| Go to where your users are. Reach out to the local service providers individually and tell them about your service. You will get users if they see value in what you're offering. It's not scalable, but you need users to better help you understand the product you need to be offering. Now, some feedback on the product. Imagining myself as a local service provider, I don't see how the service would help me land gigs or make my life any easier. As a service provider, I would still have to do all the self-promotion. I like that cash payments are accepted. If I were looking to provide services to the local community, I would get as engaged with the community as much as possible. There are all the free places to advertise online like Facebook, Craigslist, Nextdoor, etc. Locally, there are bulletin boards in community gathering places like churches, community centers, libraries that are intended for this sort of things. Some of these organizations even maintain lists of service providers as well. Another option would be printing flyers up and just going around your neighborhood leaving them in the door. I hired a handyman this way - one of my neighbors. He was between jobs and he was looking to fill up his schedule until he landed another full time gig. I talked to him for a bit and he said he had gotten a few jobs from his local door-to-door promotion work. |