One page, in every place people look
Word of mouth is still the best lead you'll ever get — but word of mouth only works if the person can find you afterward. The fix is simple: put one page that holds your work, your reviews, and a "request a quote" button in every spot a customer might check you out. Your Google listing. Your Facebook and Instagram. Nextdoor. The bottom of your emails. A flyer on the truck.
Every place your page shows up is another way to get found — and the more real places link to it, the more Google trusts it and shows it higher. You're not gaming anything. You're just being easy to find and easy to hire, which is what a good tradesman should be online.
The tools SideWRK builds for you
Promoting yourself stalls when it means writing posts and making graphics. SideWRK does the making so all that's left is the pasting. Everything below is filled in with your name, trade, city, and page link automatically.
Your page
A real web page at sidewrk.app/yourname with your work gallery, reviews, services, hours, and a request-a-quote form. It's the one link everything else points to — no domain to buy, no web guy.
The "put it everywhere" checklist
In the Promote tab, a run-down of the exact profiles to add your link to — Google, Facebook, Instagram, Nextdoor, Yelp, and more. Copy your link, open the site, paste, check it off. It remembers what you've done.
Ready-to-post templates
Posts written for Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor, trade groups, and texts — with your link already in them. Tap copy, paste, done. No staring at a blank box wondering what to say.
A branded flyer and QR code
A print-ready flyer with your name and a QR code for the truck door, the counter, or a job-site sign. People point their phone at it and land on your page. Download just the QR if you'd rather make your own.
An email signature
A ready-made signature with your name, trade, and page link. Paste it into your email settings once and every message you send after quietly points people to your work.
Reviews that come to you
After a paid job, SideWRK can ask the customer for a review by email. Those reviews live on your page — the thing that makes a stranger trust you enough to call.
The free playbook, step by step
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Build and publish your page
Add your logo, a one-line bio, your phone, your area, and your three best before/after photos, then hit publish. Pages with photos and reviews get far more requests — so this part is worth ten real minutes.
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Add it to your Google Business Profile
This is the big one. Set your page as the website on your free Google Business Profile — it's what makes you show up when someone Googles a pro near them or looks at the map. Do this one first if you do nothing else.
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Put the link on your social profiles
Facebook Page, Instagram bio, Nextdoor business profile, Yelp. Anywhere you already have a profile, add your page as the website link so people who find you there can actually book you.
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Add it to your email signature
Copy the signature SideWRK builds and paste it into your email settings once. Now every quote, every reply, every message ends with a link to your work.
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Print the flyer and QR for the truck
Print the branded flyer and stick it on the truck, the counter, or a yard sign. A QR on the truck turns every red light into someone scanning to see what you do.
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Post it where you find work
Use the ready-to-post templates for Marketplace, Nextdoor, and trade groups, and re-post every week or so — those feeds bury old posts fast. Your link is already in every one.
Why "everywhere" beats "an ad"
An ad stops working the day you stop paying. A page that lives on your Google listing, your socials, your email, and a flyer keeps working for free, for years. And each of those places pointing at the same page is what tells Google you're a real local business worth showing — the kind of trust you can't buy, only build.
Start with the free stuff. Get on every profile, get a few honest reviews, keep your page current. That's what most solo pros need before they ever think about paying for a lead. When you're ready, see your own website and how to find more work.
Promoting your business — common questions
How do I get my trade business found online for free?
Get one page that holds your work, reviews, and a way to reach you, then put its link everywhere customers look: your Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram, Nextdoor, Yelp, and your email signature. Each spot is a new way to be found. SideWRK gives you the page and a checklist that walks you through every placement.
What is the most important place to list my business?
Your Google Business Profile. It's what shows up when someone Googles a pro near them or looks at the map, and it's free. Setting your page as the website on that profile is the single highest-value thing you can do.
Do I need to pay for ads or a marketing company?
No. The steps here are free and you can do them from your phone in an afternoon. Ads can come later, but a page that's on every profile, plus reviews from real customers, is what most solo pros need first.
How does SideWRK help me promote my business?
SideWRK builds the page, then hands you the tools to spread it: ready-to-post templates with your link built in, a branded flyer and QR code you can print, an email signature you copy in one tap, and a checklist of the exact profiles to add your link to. You do the pasting; the app does the making.