tradespeople

Almost three quarters of tradespeople in the UK are happy in their work, despite working long hours and regular weekends, according to a new survey carried out by the country’s largest online supplier of ironmongery, IronmongeryDirect.

The poll, completed by over 950 tradespeople, saw 72% of respondents rate themselves as ‘happy’ or ‘very happy’ in their current role, with 70% saying they would recommend their job to others. This was despite almost half (46%) of those surveyed working over 45 hours every week, 54% regularly working weekends and almost a third (29%) taking less than two weeks holiday a year.

A new online review platform has been launched to tradespeople and their customers first to tackle the scourge of bad workmanship, late payments and bad debtors costing the UK billions of pounds every year.

The platform recommendandshare.com aims to create an environment of proper transparency, honesty and accountability for businesses and consumers everywhere by focusing on building relationships rather than just leads.

Users create free business or consumer profiles where they can leave positive recommendations for either side as recognition, to show their appreciation that’s deserved based upon having had a great experience.

The new review-platform rewards good practice on both sides by displaying previous recommendations on users’ profiles.

Lisa Evans is the Spokesperson for My quote, that combines technology with manual checks in order to provide users with a choice of affordable quotes from quality tradespeople.

Drumming up new customers is often an expensive and time-consuming task. Whichever way you choose to promote yourself, there’s almost always a cost and usually a pretty substantial one. Many businesses, and self-employed people, make the mistake of thinking that the way to grow a business to is attract new customers. This is, however, not the only solution; and in fact it’s not necessarily the most effective. What’s often overlooked is client retention, a key to success with far less resource and effort required.

It seems plumbers are guaranteed not to get that sinking feeling every time they go to work…

A survey has revealed that Britain’s plumbers are the happiest professionals in the country. In fact, 55% of plumbers said they were ‘very happy’ in life.

It seems tradespeople are way ahead in the happiness index because builders were next on 38%.

The survey was commissioned by Boundless, an experiences company with a 94-year heritage.