Duluth & the Northland
Web design, development, and marketing for Duluth, Superior, and Northland businesses.
Website marketing for contractors and trades in Cloquet and Hermantown
Plumbers, electricians, and remodelers in Cloquet and Hermantown compete for the same searches as Duluth trades. Here's how a website and local marketing help you win the call.
Website design and marketing for North Shore lodges and outfitters near Two Harbors
Travelers planning a North Shore trip near Two Harbors start researching months out. Here's why lodges, outfitters, and small businesses along Highway 61 need a fast, bookable website.
Website design and marketing for Hermantown, Cloquet, and Two Harbors businesses
Duluth isn't the whole Northland market. Here's how we build websites and local search for businesses in Hermantown, Cloquet, Two Harbors, and beyond.
Website design for Duluth breweries and taprooms
Duluth's brewery and taproom scene keeps growing. Here's what a brewery website actually needs to answer for a thirsty visitor before they walk in.
Websites for Duluth dentists, lawyers, and clinics
For a Duluth dentist, lawyer, clinic, or counselor, your website is the first impression, and trust is everything. Here's what a professional-services site needs.
Duluth web agency vs. a Twin Cities firm: what going local gets you
You could hire a big Twin Cities agency or a national platform. Here's what working with a local Duluth web team actually gets you.
Local web design for the Twin Ports: Duluth, Superior, and the Northland
We're a Duluth web design crew, but the Northland is bigger than one city. Here's how we help businesses across Superior, Hermantown, Cloquet, Two Harbors, and the Twin Ports.
Why Duluth contractors and trades need a real website
Plumbers, electricians, roofers, remodelers: your next customer is searching before they call. Here's why a real website matters for Duluth trades.
How much does a website cost in Duluth, MN?
Straight talk on what a website costs a Duluth business, what drives the number up or down, and how to get a real quote instead of a guess.
How to choose a web designer in Duluth
Hiring someone to build your website is a real decision. Here's what to look for in a Duluth web designer, and the questions that separate the pros from the risky.
Web development in Duluth, Minnesota: a plain-English primer
Web design makes a site look right; web development makes it work. Here's what web development means for a Duluth, Minnesota business, minus the jargon.
A busy summer for new Duluth businesses
Sabor by Pedro's, Voyageur Donuts, a second Dannie Duluth, and more opened around town this summer. Getting found online is step one.
Downtown Duluth reopens with a new plan
After three years of construction, downtown Duluth is open again, and the city adopted a new Downtown Development Strategy in late June.
Small business website design in Duluth, from first call to launch
A plain walk through small business website design in Duluth: what you get, how long it takes, and how the whole thing goes from first call to launch.
The five things every Duluth small business website needs
Forget the bells and whistles. A small business website earns its keep with five basics, done well. Here's the checklist.
Grandma's 50th sold out in 12 hours. Is your site ready for the crowd?
The 50th Grandma's Marathon brought 22,000-plus people from 73 countries to Duluth in a single weekend, a traffic spike every local business can see coming.
New shops opened across Duluth this summer
A wave of new spots opened around Canal Park and Lincoln Park this year, and the ones getting found all share one thing: an online presence from day one.
What actually happens when we build your Duluth website
From the first Duluth coffee to launch day, here's the real, no-mystery path a web project takes with a local team.
Duluth's storefront grants missed one thing: digital curb appeal
DEDA's First Street growth grants help with signage and storefronts, but half your curb appeal now lives on a phone screen.
Your website and Google Business Profile are a team
For a Duluth business, your site and your Google listing work best together. One without the other leaves customers on the table.
$592K to local causes: nonprofits, don't leave goodwill on the table
The Northland Foundation awarded $592K to regional causes. The nonprofits that turn goodwill into recurring support share one trait: a donation-ready website.
Make sure you actually own your website
Too many Duluth businesses find out the hard way that their domain or site is locked in someone else's account. Own yours from day one.
Your Duluth website is a boat, not a statue
Launch day isn't the finish line. Here's why a Duluth business website needs steady upkeep, and what happens when it doesn't get it.
A website that works for everyone in the Northland
Roughly one in four adults lives with a disability. An accessible site serves more Duluth customers, and reads better to Google, too.
Faster fiber is coming to the Twin Ports. Is your site ready?
Fiber-to-the-premises is rolling out across the Twin Ports, finally making a media-rich, fast website worth building for local businesses.
A slow website is a closed door for your Duluth business
Most people leave a site that takes more than a few seconds to load. For a Duluth business, speed is quietly costing you customers.
