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How it works

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Booked from day six.

How Tradesfront builds your bespoke marketing site and lead engine

Bespoke doesn't mean slow. Here's the actual sequence: from the moment you drop in your URL to the moment your tracking number is ringing.

Day 0

You scan your site

Drop your URL into the scanner on the home page. We send back a free read of how crawlers + AI search see your site today — and what it'd look like as a Tradesfront site. No commitment.

Day 1

You have a conversation (5 min)

Sign in and just talk to us — no form to wade through. Our concierge asks about your trade, your service area, the work you want more of, and anything you already have (a site, photos, a logo). Send photos straight into the chat. It keeps track so you can stop halfway and pick it up later.

Days 2-3

We build the site

Bespoke marketing site on your own domain. Service pages per the work you actually do. City pages per the metros you serve. Real photos of your crew, your trucks, your before-and-after — never stock. Ready for Google + AI search on day one.

Day 4

We wire the plumbing

Phone tracking wired up (Growth: a tracked number per location). Form-to-CRM delivery configured (or straight to your email). Google Analytics 4 property created, goals set, tag installed. Google Business Profile linked.

Day 5

You review + go live

Email lands the moment your preview's ready. Click through, tell us what to change — copy, photos, layout, whatever. Usually 1-2 rounds. Then we point your domain to your new site. Marketing performance reports start flowing into your inbox weekly.

Quarterly

We tune the site

Every 90 days we review what's converting, what isn't, and adjust. New service pages when you expand. New city pages when you cross a metro line. Marketing is maintenance, not a one-shot.

What "bespoke" actually means

Not a template with your logo dropped in.

Not a template

Your business gets its own design decisions, its own page structure, its own copy. We are not dropping your logo into a wrapper that 50 other shops use.

Real photos, not stock

Your crew, your trucks, your work. Stock photos signal 'I bought a website.' Real photos signal 'I run a real business.'

Your domain, your site

We provision on your domain, not a *.tradesfront.com subdomain. You own the asset. If you ever leave, the site is yours.

Structured for AI search from day one

Every page ships with the technical markup Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity look for when deciding which local business to cite. Not bolted on later — baked in from the first draft.

Ownership

You keep what's yours.

No hostage scenarios. The domain, the data, the Google Business Profile login — all yours from day one and yours on exit.

Yours

What you own

  • Your domain registration
  • Your Google Analytics 4 property + data
  • Your Google Business Profile login
  • Every photo, every word of content (we hand over the source)
  • Your CRM and customer relationships — those never live with us

Ours

What we manage

  • Hosting on Cloudflare's global network — fast on mobile, nothing for you to maintain
  • Phone demand tracking (Growth: tracked numbers + call recording)
  • Form relay wiring (into YOUR CRM / tools)
  • Quarterly site tune-ups based on what's converting
  • Monthly Google Business Profile check + directory-listing consistency monitoring

Common questions

Before you sign up.

How is this different from Wix, Squarespace, or a templated WordPress? +

Templates are designed for everyone, which means optimized for nobody. We build pages around the questions your specific customers actually search — service pages for the work you do, city pages for the metros you serve, and the technical markup AI search engines use to cite local businesses. It's the difference between a brochure and a lead engine.

Do I need to switch from my current CRM? +

No. Tradesfront is not a CRM. Forms on your site relay directly into Housecall Pro, Jobber, ServiceTitan, HubSpot, Zapier, or just your email — wherever you already live. Calls route through tracking numbers to your real phone. We never become the place you manage customers.

What if I leave? +

Your domain is yours. Your Google Analytics 4 data is yours. The content source is handed back to you on exit. We give you 30 days to migrate, then release your custom hostname setup and hand your DNS back to you. No hostage scenario.

Why $500/$995 instead of one-time + lower retainer? +

Because marketing is maintenance. A site that launched in March is not the same site in September — competitors move, queries shift, Google + ChatGPT change how they index. Quarterly tune-ups + monthly monitoring is the difference between a site that ranked once and a site that keeps ranking.

How fast can you actually get me live? +

5 days when your intake lands clean and you've got existing photos we can use. 7-10 days if we need a photo shoot. We onboard a small number of shops each month deliberately — bespoke means we're not trying to fan out to 50 builds a week.

Do you do paid ads or social media too? +

Not at the Starter tier. Growth tier includes a monthly strategy call where we'll recommend the right paid ads and social plays for your market — but we focus on owned channels (your site, your Google Business Profile, organic search, AI search). Paid ads compound nothing when you stop paying; ranking in Google and AI search compounds forever.

What if my site doesn't rank in 3 months? +

Google and AI search take 60-90 days after launch to fully catch up and reflect the changes. Inside the 3-month minimum you're paying for the build + wiring. After that, if leads aren't landing, we course-correct in the next tune-up — that's what tune-ups are for. If we're 6 months in and you're not getting calls, something structural is broken and we'd rather have that conversation than keep billing.

See the gap. Then decide.

The free scan shows you what crawlers see today vs what they'd see on Tradesfront. No commitment, no signup, one business day.