A proper website for your business, on your own domain, with your Google reviews pointing at it. For trades, salons, clinics and anyone else who lives on bookings and reviews.
I build it first. You look at the real thing before you pay me anything.
Electrician in Glasgow
NICEIC registered. Free quotes across Glasgow and 20 miles around.
Preview only. Not a live site.
Send this to me on WhatsAppMost of my reviews never came from them in the first place. Fencing contractor, two years in, £130 a month
He tried to cancel and was told he had amazing reviews, so why would he leave. That is the whole trick in one sentence. You bring your own good name in, the platform holds it, then quotes it back at you as the reason you cannot go.
It is the same shape whether you are on a trade directory paying a monthly fee or on a booking site giving up a cut of every new customer. Either way the reviews sit on somebody else's page, and the day you leave they stay behind. One man I read about walked away from more than five hundred of them.
So put it somewhere it stays yours. Your domain, your page, your reviews, your enquiries coming straight to your phone.
A real Glasgow business with sixteen years behind it and ninety six Google reviews. Its own domain, its own reviews, its own enquiry route, and nothing rented from a booking platform. Open it on your phone and judge the speed for yourself, then picture the same thing with your name on it.
To build it
£500 once
Half up front, half when it goes live. Invoiced, paid by bank transfer.
To keep it running
£75 / month
Changes whenever you want them, your Google profile kept current, your reviews chased, and someone who answers when something breaks. No lock in. Cancel with 30 days notice and the site stays yours.
First three customers: £350 to build and £50 a month, for an honest review and permission to show your site to the next person. Three places, and I have not filled any of them yet.
I am Amjad, based in Glasgow. I build these one at a time in the evenings around a full time job, which is exactly why there are only three founding places and why I will tell you honestly if your money is better spent elsewhere.
Send me your line of work and your town. If it is not worth it for you, I will say so.