Recently Google has started showing a review count and star rating next to Service Central business listings in its search results. What does this mean for you? Well, more customers for a start! Read more...
Leave a comment · 08/12/2011
A collection of the best mobile sites from around the world. These are sites that have been designed and built specifically for smartphones. Read more...
Leave a comment · 07/02/2011
Customers round the world use different methods to find service businesses like plumbers, builders, carpenters, home cleaners etc. Traditionally, people have found businesses and called them directly based on a newspaper advert in the classified section, or a Yellow Pages ad. How is Service Central's directory different? Read more...
Leave a comment · 18/11/2010 ·
Kirsten tells us about the trials and tribulations of materials delaying projects and how companies should NOT manage problems. Read more...
1 comment · 01/09/2010
Businesses have for years clamoured for Word of Mouth to help grow their businesses, today's modern businesses are pursuing Word of Mouse instead. How can social media help your trades business? Read more...
Leave a comment · 11/08/2010
Your choice of oven can make or break your budding career as a Masterchef. Knowing the ins and outs of each type of oven helps you to compensate for the quirks when using someone else's oven, but also helps you pick the best type for you! Read more...
Leave a comment · 26/07/2010
Danial and Bruce Ahchow created Service Central to revolutionise the growing frustration that consumers had for tradespeople. This frustration (sometimes bordering on absolute disgust) not only triggered a massive move towards DIY, but also created the momentum for Service Central to step in, provide a better alternative, and improve both the customer's experience and the trades business's efficiency. But 5 years on - are the complaints the same? Has the 'typical tradie' changed? Read more...
1 comment · 20/07/2010
Service Central has put together 5 key questions and a bit of advice on hiring a prospective builder. Read more...
Leave a comment · 23/06/2010
Dmitry Fadeyev, one of the most practical usability experts I've read opinions from, wrote this blog post about obsession with tools. He says that the obsession with tools is often linked to procrastination - so if you're always investigating new ways of doing things, are you actually doing anything at all? Interestingly, Service Central is all about technology and we're all a little obsessed with finding new tools and being more efficient. I wonder whether our registered businesses, who use tools in the 'normal' sense of the word, are just as obsessed? And where do you find out about these new tools? Read more...
Leave a comment · 11/06/2010
Service Central has just launched a brand new feedback system. Learn more about this major overhaul and the benefits that it is designed to bring. Read more...
1 comment · 19/04/2010