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Hi All, I have just moved to a new area, am self employed. Just wondering if anyone has had success advertising with Trusted Trader/Bark/MyBuilder/CheckaTrade etc?
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Angry this morning @Pete999?Never minded check a trade, good setup that works.....all the others forget about it’s just a race to the lowest price and more than person I’ve spoken to have the opinion that a lot of the jobs on there are fake....
£200 with google and £40 with facebook...over how long a period?Thanks for your replies. I think that some of them are a rip. I guess it depends if it brings in work...I don't mind paying as long as it brings results. I spent about £200 with google and a miserly £40 with FB both with no results...
Thanks for your replies. I think that some of them are a rip. I guess it depends if it brings in work...I don't mind paying as long as it brings results. I spent about £200 with google and a miserly £40 with FB both with no results...
Key is get yourself known. Find the hmo register on your councils website and send leaflets, letters even a free pen to the license holder.Thanks. Unfortunately I've moved from a rural area where I had been trading for 20 yrs to a small town, which seems to be drowning in sparks. Good move...?
I agree, not interested in a price war. No-one wins that. Council is a good idea - I didn't bother at my previous location since the council wanted me to jump thru too many hoops, and pay £150 H&S assessment to be on their list, and £150 annually to be on their register.Key is get yourself known. Find the hmo register on your councils website and send leaflets, letters even a free pen to the license holder.
Likewise the letting agents and lots of bright signage. Dont enter a price war present yourself professionally to reflect your standard of work.
Key is get yourself known. Find the hmo register on your councils website and send leaflets, letters even a free pen to the license holder.
Likewise the letting agents and lots of bright signage. Dont enter a price war present yourself professionally to reflect your standard of work.
hmm.. yes generally HMOs stuff is in my experience pretty poor quality. Letting agents always want things done quickly and for not much $$.Presenting yourself as not cheap but as high quality and specifically targeting letting agents and HMO landlords is certainly an unorthodox strategy.
I do work for a builder who mainly gets his work off of checkatrade. This year I’ve rewired a 16 room hotel which he refurbed ,two rewires and just priced a restaurant with flat above for him. He’s having it off on checkatrade IMO.Bath is nearly 20% student population out of around 90k population. Its now end of tenancy season and phone ringing but im booked up until late August already.
Hmos everywhere. I find if you deal with landlords directly around here they pay for reliable trades as council are very much on the ball regards licensing. The agents are all about £$€. Prefer to deal direct. They Also add 20% on to my bill to the landlord. So i sometimes pop a copy over by email if they annoy me, they then get funny but often landlord comes direct in future!!
People bemoan checkatrade but i am liking it, its brought in nearly 5k of completed or agreed work since March. Not bad for £2 a day.
You could consider preferred management for the insurance call outs in your area, say 30 mins each way... if local they pay alright.
Fair enough. I guess its horses for courses. Bath is very well heeled tho so I guess it may be exceptional. I live in a generally non affluent part of Wales, where house prices are low. Landlords don't have so much financial incentive to upkeep the properties...Bath is nearly 20% student population out of around 90k population. Its now end of tenancy season and phone ringing but im booked up until late August already.
Hmos everywhere. I find if you deal with landlords directly around here they pay for reliable trades as council are very much on the ball regards licensing. The agents are all about £$€. Prefer to deal direct. They Also add 20% on to my bill to the landlord. So i sometimes pop a copy over by email if they annoy me, they then get funny but often landlord comes direct in future!!
People bemoan checkatrade but i am liking it, its brought in nearly 5k of completed or agreed work since March. Not bad for £2 a day.
You could consider preferred management for the insurance call outs in your area, say 30 mins each way... if local they pay alright.
£60 per month no lead fees, there are loadsof promos out there too, 12 months for 10, they have a money back guarantee tooif you dont make the fees back or are unhappy after 12 months. If you call them them the offers to join get better the longer you leave it.Fair enough. I guess its horses for courses. Bath is very well heeled tho so I guess it may be exceptional. I live in a generally non affluent part of Wales, where house prices are low. Landlords don't have so much financial incentive to upkeep the properties...
So is Checkatrade pay per quote? £60 per month doesn't sound bad as long as it brings in work
£60 per month no lead fees, there are loadsof promos out there too, 12 months for 10, they have a money back guarantee tooif you dont make the fees back or are unhappy after 12 months. If you call them them the offers to join get better the longer you leave it.
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