Business Card Website: When It Is Enough and How Much It Costs
"We just need a normal website: who we are, what we do, how to reach us." Half of the enquiries our studio receives start like this, and almost always the product behind them is the same: a business card website. A small business does not want a thousand-item catalogue or a customer dashboard. It needs to be found in search, to have a link it is not embarrassing to send to a client, and to stop spelling out its phone number and address letter by letter.
The problem is the extremes around this format. Some agencies insist that "a business card site is not serious, get a $3,000 corporate portal". Others offer a $100 template that later can be neither updated nor found in search.
Let us sort it out without the extremes: what a turnkey business card website is, which companies genuinely need nothing more, what should be included in the price, and when it is worth budgeting for something bigger.
What a business card website is and who it is enough for
A business card website is a compact site of 5–7 pages. Its job is not to hard-sell but to introduce the company: who you are, what you do, why you can be trusted and how to contact you. It is enough when your clients already know what they want and the website serves as a point of confirmation:
- B2B services: logistics, audit, cleaning, outsourcing — the client checks the contractor before signing;
- doctors, dental clinics, salons and studios where people book by phone or Telegram;
- manufacturers and distributors that need to show their range without online sales;
- craftsmen and small teams: renovation, installation, equipment servicing;
- a new business that needs to appear online quickly and start collecting clients.
Business card site or landing page? A landing page is one long page built for ads and a single offer. A business card website is several regular pages about the company as a whole: it looks better in search, feels more solid to corporate clients and is easy to extend. If you plan to run paid traffic, choose a landing page; if you want a proper online presence for the company, choose a business card website.
What is included: 5–7 pages
The classic structure that covers 90% of small business needs:
- home page: what you do, for whom, key advantages and a call to get in touch;
- about the company: history, team, numbers, certificates;
- services: one general page or several separate ones by direction;
- portfolio or work examples: photos of completed projects and sites;
- prices: at least "from" ranges to filter out non-target calls;
- contacts: map, phone, Telegram, working hours, company details.
In Uzbekistan language versions are almost always added: Russian and Uzbek as a minimum, plus English if you work with foreigners. These are separate texts, not machine translation, so plan the languages from the start.
A .uz domain and corporate email
A business card website is more than pages. A proper project includes things clients rarely think about until launch:
- a .uz domain: a local domain earns more trust with clients and government bodies than .com or free subdomains;
- corporate email like info@company.uz: a message from a free mailbox looks unprofessional in correspondence with a legal entity;
- an SSL certificate and hosting: the browser must not scare visitors with a "connection not secure" warning;
- basic SEO setup: titles, descriptions, a sitemap, search engine registration — so the company can be found by name and key services.
Tip: register the domain and hosting in your own name, not the contractor's. It is your asset: if you ever change studios, the website and the address stay with you. We always register domains in the client's name and hand over all credentials.
Business card website: cost and timeline in Uzbekistan
Benchmarks for 2026:
- a turnkey business card website of 5–7 pages — from $300, usually one week;
- if you need online booking or a small catalogue, that is the next level — from $400 and 2–3 weeks;
- an online store or booking with Payme/Click payments — from $500 and 3–4 weeks;
- support: price updates, new photos, small fixes — from $50 per month.
The turnkey price must include everything needed for launch: structure, copy, mobile adaptation, domain, email and analytics. That is how we build a turnkey business card website: a week later the company has a working address on the internet, not "a skeleton that still needs texts".
Common mistake: saving money by assembling the site on a free website builder with someone else's subdomain. Such a site cannot be properly promoted, it shows third-party ads, and an address like company.free-builder.site in your commercial proposal works against you. Migrating from a builder to a real website later costs more than doing it right from the start.
When a business card website is not enough
A business card site does its job honestly, but it has a ceiling. Budget for a bigger website if:
- clients should book or reserve online instead of calling;
- you have a catalogue of dozens of products with prices and filters;
- you plan to sell online with Payme or Click payments;
- you want systematic search traffic across dozens of queries: that requires separate pages per service and a blog.
The good news: the business card site is not thrown away. It becomes the core onto which a catalogue, booking or a store is added, so starting with it is a perfectly sound strategy.
Conclusion
A business card website is the fastest and cheapest way to give a business a proper online presence: 5–7 pages, a .uz domain, corporate email and language versions — from $300 and in about a week. It is enough for most service and B2B companies. And when the business grows into online booking or e-commerce, the site becomes the foundation of the next version, so the money invested is not wasted.
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