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Working with Miami, FL businesses

Miami does business in two languages and three time zones. Most websites manage one.

More than half of Miami's residents were born outside the United States. Your customers may be in Little Havana, Brickell or Bogotá, and the site has to work for all of them.

What makes Miami different.

Miami is the rare American city where the foreign-born are the majority: 56.9% of residents in the Census Bureau's 2024 survey. Downtown and Brickell hold one of the largest concentrations of international banks in the country, PortMiami is the busiest cruise port in the world, and more than 1,400 multinational firms keep offices here. The population grew about 10% between 2020 and 2024. Add a hurricane season that runs six months and a business base where 70% of Miami-Dade establishments employ fewer than five people, and you get a market of small, fast-moving firms selling to an international audience. A website here needs real bilingual content, contact options beyond a lonely form, and hosting that stays up when the power does not.

What we see in this market

  • International trade, banking and logistics firms whose clients sit in Latin America as often as in Florida.
  • Hospitality, real estate and condo-market businesses in a city where two-thirds of households rent.
  • Micro-businesses: in Miami-Dade, seven of every ten employer establishments have fewer than five employees.

Miami by the numbers

487,014

Population (July 1, 2024)

US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 city estimates

+10.1%

Population growth, April 2020 to July 2024

US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 city estimates

56.9%

Residents born outside the US (2024)

US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year, via Census Reporter

$66,337

Median household income (2024)

US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year, via Census Reporter

98,394

Employer establishments, Miami-Dade County (2023)

US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

70%

Miami-Dade establishments with fewer than 5 employees (2023)

US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

Businesses online

83% of US small businesses had a website in 2025, and 17% still had none. That is a national survey, not a Miami figure.

Clutch small business website survey, Aug 2025 (via Business Wire)

What runs Miami

International banking and financeCruise lines and tourismInternational trade and cargo through PortMiami and Miami International AirportSpanish-language media and music recordingHealthcare and medical researchReal estate and construction

Major employers

Jackson Health System · Royal Caribbean Group · Carnival Corporation · Lennar Corporation · Telemundo · Citadel

The Miami calendar

  • JanuaryOrange BowlOne of college football's oldest bowl games.
  • Early MarchMiami International Film FestivalAbout ten days of screenings.
  • MarchCalle Ocho FestivalLittle Havana's street festival, running since 1978 along SW 8th Street.
  • Early DecemberArt Basel Miami BeachThe international art fair across the bay, held since 2002.

Local color

Home teams

Miami Heat (NBA) · Miami Marlins (MLB) · Inter Miami CF (MLS) · Miami Dolphins (NFL, in nearby Miami Gardens) · Miami Hurricanes (University of Miami, in Coral Gables)

Hometown names

  • Sidney Poitier, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Miami in 1927
  • Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as US attorney general, born in Miami
  • Anya Taylor-Joy, actor, born in Miami in 1996
  • Trevor Ariza, NBA forward, born in Miami

Did you know? Miami is often noted as the only major US city founded by a woman: Julia Tuttle, a citrus grower remembered as the mother of Miami.

Where we fit in Miami.

Sources for the facts on this page
  1. Miami (Wikipedia)
  2. Calle Ocho Festival (Wikipedia)
  3. Art Basel (Wikipedia)
  4. Sidney Poitier (Wikipedia)
  5. Janet Reno (Wikipedia)
  6. List of people from Miami (Wikipedia)

Work, not promises

Something we actually built.

Blue Water Shipping
PHP · MySQL · live data feeds

Blue Water Shipping

A maritime operations platform we built for a shipping business, the kind of software a port city's freight and logistics firms run on.

Port maps, pilot sheets, weather, and live vessel tracking — one working screen for a Gulf Coast ship agency.

The part we didn’t write

Clients say it better than we do.

What clients say — in their words

“Casey, the owner and developer, took the project and ran with it 100%. I gave him specific direction and he went well above the call of duty. Five star service all the way!”
“Wow! Casey rocked! The process was so easy, I told Casey what I wanted and he built it. My go-to with my online business, which has grown exponentially since working together.”
“First class all the way! From the prompt communication, being available seven days a week, to the nuts and bolts of getting our project completed on time and on budget — I highly recommend!”
“Simply amazing! They took our outdated website and transformed it into a modern, user-friendly platform that truly represents our brand.”
“They get it done. We had no idea where to start; they explained the build process and were patient with our many questions. All expectations and timelines were met. Double thumbs up!”
“Instrumental in driving our company growth through expert management of our Google and Microsoft Ads.”
“They helped us turn a loose idea into a working digital product — asked sharp questions, found the hidden workflow problems, and built a system our staff could use without a long training curve.”
“What stood out was the balance of design and operations. The site looked polished, but the real win was behind the scenes: better forms, cleaner handoffs, stronger tracking, fewer manual steps.”
“They made the technical side feel clear. We talked about goals first — then platforms, content, search, and automation.”

Start here

Tell us what you need in Miami.

A new site, a rebuild, an application, or something broken that needs fixing today. You will get a straight answer and a flat number — from the developer, not a salesperson.

Prefer to talk? (480) 525-7582. Something already broken? Flat-priced repairs start at $149.

Step 1 of 4 · What you need25%

See what your project costs. It takes about a minute.

Rather talk? (480) 525-7582. 0% financing on any project, 25% down. See all pricing

Questions we hear a lot.

Can you build our site in both English and Spanish?

Yes. We build real bilingual sites with separate, properly tagged pages for each language, so search engines serve the right version. Machine translation can be a starting draft, but it should be reviewed by a fluent speaker before it goes live. Ideally that is someone on your team who knows how your customers talk.

What happens to our website during a hurricane?

If it is hosted on a modern cloud platform, nothing. The site lives on servers outside the storm's path. What matters is that you can update it from a phone to post closures, reopenings or emergency service hours, and we set that up from the start.

We sell to customers in Latin America. Can the site handle that?

Yes. That can mean multiple languages, prices in more than one currency, contact options customers abroad actually use, and pages that load quickly on slower mobile connections. We scope it to your actual markets rather than adding every option by default.

Also working nearby.

Same developer, same straight answers, whichever of these you are in.

Coral GablesHialeahMiami BeachDoralEvery service area

Let's get your Miami project moving.

Fifteen minutes, plain English, and a number in writing. If we are not the right fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.