As some of you may know, I'm constantly searching for a 'tradesman's listing' type website that works well. The likes of mybuilder, myhammer, ratedtradesmen and such websites generally don't work well as the ratio of customers (who don't pay) to tradesmen (who do pay) is always well in favour of the customer. Each 1 job can have 12 tradesmen's quotes supplied which simply causes price wars.
And the amount of times I've seen a listing advertising as fully qualified in roofing, gardening, slabbing, tiling, plastering, fencing, blah-de-blah when in fact we all know they're probably not qualified in any one of those - just makes me laugh.
I'm always searching for one that works. Brownbook.net is one to watch out for in the future, it's a listing style site and not a 'bid for work' which is nice. But it doesn't seem to be gaining actual work yet for many. And it certainly doesn't rank well.
Freeindex seems brilliant, and they're constantly updating it. It's self-sufficient cash-flow wise as it doesn't charge for listings or 'jobs' listed, but simply gains revenue through advertising generally on their site.
But today I've had an enquiry from a newer one. And I'd like to have your feedback on the stage it's at at the moment. myProSpot - Business Profiling, Search, Online Marketing, Rating, Recommendation, Review and Web Hosting.
They guys seems to want to work with us on this. And I'm happy to help providing it works for you guys. I wouldn't want to work with them if they kept their forums, but the guy's said he'd get rid of forum categories that clash with us and simply direct traffic to our forums instead. Obviously providing we go-ahead with this and link back to them via banners and whatnot.
So. Has the search finally come to an end?
Can you guys give me your views please?
And the amount of times I've seen a listing advertising as fully qualified in roofing, gardening, slabbing, tiling, plastering, fencing, blah-de-blah when in fact we all know they're probably not qualified in any one of those - just makes me laugh.
I'm always searching for one that works. Brownbook.net is one to watch out for in the future, it's a listing style site and not a 'bid for work' which is nice. But it doesn't seem to be gaining actual work yet for many. And it certainly doesn't rank well.
Freeindex seems brilliant, and they're constantly updating it. It's self-sufficient cash-flow wise as it doesn't charge for listings or 'jobs' listed, but simply gains revenue through advertising generally on their site.
But today I've had an enquiry from a newer one. And I'd like to have your feedback on the stage it's at at the moment. myProSpot - Business Profiling, Search, Online Marketing, Rating, Recommendation, Review and Web Hosting.
They guys seems to want to work with us on this. And I'm happy to help providing it works for you guys. I wouldn't want to work with them if they kept their forums, but the guy's said he'd get rid of forum categories that clash with us and simply direct traffic to our forums instead. Obviously providing we go-ahead with this and link back to them via banners and whatnot.
So. Has the search finally come to an end?
Can you guys give me your views please?
