Hawthorn Tiger Websites for trades · Kent 07801 213 439 Free site audit

Websites for trades · Kent

Your customers are on their phone. Is your website?

Plumbers, sparkies, scaffolders, landscapers, paving. I build the site, write the words and take the photos. All you do is answer the phone.

£600 to build it, then £50 a month if you want it looked after — or pay as you go. Photos included, and the site's yours.

£600

Flat fee to build it. Then £50 a month if you want it looked after, or £45 an hour as you go. The nearest agency in Kent starts higher than that in year one alone, and they won't take your photos.

Photos too

I come out and shoot your work, drone and all. Most sites stall because nobody sends the pictures. Not this one.

Under 1s

How long this page takes to load on a phone. The average trade website takes six, and most people have gone by then.

Recent builds

Scroll them. They're live.

These are real, working sites — not pictures of sites. Have a scroll through one on the phone below, or open it full size. Each was built round how that particular trade actually wins work.

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Landscaping

Fernbank Landscapes

Garden design-and-build, where the whole sale is won on pictures of previous jobs. Warmer and softer than the rest, built to be browsed rather than skimmed.

The clever bit: three budget bands — what £6k, £15k and £25k actually buys. It's the question every customer has and never asks, so answering it up front does the qualifying for them.

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Bathrooms

Marlowe Bathrooms

A bathroom is an £8,000 decision made by someone who's terrified it'll leak in three years. So the site deals with that first and talks about taps later.

The clever bit: a cross-section of what sits behind the tiles, ending on the waterproof membrane. Then it hands the customer two questions to ask whoever else is quoting. That's a site doing the selling when he isn't in the room.

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Kitchens

Bramling Kitchens

Quieter and more showroom than the rest, because a kitchen gets researched for weeks before anyone rings anybody.

The clever bit: a day-by-day fitting timeline with the days you're properly without a kitchen shaded in. Every customer asks how long it takes. Nobody's website answers it.

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Driveways & paving

Kerbstone Driveways

A £4,000 decision that most people make while thoroughly confused. So the site does the explaining before anyone picks up the phone.

The clever bit: an honest comparison table — block, resin, tarmac, gravel — with real prices and lifespans, plus the planning permission rule nobody mentions. Answering the hard question first is what earns the call.

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Scaffolding

Steel Horse Scaffolding

Mostly a trade audience — roofers and builders — so the tone is priced-and-scheduled rather than warm. Heavier, harder, built to look like the yard it comes from.

The clever bit: a compliance board up top — CISRS, TG20, liability cover, inspection cycle. Those four things are the buying criteria in scaffolding, so they go first.

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Plumbing & heating

Poseidon Plumbing & Gas

Built for people standing in a cold kitchen at seven in the morning. The phone number never leaves the screen, and there's a call bar fixed to the bottom of every page.

The clever bit: a price board on the homepage — call-out, CP12, annual service. The number one reason people don't ring a plumber is not knowing what it'll cost.

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Electrical

SparkE Electrical

Registration number, insurance and guarantee sat right beside the headline, because letting an electrician into your house is a trust decision before it's a price one.

The clever bit: a symptom triage board — burning smell, tripping, flickering — telling people how urgent it is. Useful to the customer, and it quietly proves he knows his job.

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Handyman

RapidHand

Warmer and softer than the rest, because the customer is often an older homeowner deciding whether to let a stranger into the house.

The clever bit: a half-day and full-day rate board showing what actually fits in the time. Handymen sell hours, not jobs, and nobody else's site explains that.

How it works

Four steps, about a week.

Step 01

Free audit

I check how your site performs against Google's own benchmarks and what it does on a phone. You get the findings whether you hire me or not.

Step 02

You see it first

I build a version of your site before you've paid anything. If you don't like it, you've lost nothing but a phone call.

Step 03

I do the legwork

I come out and photograph your work, drone included where it helps, and we have twenty minutes on the phone about how you win jobs. You don't write a word or send me a single picture.

