFi & mesh, network drops, cameras and smart locks. Same three counties I build websites for. Builds get scheduled around your framing dates; service calls are evenings and weekends.
Wire goes in cheapest the week between rough-in and insulation. I prewire new builds and remodels on your schedule, labeled at both ends and photographed before the drywall closes — and I'm not a change order.
When I tell you a website books jobs, I'm not guessing — mine books mine. The site I'd build you is the same kind I built for my own truck, and you can go poke at it right now.
Direct booking is a website plus hardware — the smart lock that changes codes per guest, mesh WiFi that reaches the hot tub, cameras at the door. I do both ends. One call, one person who answers.
Separate business, same person, same standard: you own what I install — the site, the domain, the wire, the cameras. And you can hire either half without the other; nothing here requires the bundle.
A link, photos, or just what you do. Even if all you've got today is a Facebook page, that's plenty to start.
You'll know the full price before anything gets built — it's $950. Your $250 deposit counts toward it, refundable in full any time before the build kicks off.
You see the finished site before it goes live. Don't like it? You don't pay the second half.
Your domain, your site, yours outright. I'm a text away when you want changes — and I'm local, so that means something.
I also handle the tech side — mesh WiFi, TV mounting, smart locks, Starlink — through my install business. Your website and your building's tech can have the same local number.
One person, and good tools. I do the design, the words and the decisions; an AI assistant does a lot of the typing — which is exactly why yours costs $950 and ships in days instead of four thousand and two months. What that doesn't mean is a template: no theme, no page builder, nothing shared with anybody else's site. Every page is written for the business it belongs to. Same disclosure runs on Smoky Mountain Connection.
Rather skip the form? Text 865-394-5582 or call. Evenings and weekends work — that's when I'm building anyway.
