CheckaTrade | MyBuilder | RatedPeople | TrustaTrader etc - Who's with what and why?
Thought I'd start a poll off to see if we can see who's with what type of rate-my-builder website, if at all. And which ones seem to work, and if they do, why etc.
I've also put some other options there to see where people are spending their time and money on marketing right now, should they not be spending it with the big few common names.
Current options are:-
Now though, there's an annual charge, or a percentage of the job, going to a company that's spending millions on advertising and has directors driving around in expensive cars, salesmen on commission selling to existing customers and new ones, trying to get more listing features or whatever.
BBC covered a couple of them here: Fear over trusted trade website profiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42783279
You can get yourself a website using Wordpress, and update it yourself. Optimise it quite easy. Rank in Google naturally (no paying for ads), and get business coming in from it.
Or you can work on getting your listing with one of these companies up. Some of them encourage you to email your existing customers. Which obviously means there's no assurances the feedback actually comes from genuine customers then, you just get 20 free gmail accounts and send yourself the link to leave 10 star feedback so that when people search the website, your listing looks awesome and your feedback is spot on. Not seen a single listing ever with bad feedback on any of them.
That all said, I've not got a listing with a single one of them.
So I thought I'd run a poll, and have this handy thread for others to read and contribute to ongoing.
Feel free to discuss anything at all, pricing, experience, feedback, customers, type of work coming from them, whatever.
Please be constructive should you have criticism.
If a company you're with isn't in the poll, let me know, and I'll add it.
Please feel free to vote on as many of the options as you use yourself for your marketing.
CheckaTrade | MyBuilder | RatedPeople | TrustaTrader etc - Who's with what and why?
Thought I'd start a poll off to see if we can see who's with what type of rate-my-builder website, if at all. And which ones seem to work, and if they do, why etc.
I've also put some other options there to see where people are spending their time and money on marketing right now, should they not be spending it with the big few common names.
Current options are:-
- MyBuilder.com - MyBuilder.com - Find trusted builders and tradesmen - https://www.mybuilder.com/
- Federation of Master Builders - https://www.fmb.org.uk/
- CheckaTrade.com - Checkatrade: Find a tradesperson you can trust - https://www.checkatrade.com/
- RatedPeople.com - https://www.ratedpeople.com/
- TrustaTrader.com - Find Trusted Traders and Local Tradesmen - https://www.trustatrader.com/
- TrustedTraders.Which.co.uk - Find traders near you with Which? Trusted Traders | Which? - https://trustedtraders.which.co.uk/
- MyJobQuote.co.uk - MyJobQuote.co.uk - Get quotes from Local Builders and Tradesmen. - https://www.myjobquote.co.uk/
- Yell.com - Yell.com - the UK's leading online business directory - https://www.yell.com/
- Google Adwords (Google Paid Listings) - Google Ads - Get More Customers With Easy Online Advertising - https://ads.google.com/
- Own Website with Natural Google Listings (No Ads Bought)
- Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc)
- Reply with any other options and I'll add them to the list.
Now though, there's an annual charge, or a percentage of the job, going to a company that's spending millions on advertising and has directors driving around in expensive cars, salesmen on commission selling to existing customers and new ones, trying to get more listing features or whatever.
BBC covered a couple of them here: Fear over trusted trade website profiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42783279
You can get yourself a website using Wordpress, and update it yourself. Optimise it quite easy. Rank in Google naturally (no paying for ads), and get business coming in from it.
Or you can work on getting your listing with one of these companies up. Some of them encourage you to email your existing customers. Which obviously means there's no assurances the feedback actually comes from genuine customers then, you just get 20 free gmail accounts and send yourself the link to leave 10 star feedback so that when people search the website, your listing looks awesome and your feedback is spot on. Not seen a single listing ever with bad feedback on any of them.
That all said, I've not got a listing with a single one of them.
So I thought I'd run a poll, and have this handy thread for others to read and contribute to ongoing.
Feel free to discuss anything at all, pricing, experience, feedback, customers, type of work coming from them, whatever.
Please be constructive should you have criticism.
If a company you're with isn't in the poll, let me know, and I'll add it.
Please feel free to vote on as many of the options as you use yourself for your marketing.
CheckaTrade | MyBuilder | RatedPeople | TrustaTrader etc - Who's with what and why?
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