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Broadway, where 42 meets 259.

Broadway businesses serve farms, families and the whole road west toward West Virginia. Your website has to work on a weak signal.

4,170 peopleat the 2020 census
Two routesSR 42 north and south, SR 259 east and west
About 20 minutesfrom Harrisonburg, with remote help any business day
$179 a monthwebsites, with a $0 build on a 12-month plan
Broadway, Virginia

A crossroads town with a long reach.

Broadway sits where State Route 42 runs between Harrisonburg and Timberville and State Route 259 heads east to I-81 and west toward West Virginia. The Linville Creek Bridge, the Lincoln Homestead and the Tunker House are among its National Register landmarks.

For a Broadway contractor, feed store or shop, many customers live miles out, often with weak cell service. A heavy website that takes ten seconds on a weak signal loses the call. Webflect sites are built to load in a fraction of that.

Service businesses here usually travel to the customer, so the Google listing needs the right service area, not just a pin in town.

A field note for Broadway

What a Broadway business should check first.

Webflect does not have a Broadway client yet. These are the first things Cory checks for a business that serves a wide rural area.

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  1. Service area on GoogleList the towns and roads you actually serve, not just Broadway.
  2. Speed on a weak signalTest the site on a slow connection. If it takes more than a few seconds, it loses calls.
  3. Click-to-call everywhereRural customers call more than they fill out forms. The number has to be one tap away.
  4. Backups for job recordsEstimates, invoices and photos should be backed up automatically, off the office computer.
Questions from Broadway

What Broadway business owners ask

Can you build a site that loads well on slow rural internet?

Yes. Webflect sites are hand-built with almost no extra code, which is exactly what makes them fast on weak connections.

We travel to customers. How should our Google listing be set up?

As a service-area business with the towns you cover listed and your home address hidden, which Google requires when customers do not visit you.

How far is Broadway from Webflect?

Webflect is in Harrisonburg, straight down Route 42, so on-site visits are scheduled easily.

Do you help with office computers too?

Yes. IT plans cover backups, security, email and Wi-Fi for offices of 1 to 15 people.

Who does the work

Cory Neese, Harrisonburg. About 20 years building software, ConnectWise certified in help desk and finance, a licensed electrician who runs his own cable, and a background with managed IT providers ranked in the national top 100. When you work with Webflect in Broadway, he is the person who answers.

Real work so far: a Lewisburg law firm's website and network, and a Greenbrier Valley chorale's website. See the Lewisburg work · More about Cory

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