Ming’s Bight is a homeowners’ town: 100.0% of households own, and most live in single-detached houses (100.0%). Those numbers say a lot about what a Ming’s Bight business website needs to do. Our team designs your website for CA$119 a month: hosting, email on your domain and daily backups included, with no setup fee.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
Ming’s Bight at a glance
A smaller population (298 in 2021) means every repeat customer counts. Keeping your hours, prices and services up to date online saves them a phone call and keeps you in front of people driving in from nearby.
Serving Ming’s Bight and nearby
Within a short drive of Ming’s Bight: Pacquet (10 km, pop. 145), Woodstock (11 km, pop. 195), Coachman’s Cove (12 km, pop. 111), Baie Verte (13 km, pop. 1,311) and Fleur de Lys (19 km, pop. 207). St. John’s is 365 km to the southeast. If you work in Pacquet or Baie Verte as well, the site can say so on a service area page.
Pacquet (145 residents) and Woodstock (195) are the closest neighbours with their own page. In Pacquet, 100.0% of households own their home; in Ming’s Bight, 100.0%.
Who your customers are in Ming’s Bight
One hour or more: that is the commute for 10.5% of workers in Ming’s Bight. Errands often wait until the evening, so a contact form that takes messages after hours helps.
98.4% of the people in Ming’s Bight were born in Newfoundland and Labrador. A few lines on who runs the business goes a long way.
Ming’s Bight by the numbers
The census counted 124 households in Ming’s Bight, and 100.0% of them own their home. The median household income in Ming’s Bight, $74,000 in 2020, is close to the Newfoundland and Labrador figure of $71,500.
A few more figures
- Households of people living alone or with non-relatives: 20.8%
- Couples with children, share of households: 29.2%
- Share of residents under 5: 1.7%
- Workers travelling 60+ minutes each way: 10.5%
- Average commute: 24.4 minutes
- Apprenticeship or trades certificate holders: 11.4%
- Residents aged 85 and over: 1.7%
Side by side with Newfoundland and Labrador
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 23.3% in Ming’s Bight and 23.6% in Newfoundland and Labrador. Households that own their home: 100.0% in Ming’s Bight, against 75.7% across Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ming’s Bight since 2016
The population fell from 319 in 2016 to 298 in 2021 (6.6%). Over the same five years, Newfoundland and Labrador grew -1.8%.
Industries that stand out in Ming’s Bight
For Ming’s Bight, the clearest picture comes from the jobs residents hold: mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (47.4%), health care and social assistance (15.8%) and construction (10.5%).
Running a business website from Ming’s Bight: the rules
Before launch, it helps to have the basics in order. These apply to many small businesses in Newfoundland and Labrador:
- PIPEDA sets the ground rules for how private-sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information. Office of the Privacy Commissioner: PIPEDA
- Under Canadian competition law, it is against the law to make materially false or misleading representations to promote a product, service or business interest, and the law also prohibits the unauthorized use or distortion of tests and testimonials. Competition Bureau
Every business is different, so treat this as general information, not legal advice, and check the official pages linked above.
Your website, built remotely for Ming’s Bight
Aria has been building business websites and online shops since 2008, and every project runs online. Every step happens online, so your business in Ming’s Bight pays the same CA$119 a month as anyone else in Canada.
- Start with the online sign-up (about 5 minutes) and tell us what the business does.
- No more than 3 business days later, a temporary link shows you the full website, with your colours and logo.
- Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain, together with your business email.
Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates stay with us, and content changes you email in are included.
- A business website or an online store, for the same monthly fee
- Your own domain: bring the one you have, or we help you pick one
- Email on your domain: unlimited accounts, 5 GB in total, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, an SSL certificate and a daily backup
- Text, photo and price updates whenever you email us
- Ready within 3 business days on a temporary link
Before you sign up: common questions
Do I need professional photos?
Real photos taken with a good phone often work better than stock images. Email them with your logo and a list of services.
Does the site look right on a mobile?
Yes, it is built to work on phones first, with buttons that are easy to tap and pages that load quickly.
Can customers order from my website?
Yes. The plan can be an online store with a catalogue, a cart and online payment, for the same CA$119 a month.
What if I need to change something later?
Email us the change (a new price, a photo, a new service) and the team updates the site. Content changes are part of the monthly fee.
Do we need to meet?
No meetings needed: we talk by email at support@ariaserv.com, and you see the full website on a temporary link before approving it.
What is the website built on?
Your website runs on the Aria Platform, built on WordPress and looked after by our team: hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates included.
How many email accounts do I get?
Email on your own domain comes with the plan, such as info@yourbusiness: unlimited accounts, 5 GB of storage in total, webmail and spam filtering.
Do I pay anything to get started?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website. No long-term contract. You can stop the service whenever you need to.
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Send your logo and photos once you have signed up; the temporary link follows within 3 business days.
- Population, dwellings, land area, age, households, income, housing, language, place of birth, commuting, work and education: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (tables 98-10-0002, 98-10-0022, 98-10-0057, 98-10-0193, 98-10-0240, 98-10-0307, 98-10-0400, 98-10-0456 and 98-10-0458). Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Locations: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB), contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada; distances are straight-line.
- Figures are the latest official releases when this page was written; distances are straight-line.