Bentleyville's record crowd is a seasonal-marketing masterclass
295,300 visitors, all for a free light show. What Bentleyville teaches every local business about planning around seasonal traffic.
Get your Duluth website ready before the holiday rush
Winter brings Bentleyville crowds and holiday shoppers to Duluth. A few website fixes now make sure you catch them.
Your Duluth restaurant menu shouldn't be a photo of a photo
Plenty of Duluth restaurants post their menu as a phone snapshot or a PDF. Search engines and hungry customers can't read it. Fix that.
When off-the-shelf software doesn't fit your Northland business
Sometimes a spreadsheet and three apps duct-taped together isn't enough. Custom web tools can run the parts of your business nothing else covers.
Northland nonprofit websites that punch above their budget
Northland nonprofits do huge work on tight budgets. A clear, trustworthy website turns visitors into donors and volunteers.
Sell to the whole country from a Duluth storefront
The shelf space in your Duluth shop is finite. Online, it isn't. A good store lets a local business reach customers everywhere.
Duluth's tourists are searching. Is your website ready?
Summer brings a wave of visitors to the North Shore, most of them planning on a phone. A few website fixes turn searches into customers.
Duluth bets on steady marketing with a five-year deal
The Duluth City Council approved a five-year marketing contract with Visit Duluth, a vote for consistency over start-and-stop promotion.
"Talk Duluthy to Me" shows the power of sounding local
Visit Duluth and Madden Media kicked off 2025 with a tourism campaign built entirely on local lingo, a reminder that voice sells a place.
WordPress or custom: what should a Duluth business build on?
There's no single right answer, but there is a right answer for you. Here's how we help Northland businesses choose.
Signs it's time to redesign your Duluth website
If your site is slow, hard to update, or embarrassing on a phone, it's costing you. Here's how to know it's time for a refresh.
Minnesota quietly built the supercomputer
St. Paul's Engineering Research Associates in 1946, then Control Data and Seymour Cray's supercomputers: some of computing's biggest leaps happened in Minnesota.
Most Duluth customers see your website on a phone
More than half of web visits happen on a phone. If your Duluth site was built desktop-first, you're showing most people your worst version.
How Duluth customers actually find you online
When someone nearby searches for what you do, local SEO decides whether they find you or your competitor. Here's what moves the needle.
Duluth's summer tourism cooled in 2024. Owned marketing softens the dip
A slower 2024 summer, with fewer Canadian visitors and wildfire smoke, is a reminder that borrowed foot traffic isn't a marketing plan.
DIY website builders vs. a local Duluth developer
Those drag-and-drop builders look cheap and easy. For a lot of Duluth businesses, they quietly cost more than hiring a local pro.
Why a Duluth business still needs a real website
Social media isn't enough, and a builder page isn't either. Here's why your own professional website is still the foundation.
The Duluth brands that went national
Maurices started as a single Duluth dress shop in 1931. Cirrus Aircraft builds personal planes here. A Duluth address has never capped a company's reach.
Best Buy started as a Minnesota record store
In 1966, Richard Schulze opened a small hi-fi shop in St. Paul called Sound of Music. It became Best Buy. Big brands start small, and usually local.
3M began on the shore of Lake Superior
In 1902, five men founded Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing in Two Harbors. That company, 3M, went on to invent masking tape and the Post-it Note.
A global electronics giant runs from Thief River Falls
Digi-Key, one of the world's largest electronics distributors, has shipped parts worldwide from small-town northern Minnesota since 1972.
Va Bene's lakeside cafe gets a fresh website
Another generation of website for a beloved Duluth lakeside cafe, keeping a favorite spot current as the web changes.
A refreshed website for a Duluth law office
A credible, findable website for a Duluth law practice, plus the search marketing to bring in clients at the right moment.
The Duluth Winter Village website is ready for another season
A refreshed event website for the free outdoor winter market on the Glensheen grounds, ready before the first snow.
Chester Creek Dental's new website is live in Duluth
A friendly, custom website for a Duluth dental practice, built to reassure new patients before they ever call.
Cassini's Pizza's new website is live in Cottage Grove
A new custom WordPress site, splash page, and menu design for Cassini's Pizza, a Cottage Grove, Minnesota pizzeria.
A new campaign website for Jim Stauber's County Commissioner run
votestauber.us is live for Jim Stauber's 2013 St. Louis County Commissioner campaign, with campaign materials and email signup to match.
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