Step 04

Live and looked after

Domain, hosting, SSL, the lot. Changes are included — ring me, don't fill in a ticket.

Pricing

No quotes-on-request nonsense.

You wouldn't make your customers ring to find out roughly what a job costs, so I'm not doing it to you. One flat fee to build it, then you choose how it's looked after.

The build

£600 flat, one-off

Then it's up to you how it's looked after — see the two options below

  • Hand-built site, up to six sections — more if you need it
  • Hosting, SSL and domain set up and managed
  • Google Business Profile set up properly
  • I photograph your work myself, ground and aerial, you send me nothing
  • Contact form straight to your phone
  • Live within about a week
Start here

Monthly maintenance

£50 a month

Ongoing — 30 days' notice, no long contract

  • Hosting, SSL, backups and uptime monitoring
  • Domain renewed, in your name
  • Up to two hours of changes a month, included
  • Google listing kept current
  • A photo refresh once a year
  • Me, on the end of a phone
Set this up

Pay as you go

£45 an hour

No monthly cost — only pay when something needs changing

  • Billed to the nearest 15 minutes
  • Nothing running in the background when the site doesn't need touching
  • Same person, usually same-day turnaround
Ask for a change

What fits in an hour (£45)

  • Photo upload or swapAbout 10 minutes — roughly six of these fit in an hour.
  • Colour or font tweakAbout 10 minutes.
  • Wording change, per section10–15 minutes, depending how much is changing.
  • Add or remove a serviceAbout 15 minutes.
  • Update prices or contact detailsAbout 5 minutes.
  • Add a testimonial or reviewAbout 5 minutes.
  • Swap out the whole photo setAbout 30 minutes — plus a new shoot if you need one.
  • Add a brand new page45–60 minutes — most or all of the hour.

Billed to the nearest 15 minutes, so a quick 10-minute job is £11.25, not a full hour charged for five. On the £50 monthly plan, the first two hours each month are already included in the price.

Refer a trade

Refer a trade. Get £75.

Know a tradesperson who needs a website? Send them my way, and if they go ahead and pay their deposit, you get £75. Simple as that.

1

£75 cash

Straight to you, once their deposit clears. Not a discount — actual money, no strings.

2

+3 months free, if you're on the plan

On the £50 monthly plan yourself? Your own maintenance is waived for three months on top.

3

No limit, bonus at every 5th

Refer as many as you like. Every 5th successful referral bumps that payout from £75 to £100.

Five referrals in is £400 back to you — four at £75, the fifth bumped to £100 — and it keeps going from there.

The reward triggers once your mate's deposit has cleared — not just a chat that goes well. That's what protects both of us.

Not on the monthly plan yourself? The £75 still applies — there's just no maintenance to waive.

It works both ways. Whoever you refer benefits too — tell them to mention your name when they get in touch, and their first 3 months of maintenance are free, changes included, the usual two hours a month.

Branded keyring bundles — coming soon, once the first batch is printed.

Included, not extra

Your work, shot properly. From the ground and the air.

Most trade websites stall at the same place: the photos never turn up. So I come to you. A couple of hours on a job or a recent one you're proud of, and I shoot it myself, including aerial work with a drone where it suits, which for roofing, scaffolding, driveways and landscaping is most of the time. CAA registered and insured. You don't dig out a single picture off your phone.

Ask about a shoot

Free, no catch

I'll audit your current site in about two minutes.

Send me the address and you'll get back how long it takes to load, what it looks like on a phone, whether your contact form actually works, and where you sit on Google for "[your trade] [your town]". No sales call attached — plenty of people take the audit and do nothing, and that's fine.

Send me your site

Get in touch

Let's have a look at it.

Ring, text, WhatsApp or fill the form in — whatever's easiest. If you're on a job, send a message and I'll reply this evening.

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07801 213 439
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Based in
Thanet, covering east Kent