Municipality in Drenthe
In Emmen almost one in five businesses is in retail and wholesale. A shopkeeper here wants customers from the whole area to find the opening hours and the route, and wants email to come from an address of their own. We take care of that.
What you need
Emmen covers 335.3 km2 and has fewer residents per square kilometre than the Netherlands on average. Customers live spread out, and going to a shop is often a drive. Put address, opening hours and route at the top of your site.
In Emmen almost a quarter of residents are sixty-five or older. A generous font size and a phone number you can tap make your site pleasant for them.
Switch deal
Taking a yearly package while you still have up to 9 months left on your old hosting contract? Then you get your yearly invoice straight away, with those months taken off the first year. We move your site and email for free.
For new customers on a yearly package, on the package itself. Send your invoice or contract as proof of the end date. Read the terms.
Website + Mail, per year €130 €32.50
Your first yearly invoice is €32.50 instead of €130: 9 months off, 75%. You save €97.50 (excl. VAT).
In figures
Emmen has 11,690 business locations, according to CBS for 1 January 2026. In 2021 there were 9,820, which is 19 percent more. These are registered locations, so one-person businesses are included.
Convert the locations to residents and you get 106.6 per thousand, nationally 144.8. Thirteen percent of working people are self-employed.
109,678
Ranks 1st of 12 municipalities in Drenthe
24.6percent
Key figures 2025
63percent
Average WOZ value: 265 thousand euro
3,850
Hbo and wo together: 2,400
30.7thousand euro
National 34.9 thousand, CBS 2024
A question about your site or email? Send a WhatsApp message and a real person answers. We are available Monday to Sunday, 9:00 to 21:00.
Hi, I have a business in Emmen. Can you migrate my site?
Yes, and it's free. What is your domain name?
yourbusiness.com
Great, we'll take care of it and message you when it's done.
Example
An example situation
A garden supplies shop in Emmen has customers from Sleen, Dalen and Coevorden. Her online shop runs on WordPress and sits with a host where she still has a yearly contract running. She wants more peace of mind and one point of contact.
For that she sends us a WhatsApp message. We migrate the shop for free, the old one stays online until she changes the nameservers herself, and her email comes on her own domain. Because she still has a contract, the Switch deal comes along: the remaining months, up to 9, are free with us.
Trades
Retail and wholesale is the biggest sector and 1.4 times as large as average. Other services, think hairdressers and repairers, are even more common here. Advisers are a little rarer.
18.4% of business locations1.4 times the national average
With 2,150 locations, retail and wholesale is the biggest group here. Put opening hours, address and route on the first screen and show your range with photos and text. If you also sell online, we host a WordPress online shop.
14.4% of business locations
Advisers are less numerous here than elsewhere, with 1,685 locations. Your own domain, an email address to match and a short description of who you help make you visible.
8.1% of business locations1.5 times the national average
Service providers such as hairdressers and repairers, with 950 locations, mainly need practical information. Put your services, working hours and a WhatsApp link for appointments on one page. Customers in Emmen and the surrounding area then book with a quick message.
Pricing
One fixed price per month, excl. VAT. Personal help over WhatsApp comes with every plan.
Hosting for your website, from WordPress to custom builds
€9 per month, excl. VAT
or €90 per year
Your own mailboxes on your own domain
€6 per month, excl. VAT
or €60 per year
Our pick
Everything in one place, one invoice
€13 per month, excl. VAT
or €130 per year
Nearby
Sleen is 11.8 km from Emmen and Coevorden 15.3 km. In such a spacious municipality, customers easily drive a fair way for a good business. So also name on your site the villages where you work or come from.
Business owners from Dalen and Borger-Odoorn work with us the same way: you send a WhatsApp message, a person answers and then your site is there.
Questions
Not necessarily. Many shops get by with address, opening hours and a good overview of the range. An online shop fits if you also want to reach customers outside Emmen. We host both.
Name the villages on your site. Put Sleen, Dalen or Coevorden in your text, next to your route and opening hours. That way someone from those villages sees that you work for them too.
Yes, we copy the site to our servers for free. The old one stays online until you adjust the nameservers, and your email moves along. Customers notice nothing of the switch.
Choose large letters, strong contrast between text and background and a button to phone or message you directly. Put the most important thing at the top, without drop-down menus. That helps everyone, and in Emmen it helps many people even more.
Yes, for the whole of the Netherlands. Borger-Odoorn borders Emmen, but distance plays no role: you send a WhatsApp message, we help. Migration, email and questions all run online.
Send a WhatsApp message with what you have now and what you want. A person thinks along and says what fits. Everything is in writing, so you can reread it later at your leisure.
By trade
What your website needs depends on what you do. Pick your trade.
Sources: Key figures for districts and neighbourhoods 2025 (86165NED), 2025; Business locations by industry and municipality (81575NED), 1 January 2026 (provisional), compared with 1 January 2021; Employee jobs in December by economic activity and region (83582NED), 2025. Licence: CC BY 4.0, CBS. Distances are as the crow flies.
Mood images, made with AI.
Order right away, or message us on WhatsApp first. We migrate your existing site for free, and personal help over WhatsApp is included.
