If your leads come from a marketplace
A marketplace can fill your calendar while the customers, reviews and rules stay with the platform. A home of your own changes that.
Plenty of good businesses run on a marketplace. A homeowner posts a job on Thumbtack or a site like it, you send a quote, you win the work and you do it well. The reviews pile up and the calendar stays full. From the outside, the business looks settled.
The work is yours. The relationship isn’t.
Look at what you actually hold at the end of a good year. The jobs were yours, and so were the skill and care that earned every five-star review. But the profile those reviews sit on belongs to the platform. So does the page that introduces you, the record of who hired you, and the say over who sees you next.
Picture a house painter with four years on a marketplace and two hundred reviews. A past customer wants the trim done again. If they go back through the app, they may see the painter’s profile next to three others — and the painter may pay a fee just to answer them. Nowhere is there a page that is simply the painter’s own, that the customer can come straight back to.
A useful channel, rented ground
None of this makes the marketplace a mistake. It sends you work, and it can keep doing that. The trouble is depending on it alone. Lead fees and commissions can rise. The rules for who gets shown can change without warning. How you look, what you can say and whether customers can reach you directly are decided by someone else. If the account is ever closed, the history goes with it.
That is the difference between renting space and owning property. A rented profile lets people see you. It doesn’t give you a home.
What a home of your own changes
A website you own sits underneath your channels instead of beside them. It says who you are, what you do and where you work, in your own words, with no one else’s listing next to yours. Past customers can find you by name and reach you directly. Someone who hears about you from a neighbor has somewhere to land that isn’t a comparison page.
You can keep taking marketplace work. The difference is that the reputation you earn there finally has somewhere permanent to point back to — a domain, a website and content that are yours, and that stay yours if you ever leave.
Built from what you’ve already earned
You don’t have to start over or write anything. Your marketplace profile already describes your services, shows your photos and carries what customers say about you. We start from what is already there, build a website you own around it, and show you the result. You tell us what’s right and what to change.
You don’t have to run it, either. You own it; we operate it. Nobody asks you to become the person who looks after a website.
Who this isn’t for
This works best when there’s already a reputation to build on, like the reviews and profile you’ve earned on a marketplace. So it isn’t for a business with nothing online yet; there has to be something to start from. It isn’t for a business that already has a site of its own doing the job well. If customers find you there and it says what you do, you don’t need us. And if all you want is a nicer-looking page, someone else will serve you better. What we offer is ownership, not decoration.
What we can and can’t promise
Nobody can honestly promise how much work a website brings in, or where it will show up when someone looks for help. What we can do is make sure the business you built has a home that belongs to you.