British gas local heroes

[thenorthernplumber]

Evening gents, has anyone signed up to the British gas local hero service, if you have could you give me any feed back was it worth you're time and how exactly does it work

 

[gingalig]

Bit of a late reply. I signed up when I first qualified.
Not sure where you are but I'm out in the sticks and get pretty regular requests from various Insurance companies looking for engineers for adhoc jobs and they are definatley better than those.

• Customer bo0ks through the local heroes system.
• Text sent and email to engineers/ plumbers in the area
• Acccept or leave and reject the job ( youre in competition as a response time ) it has an outline pricing guide attached although the final is agreed with you and the customer.
• Phone customer arrange booking / visit, quote verify with local heroes, comlete work and text app local heroes with invoice. customer recieves instantly. On you go, 14 days later you get paid minus 20% to local heroes.

The pricing system is somtimes a bit off the mark.
Sometimes customers are using you as a quote tool.
BG take the best obs, most of it is pretty routine stuff.
Most of my experience with it has been positive but a bit of a pain if you arrive and find the customer has booked elsewhwere.

Hope this helps

 

[Deleted member 96286]

These online trade sites are everywhere and unless anyone has a neverending supply of work from elsewhere, these sites have become a place of getting work for many. I've been with Rated People for many years and more recently My Builder. I tend to use these sites for top up day work jobs if I'm delayed on my main work. Some customers using these sites think they exist to get bargain basement prices for jobs to be done. At least Rated People have an updated price recommendation to show customers an average price that they might pay.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Yeh I do the same with Mybuilder, don't use it very often these days but does come in handy every now and again to fill in last minute cancellations/rescheduling.

It was also really useful when I started out self employed to drum up work and ended up with a lot of word of mouth work off people I'd done jobs with initially through mybuilder. Think it sped things up over traditional advertising.