MaintainYourHome.ca uses the power and flexibility of the Internet to make it easy for entrepreneurs, services, tradespeople and professionals who provide home related services to set up a webpage and to advertise their services on-line. Individual webpages are set up using a form that is easy to complete. It enables you to provide quite a lot of information easily. To see what you can include, click on this Demonstration Page.
Each service or trade has its own webpage (with all the information of most websites) through which they can provide useful, attractive and important information about what they do.
We have designed this site so that independent service providers and tradespeople as well as small companies are better able to advertise their services, at a very low cost. The webpages are organized to make it easy to search for specific services in each geographic area. For homeowners, this information reduces the time spent searching for help through word of mouth, contacting people who don’t do the types of work that a homeowner needs, or who don’t work in their community. For service providers it targets their advertising.
This is important because it helps close the gap between small businesses and large businesses on the web. For more information about the small business gap on the web, read pages 10 & 11 of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Sept 2005 Panorama Magazine Click here for the pdf version.
The website is:
- easy to use
- designed to increase the exposure of your business
- inexpensive - the cost is $150 per year (plus GST) including a banner listing
- designed for you: we welcome your ideas on how to make this site even better
Easy to use
This site is designed to be easy for you to use – from joining initially through to changing your profile and renewing. Email or call us and we will set up or change your webpage for quickly. Email us at info@maintainyourhome.ca or call 905-572-6779
Impact on your business
This site will help homeowners find you by enabling them to search for the types of skills and services that they need. They will be better able to find you even if you are in a neighbouring community not included in their phone book.
Homeowners are having difficulty finding tradespeople, skilled professionals and companies for home renovations, building, repair and maintenance work. Telephone books provide some basic information but it is often difficult to search for specific skills and services, and it is tricky to find the right skills, or people in a neighbouring community. Web searches can find companies with websites, but many tradespeople and small businesses don’t have websites.
Higher-income consumers and younger consumers – people under 55 – often use the Internet to look for services instead of using telephone books and word of mouth. When they find services by word of mouth they still want to check them out on the Internet to learn more about these services. And the move to the Internet is growing fast! If you want these people to find your company it is important to be here!
We Promote this Website
We will advertise this web site on internet search engines and sites that will support your business, as well as in print (eg., local newsletters, etc.), and by a variety of other avenues in communities.
We will work to attract other companies that provide similar products and services to your services so that this website is the “go to” place on the internet – the home-maintenance website favourite.
Our goal is to help more homeowners find you so that you can get more business that matches your strengths.
We Are Inexpensive
There is no cost for a listing. Other websites charge 5 to 10 times that amount per year, or provide you with your own website at a much higher cost – but with no marketing. Telephone directories can cost 12 to 100 times as much. Our approach is powerful, simple and right for the times.
This website has a database which allows us to offer an inexpensive listing. Our database enables you to simply and easily change the information on your page. You'd like your description changed? No problem. Our design features enable you to edit your own record in our database and it goes online almost immediately.
New subscribers will be able to join the website at any time during the year and will also be able to make changes easily. If your mailing address or telephone number change, you don’t have to wait until the end of the year to make the change. You can make it right away.
How will this technology affect you? These techniques will allow us to keep our costs low.
We will also be adding features to the website based on suggestions from subscribers and by people looking for companies for home maintenance work. This is only the beginning!
You Have a Web Site or Domain Name Already?
Great! By subscribing to Maintain Your Home.ca, customers will find you quickly and easily. Your web address on your page will link to your website enabling people to get all of your information.
If you already have a registered Domain Name you can have your host "point it" directly to your webpage on this site. (If you want your own domain name we can help you to register it ).
Referral Rewards
Added bonus - We promote the website so you will increase your exposure. We also have a Referral Rewards Program that can reduce your annual cost to nothing.
We want your comments
We want your comments on how to improve this service to you. Please send us your thoughts at any time about better ways we can serve you. Just click on the comment button above.
We will also survey subscribers from time to time to find out how we are doing.
We would be interested in learning from you which communities we should be expanding to next. Kingston, Ottawa, Richmond Hill, Toronto, and Vaughan are in our plans for southern Ontario. We are also planning to expand to Vancouver, British Columbia and the major cities across Canada: Calgray, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Montreal are in the next phase of our plan.
Problems?
Running in to problems?
Email us at info@maintainyourhome.ca or call 905-572-6779 to let us know what has happened so we can help you - and also fix the problem for the future.
Thanks
One Final Word - Subscriber Agreement
In order to list with Maintain Your Home.ca Inc subscribers must agree to the terms and conditions of this site. To read the agreement, click here: Subscriber Agreement
