Check-a-Trade

[yellowvanman]

Hi Yellowvanman.
I've been mulling over sites like checkatrade. Consider this. The government is pushing Trustmark. I was with Tradeline run by AgeUk which got me a bit of business. AgeUk are/have closed Tradeline and passed their clients and traders on to Trustmark.
On the web, I noticed that one council is recommending that people look for their traders on Tradeline (now gone) or Trustmark.
Trustmark costs £66 a year via my lot, NICEIC. Cheaper if you're NAPIT, I think. So if AgeUK and the government are going to tell everybody to go to Trustmark, my money's going there too.
Just got the application form - nothing too onerous. Will let you know in a year's time whether it was worth £66!
Cheers
Pete

Thanks for the info Pete. Already in Trustmark as being a member of the ECA you automatically get membership. To be honest it hasn't done anything for me so far!

I was just considering whether Checkatrade was useful or not after I got a sales call from them!

Recent newcomer to my village needed an EIC done and she found a guy on Checkatrade, as she hadn't moved in yet and that seemed to be the place she went to, to find an electrician! I also notice that the guy she used is not on it anymore, or didn't come up when I put a search in.

The search for my area also showed that there wasn't many electrician in the immediate vicinity! I know someone who came up on the search who is about 20 miles away, may contact him and find out if it works for him!

Already got my advert in a number of local mags, they pay for themselves, but always on the look out for more work!

 

[yellowvanman]

I now soley rely on my position in google, I'm in the first page in Google for my area and number one for my village, it's taken a while to get there.

How have you managed that?