Websites for handymen that win the work.

Handyman customers are often people the rest of the trade has turned away. They have a list - a dripping tap, a door that sticks, shelves, a curtain pole, flat-pack, a fence panel - and every specialist they rang said the job was too small. Many are older homeowners, busy professionals, or landlords with a property that needs a dozen fixes before the next tenant moves in. They decide quickly and mostly on trust: will this person turn up, be pleasant in the house and charge something reasonable. Price is usually by the hour or the half day, and they want to know the rate before they ring. Once they find someone good they keep them and pass the number to neighbours, so a handyman business is built on repeat customers - and the website is where the neighbour checks you out after being handed your number.

When demand peaks. Steady all year, with bursts before Christmas (shelves, pictures, flat-pack), in spring (exterior and garden jobs) and in summer between student and rental tenancies.

Handyman websites tend to list sixty services in a wall of text, which reads as someone who does everything and nothing particularly well. Customers want three things: what sort of jobs you do, what you charge, and whether you are safe to let in. Most sites hide the rate, show no photo of the actual person, and say nothing about what they will not do - gas, notifiable electrical work, anything structural - which is exactly the honesty that reassures people. The other miss is not making it easy to send the list. A form where someone can type out their jobs and attach photos turns a vague call into a booked half day.