# Trades.Help > Trades.Help is a digital marketing and business consulting service for trades and home-service businesses in Canada. We are not a contractor and do not install, repair or service anything. Tradespeople across Canada who have just gone out on their own, or are about to, and need their first steady customers Trades.Help is part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, a Canadian business headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. Coverage: Canada. Contact: call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. There are no forms: call, text or email only. ## Key pages - [Home](https://trades.help/): Trades.Help is a help centre for Canadian tradespeople in their first year or two on their own. It explains, step by step, how to find first customers, set up a Google Business Profile and do simple marketing yourself. - [Services](https://trades.help/services/): Pick the help that matches where you are stuck. Most first-year owners need only one of these four, and some need none at all once they have read the free guides. - [Areas](https://trades.help/areas/): Trades.Help works with new tradespeople across Canada. Marketing basics are the same everywhere, but registries, certification bodies, safety authorities and seasons differ, so each region page points you to the official organisations and explains what changes locally. - [About](https://trades.help/about/): Trades.Help is a free help centre and a small advisory service for Canadian tradespeople in their first years on their own. Ali Sedighi, MBA, leads it from our Vancouver, British Columbia headquarters, as one of the brands in the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group. - [Results](https://trades.help/results/): These are real results from our HVAC work, not from other trades. They are here because the basics behind them, such as a solid Google profile, steady reviews and clear service pages, are the same basics every new trades owner needs. - [Pricing](https://trades.help/pricing/): The guides on this site are free, and so is the first 30-minute consultation for eligible trades businesses. Paid help comes through Trades.Agency plans, from $1,999 per month, or $1,499 per month on annual billing, plus GST/HST based on your province. - [FAQ](https://trades.help/faq/): Short, direct answers to the questions first-year trades owners ask us most, from what help costs to who owns your Google profile. If your question is not here, call, text or email and ask. - [Contact](https://trades.help/contact/): Call, text or email. We are available Mon–Fri 9–6 Pacific, and we usually reply within one business day. A few details in your first message make the conversation much more useful. ## Services - [DIY coaching](https://trades.help/services/diy-coaching/): DIY coaching is for trades owners who want to do their own marketing but want an experienced strategist to check it. You do the work; we review it, explain what is missing and give you the next three tasks. - [First customers](https://trades.help/services/first-customers/): The first-customer plan turns the people and streets closest to you into your first 20 paying jobs. It is a short, written to-do list built around your trade, your area and your average job value. - [Business Profile](https://trades.help/services/google-business-profile/): We help new trades owners create or repair their Google Business Profile so it is complete, verified and set up correctly as a service-area business. You own the profile; we just help you get it right. - [Starter website](https://trades.help/services/starter-website/): A starter website is a small site that proves you are a real local business and makes it easy to call or text you. For year one, five or six well-written pages beat a large site you cannot keep up to date. ## Coverage - [Alberta](https://trades.help/areas/alberta/): A new Alberta trades owner works in a province with two large, competitive cities, a long heating season and a consumer rule on prepaid contracting that matters if you take deposits away from your place of business. Check the rules with the provincial bodies, then market by drive time. - [British Columbia](https://trades.help/areas/british-columbia/): In BC, a new trades owner faces crowded competition on the southwest coast and a longer, colder heating season in the Interior and North. Register your name, check certification and safety rules with the provincial bodies, then build your Google profile around the towns you really serve. - [Manitoba](https://trades.help/areas/manitoba/): Manitoba has one of the longest heating seasons in southern Canada and most of its population in and around Winnipeg. A new trades owner should check certification and licensing with the provincial bodies, then build a profile and reviews that stand out in the Winnipeg market. - [New Brunswick](https://trades.help/areas/new-brunswick/): New Brunswick is a smaller, bilingual market where reputation spreads quickly. Heat pumps are common, winters are cold and snowy, and several trades are compulsory-certification occupations, so check with the provincial bodies before you advertise. - [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://trades.help/areas/newfoundland-and-labrador/): Newfoundland and Labrador has a long heating season on the island and much colder winters in Labrador. Most homes heat with electricity, permits and inspections apply to electrical and pressure work, and the St. John's area is the main market. - [Nova Scotia](https://trades.help/areas/nova-scotia/): Nova Scotia is a compact market centred on Halifax, with a damp, changeable maritime climate and a heating mix that includes oil, electricity and heat pumps. Some trades are compulsory certified, so check with the provincial bodies before you advertise. - [Ontario](https://trades.help/areas/ontario/): Ontario is the largest and most competitive market in Canada for a new trades business. Separate authorities oversee fuels and electrical work, and some rules affect who may advertise certain services, so check with the provincial bodies before you promote anything. - [Prince Edward Island](https://trades.help/areas/prince-edward-island/): PEI is Canada's smallest province and one of its most word-of-mouth markets. Heat pumps are the main heating system in many homes, several trades need specific provincial licences, and your reputation will travel faster than any advertising. - [Quebec](https://trades.help/areas/quebec/): Quebec has its own construction licensing through the RBQ, competency certification through the CCQ, and French-language requirements for commercial advertising and websites aimed at Quebec customers. Check each with the official bodies before you market. - [Saskatchewan](https://trades.help/areas/saskatchewan/): In Saskatchewan, a new trades owner deals with one technical safety authority for gas, electrical and plumbing, a provincial apprenticeship commission, and long, very cold winters. Markets outside Saskatoon and Regina are small, so reputation and reviews spread quickly. - [Territories](https://trades.help/areas/territories/): In Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, a new trades business depends on reliability, relationships and being reachable. Each territory has its own registry, certification unit and permit office, and Nunavut has specific rules on Inuktut in commercial advertising. ## Guides and articles - [Guides](https://trades.help/guides/): Three long, practical guides cover the jobs almost every new trades owner faces: getting on Google, getting the first 20 customers, and keeping marketing going for a whole year with about two hours a week. - [First-year DIY plan](https://trades.help/guides/diy-marketing-first-year/): In your first year, do marketing in this order: be easy to reach, be findable on Google, collect reviews, build a small website, then plan around your seasons. About two hours a week is enough if you keep a call log and stick to one task at a time. - [First 20 customers](https://trades.help/guides/first-20-customers/): Your first 20 customers usually come from four places: people who already know you, neighbours of your first jobs, your Google Business Profile, and a small number of local connections such as suppliers and property managers. This guide shows how to work each one, with numbers you can plan around. - [Profile setup guide](https://trades.help/guides/google-business-profile-setup/): Set up your Google Business Profile in this order: a Google account you will keep, your exact registered name, one honest primary category, a hidden address with a service area, then verification and photos. This guide walks through each step for a trades business that travels to customers. ## Optional - [Full text](https://trades.help/llms-full.txt) - [Parent company](https://trades.agency)