Long Beach runs on visibility. Visitors decide where to eat, stay, and shop from a phone — often standing on the boardwalk or sitting in a car on Pacific Avenue, searching "open now" or "best clam chowder near me." If your business doesn't show up clearly in that moment, with accurate hours, photos, and a way to act, the next listing wins the customer. We help Long Beach businesses win that moment.
Built for a seasonal tourist town
The Peninsula's economy swings hard with the seasons — the summer rush, the kite festival and razor-clam crowds, then the quiet winter months. Your website and Google presence have to carry you through both: capturing visitor traffic at peak, and keeping locals and returning guests engaged in the off-season. We build sites and systems that do steady work year-round, not just a brochure that goes stale by August.
The Long Beach calendar, and what it asks of your website
- Summer and the kite festival. The Washington State International Kite Festival fills the beach every year in the third full week of August, on top of the usual summer weekends. That's when "open now," "parking," and "is there a wait?" searches peak, and when a missed call costs the most.
- Razor-clam digs. The state opens digs on Long Beach on low tides once toxin tests clear the beach, and announces them dig by dig. A dig weekend brings a crowd on short notice, so hours, gear, and lodging details need to be right online the day it's announced, not the week after.
- The Discovery Trail. The paved trail runs about eight miles between Long Beach and Ilwaco through the dunes, so walkers and cyclists arrive from both ends looking for coffee, lunch, rentals, and a place to stay.
- Pacific Avenue and the boardwalk. Most visitors find you from a phone within a few blocks of either. Your Google profile and the first screen of your site are your sign out front.
What we help Long Beach businesses do
- Get found in local search — Google Business Profile cleanup, accurate hours and photos, and local keywords so you appear when visitors and residents search.
- Make the next step obvious — clear paths to call, get directions, view a menu, book a room or table, or request a quote, all working cleanly on a phone.
- Stop losing leads — missed-call text-back, faster inquiry follow-up, and review requests so a busy day doesn't cost you customers. (More on that in our guide to plugging lead leaks.)
- Save time with practical AI — simple tools that answer the same repeat questions about hours, parking, pets, and availability so your team can focus on the people in front of them.
- Run the busy season from one screen — a focused tool for the work behind the scenes, like catering orders, rental turnovers, or a crew's schedule, so the summer rush doesn't run on memory. (When that makes sense: our guide to custom software.)
Businesses we work with on the Peninsula
Restaurants and cafés that live on summer foot traffic and reviews, inns and motels that want direct bookings, retail shops and galleries, charters and attractions, and the contractors and service businesses that keep the town running. Whatever the trade, the job is the same: make it easy for people to find you, choose you, and reach you. See how it's shaped for restaurants and cafés and vacation rentals and inns.
Where a Long Beach business usually starts
A restaurant or café on Pacific Avenue usually starts with the Restaurant & Local Visibility package: the menu, hours, and reviews where visitors look first, and the Google profile kept up through the season. Inns and rentals start with direct booking, and shops that want to keep selling after August with an online store. You can click through working demos, like The Salt & Anchor and Azure Vista Beach House, before you decide.
Not sure which fits? The free check-up reviews your website and Google profile and names the top things to fix before the next kite festival. The Website Plan on its own is $99 a month.