Servicetrades.com is committed to becoming the greatest referral service anywhere; we hope to inform the public to the problems of the popular lead generation sites, while paying attention to the contractors and giving them more for their money.

We found that creating a user friendly site, which benefits both contractor and client instead of just us, make for an effective system. Who would have thought that when you remove profit as the sole reason for creating a service that it would actually improve the service!

We even give all of our members the ability to earn a free Advertising. For those who would help us attract other quality contractors their advertising becomes free when they refer 3.

But if they don’t feel like calling up 3 of their business associates to talk about some website, they will be happy to know that quality local advertising is less than 20 cents a day! Try getting a Pay-Per-Click plan for less. The only form of advertising that’s cheaper involves a cardboard, a nail and a tree.  We visited and enrolled in sites like Business.com, and we found businesses listings that were out of the state! What good is clicking on someone’s website costing them money & time if it’s out of their service area? because that system is not set up to benefit the contractor or homeowner/client that system is set up to benefit only one group … guess who.

Other sites sell your information or “Lead” to several contractors, by becoming middlemen and charging each contractor a small percentage of the value of your project. (whether you award the project it or not!) Making a percentage on multiple contractors for each job is how to make the millions of dollars it takes to dominate the internet, and to keep this farce going for a bit longer, but the cracks are there and the foundation for this system will eventually fail, already people are starting to catch on.

While other methods have realized that there are more homeowners/ customers than there are businesses, costing you money to hear what amounts to gossip of a particular service. Finding a contractor should always be free, and the search should always be narrowed down to include only relevant search results, not someone out of state. Our search results will only show contractors that have included your zip code as a service area they are willing to drive to and the size of job they are willing to take from that area, add that to the fact that all of our members are limited to 1-3 categories! Period!

If you’re a painter that’s all you get paint and decorating! Theirs no incentives to choose anything outside of your profession, the categories are clear; plumbers plumb, electricians elect, and roofers roof! Professionals’ operate within their profession and within their own custom service areas and in the approximate size and scope their willing to take within each service area.

This might sound like we are limiting our professionals, but in reality they appreciate it! Because they know that with Servicetrades.com their competitors are fellow local professionals so they are not competing with some jack-of-all-trades that doesn’t know how to properly bid a project, resulting in a disaster and a bad name for all construction professionals.

We know what works because we are professional contractors with years of remodeling experience, both in the field and in the office. Real life realization that everyone pays for bad advertising choices, these costs have to come from somewhere, so next time you what to hire a professional consider the cost of their advertising … because you might be paying for it.

Servicetrades.com

Professional search, professional results.