Web Design in Bejou, Minnesota

Writing a website for Bejou residents

The county around Bejou, Mahnomen County, counts 5,153 residents and 3 cities and towns. For a city as small as Bejou, the county figures are more reliable: households have a median income of $59,441, and half the residents are older than 35.4. Broadband reaches 85.5% of homes, and 14.9% of households are online only through a phone plan. 73.3% of households own their home.

The businesses that compete for customers in Bejou

In Mahnomen County, the Census counted 98 businesses with employees and 332 without a payroll in 2023; the second group is where a simple, affordable website changes the most. By number of employer establishments, retail trade leads in Mahnomen County (21.4%), followed by transportation and warehousing (13.3%) and construction (12.2%).

Census facts about Bejou

Reaching customers beyond the Bejou city limits

Within a short drive of Bejou you find Winger (6.5 miles), Mahnomen (8.9 miles), McIntosh (14 miles) and Fosston (14 miles). Mahnomen, seat of Mahnomen County, lies 8.9 miles to the south. The nearest large city is Fargo, ND, 57 miles to the southwest. 12 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. Bejou covers 0.3 square miles of land, about 282 residents per square mile. Naming McIntosh, Mahnomen and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Bejou that you work there too.

What Minnesota asks of a business with a website

Before your website goes live, it helps to have the basics of the business in order.

• Under ADA Title III, a business open to the public should make its website usable by people with disabilities, according to the Justice Department’s guidance. ADA.gov guidance
• 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

This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your city hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.

Your website for $89 a month, step by step

The team behind this page works from Curitiba, Brazil, and has built websites for businesses since 2008. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Bejou gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.

1. You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
2. Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes.
3. Approve it: the first monthly fee is issued and your domain starts showing the new site.

After it goes live, hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates stay with Aria, and you request content changes by email at no extra cost.