Monaghan makes things. The drumlins between Carrickmacross and Emyvale are full of poultry houses, mushroom tunnels, engineering sheds and haulage yards, and the county’s business is as likely to be selling forklifts, trailers, ducks or compost to a customer in Birmingham as cutting hair on Market Street. Monaghan town is the county town, Carrickmacross is the market town for the south, Castleblayney sits between them on the N2, Clones holds the Fermanagh border and Ballybay the middle. Website design in County Monaghan serves two very different customers: the farmer or the fabricator whose clients are other businesses, and the shop or salon whose clients walk in. We work with both from Dublin, by phone or video call to start and WhatsApp after, with the site built from what you send.
Business to business, across the border
A Monaghan engineering firm, a poultry equipment supplier or a haulier has customers in Armagh, Tyrone, Down and across the water, and the border runs through the accounts department as much as through the fields. A site for that kind of business is less about Google Maps and more about looking like a company someone in Belfast or Birmingham would send a purchase order to: a proper domain, business email on that domain rather than a Gmail address, a page per product or service, photographs of real machinery and real jobs, and a phone number written as +353 so it dials from a UK office. Prices, where you show them, in euro with the currency stated. Business email on your own domain is included in Complete, and the guide on getting business email on your own domain explains the setup for anyone doing it themselves.
The farm trade and who serves it
Around the plants and the sheds is the trade that keeps them running: agricultural contractors, machinery repair crews, fencers, oil and gas suppliers, vets, electricians who wire poultry houses, builders who put up sheds, and the sign makers and printers who letter the lorries. Nearly all of them have a Facebook page and a mobile and plenty of work. What they do not have is a page Google can read when a new farm manager from Cavan, or a couple who moved to Ballybay for work at one of the plants, types the trade and the town into a phone. A short page with the service area and the photographs is enough, and the guide on what local SEO is explains the mechanics.
The towns and the N2
The N2 is Monaghan’s spine, from Carrickmacross through Castleblayney and Monaghan town to the border at Moy Bridge, and the towns along it each have a hinterland that does not overlap much with the next. A plumber in Clones is not the plumber for Carrickmacross. The site should name the towns you serve in a sentence each, and the routing keys help Google draw the circle: Monaghan town is H18, Carrickmacross is A81 and Castleblayney is A75. There is no railway, so customers drive, and a line about parking or about finding the yard off the main road saves a phone call.
Salons, pubs and food on Facebook
In the towns the hair and beauty trade, the pubs with music and the takeaways run largely on Facebook and Instagram. That reaches the people who already know them and misses the Armagh customer who crossed for the day and the family who moved to Castleblayney for a job at one of the plants. A page of your own, with a booking button and prices, reaches both. Cross-border customers pay with UK cards, and card payments through the site settle in euro to your own account with the customer’s bank doing the conversion.
Plans
Essentials is €499 to set up and €50 a month and covers a trade or a small firm with its towns named. Complete is €1,499 and €100 a month and adds business email, bookings, payments, chat and the monthly local pages a county-wide business needs. Both are on the pricing page and the trades we build for are under websites for.