Who is Get A Trades Website? Edinburgh's fixed-quote site builder

Published prices, which is rarer than it should be

The first thing to note is that the prices are on the website. Tailored sites are quoted as typically £750 to £3,000 and above depending on scope. A quick-start range covers one, three and five-page sites at £149, £299 and £499. An SEO tune-up is £39 a month and managed SEO starts at £149 a month.

For a sector where most agencies ask you to book a call before they will say a number, this is a genuinely useful signal. It lets a plasterer or a joiner work out before any conversation whether the budget is realistic. Our guide on how fixed fees compare with percentage-of-spend pricing explains why published, fixed numbers tend to serve small trades better.

How the work is done

The company's positioning rests on four points. Quotes are fixed. The client owns the finished site. Content is written from the client's own notes and photographs rather than stock text. And the client deals directly with the founder.

Writing from the trade's own notes is more important than it sounds. Much of what makes a trades website convert is specificity: the towns you actually cover, the jobs you actually do, the photos of your own vans and your own finished work. A site built from generic copy can look fine and still fail to persuade anyone.

Beyond the website

Alongside design, redesigns and migrations, Get A Trades Website offers hosting plans, Google Business Profile optimisation and a trades business portal covering quotes, invoices, leads and reviews. That portal moves the company a step beyond a pure web designer, though the website does not go into detail on how it works day to day.

The founder also runs a Scottish trades directory. That is a point in favour for Scottish clients, who may get a listing and some local visibility as part of the relationship, and a neutral one for everyone else.

Trades named on the site

The list is long and oriented towards domestic work: plumbers, electricians, builders, roofers, joiners, bricklayers, handymen, decorators, plasterers, tilers, bathroom and kitchen fitters, flooring fitters, gas engineers and landscapers.

Published proof is a single plumbing and tiling case study plus live client sites across surfacing, plumbing, electrical, carpentry and handyman work. That is thin on case studies but reasonable on examples you can inspect, and for a website business the live sites are the better evidence.

Who it fits

This is a natural choice for a Scottish sole trader who wants a proper site at a known price and likes the idea of one person being accountable for it. Tradespeople elsewhere in the UK are served too, but the directory and local knowledge are Scotland-weighted.

It is a less obvious fit for a multi-van firm wanting ads, review automation and a full lead pipeline managed by a team. For that, the agencies in our lead generation ranking are built around a different problem.

Questions to settle before you commit

Founder-run businesses are only as available as the founder. Ask how support is handled when he is on holiday or unwell, and what the realistic turnaround is on changes.

On the quick-start sites, ask what is and is not included in a one-page £149 build, and how it can be grown into a tailored site later without starting again. On SEO, ask what the £39 tune-up covers in practice versus the £149 managed service. The 17 questions in our agency interview checklist cover the rest.

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