Building Trades Business Website: Electrician, Carpenter, Tile, Drywall, Handyman

If you are a building trades small business owner, a website is definitely a must-have part of your advertising and overall marketing plan.  The Internet is where many people go to find information about building a new addition, starting a renovation project or even finding a reliable professional to fix and existing problem.  This is especially true for those who are in the age group most likely to undertake these sorts of project and who have the most money to spend on them.

The Internet offers many advantages over the traditional print media, such as the old yellow pages.

Cost:

Your start-up costs for your website could be as little as around $100 in one time web design fees. The continuing costs for a website such as you might want could easily be as low at under $100 per year. Try to find a print ad with comparable market reach as low as $200 for the first year and $100 per year thereafter.

Of course, if you have good success with your website (and you should), you might choose to expand, but only if you are getting a very good return on your initial investment. No other form of marketing is more easily scalable to your resulting growth.

What a Website Can Do For Your Carpentry, Cabinet Making, Electrical Services or Other Building Trades Business:

I could fill many pages with real advantages for your business, but I'll just give you a few ideas to get your own ideas flowing. All of these examples could be accomplished for the low approximate prices I mentioned above:

• Provide much more information specific to your own business model that a print ad could, including...
• Hours of availability
• Prices of frequently used, basic services
• Coupons for services such as safety check, redesign estimates, etc.
• Map of your service area
• Phone number (and emergency phone number, if applicable)
• Specializations that you have or want to have such as new additions or renovations
• Service call scheduling form to reduce the interruptions while you are working on a job

A major, special advantage is that contractors can refer their clients to your website to help build the prospects confidence in the skill of the tradesmen who will be working on their project.

If you are starting your first move into the online world, you should might want to begin with a small site.  We offer a service to small businesses, such as yours, in a small website (mini-site) package, priced well below any comparable professional service.  We can afford to do that, because once you get to know us you will recommend us to all your business friends. 

On the other hand, if you want to begin in a way that will allow you to grow your Internet presence as you grow your business, we also create websites with growth features built into the architecture of the site.  These are priced a bit higher, but you will still find our prices to be exceptionally competitive with other providers of superb sites and advice.  These site allow you an opportunity to create an ever-growing portfolio of pictures of past projects, post testamonials, etc. 

We also offer free online marketing advice as a service to small businesses.  If you have a question about how to market your appliance repair business on the Internet, please feel free to ask us using the simple form on this site.