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Consulting is bought on confidence, and the buyer usually has to justify the decision to somebody else. That means your website is not doing the selling, it is doing the reassuring: confirming that the person who came recommended, or who wrote the thing they read, is credible enough to bring into a meeting.

That job is best served by a small, sharp, current site rather than a large one. Siteglade generates it from a description and keeps it editable in plain language, so it can move when your positioning moves instead of ossifying around the practice you had three years ago.

This page covers positioning, how to turn a methodology into a page, what counts as real proof, and the prompt to generate the whole thing from.

Credibility is the whole conversion path

Almost nobody hires a consultant from a cold visit to a website. What happens is a referral, a talk, an article or a post, and then a check: they search your name and read your site to decide whether to take the meeting. Your site is the confirmation step in a process that started elsewhere.

That changes what belongs on it. Broad claims about driving transformation confirm nothing. What confirms is specificity: the kind of organisation you work with, the kind of problem you take on, how you work, what you have actually done, and who you are. A visitor should be able to finish the homepage and describe your practice accurately to a colleague.

It also means your name should be findable and your site should say plainly whether you are an individual, a small partnership or a firm. Consultants often obscure that with corporate plural language, and buyers notice, because knowing exactly who will show up is part of the decision.

• Assume the visitor arrived already knowing your name.
• Confirm the referral rather than trying to make a cold sale.
• Be explicit about who actually does the work.
• Make your writing and speaking easy to find, since it is often the first contact.

Narrow positioning beats a broad service list

The instinct is to list everything you could do, in case a client needs it. The effect is to make you the least memorable option, because a buyer with a specific problem is looking for a specialist in that problem and a list of nine services says specialist in none.

Narrow positioning does not mean turning down work. It means the site leads with the thing you want to be called about, and the broader capability is discoverable underneath. Clients who already trust you will ask about the rest anyway.

The strongest positioning statements combine a client type with a problem type: operations leaders at manufacturing businesses working through an ERP transition, or clinical directors in independent healthcare navigating regulatory inspection. Uncomfortably specific is usually correct, and if it feels too narrow, that generally means it is finally specific enough to be memorable.

• One sentence: who you work with, and on what.
• Lead with the engagement you want more of, not the widest net.
• Name the situation a client is in when they call you.
• Keep the broader capability on a secondary page, not in the headline.

Turning your methodology into a page

The most underused page on a consulting site is a straight description of how you work. Clients are buying a process they cannot see in advance, and describing it removes the largest source of hesitation, particularly for a buyer who has to justify the spend internally.

Lay out the phases with what happens in each, roughly how long it takes, what you need from the client, and what they get at the end. Four to six phases is usually right. The deliverables list matters more than consultants expect, because a buyer building an internal case needs something concrete to point at.

Being open about the method does not give away the value. The value is in the judgement you apply, which cannot be copied from a web page, and publishing the structure demonstrates that you have one. A consultant who cannot describe how they work reads as someone improvising.

It also makes the sales conversation shorter and better, because the call starts from questions about fit rather than from explaining the basics again.

Writing as the long game

For most independent consultants, writing is the acquisition channel. Not volume content, but a handful of pieces that say something specific enough to be argued with, which is how you become the person a reader thinks of when the problem arrives.

If publishing is central to your practice, note that blog creation and management for a generated site is a Max plan feature. If you write three or four substantial pieces a year, a simple writing page listing them, including work published elsewhere, is less to maintain and does the same job. Choose deliberately rather than building an empty blog you will abandon.

Whatever you publish should be reachable in one click from the homepage, because it is frequently the first thing a referred visitor reads, and it does more to establish your thinking than any amount of positioning copy about it.

• A small number of substantial pieces beats a steady stream of thin ones.
• Link to writing published elsewhere rather than duplicating it.
• Link to talks and podcast appearances, which travel further than articles.
• Do not build a blog you will not maintain; an unmaintained one is a negative signal.

The discovery call is the only call to action that matters

There is exactly one conversion event on a consulting site, and it is a conversation. Everything else, the newsletter, the download, the follow, is a consolation prize for people who are not ready yet.

So make the call easy and make it specific. Say what it is: thirty minutes, no charge, to work out whether this is something you can help with. Say who it is for and who it is not for, because filtering saves you the hours you currently lose to mismatched calls. Then either link to your existing scheduling tool or show your email address as plain text, because senior buyers frequently prefer to email so they can copy in a colleague.

Siteglade has no built-in scheduling or payments, so link to the tools you already run. What the site can do is make that path visible from every page rather than only from a contact page nobody reaches.

A signal about pricing helps more than it hurts. You need not publish a rate card, but a typical engagement size or a minimum project value filters out the conversations that were never going to close, and those are the ones that consume the most time.

A prompt template for a consulting site

Give the model your positioning, your client type, your methodology and the exact call to action. Vague briefs produce the generic consulting site everyone has seen, all abstract nouns and stock imagery of meetings.

For example: 'Build a five-page site for an independent operations consultant working with UK manufacturing businesses between fifty and five hundred staff, specialising in production planning and inventory during ERP transitions. Restrained and senior rather than corporate: warm off-white background, one deep charcoal, one muted copper accent used sparingly, a serif for headings and a clean sans for body copy, wide margins, no stock photography of handshakes or meeting rooms. Pages: home, how I work, engagements, writing, contact. Home opens with a one-sentence positioning statement naming the client and the problem, then three short paragraphs on the situations clients call me in, then a link to how I work, then a discovery call block. How I work sets out five phases with what happens, how long it takes, what I need from the client and the deliverable at the end of each. Engagements has placeholders for three anonymised client stories that I will write myself. Writing lists articles with a title, a date and a two-line summary, including pieces published elsewhere. Contact states that engagements typically start at 15,000 pounds, offers a thirty-minute call, links to my external scheduling page and shows my email as plain text. Do not invent testimonials, client names, statistics or logos.'

Then iterate in small steps. Ask for the discovery call block to repeat at the foot of every page. Ask for the phases on the how I work page to be numbered. You can also click straight into the preview with the visual style editor to adjust type and spacing rather than describing every change.

Last updated: 2026-08-16