Websites that actually
bring you customers.
Websites, web apps, and online marketing for local businesses around the Lake. A small senior team, fair pricing, and a phone number that actually gets picked up on the first ring.
Lake of the Ozarks
Home. Office. Favorite place on earth.
Meet the owner
Hey, I'm Tim. Glad you're here.
I'm Tim Badolato, a lifelong Lake of the Ozarks local. Twenty years ago I started this business to help small and mid-size companies build a better web presence, without the usual agency overhead.
Since then we've designed, built, and launched over a hundred websites and applications for clients ranging from local businesses to national organizations, plus a few SaaS products we own and run ourselves. Several of those clients have been with us for more than seventeen years, which is the part I'm most proud of.
Every project is quoted as a flat fee in writing, shipped in a few weeks, and backed by real phone support after launch. If you're considering a new site, a redesign, or just want a straight answer about your options, give us a call.
Tim Badolato
Founder & Lead Designer · 100+ projects shipped
What we do
Design, development, marketing, all from one small team.
You talk to the people doing the work. No account managers, no offshore handoffs. Here are the things we tend to build most.
Websites
Custom WordPress sites built around your customers and your own words. Works well on a phone, loads fast, and doesn't break when you edit it later.
- ✓ Custom design, not a template
- ✓ Lead-gen focused layouts
- ✓ WCAG / ADA compliant
- ✓ Launch in 2-3 weeks
Web apps
Portals, dashboards, booking systems, internal tools. Whatever your team needs that doesn't come off a shelf. Built to be owned by you, not us.
- ✓ Scoped, phased delivery
- ✓ Auth, payments, integrations
- ✓ You own the code. No lock-in.
Mobile apps
Apps for iPhone and Android, written once with modern cross-platform tools and submitted to both stores for you.
- ✓ iOS + Android together
- ✓ App Store & Play publishing
- ✓ Backed by a real web API
Local SEO
Help people find you when they search on Google: on-page SEO, your Google Business Profile, reviews, and monthly content. Nothing sketchy.
- ✓ Google Business Profile setup
- ✓ Monthly content & link building
- ✓ Plain-English monthly report
Google Ads
Set up and tune your ads so every click is worth something. You pick the budget; we watch the numbers and track the phone calls and form fills.
- ✓ Campaign setup & tracking
- ✓ Call & form conversion tracking
- ✓ Landing page optimization
Hosting & care
We run the servers, keep the site backed up every night, patch what needs patching, and handle the little edits that come up. One number to call if anything goes sideways.
- ✓ Managed WordPress hosting
- ✓ Daily backups, weekly snapshots
- ✓ One team to call, not three
What a good site does for you
A website shouldn't just look nice. It should put your phone back on the hook.
A pretty website that nobody calls is a fancy brochure. We build sites around the four things small businesses actually need from a web presence: new leads, people finding you in search, visitors who stick around long enough to read, and steady growth month after month.
New leads
Forms, click-to-call buttons, and quote pages that work on a phone. Your leads come in clean and ready to reply.
Found on Google
A proper local SEO setup so the people searching for what you do actually find you, not your competitor.
Worth staying on
Pages that load fast, read well on a phone, and don't make people hunt for a phone number or an address.
Keeps growing
A monthly plan to keep the site fresh, the SEO working, and the ads running, if you want one. No pressure.
Since 2006
Built right here at the Lake. Same team you'll work with today.
Recent work
Real work. Real local clients.
A few from the last couple of years: a local real estate firm, a chiropractic clinic down the road, a small e-commerce shop, and a couple of our own software products thrown in for good measure. Most are still on our hosting, and many of these relationships go back a decade or more.
Real Estate · Lake Ozark
CKE Properties
A residential and commercial development firm here at the Lake. Their site needed to look serious and be easy to update, and fast on a phone.
ckeproperties.com →
SaaS · Our Own Product
eCardWidget
One of our own software products, an eCard platform used by over 9,000 organizations. We designed, built, and run the whole thing, from the marketing site to the iPhone app.
ecardwidget.com →
Web App · Coaching
Own The Life You Deserve
A 20-question career and life assessment with scored results. Custom-built web app that runs right on the site, no separate login, no downloads.
ownthelifeyoudeserve.com →
eCommerce · Lake Area
TwitchBait
A lure shop for tournament anglers, run by a buddy of ours from the Lake. Full WooCommerce store with Stripe checkout and a catalog that runs into the thousands.
twitchbait.com →
Healthcare · Osage Beach
Pike Chiropractic
A family chiropractic clinic just down the road in Osage Beach. Meet-the-doctors pages, intake paperwork you can do ahead of time, and easy ways to book.
lakechiropractor.com →
Nonprofit · Jefferson City
Adoption Solutions
A licensed Missouri adoption agency out of Jefferson City. A careful, warm site with clear intake forms for birth mothers and adoptive families.
adoptionsolutionsmo.com →
There's a longer list on the work page, Wedding Association, ChurchInviter, Captain Bob's Boat Rentals, Ozark Ridge Calls, Kirk King Construction, and plenty of others going back 20 years.
See the full list →Who we work with
Most of our work is for local businesses.
After 20 years, we've built for most kinds of business you'll find around here. That means we're not starting from scratch, we know how your customers find you, and what usually works.
Realtors & brokers
Listings, agent pages, and SEO set up for lake-property searches.
Builders & contractors
Photo galleries, quote forms, and a design that puts the phone number front and center.
