What's the fastest way to set up a trade business website
The fastest way to set up a UK trade business website is to let Tradehand build the site from the services, towns and reviews Tradehand already holds, with chat and booking on the page. A builder or a designer still leaves you writing the pages and answering the visitors. Checkatrade's 6 March 2023 guide says a typical small business site takes two to three months that way.
Your options
1. Build it yourself
Wix, WordPress or Squarespace will give you a blank site. You still write every service page, add every town, and answer every visitor. Checkatrade says a typical small business website takes two to three months to build this way.
2. Hire a designer
A designer can make the pages look finished. You still supply the services, prices, towns and photos, and you still pick up the calls the site creates. The site does not book the job on its own.
3. A directory listing
A Checkatrade or similar profile is not your website. Customers find you on someone else's site, and you still do the quote, the diary and the chase.
4. Tradehand builds it
Tradehand puts your services, areas and reviews on a website Tradehand runs for you, and your assistant answers every visitor in the chat. You do not hire a designer or learn a builder. The website has no monthly bill. Free includes the manual tools and the Assistant with £1 of usage a month: 5% of each payment Tradehand takes, card fees included. Paid plans from £19 a month, billed yearly. They add automation and more usage. Basic payment fees on your own jobs: From 1.25% + 20p, deducted automatically when the customer pays. Grow and Advanced have lower Tradehand payment fees.
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Blake FolgadoCo-founder, Tradehand
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Blake Folgado
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