Everyday news about the credit crunch and resultant recession seems to get gloomier. The pound is weak against most currencies, house prices are dropping and everyone is tightening their purse strings. Tradesmen and labourers are amongst those who have been hit the hardest. However, a number of resourceful tradesmen have been able to use online resources to beat the crunch.
Robert Swift the UK manager of MyHammer says:
“There are always people who need jobs doing around the home. The trick for tradesmen is finding those people. MyHammer provides the kind of marketing power that most independent companies do not have. We have thousands of jobs all over the country, centralised on our site for tradesmen to browse and quote on whenever they want.”
Tradesmen are now turning to websites such as MyHammer to find work
Tradesmen are now turning to websites such as MyHammer to find work. The website is an online marketplace for tradesmen and people looking for their services. It allows tradesmen to find a large pool of jobs and create a rating based profile. From June to December 2008, 7,153 jobs were awarded to MyHammer tradesmen and these jobs had a combined value of over £200,000.
MyHammer works by allowing consumers to post their jobs on the website. They appear on pages such as the one below, which is a listing of all carpentry, handymen and joinery jobs currently being offered:
http://www.myhammer.co.uk/db/Carpenters,-Joiners,-Handymen/-/uk/
There are different categories depending on what your specific job is so your listings are categorised to facilitate tradesmen finding them. Another example is the below which lists all plumbing and heating jobs:
http://www.myhammer.co.uk/db/Plumbers,-Heating/-/uk/
Source: https://www.myhammer.co.uk/press/news/?id=164&year=2009
