Why Hire Me

Your Competitors
Have a Better
Website.

We can fix it. But only if you stop pretending it's fine.

Still on Wix?
The Numbers

You Are Bleeding Customers Right Now.

Don't believe me? Look at the numbers.

75%

of people judge your credibility by your website design alone.

Not your reviews. Not your years in business. Your website. They decide in seconds.

Stanford Web Credibility Research

88%

of visitors who have a bad experience will never come back.

Not might not. Won't. One slow page. One broken layout. Gone. For good.

UX Research

27%

of small businesses in America have no website at all.

1 in 4 of your competitors already surrendered. The ones who showed up are winning.

Survey Data 2025

76%

of 'near me' searches visit a business within 24 hours.

They are not browsing. They are buying. If you don't show up, that sale goes somewhere else.

Google / BrightLocal

40%

faster revenue growth for small businesses with a real website.

Not a little faster. Forty percent. The kind of gap that compounds every single year.

Small Business Revenue Studies

This is not abstract. This is someone who needed a landscaper in your zip code, searched Google at 7pm, found your competitor's clean fast site, and called them instead of you.

That happened today. It will happen again tomorrow.

The Fix

Fix the Site. Fix the Business.

Here's what happens when your website actually does its job.

You Build a Real Digital Footprint

Your website, Google listing, maps pin, and search presence all pulling the same direction. You show up everywhere your customers are looking. That is what gets the phone ringing.

They Trust You Before You Say a Word

A professional site does the credibility work before the conversation starts. Your first call isn't about proving you're legit. It's about closing.

Your Phone Rings Differently

Leads who find you through a strong site come in pre-sold. They've read about you. They've seen your work. They're not price-shopping. They're ready to book.

You Work Less to Win More

A good website runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It captures leads while you're on a job, sleeping, or doing literally anything else. It's the one employee who never calls in sick.

You Stop Competing on Price

Businesses with polished sites command higher rates. When your brand looks premium, you attract clients who pay like it.

Your Competitors Start Losing

Every person who finds you first is one less person finding them. A real site is a compounding advantage. Every day it runs, it pulls further ahead.

Hey. You're still reading.

You scrolled this far
for a reason.

Something on this page grabbed you and kept you here. That pull where you can't stop reading?

That is exactly what we build for your customers.

Someone looks up your business and can't stop reading. They meant to check your hours and now they're filling out your contact form. Your site sells them on you before you ever say a word.

We build sites that captivate.
Sites that make someone feel something.
Sites that close.

If this page did that to you, imagine what we can do for yours.

Behind the Broom

I'm Not an Agency.
I'm Just a Dude.

Josh Vogel, founder of The Dust Bunny

Josh Vogel

Founder · Builder · Bunny-in-Chief

Me, my two Dobermans on the couch, and a laptop. That's the whole operation. No account managers. No junior devs. No one forwarding your email to someone else. You talk to me. You work with me. We build something great for your business together.

I joined the Army. Before that I was deep in high-end sales and competitive bodybuilding — two worlds that drill one lesson into you fast: results are the only thing that matter. The Army confirmed it in a different uniform.

After I got out I went back to sales. Earned a master's degree in workforce development and leadership from LSU. Now finishing my MBA — my second master's — at UT. Somewhere in between I needed a mental outlet, so I started learning to code. X posts. YouTube at midnight. One concept at a time until it all clicked.

What I found when I got good at it made me angry. Small businesses were getting completely left behind. Big agencies charging $10k, $15k, $25k for sites smaller businesses needed just as badly but couldn't afford. So they got nothing — or they got a Wix template and called it done.

I built The Dust Bunny to fix that.

Here's the analogy that says it better than anything else I've got.

Someone recommends a steakhouse. Best steak of your life, they say. You pull up the website and there's nothing there. A Facebook page from 2018 and a blurry photo of a ribeye.

You start doing the math. If this place is charging $400 for dinner and can't be bothered to put together a real website, do they actually believe in what they're serving? Or are they coasting and hoping nobody looks too hard?

That doubt is quiet. But it wins more often than you think.

You are that steakhouse to someone right now.

