Most trade websites are a brochure. A logo, a gallery, a contact form that gets you a name and a number you then chase for a week. That is not a website, that is a business card that cost you three grand.
I am a carpenter of twenty years who has run his own business for ten of them. I did not come to this from web design. I came to it because my own site was losing me work, so I built one that stopped doing that.
This is the other kind. A customer lands on it, gets a real ballpark price on the spot, and a fully-formed job lands in your job system before they have closed the tab. Same traffic. More work booked.
depending on the build, plus $150 to $250 a month hosting and care
I could show you screenshots of other people's sites. Instead, judge this one. Every page you have clicked, the speed, the way it behaves on your phone, the way the words sound like a bloke and not a brochure. That is the build.
Same thing goes for team247.au, my fencing business. Same stack, same quote wizard, and it is the only way a lead gets into my business now.
No padding, no line items you will never use. This is the list I would want if I were buying it.
Built on the same stack the big tech companies use, not a page builder stuffed with plugins. Most tradie sites take five seconds to load on a phone. Yours will not.
A name-and-number form gets you a lead you have to chase for a week. A quote wizard gives the customer a real ballpark on the spot and sends you a fully-formed job. Same traffic, more work booked.
Every lead files itself into ServiceM8 or whatever you run, with the right note attached so nothing gets lost between the website and the ute.
On-page SEO, your Google Business Profile sorted, structured data, sitemaps, the lot. Every old page from your existing site redirected so you keep the rankings you already have.
No stock photos of somebody else's fence. If you need real footage of your crew, I bring in the videographer who shoots mine.
Hosting, backups, speed, security and the small changes you would never get around to. You ring me, it gets done. No ticket system.
He left this on one of my posts, in public, unprompted. It links straight to the comment so you can go and check it is real.
"Mate, I'm loving your new site and quote request page. I'm going to copy you mate, it's great and I hope everyone starts to do the same. I'm over wasting 12 hours a week running after tyre kickers. Keep it up mate, you're killing it."
Most tradies think about a website as a bill. The only question that actually matters is how many jobs it has to win before it has paid for itself. Have a play.
Drag these to whatever is true for your business. I am not going to tell you what a website is worth. Your own numbers will.
This is your arithmetic, not a promise. I cannot guarantee you extra jobs and anyone who does is having a lend of you. What I can tell you is that the number of jobs it takes to pay for the thing is usually smaller than people expect.
By the way, this little calculator is the exact idea behind the quote wizard I put on your site. Real number, on the spot, no form to fill in first. That is why it converts better than a contact form.
You are busy. This is built so the only real work on your end is sending me photos and telling me what to change.
Half an hour. What you do, who you want more of, what your current site is failing at. I tell you straight whether you need the full build or just a refresh.
You send me your photos and your details. I write the copy in your voice, build the pages, wire up the quote wizard and connect it to your job system.
You get a private link before anything goes live. Tell me what to change. We go around until it is right, not until the hours run out.
I point your domain, redirect every old page so your Google rankings survive, and set up the tracking so you can see what is actually working.
Hosting, backups, speed, security and the small changes. You ring me, it gets done. $150 to $250 a month, no lock-in.
I am not going to make you fill in a form to find out what it costs. Every price here is AUD and every one of them is what I actually charge.
The full build. New site, your copy, the quote wizard, the lead automations and the Google setup. This is what you are looking at right now.
You have already got a site and it is not embarrassing, it is just slow and dated. I rebuild it sharp and quick with the SEO sorted, without the full flagship spend.
Already happy with your site but sick of nobody answering when something breaks? I host it, keep it fast and secure, and make the changes you never get around to.
Ads are optional and separate. Ad spend is always your money and goes straight to Google or Meta. Ad management is a flat $500 a month plus GST, or 15 percent of spend once you are over about $3,000 a month.
You can get a website for $500. It will be a template with your logo on it, it will load slowly, and it will collect name-and-number scraps you chase for a week. What I build is a lead machine wired into the job system you already run. If it wins you two extra jobs a year it has paid for itself. That is the whole argument.
Live in about a week once I have your photos and your details. Not months. I am one bloke who builds, not an agency passing your job between four people.
Probably not. The refresh is $2,500 to $5,000 plus GST and rebuilds what you have got, sharp and quick, with the SEO sorted. Book a call and I will tell you straight which one you need.
Hosting, backups, keeping it fast and secure, and the small changes you never get around to. $150 to $250 a month depending on the size of the site. No lock-in contract.
I am a fencer, so trades is where I am most useful. But the build is the same for any service business that runs on leads and quotes.
Yes. Ad spend always stays your money and goes straight to Google or Meta. Ad management is a flat $500 a month plus GST, or 15 percent of spend once you are over about $3,000 a month.
Half an hour, no pitch. Bring your current site if you have one. I will tell you whether you need the full build, a refresh, or honestly nothing at all.
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