We've helped a lot of handymen make websites over the years and this is the story of Mark.
Mark never wanted a website.
He wasn’t the type.
He built houses with his hands, fixed things that were broken, worked with tools that made sense. A hammer did what a hammer was supposed to do. A wrench didn’t surprise you with an error message. A screwdriver didn’t charge you a monthly fee.
The internet? That was for guys who sat in air-conditioned offices, who spent their days in front of glowing screens instead of behind the wheel of a rusted work truck.
Mark had made it this far without a website, without Google, without any of that digital nonsense. His business had been built the way businesses had always been built—word of mouth, repeat customers, a handwritten sign on the side of his truck.
But one day, it wasn’t enough.
The Moment Everything Changed
It started small. A few customers asked, "Do you have a website?" He’d laugh and shake his head, tell them to call him directly.
Then, he started seeing less and less work come in.
This slow down was the nudge that make him start considering what his daughter had been telling him for year - "Dad you should probably get a website".
Mark new she was right.
So, against every bone in his body, Mark sat down at his kitchen table one night, cracked open an old laptop, and typed into Google:
"How to build a handyman website."
The DIY Website Nightmare
He started with the big names—the website builders he had seen advertised like WordPress, Wix and Squarespace.
They promised easy, fast, "just drag and drop" simplicity. But within minutes, Mark was lost. He didn’t want to drag and drop. He didn’t want to pick from hundreds of fonts or tweak color palettes.
He just wanted a website that worked.
One night, after an hour of trying to move a logo into place, he slammed the laptop shut. "This is way to complicated" he muttered to himself. "I should be out fixing someone’s sink, not fighting with a website builder."
That’s when he stumbled onto Siimple.
Why Handymen Like Mark Choose Siimple
Mark didn’t care about bells and whistles. He didn’t need animations, pop-ups, or marketing funnels or even multi-pages and he definetly had no planes to blog. He needed a website that he didn't have to fuss with that would help people find him!
Siimple worked because:
1. It Didn’t Make Him Feel Stupid
Other website builders made him feel like he was missing something, like there was a secret language he should have learned in school. Siimple just asked for what he already knew—his business name, a few pictures, the services he offered.
The website built itself.
And they didn't charge a single penny to try any of the features. It was completely free to build his entire website and nothing was behind a pay-wall so he didn't have to wonder if it would work for him.
2. It Made Him Look Legit (Without Trying to Be Fancy)
Mark didn’t want to look like a big company. He wanted to look like himself—a one-man operation, reliable, local, honest.
Siimple gave him a clean, professional handyman website template that said exactly what it needed to say: Here’s who I am. Here’s what I do. Here’s how to reach me.
And that was enough.
3. Real Support From a Real Person
Mark had one last hesitation. He’d heard horror stories about setting up domains—DNS records, CNAMEs, A records… whatever all that meant.
So, when it came time to connect his domain, he braced himself for the worst.
He expected a frustrating back-and-forth with a chatbot, endless help articles that didn’t quite answer his question, or—worst of all—being stuck waiting for an email reply that might never come.
Instead, something surprising happened.
All he had to do was purchase his domain name directly through Siimple, and it was autoconnected for him. No copying and pasting complicated DNS settings, no toggling between multiple dashboards, no guesswork.
A two-second fix.
But just to be sure, he clicked on the live chat—half-expecting some AI assistant to pop up and send him a link to a help article.
That’s when he realized it wasn’t a bot.
It was a real person.
Not just any person—one of the actual founders of Siimple.
Mark typed out his question, and within seconds, he had a response. A real answer, from a real human, solving his problem in real time.
That moment stuck with him.
In a world where every company seemed obsessed with automating support, pushing customers toward chatbots that went in circles, and making it impossible to talk to a human, Siimple was different.
They actually cared.
They actually helped.
And that, more than anything, told Mark he had made the right choice.
4. It Got Him More Jobs Without More Work
Once Mark’s site was up, something strange happened.
People started finding him. Not just old customers, but new ones—neighbors, business owners, real estate agents who never would have known he existed if not for that little website quietly sitting there, doing its job.
He started getting emails at night from people asking for quotes. Calls from folks who had seen his site and already knew they wanted to hire him.
It wasn’t magic. It wasn’t luck. It was just being visible in a world where people expect to find everything online.
5. Unbelievable Affordable
After making an absolutely beautiful website, he was ready to start paying to go live. He already couldn’t believe it only cost $10 a month. He had expected to pay way more—after all, those other website builders always had so many hidden fees. They’d rope you in with a cheap starting price, then suddenly charge extra for the features you actually needed and even worse he knew he was paying for premium features he had no use for.
But with Siimple, there were no tricks, no upsells, no confusing pricing tiers. Just a clean, professional website for one single price.
When Mark saw that paying for the whole year brought the cost down to just $8 a month, it was a no-brainer.
He thought about it for a second:
- $8 a month for a website that made him look professional.
- $8 a month for a website that got him jobs while he was out on the field.
- $8 a month for something that could replace hours of missed calls and back-and-forth scheduling.
That was less than what he spent on gas in a single day driving between jobs.
So he clicked "Pay for the Year" and never looked back.
It was the easiest investment he had ever made in his business.
The Moment He Knew It Was Worth It
A few weeks after launching his site, Mark got a job from an elderly woman who needed her front porch repaired. When he arrived, she smiled and said, "I found you on Google. I liked that you were local, and I could tell you knew what you were doing just from your website."
That was the moment it clicked.
It wasn’t about having a website. It was about making it easy for the right people to find him. The ones who valued his work, who trusted his experience, who didn’t want to gamble on the cheapest guy they could find on Craigslist.
A few months ago, he didn’t think he needed a website.
Now, he couldn’t imagine his business without one.
If You’re a Handyman Who Thinks a Website Won’t Help…
I get it. Mark was you. He thought the same thing.
But here’s the truth: people are searching for you. They just don’t know where to find you yet.
Your website isn’t for you. It’s for the people who need you.
Make it easy for them.
Here's is a Handyman Website Template to make it easy for you
