Websites for tradespeople
A website planned around the customers you want helps them find you, trust you and get in touch direct.
Most trades get their work three ways: word of mouth, lead sites such as Checkatrade, MyBuilder and TrustATrader, and people searching Google. Not every customer visits your website before they book, but many check you out first, whether a neighbour gave them your name or they found you on a lead site. Your own website is where they see that you are real, registered and local. Built properly, it also gets you found for the jobs you actually want, and every enquiry through it comes straight to you.
£450 build + £15/mo hosting, maintenance & security
A website planned around the customers you want helps bring the right enquiries straight to you, with no fee per lead, no commission and no sharing them with competitors.
How a properly planned website brings you the right enquiries
A website does not bring in work just by existing. One that is properly planned and written does four jobs, and together they help send qualified enquiries straight to you.
Found for the jobs you want
A page for each job you want more of, and the towns and villages you cover named properly, so the searches that find you are for work you actually do, in the places you do it.
Puts off the wrong enquiries
Clear about where you work, the jobs you take on and the ones you don't, with a guide to cost where you are happy to give one. The people who get in touch already know you are a fit.
Proves you before they ring
Your registration and accreditations linked so customers can check them (Gas Safe, NICEIC, NAPIT, TrustMark, FMB), photos of real jobs, and your Google reviews a click away.
Makes the next step easy
Tap-to-call on every page, and a short quote form that asks what you need to know, like the postcode, the job and when, so you can price it without a round of phone calls.
We plan, write and build all of it for you.
Lead sites fill gaps. Your own website builds something.
Lead sites can be worth it, especially when you are starting out or the diary has gaps. Their reviews carry weight and some trades do well on them. But you pay for every lead or a monthly membership, and on some sites the same job goes to several firms, so you are often quoting against others for work you paid to hear about.
Your own website works differently. You pay a fixed £15 a month, whether it brings one enquiry or twenty. Every enquiry is yours alone. And the pages, photos and place in Google that you build up stay with you, rather than with a platform. You can keep both, and rely less on paid leads as the website starts pulling its weight.
Is Checkatrade worth it? How lead sites compare with your own website
Built around how your customers choose
Every trade is chosen differently. These pages show what we build for each.
Websites for builders
Extensions, lofts and renovations are won on photos of finished work and proof you are insured. Your website is the portfolio.
Websites for plumbers and heating engineers
Emergency call-outs are won in seconds, boiler and bathroom work on Gas Safe registration and clear service pages.
Websites for electricians
Customers check your NICEIC or NAPIT registration first. Landlords and EICRs are steady, repeat work worth a page of their own.
Other trades
We build for every trade, not just the three above. The same approach applies: your registration, the jobs you want, the places you cover and photos of your work.
- Roofers
- Painters and decorators
- Plasterers
- Kitchen and bathroom fitters
- Carpenters and joiners
- Landscapers and gardeners
- Locksmiths
- Window and door fitters
Questions from tradespeople
£450 to build, paid once you have seen the finished site and approved it, then £15 a month for hosting, maintenance, security and small updates such as new photos of your work. There are no hosting or domain extras and no fee per enquiry.
You do not have to choose. Lead sites can be useful, especially when you are starting out or need to fill gaps in the diary. A website of your own sits alongside them: it is where customers can check you out before they get in touch, it can be found in Google for the jobs you want, and every enquiry through it is yours, with no fee for each one. Over time, it can let you rely less on paid leads.
If your diary is full from recommendations, you may not need much. But many people look you up before they call, even when a neighbour gave them your name. A simple site with your photos, your registration and your phone number backs up that recommendation, rather than leaving them with nothing to check.
Very little. We write the copy for you from a short conversation: what you do, where you work and the jobs you want more of. Send us photos of your work from your phone and we do the rest.
Yes. Send them over and we add them. Small updates like new photos, services or prices are included in the £15 a month.
Tell us about your business
What you do and where you work. We will be in touch within 3 working days.
“You focus on your business. I'll get your website sorted properly.”
Chris
07936 818254Prefer to talk? Give me a call.