1HourSites vs. Wix

Wix takes 40+ hours of your time.
We build it live, on a screen share.

Wix makes you build your own website — with no design experience, no marketing expertise, and no support when you get stuck. We build your small business website live on a screen share while you watch, then hand over a professional result with 10 AI marketing services already running.

1HourSites
$297/mo
Professional build · Live on a screen share · US team
vs.
Wix DIY
40+ hrs
Your time · Amateur result · No marketing tools

The real comparison

What you actually get when you choose each option.

Feature 1HourSitesThe clear choice Wix DIY
Who builds your website American professional designersYou — with no design experience
Time to go live Live, on a screen share40+ hours (weeks of your evenings)
Monthly cost$297/mo — everything included$25–35/mo for the platform alone
Ongoing management We handle everything100% your responsibility, forever
Website changes Call us — done same day, no chargeYou do it yourself (more of your time)
Design quality Professional, small-business-specificClients can tell it's DIY
US-based support American team answers your callsGeneric help center, no phone support
Free trial 7 days
Automated lead follow-up Included Extra tool: $200–400/mo
Missed call text back Included
5-star review funnel Included Extra tool: $100–200/mo
Marketing campaigns Included
365 SEO pages/year Included SEO agency: $500–1,500/mo
Social 365 (2,920 posts/yr) Included Social manager: $400–800/mo
Blogging 365 Included
Text alerts for every lead Included

Here's how each path actually plays out

For a small business owner, your time is worth $75–$150/hr. A 40-hour Wix build costs you $3,000–$6,000 in lost billable time — before you've gotten a single lead from it.

1HourSites — How It Works

1
Book your onboarding call — 2 minutes online
Live
Watch your site get built live — American designer builds your full small business website on a screen share while you watch
Today
Go live — domain pointed, site published, all 10 AI marketing services switched on
We manage everything forever — changes, updates, and your full marketing stack, included

Wix DIY — What Really Happens

5 hrs
Choosing a template and figuring out the editor
15 hrs
Writing copy for every page (or hiring someone to)
10 hrs
Uploading photos, fixing layout issues, mobile breaks
10+ hrs
Research into SEO, on-page settings, meta tags, Google setup
Monthly
Every change, every update, every new service page — forever, on your own time

Three things small business owners find out too late

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Wix templates aren't built for small businesses.

Wix templates are designed for photographers, bloggers, and restaurants. Small business websites need specific trust signals — licenses, service areas, job photos, lead-capture forms — that Wix templates don't include. Our templates are small-business-specific, built to convert.

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A Wix site doesn't follow up on leads.

You can put a contact form on Wix. But when someone submits it at 11 PM, nothing happens until you wake up and check your email. Our AI texts your leads within 60 seconds, 24/7 — before they've had a chance to fill out your competitor's form too.

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Wix SEO is not the same as ranking on Google.

Wix has basic on-page SEO tools. But publishing one new page every single day — the way our Blogging 365 and SEO 365 services do — is a completely different strategy. We add 365 new keyword-targeted pages to your site every year. Wix gives you the option to do that yourself.

What they told us after switching

★★★★★

"I spent three weeks trying to build my Wix site. It never looked right on mobile. My friend laughed at it. I called 1HourSites and had a professional site live in literally one hour. That was eight months ago — I've gotten 23 new roofing jobs from it."

Dave M.
Roofing Contractor — Ohio
★★★★★

"The missed call text back feature is insane. I miss probably 8 calls a day on a job site. Every single one gets an instant text. I closed 3 jobs last month from calls I would have completely lost before. My Wix site never did anything like that."

Carlos B.
Plumbing Contractor — Arizona
★★★★★

"I was paying Wix $35/mo for a site I was embarrassed to show people. Now I pay $297 and have a site I'm proud of, plus my Google reviews went from 12 to 67 in two months thanks to the review funnel. Best business decision I've made."

Angela H.
Landscaping Contractor — Florida

Your small business website, built live on a screen share.

No Wix editor to learn. No 40-hour weekend project. No amateur result. Just a professional small business website built by an American team, live on a screen share — with 10 AI marketing services included for $297/mo.

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