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Websites for / Trades & home servicesStarter · $950

Websites for trades,
built to get the call.

People look for a plumber, an electrician or a builder when something has gone wrong or a job is finally happening. They want to know you cover their area, you do that kind of work, and how to reach you. A trades website should answer all three on the first screen.

What the site needs →See the recommended set-up

01  Your customersWhy they visit

What your customers came to do.

  1. 01

    Check you cover their area

    Town names and zip codes, not "serving the wider region". If they can't tell, they call the next result.

  2. 02

    See you do this kind of job

    A leaking water heater and a kitchen remodel are different searches from different people. Each main service needs its own page.

  3. 03

    Judge whether you're any good

    Photos of finished work, license and insurance details, and reviews they can check on Google.

  4. 04

    Reach you from wherever they are

    Tap to call, or send a quote request with photos of the problem, one-handed on a phone.

02  Must-haves5 things

What a trades website needs to do.

01

A page for each service and area

Separate pages for your main services and the towns you work in give customers a straight answer and give search engines something specific to rank. Starter covers five pages; extra pages are $150 a page.

02

Quote requests with photos

A short form that asks what you'd ask on the phone (what, where, how soon) and lets people attach photos. Requests land in your inbox, or in Rift CRM if you track jobs there.

03

Tap-to-call on every page

Your number sits in the header on every page and dials when tapped. If you run an emergency line, it's labeled separately so nobody rings the office number at 2 a.m.

04

Proof of the work

A gallery of finished jobs, with before-and-after photos where you have them, and your license and insurance details written out so customers can check them.

05

A Google Business Profile that matches

Your business name, phone number and service area set up the same way on the site and on Google, which is what the map results lean on for local trades.

03  See it workingCase studies · live demos

Work you can look at.

A case study from this kind of business, and demos you can click through right now. The demos run on sample data, so try anything.

Case study · Ridgeline Builders

Ridgeline Builders

A portfolio site for a custom home builder, made to win the next client.

WEB DESIGN · PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTION Read the case study → Live demo · CRM · contacts · pipeline · sales

Rift CRM

Contacts, companies and a drag-and-drop deal pipeline for a sales team, with tasks, a timeline of every call and email, and a quote form that drops web leads straight in.

Try the live demo → (opens in a new tab) Live demo · Auto garage

Torque & Dye

Safety yellow, asphalt, bold industrial type. A full-service garage homepage built to book a bay.

Open the demo site → (opens in a new tab)

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04  RecommendedFixed prices · USD

What we'd suggest.

Starter gives you five pages, a contact form, a map and a linked Google Business Profile. Three extra pages cover your main services or towns, and the local search pack is there because most trades work is won in the map results.

Covering lots of towns, or want online booking and a page for every service? Growth ($4,800) includes landing pages for each service or area and quote requests connected to your CRM.

Fig. 01 · Recommended set-up1 – 2 weeks
Starter package
$950
Extra pages × 3
$450
Local search pack
$700
Shared hosting, first year
$120
First year
$2,220

Hosting then $120 a year, or $12 a month · every quote is fixed and itemized

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05  Questions

What trades businesses ask us.

Short answers to what comes up before a project starts.

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01Do I need a page for every town I work in?

Not every town. Start with the places most of your work comes from and write something real for each: the jobs you do there, how far you travel, how quickly you can get there. Pages that only swap the town name tend to be ignored by search engines.

02Most of my work comes from referrals. Why do I need a website?

Because people who get your name from a neighbor still look you up before they call. The site is where they check you're licensed, insured and still trading. It doesn't need to be big, but it needs to exist and look current.

03Can quote requests go straight into a CRM?

Yes. The form can email you, or send each request into Rift CRM as a new lead with the photos attached, so every job has a record from first contact to won or lost.

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