62.5% of households in Sachs Harbour rent their home, a larger share than across Northwest Territories (46.1%). That shapes what a good website for a business in Sachs Harbour should show first. Aria designs a professional site for your business for CA$119 a month: domain, email and hosting included, and nothing to pay until you approve it.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
A closer look at Sachs Harbour
Working from home was common in Sachs Harbour in May 2021 (20.0% of employed residents). People who work locally shop locally, and they look up businesses on their laptops between meetings.
The people a Sachs Harbour website talks to
Most people in Sachs Harbour (81.0%) were born in Northwest Territories. A short story about the business builds trust quickly.
Active commuting is common: 20.0% walk or bike to work. Show where you are relative to the main streets helps.
100.0% of commuters get to work in under 15 minutes. Mention the streets and areas you cover.
23.8% of the people in Sachs Harbour are children under 15. Parents decide quickly on their phones, so keep pages short and prices clear help.
The business mix in Sachs Harbour
For Sachs Harbour, the clearest picture comes from the jobs residents hold: public administration (40.0%), retail trade (20.0%) and other services (except public administration) (20.0%).
Population and households in Sachs Harbour
Sachs Harbour has 38 occupied private dwellings; 25.0% are owned by the people living in them. The median age is 38.0, compared with 35.6 for Northwest Territories.
A few more figures
- Private dwellings: 52
- College or CEGEP diploma (ages 25 to 64): 36.4%
- Residents per square kilometre: 0.4
- Worked at home (May 2021): 20.0%
- No fixed workplace (trades, delivery, sales): 20.0%
- Share of residents under 5: 9.5%
- Average commute: 4.4 minutes
Sachs Harbour against the territorial average
Residents born in Northwest Territories: 81.0% in Sachs Harbour, against 53.4% across Northwest Territories. The share of employed residents working at home in May 2021 is 20.0% in Sachs Harbour and 9.7% in Northwest Territories. On driving to work, Sachs Harbour (50.0%) compares with 72.4% for the territory as a whole.
The legal basics for Sachs Harbour businesses online
A website does not need a special licence, but the business behind it follows the usual rules. A few that come up often:
- PIPEDA sets the ground rules for how private-sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information. Office of the Privacy Commissioner: PIPEDA
- Consent is at the heart of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL): express consent means someone has agreed, verbally or in writing, to receive a commercial electronic message from you, and senders should be ready to provide proof of that consent. Canada’s anti-spam legislation
General information, not legal advice. Each link goes to the official page, where the details for your situation are.
A CA$119 website, step by step
Aria is a web design team that has been building small business websites since 2008. Nothing needs to happen in person: you send what you have by email and see the whole website on a temporary link before it goes live.
- Tell us about the business in the sign-up form, which takes about 5 minutes; logo and photos follow by email.
- You get a temporary link within 3 business days, so you can click through every page and ask for changes by email.
- 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
How do we work together if I am in Sachs Harbour?
It all happens by email: you send material and change requests, and you review the website on a temporary link before it goes live.
When does the site go live?
The first version is ready within 3 business days, on a temporary link. Going live on your domain comes after your approval and the first payment.
Can customers order from my website?
Yes. Tick the online store option when you sign up and you get catalogue, cart and online payment at the same monthly fee.
What is the website built on?
On the Aria Platform, which is built on WordPress and set up by our team, so you get a professional site without dealing with the technical side.
Can I have an email address with my business name?
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.
Will the website work on phones?
Yes. The layout adapts to phones, tablets and computers, and every page keeps a way to reach you and your details.
Am I tied in for a year?
No lock-in. The plan is month to month at CA$119, with nothing to pay before you approve the website.
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.
Northwest Territories
Ready to get your Sachs Harbour business online?
Tell us about your business in the sign-up form and we take it from there, by email.
- 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.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.