About

About C.E.A Smith

C.E.A Smith is Richard Smith. Websites, advertising, and the systems that answer when you cannot, built one at a time in Blenheim, Marlborough, and run by the person who built them.

What I build.

Websites

Designed and hand-built for the business, never from a template. Fast on a phone, with the SEO structure built in from the start.

Google Business Profile

Set up and kept current, so a search for what you do actually finds you.

Meta and Google ads

Advertising that sends people somewhere worth landing, run under the Marketing arm.

Follow-up automation

The admin behind a website: missed calls, enquiry follow-up and booking, so nothing sits unanswered.

How I work.

One person, start to finish

You deal with me from the first conversation to launch day and after it. No account manager, no handoffs.

Built from scratch

No page builders and no templates. Every site is coded for the business it is for.

Prices published

What a website, a set of ads or an automation costs is on the page before you ask. No quote-on-request.

No contract

Website and management plans have no lock-in. Cancel any month; your domain and your data stay yours.

See the work: the Grovetown Caravans case study or everything I have built.

Pricing

What it costs to start.

Every price published, ex GST. It starts with a free Acquisition Review, before any of this.

Quick Start

For a business that needs to look real and be reachable, fast.

$499to set up

then $49a month

Excludes GST. Pay a year up front: $490, two months free.

Start here

The build

  • Three pages: a home page, one page covering what you do, and a contact page
  • Built from our library of proven page sections, in your colours and with your words. It is a known-good layout rather than a design drawn from scratch, which is what keeps the price here
  • We write the words for you from a short set of questions, and you approve them before anything goes live
  • A contact form that emails every enquiry straight to you
  • A click-to-call button, so someone on a phone rings you in one tap
  • A map, so people can see where you are
  • Your own domain connected, with a proper security certificate so browsers open it without warnings
  • Live inside a week
  • One round of changes before it goes live

The $49 a month

  • Hosting, so the site stays online
  • Your .co.nz domain, including the annual renewal, so it never lapses and nobody else can take it
  • The security certificate, kept valid and renewed
  • Security updates and backups
  • Uptime monitoring, so we know it is down before you do
  • One content change a month, made for you

No contract, cancel any month

Most popular

Essentials

For a business that will be judged on its website and knows it.

$899to set up

then $79a month

Excludes GST. Pay a year up front: $790, two months free.

Start here

Everything in Quick Start, plus

What is added

  • Up to five pages instead of three
  • Designed for you rather than assembled from the library, so it does not look like the other sites we have built
  • Words written to win the enquiry, not just describe the business. There is a real difference between a page that explains what you do and a page that makes someone act
  • Search structure built in. In plain terms: page titles, headings, a sitemap and structured data. These are the things Google and AI tools read to work out what you are and who to show you to. Without them a site is invisible no matter how good it looks
  • Your Google Business Profile connected, so your Maps listing and your website say the same thing
  • Photos resized and compressed, so pages load fast on a phone rather than stalling on mobile data
  • Two rounds of changes before it goes live instead of one
  • An edit panel. You log in and change text, swap a photo or fix a detail yourself. It is built so you cannot accidentally break the layout

The $79 a month

  • Everything listed under Quick Start's monthly
  • Two content changes a month instead of one

No contract, cancel any month · Save $100 on setup and $10 a month against buying the parts separately

Professional

For a business where the website carries real weight and has to do more than exist.

from$1,499to set up

then $79a month

Excludes GST. Pay a year up front: $790, two months free.

Start here

Everything in Essentials, plus

What is added

  • Six to eight pages included. Past eight pages it is $150 a page, so the price is never a guess
  • A design direction researched against three real businesses in your category, so the site fits the market you are actually competing in rather than looking like a generic template
  • One signature section built only for you. This is the part of the page nobody else has and cannot copy, and it is usually the reason someone remembers the site
  • Custom features built around how you work, such as multi-stage application forms, booking flows, filtering, or an on-site tool that answers visitors' questions
  • Full technical setup: sitemap, structured data, fast loading, and accessibility work so the site is usable for everyone
  • Two full rounds of review, not just changes. We go back over the whole thing twice before you are asked for anything

The $79 a month

  • The same as Essential: hosting, certificate, security, backups, monitoring, and two content changes a month

No contract, cancel any month · Save $10 a month against buying the parts separately

Coming soon

Signature

For a business that competes on how it is perceived, where the website is part of the product.

from$2,000to set up

then $79a month

Excludes GST. Pay a year up front: $790, two months free.

Tell me when it is ready

Not available to buy yet, we are finishing Your website, built as an experience. We will not take money for something that is not ready.

Everything in Professional, plus

What is added

  • Everything in Professional
  • One or more signature experiences chosen from the C.E.A Smith capability library, such as cinematic scroll storytelling, film sections, interactive project galleries or an on-site calculator
  • A motion system with a budget: two or three considered moments per page, and a still version for anyone whose device asks for reduced motion
  • Photography and film direction for the pages that carry the brand
  • Held to the same speed standard as every other package, so premium never means slow

The $79 a month

  • The same as Essential: hosting, certificate, security, backups, monitoring, and two content changes a month

No contract, cancel any month · Save $499 on setup and $10 a month against buying the parts separately

All prices exclude GST. Nothing is paid until the work is built and you have seen it. If you leave, your data and your domain are yours, exported free, and the site stays live for 30 days while you move it.

The company

One operator. Three workshops. Nothing handed between suppliers.

Most businesses end up with a web person, an ads person and whoever set up the booking system, and when something stops working none of them owns it. Here it is the same person across all three, which is the only arrangement where the seams get looked at.

C.E.A SmithRichard Smith · Blenheim, Marlborough

Each one has its own home because a website buyer and a business drowning in missed calls are not the same person and should not be sold to off the same page. Start wherever the problem is. It is the same phone number either way.

The company.

C.E.A Smith trades as C.E.A Smith Limited, NZBN 9429053857460, based at 73 Budge Street, Blenheim, Marlborough.

Get in touch.

Call 03 567 1600, email info@ceasmith.com, or start with a free Acquisition Review.

Get started
Built by C.E.A Smith