Why Us
Why Bone & McMurran Media Should Be Who You Pick
Anyone can sell you a website. The hard part is finding someone who treats your website like it's the front door to your business — because that's exactly what it is. Here's an honest case for why we think Bone & McMurran Media is the right team to build yours.
We answer to you, not a queue
When you work with Bone & McMurran Media, you text and email the founders directly. There's no account manager relaying your message to someone you've never met, and no ticket system that buries your question for three days. You reach Cole or Bryce, and you hear back within 48 hours — usually sooner.
That sounds small until you've spent a week waiting on a reply from a company you're paying. We've been on that side of it, and it's why we run our business differently.
We build for calls, not compliments
A pretty site that nobody contacts is a failure by our scoreboard. Every site Bone & McMurran Media builds starts with one question: what does this business need a visitor to do? Usually that's call, message, or walk in. So we design backward from that — fast pages, a phone number that's one tap away, copy that answers the questions people actually have before they pick up the phone.
Design is in service of that goal, not a separate thing. It should make trust obvious in the first ten seconds, because that's how long you have before a visitor decides whether to keep reading.
Two founders, real ownership
There are two of us behind Bone & McMurran Media, and that's intentional. Cole handles strategy, marketing, and the relationship side. Bryce handles design, copy, and the user experience. You get both skill sets without paying an agency markup for a team of people who never touch your project.
Because it's our name on the work, we care about it more than a contractor handing off a template ever will. If something isn't right, we fix it — we don't push you through a change-order process.
We're local, and that actually matters
Bone & McMurran Media is based in Indiana and we build for Indiana businesses. That means we know what a customer in Indianapolis or Carmel expects, what makes them trust a local business, and what gets them to pick up the phone. A national template shop can't do that — they'll drop your city name into a slot and call it local.
Every site ships with real on-page SEO, structured data, and a sitemap, so ranking starts on day one instead of being sold back to you as a separate package later.
The honest part
Bone & McMurran Media won't promise page one next week, and we won't pretend a website alone fixes a business. What we will promise is a site that loads fast, looks like you mean business, and makes contacting you the obvious next move — plus two people who pick up the phone when you call.
If that's the kind of partnership you're looking for, we'd like to talk to you.
You don't need the biggest agency. You need two people who take your website as seriously as you take your business.
Want this handled for you?
Every site we build ships with the SEO basics done properly. Send us your business and we'll send back a free homepage mockup.