A website for your Putney business, studio, orchard, inn or trade
Putney's customers come from everywhere: school families, Craft Tour buyers, apple pickers and neighbors up and down Route 5. A clear website on your own domain, with hours and prices you can change yourself, helps all of them find you.
$499 a year, everything included
A village of makers that rebuilds what it values
Putney is a town of about 2,600 people that punches far above its weight. The Putney General Store has been trading on the same spot since 1796, and when it burned in 2008 and again in 2009, the town rebuilt it, twice. Things here are made carefully, kept long, and not given up on. The village core is a National Register historic district, Next Stage Arts fills the former village church with performances, Sandglass Theater stages its own work, and the Putney Food Co-op anchors daily life.
The economy runs on three currents. First, education: The Putney School has drawn boarding students to its hill farm campus since 1935, Landmark College in the village was the first college in the country built specifically for students who learn differently, and The Grammar School rounds out an improbable concentration of schools for a town this size. Families visit from far away, often months ahead. Second, craft: the Putney Craft Tour, held every Thanksgiving weekend, is the oldest continuous craft tour in the country, and the potters, weavers, jewelers and working artists behind it make things year-round. Third, the land: Green Mountain Orchards and its pick-your-own apples and blueberries, sugarhouses, and farm stands that run on the seasons.
Putney sits at I-91 exit 4 on US Route 5, just north of Brattleboro, and its trades work the whole stretch up to Bellows Falls. Summer brings Yellow Barn's music festival, and Putney Mountain draws hawk watchers to its ledges.
Putney at a glance
Quick facts
- Population
- about 2,600
- County
- Windham County
- Village anchors
- the Putney General Store (trading since 1796), the Putney Food Co-op, Next Stage Arts
- Getting here
- I-91 exit 4, US Route 5, ten minutes north of Brattleboro
- Economy
- education, working craft studios, farms and orchards, small retail
- Annual traditions
- the Putney Craft Tour on Thanksgiving weekend, Yellow Barn's summer music festival
Landmarks & identity
The Putney General Store, the Putney Village Historic District, The Putney School, Landmark College, Next Stage Arts in the former village church, Sandglass Theater, Green Mountain Orchards, Putney Mountain and its hawk-watching ledges
Kinds of businesses here
- Craft studios & working artists
- Farms, orchards & sugarhouses
- Schools & education-adjacent services
- Inns, B&Bs & hospitality
- Restaurants & specialty food
- Trades & home services
- Wellness & bodywork practitioners
What a Putney business needs from a website
Putney customers find businesses in very different ways. A Putney School or Landmark family is looking from hundreds of miles away for somewhere to stay and eat; a buyer who met you on the Craft Tour wants to reach you again in February; an orchard visitor wants this week's picking hours; a homeowner in Brattleboro wants a contractor who covers their town. Your site gives you six pages written for you, including an areas page listing the towns you serve, and a login to change hours, prices, photos or your phone number yourself. It loads quickly on a phone with your number one tap away, on your own domain with a hello@ address.
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Running a business in Putney
Highway access gives this town an advantage most of Windham County lacks. The interstate exit sits right by the village. Route 5 follows the Connecticut River valley in both directions. A business here can reach Brattleboro in minutes and Bellows Falls without much more effort, so a service area that sounds ambitious on paper is often just a normal week of driving.
That reach cuts both ways. Customers in Dummerston to the south and Westminster to the north have their own options, and they compare. Someone choosing between three carpenters will look at all three websites before calling any of them. Photos of finished work and a short list of the towns you cover give a reader a reason to pick up the phone.
Craft and farm businesses here sell to two very different groups. Some buyers come every year and know exactly where the studio is down the dirt road. Others met you once at a fair or on Thanksgiving weekend and remember only a first name and a town. A site that turns up when they search your craft along with the word Putney is the thread back to you.
Up on the ridges, the roads turn to gravel quickly. West Hill and the roads toward Putney Mountain can be slow going in mud season, and visitors from out of state do not always expect it. If people drive to you, a short note about road conditions in spring is a courtesy they will remember. The fall hawk watch on the mountain brings walkers up the same roads in September, which is worth knowing if you sell food or lodging nearby.
