Websites for trades working anywhere from Caloundra and Kawana to Maroochydore, Nambour, the hinterland and Noosa. Customers can see where you travel, check your licence and ask for a quote from their phone.
Sunshine Coast Council says the region gains about 8,000 new residents a year, and anyone who has just moved there has no plumber, electrician or builder they already know. They find one by searching and then reading. Your website is where that reading happens, so it needs to answer three things quickly: where you go, what you do and why they should believe you.
A job up the range in Montville is a different trip from one across Kawana. If you head into the hinterland, name the towns (Maleny, Montville, Mapleton, Kenilworth) and say whether a travel charge applies. If you don't, saying so saves you calls you'd only have to turn down.
Noosa has had its own council since 2014, and customers there may search "Noosa" rather than "Sunshine Coast". If you cover Noosaville, Tewantin or Cooroy, those names belong on the site alongside your Sunshine Coast suburbs.
A family who arrived last year has no word of mouth to go on. Your Google rating with a link to the reviews, three or four captioned photos of finished jobs and a line on how long you've worked locally give them something real to judge you by.
Your QBCC licence name and number, or your electrical contractor licence, sit in the footer of every page. People who've come from interstate may not know Queensland's licensing bodies, so we can add a link to the public licence search as well.
Much of the region's new housing is planned for Caloundra South (the Aura estate), Palmview and Beerwah East, and new homes need fencing, landscaping, driveways, screens and air-conditioning. If that's work you want, a section of its own lets those owners spot it straight away.
Name, phone, suburb and a line about the job, with room for a photo. Knowing the suburb up front tells you at a glance whether a request from Kenilworth or Peregian Springs fits around the rest of your week.
Queensland trades deal with two main licensing bodies. Builders, plumbers, drainers and many other trades hold a QBCC licence, while electrical contractors are licensed through the Electrical Safety Office. The QBCC treats websites, social media pages and online directories as advertising, so your site must carry your licence number, the licensee's name (a trading name by itself won't do) and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act, in text that's easy to read. Plumbing and drainage need a licence regardless of job size, and an unlicensed operator who advertises building work has to state the value limit they work under. WorkSafe Queensland asks electrical contractors to show their registered name and licence number on websites and social media as well.
The area most people call the Sunshine Coast is split between two councils. Sunshine Coast Council covers coastal centres such as Caloundra, Pelican Waters, Kawana, Mooloolaba, Maroochydore and Coolum, inland suburbs like Buderim and Sippy Downs, and the hinterland around Nambour, Maleny and the Blackall Range towns of Montville, Flaxton and Mapleton. Noosa Shire, re-established as a separate council on 1 January 2014, takes in Noosa Heads, Noosaville, Tewantin, Sunshine Beach, Cooroy and Pomona.
Growth isn't spread evenly. The council names Kawana, Caloundra South, Sippy Downs, Palmview and Beerwah East as its emerging communities and expects about 55% of new residents to live in them. Aura at Caloundra South is expected to reach about 50,000 residents, Palmview around 16,000 by 2036, and Beerwah East is forecast to provide 7,000 homes by 2041. If you're based in Nambour or Coolum and want work in those estates, the site should name them; if you'd rather stay close to home, it should say that instead.
We usually suggest setting out a service area the way the region is laid out: the southern end around Caloundra and Kawana, the middle around Mooloolaba, Maroochydore, Buderim and Sippy Downs, the northern beaches from Coolum up, the hinterland, and Noosa if you go there. On a one-page site that's a short list with suburbs under each heading. On a bigger site each group can have its own page with jobs you've done there, the same approach we took with Bright Building's area pages for Adelaide, the Hills and the Fleurieu.
We're an Adelaide web design team at Hutt St and work with Sunshine Coast trades by phone and email. Nobody needs to meet: you send details and photos, we send a draft link, and nothing is paid until you approve it.
M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas is a Sunshine Coast trade client: its site lists the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas as its service area. Bright Building & Renovations is in South Australia, but its site handles something many Sunshine Coast trades face: a city, a hills district and a coastal region in one service area, each with its own page.
Plumbing and gas fitting, hot water, bathroom renovations, drainage and backflow for Queensland homes and businesses, all on one page. The 13-photo gallery swipes on a phone, testimonials sit near the work, the contact form is protected from spam, and the QBCC licence number sits in the footer.
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A licensed Adelaide renovation builder. Its 30-page site groups the areas it covers into seven pages, including the Adelaide Hills and Victor Harbor & Fleurieu, and shows the builder's licence number in the header and footer. It also has a seven-step quote form, a project gallery and planning guides.
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$399
Everything on one page: services, licence details, job photos, your areas grouped under short headings, a quote form and tap-to-call.
Our pick if you cover coast and hinterland
$899
Home, services and an areas page that splits the coast, the hinterland and Noosa, each with a few local job photos.
$1,499
A page for each service, plus separate pages for the parts of the region you want more work in, such as Caloundra South or the hinterland.
Yes, and that's how we work with every client outside Adelaide. We're based at Hutt St in Adelaide and work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas on the Sunshine Coast. You send your services, licence details, areas and photos; we build a draft you can check on your phone; you ask for changes until it's right, then pay. If you don't go ahead, you owe nothing.
Both. Noosa has been a separate council since 1 January 2014, so name the Noosa suburbs you cover, such as Tewantin, Noosaville or Cooroy, next to your Sunshine Coast ones. Customers searching either name can then see you come to them.
If you hold a QBCC licence, yes. The QBCC treats a website as advertising whether you trade as a company or on your own, so your site must show the name the licence is held under, the licence number and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act. If you're unlicensed and advertise building work, you must state the value of work you're limited to. Plumbing and drainage need a QBCC licence whatever the job is worth, and electrical contractors hold a separate licence through the Electrical Safety Office, with their registered name and licence number shown on the site.
If hinterland jobs are a real part of your work, or work you want more of, a page for Maleny, Montville and nearby towns with photos from jobs up there shows those customers you make the trip. If you only go up the range now and then, a line in your areas list is enough. The 3-page site at $899 suits this well.
Email them to us. Phone photos taken in daylight work well, and we resize them so the page loads quickly on mobile data. After launch, send changes the same way: text and image changes on existing pages are part of the $30 monthly hosting, and new pages are quoted first.
Tell us your trade, where you're based and how far you'll travel. We'll send a quote, build the draft, and you only pay once you're happy with it.
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