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For owners, by owners

Your business. Your name on the truck. Our alliance behind you.

Blue Trade Alliance sends booked local jobs to independent owners — no franchise buy-in, no leads sold to five competitors, no giving up your name. You built the business. We bring the backing.

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Why join

What you get — and what you keep

No fine print here. This is the deal, in plain English.

Your brand stays yours

Your company is the name customers hire — BTA is the trust mark behind it, not the boss above it. Your customers, your relationships, your business.

Booked jobs, not cold leads

Customers book real work through the alliance and we route it to you. Not a phone number sold to everyone with a truck — a job, in your area, with your name on it.

One fee, agreed before your first job

Your alliance fee is set up front, per member, in writing — before you take a single job. No monthly fee, no lead fees, no rate that moves when you're not looking.

A professional website with your name on it

Built from our template for your trade, carrying your brand, your services, and your reviews. We build it and host it — no web guy, no monthly hosting bill.

Reviews that follow your work

Every rating comes from a real completed job under your name — no paid placements, no padding. Your reputation builds where customers can actually see it.

$500 for every owner you bring in

Know someone who does great work? Refer them. When they join and complete their first job, you earn a $500 bounty. Good owners know good owners — we pay for that.

How it works

From application to your first alliance job

  1. Apply

    Tell us about your business, your trade, and where you work. Takes a few minutes; no documents needed yet.

  2. Talk to a human

    A real person reads your application and calls you. We talk shop, answer everything, and put your fee in writing before you commit.

  3. Get verified

    We verify your certificate of insurance, and for licensed trades we verify the license at the state source. It's what makes the badge worth carrying.

  4. Go live

    Your site launches, booked jobs start routing your way, and you run your business the way you always have.

The fee, with the lights on.

Your alliance fee is agreed up front, per member, in writing — you'll know your exact number before you sign anything, and it doesn't change without your signature. There's no monthly fee and no lead fees; the alliance only earns when you do. The one thing we charge up front is a one-time startup fee that covers building your site and getting you onboarded — we'll quote the exact figure, and any current promo, before you commit. And when online payments go live, the split happens automatically at the source — you never invoice us, and we never invoice you.

  1. Your customer pays for the job.

  2. You keep the lion's share.

  3. The alliance takes its agreed cut — the number you signed, nothing more.

Three membership levels

  • Essentials

    The leanest rate structure — a flat alliance fee on the jobs we send you, with the marketplace's service fee alongside it on marketplace-won work.

  • Plus

    The standard membership — the same structure, with your rate agreed for your business and locked in writing.

  • Premier

    One flat all-in rate on every job, direct or marketplace — no separate marketplace service fee, ever. The simplest math in the alliance.

Which level fits — and your exact rate — is agreed in your membership consultation, in writing, before your first job. Same promise at every level: no monthly fee, no lead fees, no rate that moves without your signature.

See a member site

Don't take our word for it — click around a member's site.

These are live sites, built from our per-trade templates and running today. Every one carries the member's brand out front, with the alliance badge behind it.

Hammer Time Handyman Co. — a handyman member's site: insured & vetted pros, real reviews, booking that takes about a minute.(opens in a new tab)Suncoast Plumbing Co. — a licensed-trade member's site: licensed & insured plumbing, same clean booking flow, same honest pricing.(opens in a new tab)

This is what your site looks like — your name, your brand, your reviews. We build it and host it; you run the business.

Get paid to build the alliance.

Every member gets a referral code. Share it with an owner who does great work — when they join with your code and complete their first job, you earn $500. We pay on the first completed job, not the signup, so the bounty rewards real work — the same standard we hold everyone to.

Owners, in their own words

Our founding members are on the job right now — their stories land here as they rack up work. No canned quotes; we'd rather show you the real thing.

Not ready to apply?

Thinking about going out on your own?

Not sure where to start, or still deciding whether to start a company at all? We put together a free, straight-talk guide for each trade — what your state actually requires, step by step. Pick your trade, then your state, and the guide is yours.

Housekeeping

The straight-talk path to your own housekeeping company — eligibility, paperwork, and your first booked job.

See the steps + free guide

Finish Carpentry

The straight-talk path to your own finish carpentry company — eligibility, paperwork, and your first booked job.

See the steps + free guide

Pool Service

The straight-talk path to your own pool service company — eligibility, paperwork, and your first booked job.

See the steps + free guide

Something else?

We started with nine trades, but the model works for plenty more. Tell us what your business does and a real person will review it honestly.

See if your business qualifies

You built the business. Bring it into the alliance.

Apply in a few minutes. A real person reads it and calls you back — no spam, no sales script.

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