Families tied to the schools follow an academic calendar. Their busy weeks cluster around move-in, visiting weekends and graduation. Lodging and meals for those dates are often booked far ahead. Posting availability around those dates, even as a plain sentence, helps a parent planning from another state.
Local reputation is strong here, and plenty of owners wonder whether a site adds anything. The piece on why Putney businesses need a website even when customers already know them answers that directly. For the budget side, there is also a Putney website cost breakdown laying out typical options.
Owners who decide to go ahead can start a Putney website in a few minutes. Your answers become six written pages, published on your own domain within 24 to 48 hours, at $499 a year.
What you get for $499 a year
Tell us about your business and we write, build and host a complete website for it. You will never have to choose a template or install an update.
Six pages, written for you
A home page, an about page, your services, the areas you cover, answers to the questions customers ask, and a contact page. Written from what you tell us about your business, not filled with placeholder text.
A logo and images
Use your own logo and photos, or we make a clean logo and an image for every page. Either way the site looks finished the day it goes live.
Your own web address
The site runs on your own domain, with an email address to match: hello@ your domain, forwarded to the email you already use. If you need a domain, we can buy it for you: its price is shown on the order form and added to the yearly bill.
Hosting, security and backups
Fast hosting, a security certificate so browsers show the padlock, and backups, kept current all year without you having to think about it.
A login to change anything
Change a price, a phone number, a sentence or a photo yourself, whenever you like, from a simple login.
The legal pages
Terms, a privacy policy and an accessibility statement, so the site covers the basics a business website is expected to have.
Need more than six pages?
If your business needs more than our six-page website, we can quote custom work. We build custom websites from $2,500 to $100,000, depending on what the site has to do. Anything is possible. For a quote, call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@brattleborolocal.com.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
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Tell us about your business
One form: what you do, where, what makes you different, your services and prices if you want them shown, and any photos or logo you have. Anything you leave out, we simply do not claim.
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We build it
We write every page, design it, and set it up on your web address, 24 to 48 hours from payment.
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It goes live, and we look after it
There is nothing for you to approve. Your site goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link. If you see anything you want changed, tell us and we change it. Then it runs all year and renews on its own, with reminders before every renewal.
Questions from Putney business owners
It gives buyers who met you on Thanksgiving weekend a place to find you again, see your work and get in touch by phone or at your hello@ address. Six pages are written for you, using your own photos. There is no online shop included, so it suits makers who take orders and commissions directly.
Yes. You get a login to change any text, price, photo or phone number yourself, so you can post picking hours and conditions in season and a clear closed for the season note in winter. The site stays up all year, so returning pickers can always check before they drive out.
Your site is built to read well and load quickly on a phone, with your number one tap away and your hello@ address on the contact page. Guests can see your rooms, read answers to common questions and call you directly. Booking still happens however you take reservations now, since no booking system is included.
One flat price: $499 a year, with the writing, design, hosting, security certificate, backups and your login all included. There is no setup fee and no monthly bill. It renews automatically each year, and you can turn automatic renewal off at any time.
24 to 48 hours from payment. It goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link.
We do, from what you tell us on the order form. If you see anything you want changed once your site is live, tell us and we change it.
Yes. Tell us which domain on the form. We send you two settings to change, and your site goes live once they are changed. We also check that any email you already have on that domain keeps working.
Brattleboro Local is a division of Postcard Advantage LLC. Your order, billing, website and support are all handled by Postcard Advantage, and you can reach us at (888) 348-1992.
Ask us for a quote. Beyond the six-page website, we take on custom builds priced from $2,500 up to $100,000, set by the size of the job. Anything is possible. Call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@brattleborolocal.com and tell us what you have in mind.
Yes, as optional extras paid separately from the website. Call tracking is $49 a year and puts a local tracking number on your site that rings straight through to you. The AI receptionist is $99 a year on top of call tracking and takes a message when you cannot answer. Add either on the order form or later from your account.