Web Design in Solway, Minnesota

Getting to and around Solway

Around Solway, the nearest cities and towns are Shevlin (6.1 miles, pop. 138), Wilton (6.2 miles, pop. 267), Leonard (11 miles, pop. 39), Bemidji (12 miles, pop. 15,770), Bagley (13 miles, pop. 1,310) and Turtle River (18 miles, pop. 82). The county seat, Bemidji, is 12 miles east. Fargo, ND, a city of 136,275, is 92 miles southwest. The nearest airport with an IATA code is Bemidji Regional Airport (BJI), 9.2 miles east. With 70 residents per square mile on 1.0 square miles of land, Solway is spread out by Minnesota standards. Naming Shevlin, Leonard and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Solway that you work there too.

Reading the Solway customer

Adults between 20 and 34 make up 38.5% of the population. They expect prices and hours on the page, not on a phone call.

The county around Solway, Beltrami County, counts 47,055 residents and 8 cities and towns. At the county level, where the estimates are more precise: households have a median income of $68,975, and half the residents are older than 35.3. Broadband reaches 91.8% of homes, and 9.7% of households are online only through a phone plan. 70.1% of households own their home.

Solway’s small businesses and what their websites need

The Census counted 23 establishments with employees in 2023 in ZIP code 56678, which includes Solway and its surroundings. A few examples from the same count:

• Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors (4): maintenance plans, the brands you service and a request form that works on a phone.

Beltrami County as a whole had 1,250 employer establishments in 2023 and another 3,014 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. Compared with the U.S. as a whole, Beltrami County leans toward nursing and residential care facilities (72 establishments, about five times the national share). In that business, families research care for a relative, and the website should show levels of care, photos of the facility, licensing information and how to arrange a visit. The county also has a strong cluster of hotels, inns and other lodging (35 establishments, 3.4 times the national share).

Solway at a glance

What Minnesota asks of a business with a website

These are some of the Minnesota and federal rules a small business with a website runs into:

• Selling to customers in other states? Each state sets its own threshold for remote sellers; Minnesota’s is 200 or more retail sales from outside Minnesota to destinations in Minnesota in the prior 12-month period, or retail sales totaling more than $100,000 in the prior 12-month period. Minnesota still keeps the 200-sale test. Minn. Stat. 297A.66, subd. 1(c)
• Minnesota’s state sales tax is 6.875%: a 6.5% general rate plus the 0.375% increase required by the Minnesota Constitution. Cities, counties and special districts add local sales taxes on top of it. Minnesota Department of Revenue

General information, not legal advice: confirm the details with the agency that handles each item.

How Aria builds a Solway website

Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Solway gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.

1. Start with the online sign-up, which takes about 5 minutes.
2. Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
3. Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain.

Later on, you send changes by email (a new price, a new photo, a new service) and the team makes them, with no extra charge.