Who is Websites for Tradespeople? Fixed-price sites from Manchester

Where they came from

This is a young business. The company was formed in 2023 and is run by Janusz Wozniak out of Manchester. There is no agency team page full of account managers, no office in three cities. It is a small outfit doing one thing, and it says so.

That matters because it tells you what you are buying. You are not paying for a sales team or a brand. You are paying a bloke to build you a website, and the price reflects that.

What you actually get

The headline product is a fixed-price trade website. The published packages at the time of writing are Starter from £295, Essentials from £595 and Business from £995, all including VAT, and you can spread any of them over 12 interest-free instalments.

Alongside the one-off builds there is a redesign service for people who already have a site they are embarrassed by, optional monthly hosting and maintenance plans, a pay-monthly website builder you run yourself, and monthly SEO for trades if you want someone chasing rankings for you.

They also publish free calculators and guides covering quotes, tax and materials. That is a sensible bit of marketing on their part and genuinely handy if you have never costed a job on paper.

• Phone-first layouts: the number is big and at the top, which is how a trade site should be
• Accreditations shown up front (Gas Safe, NICEIC and the like) rather than buried in a footer
• One price in writing before any work starts
• You own the site and the domain outright, not the agency
• Hosting and care are optional and can be cancelled monthly

Who it suits

The trades they name are plumbers, electricians, builders, roofers, landscapers and gardeners, carpenters, handymen, decorators, plasterers, tilers and locksmiths. The showcased client sites are a plumbing and heating firm, a groundworks company and a landscaper, with image examples across other trades.

The obvious fit is a sole trader or two-person firm who wants a clean, honest website, wants to pay for it once and wants to own it. If you have been burned by a pay-monthly deal where the site vanished the day you stopped paying, the ownership point will appeal. We cover that problem in more depth in our look at agencies that build the site before you pay.

It is a weaker fit if you want a full lead-generation operation. There is SEO on offer but the core business is building sites, not running ad campaigns or follow-up systems. If that is what you are after, the firms in our sole trader marketing agency round-up are a better starting point.

The pricing model, plainly

Note the word 'from'. The published figures are starting points and a site with more pages or extra features will cost more. Get the final number in writing, which to be fair is exactly what they say they do.

How to size them up

Ask to see the three showcased client sites on your phone, not a laptop, and tap the phone number. Does it dial? Look at how quickly the page loads on mobile data. Then ask what happens to the site if you stop paying for hosting, and get the answer in writing.

Ask what the Starter package leaves out compared with Essentials. The gap between £295 and £595 is where the real decision sits for most one-van firms.

Finally, remember a website on its own does not ring the phone. It needs a Google Business Profile, reviews and some way of being found. Have a read of our guide on what to sort out before paying any agency so the site has something to work with on day one.

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