A real business. Real work. Real results. And somewhere out there, a person who needs exactly what you do just pulled up your site, got that quiet doubt, and called your competitor instead.

Be the standard. Make your competitors uncomfortable.
Make people pull up your site and think: yeah, these are the ones.

That is what we build.

The Work

Real Clients. Real Results.

Here's what happens when a small business gets a site built to win.

Landscape & Design

Southern Creations

Full custom build with local SEO targeting Hillsborough and Pasco counties. Showing up for the exact searches their customers type — without paying for ads.

Energy & Construction

Pipeline Construction & Maintenance

Complete corporate rebuild for a 350-person operation across 28 states. A site that finally looks like the company they actually are.

Site Work & Demo

Vertex Contractors

No website, no brand, no footprint — built from scratch. Now they look like they've been in business for years.

Tampa Bay Charters

Florida Fishing Guide

Booking-first build designed to move a visitor from homepage to booked trip as fast as possible. Captain Bo books directly from the site.

Your business could be next.

I Know What You're Thinking

Let Me Guess.

"It's too expensive."

You know what's expensive? Losing 40% of your revenue growth because you don't have a real site. A website from The Dust Bunny is not a cost. It is the highest-ROI thing most small businesses can spend money on. And you won't need a second mortgage to get one.

"I'll just use Wix."

Go ahead. Let me know how that works out. Template platforms look like template platforms. Customers can tell. They are SEO disasters dressed up with drag-and-drop convenience. Built to be easy, not to win. Custom sites load faster, rank higher, and convert better. Full stop.

"I need to think about it."

Here's what to think about: every day you wait is another 76 people in your area searching for what you do, finding someone else, and visiting their business within 24 hours. That is Google's own data. Thinking about it has a price. It is measured in customers who did not call you.

"My current site is fine."

Fine doesn't fill your pipeline. When did you last look at your site the way a new customer does? On a phone. Cold. No context. No loyalty. If it looks fine to you, it might be because you already know what it's supposed to say. They don't.

The Offer

Here's Exactly What You're Getting.

No mystery packages. No starting-at bait-and-switch. This is the work.

Custom Design, No Templates

Your business, your brand. Nobody else's layout. Nobody else's anything.

SEO Built In From Day One

Not added after. Not optional. Baked into the structure, the copy, and the code so you actually show up.

AI SEO

When someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for a recommendation, we make sure your business is the answer.

Mobile-First Build

Over half your visitors are on their phone. Fast, sharp, and converting on mobile before everything else.

3 to 5 Business Day Turnaround

Not weeks. Not a 6-week discovery phase. Fast, without cutting corners.

One Free Revision Round

After delivery you get one full round of revisions. If it is not right, we fix it.

Clean, Fast Code

No page builder bloat. No plugin soup. Code that loads fast and won't break every time something updates.

Direct Access to Josh

You are talking to the person building your site. Start to finish. No middlemen.

Pricing is scoped to your project. We talk about it on the call. No surprises. No upsell pressure.

One Thing Before You Leave

I Take a Limited Number of Clients.

That is not a sales line. It is how I keep the quality where it needs to be. Every site gets my full attention. I can't do that building thirty at once. When my roster is full, new projects go on a waitlist.

Right now, I have open slots. I won't have them forever.

The business that books this week gets its site this week. The business that thinks about it might be waiting behind three others.

You are not losing customers in dramatic ways. You are losing them quietly, one Google search at a time, to whoever has the better-looking, faster-loading, higher-ranking site.

That ends the day you launch.

Every Minute You Wait,
They Win.

You found this page for a reason. Maybe your site embarrasses you. Maybe you don't have one at all. Maybe you've been meaning to fix it for two years.

It doesn't get easier to fix. It just gets more expensive to ignore.

You have a real business. Built with real work. Real time. Real sacrifice. It deserves a website that shows the world exactly that.

Don't get left in the dust.

Stop Losing Customers. Get Your Site.

Takes 2 minutes to reach out. No commitment. No pressure. Just a real conversation about what your business needs.

Free
Sweep!

Let's get you found.

Tell me about your business and I'll send back a no-pressure plan to grow your traffic.

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