'The brief' blog
Websites and Perth
My thoughts on websites, comms, and advertising trends.
Perth doesn’t reward generic. Whether you’re running a boutique label or lobbying the local council for a new surf break, your digital presence needs to work hard. Read more below.
Need a tradie webite? Read on.
In the trades game, your reputation is built on the quality of your finish and the word-of-mouth you leave behind in suburbs from Joondalup to Mandurah. But in 2026, even the best sparky or plumber knows that a recommendation usually leads straight to a Google search.
If a potential client hears your name and searches for you, what do they find? A dead Facebook page from 2022? Or a professional trades website that proves you’re the real deal?
If you’re an architect, engineer, or accountant in Western Australia, your business is built on a single, non-negotiable currency: Trust.
Whether you’re signing off on a structural report for a new Perth city development or managing the R&D tax incentives for a mining company, your clients need to know that your attention to detail is absolute.
Five years is a long time. In five years, we’ve seen entire suburbs pop up, local coffee shops become institutions, and the way we do business change forever.
If your website was built in 2021, it’s officially a “legacy” site. It might still look “fine” to you, but to your customers, and to Google, it’s starting to feel like a rotary phone in a world of iPhones.
Here are the three biggest reasons your five-year-old site is quietly costing you business in WA today.
If you’ve ever sat in a boardroom in Subiaco or the CBD, listened to a Senior Account Manager pitch you a vision, and then realised three months later that your project was actually being built by a junior… you’ve experienced the Agency Gap.
Here is why working directly with a specialist (like me) makes a lot of sense for most small businesses.
We’ve all heard the warnings about cheap websites. Usually, a sub-$1,000 price tag in Australia means you’re getting a bloated, slow template that will break the moment you stop paying for updates.
But there is an exception to the rule.
"Dion created such a fantastic website for my music"
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