A website that turns “use my roofer” into your phone ringing.
Most trades get work by word of mouth, and that won’t change. What changes is what happens next: the person you were recommended to looks you up before they get in touch. A proper website, from £1,700 at a fixed price in writing, makes sure they find you and not the other bloke.
Trade sites from £1,700 Logos and brands from £700 Care from £37/mo Fixed prices, in writing, before any work begins.
- One person, straight answers, no ticket system.
- Found for “your trade near me”, with Google Business Profile set up properly.
- A price you can write in the diary, fixed before any work begins.
Word of mouth built your business. A website keeps it growing.
Your best advert is the job you just finished. The website is what the next customer looks at after someone tells them about it.
Here is how it goes. Someone at the school gate says “use my roofer, he was brilliant”. The customer does not get in touch there and then. They search your name that evening, and one of two things happens: they find a proper website with photos of your work, the areas you cover and an easy way to ask for a quote. Or they find nothing but a Facebook page, and the recommendation quietly loses half its power.
That was exactly the position of DB Flat Roofing in Soham: decades of experience on the tools, a solid Facebook page, and no website. I designed and built theirs, writing the words alongside their own, and it went from brief to live in about two weeks.
The other half of the job is being found by people who have no recommendation at all, the ones typing “roofer near me” or “electrician Ely” at nine in the evening. That is local search, and it is built into every site I make: a Google Business Profile set up properly, local schema, and pages for the areas you actually cover.
DB Flat RoofingSoham
DB Flat Roofing in Soham went from brief to a live site in about two weeks.
Three things that make this work for trades.
You are on the tools all day. The last thing you need is an agency that wants meetings, retainers and a project portal.
One person, straight answers.
You deal with me from the first call to years after launch. No account manager, no ticket system. A 30-minute call to start, short email check-ins you can answer from the van, and a straight answer the same day whenever you need one.
Found for “your trade near me”.
Local search is not an add-on, it is the point. Google Business Profile set up properly, local schema, pages for the towns and villages you cover, and photo galleries of your work that load quickly on a phone on site.
A price you can write in the diary.
From £1,700 for a proper trade website, fixed in writing before any work begins. Logos and brands from £700. Hosting and care from £37 a month so it stays fast, safe and backed up. No retainers you can’t leave.
Everything a trade website has to do, in one fixed price.
A trade website has one job: turn “someone mentioned you” and “roofer near me” into an enquiry. Everything here serves that.
Phone photos of finished jobs are fine to start with. Real work beats stock photos every time.
Your work, front and centre
Photo galleries of finished jobs that look right on a phone and load fast on site. Before and after where it suits the trade.
The areas you cover
Pages for the towns and villages you actually work in, so you show up when someone in one of them searches.
Google Business Profile
Set up properly and connected to the site: category, service areas, photos, and a review link you can text to happy customers.
Quote requests that reach you
A short form that asks the right questions (the job, a rough location, photos), lands in your inbox, and promises a same-day reply on the page.
Words written for you
You know your trade; I do the writing. Your knowledge, put into plain English that sells the work without the waffle.
Training and a one-page guide
A 30-minute walk-through, then a one-page guide for the things you’ll change: photos of new jobs, areas, prices.
Care, so you never think about it
Hosting, backups, security and updates from £37 a month. When something needs changing before a busy season, you email me and it gets done.
Made for the tools.
“Adam works hard to give you what you need at the price you can afford. He is honest and trustworthy. His work on SEO on our site has improved our enquiry rate.”
Four steps, run around a working day on the tools.
No meetings, no homework, no jargon. The same four steps as every project, fitted around your day.
Simple trade sites can go live in two to six weeks; the honest variable is how quickly photos and answers come back.
Talk
30 minutes, freeA call about the business: the jobs you want more of, the areas you cover, what customers ask. Evenings are fine.
Quote
Week 1A written fixed price and timeline. Sign it or sleep on it, no obligation. No hourly billing, ever.
Build
Weeks 2 to 5I design and build while you work. You send photos of jobs when you can; I check in by email, short and to the point.
Launch and care
From launchWe go live, I show you the ropes in 30 minutes, and the care plan keeps it fast, safe and found while you’re on the tools.
Trade websites, plainly answered.
The questions tradespeople actually ask on the first call. If yours isn’t here, send it over and I’ll answer it straight.
How much does a website cost for a tradesperson?
I get all my work from word of mouth and Facebook. Do I really need a website?
Can you set up my Google Business Profile?
How long does a trade website take to build?
What do you need from me?
More of the jobs you want.
Thirty minutes on a call, no obligation. Or send a message with a couple of photos of your work and I’ll come back the same day, Monday to Friday.
One small ask. Have a think about which jobs you want more of before we talk. It changes what the website should say, and it makes the thirty minutes count.