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“Google it” and you’ll be amazed at how many service providers　are listed online, on Google Maps, Yellow Pages, or Yelp, just to name a few sites of business listings and customer reviews.

What is the next step? Let’s say you require a plumber to fix your bathroom faucet this Saturday. Your budget is only $50 but you want someone qualified and highly recommended by others. You pick the first 5 listed on Google and start calling them. After an hour on the phone you realize that they ask too much or they don’t have availability for that Saturday! And so you keep on calling the next 5 plumbers…

What if there was a better way?

Well, I started PinBud because so many times I was that frustrated caller on the phone! I thought why can’t I ask my questions once and then wait for those 10 plumbers to respond back to me? I want to make the selection myself based on what I read, I don’t want to pay any “finder’s fee”, and I simply want to save some time when reaching out to them.

This is what PinBud.com offers now and it turns out it will be a real winner. Because everyone is winning! I win because I save time and I get the best contractor for my job. Companies listed on PinBud are winning because they get a free profile and free, unrestricted emails from potential customers with clear job and quote requests. Yes, that’s right: free and unrestricted requests! There’s no transaction fees, no job commissions, no intermediaries in the negotiation process! Let me know if you get a better deal on Yellow Pages, Yelp, Service Magic, or Angie’s List! I am very curious to hear about it!

How does PinBud make money? Of course we’re into this website to make a couple of bucks! We’re offering a great service for everyone and the response will be overwhelming: so many companies are already getting a listing on PinBud! At some point the list will become very crowded and some smart business people will want to spend a couple hundred of dollars to get a top listing and make sure they are selected by our users on their quote requests. Hey, can someone please tell me how much did you spend on your online advertising last year and what clear results did you get from that marketing effort?

PinBud’s strength is in the quality and number of our members, NOT in how much we rip off a new small business for getting a link on our website. $149 is really low for the value you get but we’re counting on many subscribers on PinBud, not just a few paying a lot.

Now here’s the real great news of the day: PinBud is still new and we don’t have millions of listings just yet! So, you don’t really have to pay for that top listing just yet! Get yourself listed and get a head start on PinBud. Don’t miss the next customer looking for your services in your city!

I can tell you one last thing: in this “Great Recession”, people that don’t take up free offers like this really deserve to go under!

Happy sales!

Chris