Hospitality & tourism
Booking, menus, events, and seasonal pages that are easy to update.
Clinics & healthcare
Doctor bios, appointment requests, and forms people can fill out ahead of time.
Law firms
Practice-area pages, intake forms, and content written in plain English.
Retail & e-commerce
WooCommerce stores with Stripe checkout. Stuff that actually ships.
Nonprofits & churches
Donations, volunteer signups, events, and a tone that feels welcoming.
Marinas & boat services
Rentals, reservations, and pages that work well on a phone at the dock.
Why work with us
The agency promises you've heard. Only we actually keep them.
Twenty years of working with small and mid-size businesses taught us what a good web partner looks like. Here are six things you'll get with us that most Lake Ozark web design shops skip.
A real person on the phone
No ticket systems. No account managers. Real people answering the phone. That's been the deal since 2006 and it's not changing.
Flat-fee pricing, quoted up front
You'll know the price before work starts. No hourly meters, no scope creep, no surprise invoices. If it needs to change, we ask first.
Local, not offshore
Every line of code, every design, every phone call handled right here at the Lake. No overseas handoffs, no time-zone guessing games.
You own everything
The files, the domain, the logins, the hosting, the content. If we ever part ways you walk with the entire site. No platform lock-in, no held-hostage CMS.
Built to bring in leads
Every site we ship is tuned for phone calls, form fills, bookings, and sales. Pretty-but-empty brochures are not our style.
Your Lake-area neighbor
We live here. We know what sells at the Lake, which keywords your customers search, and which seasons matter. Local beats generic every time.
Our guarantees
Promises we put in writing.
Most web designers won't publish these. We will, because we've been doing it this way for twenty years.
Flat-fee pricing. Quoted in writing.
No hourly meters, ever. You get a written scope and a written price before we touch a line of code. If anything changes, we ask first.
Senior hands, start to finish.
No agency hand-offs, no account managers, no offshore surprises. You work with the same small senior team from the first design call through launch day and long after.
Real phone support. No ticket systems.
Small edits, plain-English questions, launch-week emergencies, a tweak years down the road. You work with the same small team that built your site, not a call center. It's the relationship most of our clients have had with us for a decade or more.
Read the fine print? There isn't any. Just one page, in your email, before anyone signs.
See how it works →From our clients
What our clients say about working with us.
A few of the kind words clients have sent over the years. Most of them are still with us.
"These guys have been awesome in taking our initial ideas and turning them into top notch professional websites that drive customers to our businesses. I highly recommend EiQ if you are in need of results and professional web presence."
Brad Young
Owner, Young Property Management
"Our law firm has worked with EiQ on several web design projects over the last few years. The results have been outstanding. They complete complex projects with excellence in a timely and economical fashion. More importantly, they work with integrity and make everything easy to understand. We highly recommend them."
Matt Price
Partner, Price & Randle
"I have used EiQ for the creation and upkeep of my web site. Their work has helped my presence on the internet and increased our business."
Tim Cisar
Attorney, Cisar Law Firm
How we work
Four simple steps. Fixed price up front.
Most sites take two to three weeks. Bigger projects take longer. Either way you'll know what you're paying and what you're getting before we start.
A quick call
Thirty minutes on the phone so we can learn about your business, who your customers are, and what you're trying to get out of this.
Design
We mock it up with real copy and real photos, not Lorem Ipsum. You look it over and tell us what to change before anybody starts coding.
Build
Our senior team builds it, tests it on every phone and browser we can find, and gets it ready to go.
Launch & stick around
We flip it live on our hosting, keep an eye on it, patch what needs patching, and pick up when you call.
Frequently asked
Lake Ozark web design, answered.
The questions we hear most often from business owners at the Lake. Got a different one? Ask us.
Do you specialize in web design for Lake Ozark businesses?
Yes. EiQ Interactive has been based at the Lake of the Ozarks since 2006. We've served local realtors, builders, contractors, clinics, attorneys, retailers, and nonprofits. Local SEO, lake-area messaging, and mobile-first design are baked into every project we ship.
How long does a new Lake Ozark website take to build?
Most marketing websites launch in two to three weeks from kickoff. Web apps and custom platforms are scoped and quoted in phases. Either way, you'll get a written timeline up front and we stick to it.
Will my website rank in Google for Lake of the Ozarks searches?
Every site ships with a local SEO foundation: proper titles, schema markup, Google Business Profile setup, and fast mobile performance. Monthly SEO and Google Ads retainers are available for businesses that want to keep pushing rankings and lead volume.
How much does a website cost?
Every project is quoted as a flat fee in writing before we start. The price depends on number of pages, features, and whether we're starting fresh or redesigning. Share what you're thinking on the form below and we'll send a written quote within a business day.
Do you host the websites you build?
Yes. We run a fast, managed hosting stack with daily backups, 24/7 uptime monitoring, and security updates. One team to call when anything goes sideways. Not required for a project, but nearly all our clients stay on our hosting.
Can you rebuild or take over an existing WordPress site?
Yes. Migrations and redesigns are a big part of what we do. We'll preserve your SEO, clean up the code, and usually ship faster than a from-scratch build. Your current hosting and domain stay where they are unless you want to move them.
What industries do you work with most at the Lake?
Real estate, construction and trades, healthcare, legal, hospitality, retail and e-commerce, and nonprofits. If your customers use Google or their phone to find you, we can help. See the full list.
Get in touch
Drop us a line.
Tell us a little about your business and what you're hoping to do. We typically reply within one business day.