Checka trade / My builder

[Jeremy Hale]

I am thinking of joining either checkatrade or My builder to drum up some business. Has anyone had any experience of these and do they work

Regards

Jerry

 

[littlespark]

The jingle used to be the William Tell Overture, also known as the Lone Ranger theme.(“checkatrade.... checkatrade dot com”)

But I recently noticed it’s changed a little. I think they sponsor Britain’s got talent or something.

 

[Andy78]

Do they really have a cowboy tune as their jingle? lol!!!

Yes. They use the William Tell overture as used on the Lone ranger.

 

[Dan]

Stunner. No way. How to rub it in the wound of the skilled trades eh?!?!?!

 

[peterhyper]

There are new members on checkatrade with just 2 reviews, when you used to require 10 reviews in order to join. I was told that they now prioritise new members in the listings, so you could have new members ahead of you in a customer's search, when the newbies live many towns away and don't even have any reviews in your area.

I have never seen a bad tradesmen review on checkatrade which is interesting. Clearly they must vet the reviews and don't allow poor reviews as the tradesmen wouldn't want to pay checkatrade to continue their membership.

I do feel for new tradesmen who need to get their name out there as all of these advertising sites are a scam. Bring back the days of the yellow pages books before these sites ever existed (I did well out of yellow pages many years ago).

 

[littlespark]

Yell.com is the online version of yellow pages.
The web is saturated with directories of tradesman. Checkatrade, mybuilder, even Facebook, you can list your services.

Some older customers (less tech savvy) still take word of mouth as recommendation, and that’s where I get a lot of my business.

 

[Zerax]

I'm on an app called "NextDoor"... it's not just for tradesmen, it's like a locals info site... alot of lost cats etc... But there's a few bits come through that... you can recommend others and vice versa... And of course, local is good !