Marketing Consultant · Raleigh, NC
Websites That Earn Their Keep.
I’m Ian Hart. For 20 years I’ve designed, built, and grown websites for partners in construction, home plans, careers, collectibles, and local services. That’s more than 600 sites and over $20 million in sales created for the people I work with.
Selected Work
Sites I Built, Own, And Grow.
Every recommendation I make has been tested on my own properties first. These are a few of the sites I run, each one built to answer a buyer’s questions and send them to the right partner.
Barndominium.org
A start-to-finish guide to building a barndominium: stock and custom floor plans, kits, a cost calculator, a color visualizer, and builder resources for all 50 states.
Visit SiteMetalBuildingHomes.org
The resource hub for metal houses, barndominiums, and steel-framed homes, with more than 1,200 stock floor plans, kit guides, and pricing and financing explainers.
Visit SiteTruckDriversSalary.com
Trucking pay data drivers actually use: an annual pay guide, carrier-by-carrier pay details, state and industry breakdowns, and CDL training resources.
Visit SiteCollectibleDetective.com
Price guides, rankings, and reviews for figures, comics, first editions, vinyl, and bourbon, checked against real retailers.
Visit SiteThe Approach
Design, Code, And Psychology.
Most marketers are strong in one of these. I have degrees in all three, and every site I build uses them together.
Graphic Design
Visual hierarchy, typography, and brand systems that make a site look credible in the first three seconds.
Web Design
Clean, fast, mobile-first builds that search engines can crawl and people can use without thinking.
Psychology
How buyers research, compare, and decide, built into page flow, calls to action, and the content itself.
Services
What I Do For Partners.
From a single audit to a full build and long-term growth plan. See all services.
SEO Strategy & Audits
Keyword research, content gap analysis, technical fixes, and a page-by-page plan tied to the queries that actually convert.
Website Design & Builds
Fast, clean sites in static HTML or WordPress, designed around how visitors scan, decide, and act.
Content That Ranks
Long-form guides, catalog pages, and comparison content written for searchers first and search engines second.
Conversion & Lead Generation
Calls to action, forms, calculators, and page flow built on consumer psychology, not guesswork.
Affiliate & Revenue Partnerships
Referral and affiliate programs that send qualified buyers to manufacturers, plan companies, and service providers.
Consulting
Hands-on advice for companies that already have a site and a team, and need someone who has done it hundreds of times.
Past Clients
Trusted By Brands Across Industries.
Manufacturers, plan companies, publishers, and local service businesses I’ve designed for, consulted with, or grown traffic for.
Background
Raised Around Metal. Trained In Design.
My family ran a metal scrap recycling business in Kentucky for decades. That’s how I ended up in metal buildings, prefab construction, and modular buildings, and why my sites in that space are written by someone who actually knows the product.
Today I run Ian Hart Design LLC from North Carolina, building and growing sites for partners and for my own portfolio.
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Let’s Talk
Have A Site That Should Be Earning More?
Tell me where you are and where you want to be. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help, and what I’d do first.