People are ready to buy solar. They can't tell if you're real.
Load-shedding did your selling for you. The person searching tonight has already decided they want a system — what they haven't decided is who to trust with it. If all they can find is a phone number, they keep looking.
What happens when someone finds you
This is the part you never see, because it happens on their phone and they never make contact.
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They search, and you come up
Maybe a Google listing, maybe a name a neighbour gave them. So far so good — this part is already working.
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They look for proof
They want to see a system you've actually installed, roughly what it costs, and whether you work in their area. A phone number answers none of that.
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They don't phone a stranger
Calling means committing to a conversation with someone who might be a chancer. It's easier to close the tab and look at the next installer, who has photos and a form.
One page, doing the whole job
Not a brochure with an "About Us". Everything a buyer needs in order to contact you with confidence, on one screen they can scroll on their phone.
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What you actually fit
Grid-tied, hybrid, off-grid, inverters, batteries, backup only. Stated plainly, so nobody phones you about work you don't do.
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Photographs of finished jobs
The single most persuasive thing you own. Send me what's on your phone — I'll crop, compress and lay them out.
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Your service area
Named towns and suburbs, which is also what people type into Google. Someone two provinces away stops wasting your time.
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A quote form that emails you
Roof type, current bill, backup or full solar. The enquiry arrives in your inbox already half-qualified, at eleven at night if that's when they were looking.
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Phone and WhatsApp, one tap
The number stays. It just stops being the only option, and it becomes tappable instead of something to write down.
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Fast on a bad connection
It loads in about a second on phone data. A site that takes eight seconds has already lost the person it was built for.
What one looks like
A page I built to show a real solar business what this looks like, with their own photos in it. Name and number are blanked here because nothing's been agreed yet — it isn't live.
R2,000, and about a week
R2,000 for the page. That includes the design, the writing, your photographs laid out properly, the quote form, and getting it live. Changes while we're building it are part of the price — I don't charge for revisions on something I haven't finished.
More pages are R850 each. They reuse the design and the build, so they cost less than the first one. The usual reason to add them is search: a page for each town you cover gives Google something to match when somebody types "solar installer" and their suburb, instead of you competing for one generic phrase against the whole province.
The domain is separate. A name like yourbusiness.co.za costs somewhere around R100 to R200 a year from the registrar. You buy it and it stays yours; I point it at the site for you. If you'd rather not, you keep the free address the site comes with.
R500 a month if you want me to keep running it. Hosting, updates, new photos, changes to your prices, and someone who answers when something breaks. It's optional and there's no contract — plenty of people take the page and never need me again.
No charge, nothing agreed until you say so. Prefer the form instead?
Tell me what you install
You don't need anything prepared. If you have photographs of finished jobs on your phone, that's genuinely all I need to start.