About Websoftware / DeLand, Florida

Small on
purpose.

Websoftware is a small digital marketing agency in DeLand, Florida. It's run by me, Brian. I've spent 20 years in digital marketing and web design, and I personally handle every client.

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  • 20 yrsIn digital marketing
  • 15Clients, max
  • 1Person doing the work
Brian Barnes, owner of Websoftware
Brian BarnesOwner · does the workSince 2006

DeLand, FL

The person on the calldoes the work.

Founded 1994 · Digital marketing since 2006

Started by my father.
Run by me.

Websoftware started in 1994 as my father's software company. I came home from the military in 1997, started building websites and learning digital marketing, and took the company over in 2006. It's been a digital marketing company ever since, and I'm still the one doing the work.

1994

My father's software company

Websoftware starts as a software company.

1997

Home from the military

Started building websites and learning digital marketing.

Father → son

2006

Took the company over

A digital marketing company ever since.

Today

Still the one doing the work

Every client, personally handled.

Why I keep it small

15 clients.
That's the limit.

Most agencies grow by adding clients and hiring junior staff to handle them. Your account ends up with whoever is newest, running the same playbook they run for everyone else.

I went the other way. Before AI, I capped Websoftware at 5 clients. AI now lets me do the work of a much bigger team, so the cap is 15.

AI handles the heavy lifting. I check every piece of work myself before it reaches you.

Client seats board: 15 seats in three rows of five. The first five are marked 'before AI', the next ten 'added with AI', and a locked seat 16 reads 'It won't go higher.'

What working with me looks like

No account managers.
No hand-offs.

'The sales call' and 'Doing the work' both point to Brian's portrait, labelled 'Same person'; 'Account manager' is crossed out.

01

You deal with me.

The person on the sales call is the person doing the work.

Four key cards for your website, content, domain and ad accounts, each marked 'Yours', with a sticker reading 'The keys stay with you'.

02

You own everything.

Your website, your content, your domain and your ad accounts are yours. If you ever leave, it all goes with you.

A monthly report in plain language listing what worked, what didn't and what's next, with a sticker reading 'plus a call every month'.

03

You see what's happening.

Every month you get a report and a call to walk through it in plain language: what worked, what didn't, what's next.

Website, SEO, Google Ads, streaming ads and automation all feed into one plan with one person to fix it; '5 vendors' is crossed out.

04

One plan, not five vendors.

Your website, SEO, Google Ads, streaming ads and automation are run together. When something isn't working, there's one person to fix it, not five vendors blaming each other.

The truth, even when it costs me

Things I've told
clients no

They asked

“Can you just fix our site?”

No.

A personal injury firm's last agency had hidden other businesses' pages inside their website, building links for someone else on the firm's dime. Patching it wasn't honest. I told them it had to be rebuilt. We worked together for the next 9 years.

They asked

“Get us to #1 on Google in a month.”

No.

Nobody can promise that honestly. We set goals we could measure and hit instead: technical fixes, content, qualified traffic and conversions.

They asked

“Just copy our biggest competitor.”

No.

Their strategy was built for their audience and their budget, not yours. We figured out what was working for them and built something that fits your business.

Credentials

Twenty years in.
Still local.

20 years in digital marketing and web design, 2006 to today.Certificate: OMCP certified, Online Marketing Certified Professional, B. Barnes.
Map of downtown DeLand, Florida with a location pin and labels pointing to Daytona Beach and Orlando.

Based in DeLand

working with businesses from Daytona Beach to Orlando

How we start

Four steps,
starting with a call.

1

Are we a fit?

Intro call

We talk about your business and what's not working. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you.

2

Website · Search · Ads

Audit

I dig into your website, search presence and ads to find what's costing you leads. Built into your plan if we work together, or $150 on its own.

3

Before any work

Proposal

Clear goals and a clear price.

GoalsClear

PriceClear

4

Day one

Kickoff

We get to work.

StatusWork in progress

Currently taking on new clients. Never more than 15.

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