Services and pricing
Published prices. No agency runaround. Brand, websites and search for owner-run rentals, hotels, retreats, shops and clinics, one location or a few at most. Pick your track, or talk it through first.
What the research says
50 ms
How long people take to judge a website. The decision comes first. The reading comes after.
Lindgaard et al., Carleton University, 2006
15.5%
What Airbnb now keeps from most hosts on every booking. A $600 night costs you about $93.
Airbnb host fee, 2025 to 2026
22%
Share of hotel bookings coming through OTAs, down from 30% a year earlier. Direct is winning.
State of Distribution 2025, NYU, HEDNA, RateGain
33%
Revenue lift companies report from presenting their brand consistently everywhere.
Lucidpress, State of Brand Consistency, 2019
For hosts at $300+ a night who want guests to find them directly. Built on the booking software you already use. How Host Direct works
Most hosts start here
$4,500 one-time, 1 or 2 homes
A custom direct-booking site with search built in. Live in about 4 to 6 weeks, and the site is yours.
$450
Not ready to build? We search for your place the way guests do, run your fee numbers and hand you a one-page plan. Credited in full if you build within 30 days.
Book a session$7,500 to $18,000
Three to about 40 properties under one name. One identity, one site, and a page for each place with its own photos, local guide and booking link. Three homes on an existing name start at $7,500. More homes, a new name or a full brand system move it toward $18,000. Fixed in writing after a call. Managing more than 40? Let's talk about a custom build.
Book a callAfter launch, keep climbing on Google: new guide pages, listing upkeep and a plain-English monthly report. Month to month.
$500 / month
Free first step
Paste your listing or website. Within two business days you get a short video: what a guest sees when they search for you, and the one fix worth making first. No call, no pitch.
Real eyes, no bots.
For inns, hotels and retreats that sell programs and events as well as rooms. Your guests should find you before they find a platform. We grow the share of bookings that come straight to you, and show you the number every month.
$2,900 one-time
For properties with a site they like that guests can't find.
$8,500 to $20,000
A new site built around your booking engine, with a real reason to book direct.
$2,500 / month
Ongoing work on the searches guests make, measured against your direct share.
For owner-run businesses you have to show up to. A brand worth the trip, then a team that keeps it working once you're live. Month to month, reported monthly.
From $8,500
We see your place before we design anything: in person when we can, on a guided video walk when we can't. Then strategy and positioning, identity system and guidelines, website design and build, launch support. No templates.
See what's includedUp to 8 social posts and 1 to 3 emails a month, art directed, with reusable templates for seasons, offers and events.
$3,500 /mo
One page optimized a month for the searches people make nearby, Google listing care, technical monitoring, monthly report.
$950 /mo
One local article and two pages a month, full Google listing care, local link building, live dashboard.
$2,400 /mo
Design Support and Local Starter together, plus website upkeep and a monthly strategy session. One team for the whole place.
$4,500 /mo
The method
A guest feels a place in the time it takes to scroll one photo. The next ten minutes go to finding reasons to agree. We build for that first feeling, using what's known about how people actually choose, not what they say on a survey.
The brand lands before the details do.
Guests can tell it's you with the logo covered.
One stay becomes the story they tell a friend.
Then we make sure Google sees what guests feel.
“They understood our website needs better than we did, and delivered above and beyond expectations.”
“Kewl Method is the creative force behind every venture I launch.”
“We now have a digital presence that truly reflects our company's mission and vision.”
Addy Award, Gold and Silver, logo and brand identity
A free 20-minute call about how you make money, who you're for and what's in the way.
A written scope and a fixed price before any work starts. No surprises later.
We work in the open. You see it take shape and talk to the people doing the work.
Launch is the start. Training, fixes and, if you want it, monthly care.
Host Direct sites usually go live in 4 to 6 weeks. Brand and hotel projects run longer depending on scope. You get a date before we start.
Yes. It lives in your own account, and there's no platform fee for the site itself.
No. Keep them for reach. The goal is a bigger share of bookings coming to you directly.
Most likely. We build around Hostaway, OwnerRez, Guesty, Lodgify, Hospitable and common hotel booking engines.
Projects are split into a deposit to start and a final payment at launch. Monthly plans are month to month.
Audits, one-off pieces and small projects are scoped on a call. Start with the free one.
Twenty minutes, free, and you'll leave knowing the next step, even if it isn't us.
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