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Why is your displayed list of Handymen in alphabetical order?
We have not identified a more uniform order (see next question) and we provide selection details about each Handyman / Handy Person for the user to compare handymen before calling.
We also choose this order, because this is the same listing format you see in a phone book.
Why not just have the user determine to show Handymen within X miles?
If we had a drop down list for the searcher to specify showing all Handymen within X miles of them, some of the handyman contractor listings may be within X miles, but their service call area is not that big. We want to minimize searchers calling you if you can not service them.
There is also the possibility that a handyman contractor could have technicians working out of a number of cities, so they are actually closer than their primary address indicates. We would not want you screened out due to distance when the customer does not know all the underlying details.
Can you display handymen in increasing order of distance from searcher?
To some extent we already do this if there is no handyman found making service calls to the specified area. We then will find the closest, then display handymen found within the next 40 miles of the closest distance.
There is the possibility that a Handyman service could have helpers working out of a number of cities, so they are actually closer than their primary address indicates. We would not want you screened out due to distance when the customer does not know all the underlying details.
If the handyman serves a large area, we do not want them being screened out because of distance. We would prefer they get selected based on the other criteria and characteristics about their business that they display.
This is under consideration for a future release. Currently a distance between each and every contractor is calculated based on each user's zip code (location) entry. The information between every U.S. zip code and every handyman company is not stored.
Other things to think about:
Example: The closest handyman a customer might find is 30 miles south, but your service area is only 10 miles north and 40 miles south (near that big city). You do not want customers calling you from 30 miles north of you when you would prefer to go south where all your other calls come from.
If we provided a search for a Handyman by distance (via zip code), this will tell your potential customers the closest physical location of where the handyman business (you) operates out of, but it will not necessarily tell them if the contractor (you) will come the distance and/or direction to the customer that is inquiring.
Also if your potential customer searches by zip code distance, they will see many more choices to call versus if we just have them find you by the zip code area each handyman serves. This way they are only looking at handymen who serve a specified zip code area versus all handymen closest to furthest...less choices for them to choose from, more potential business for you!
If we displayed handy person services businesses based on their closeness to a service location, the other handyman company info which we display (to help users decide who to call) might be ignored.
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