Share Your TradeKind Profile and Get Seen Locally

A live TradeKind profile gives you one useful link that explains your business in more detail than a short social bio or a screenshot.

Sharing that link creates more opportunities for real people to discover, remember and pass on your business. It can also lead to genuine visits, referrals, mentions and links when the profile is useful enough for people to share or reference.

Last reviewed: September 2026.

Copy your profile link

When your TradeKind profile is approved and live, use the Copy profile link control in your dashboard or the Growth Guide tools while you are signed in.

Save it in your phone notes or business templates so you do not have to find it every time.

If the profile is still pending, draft or suspended, TradeKind should not present a fake public link. Finish or edit the profile first.

Add it to your website

If you have a business website, add the TradeKind profile where it is genuinely useful.

Sensible places include:

• an About page;
• a reviews or reputation page;
• a contact page;
• a “find us elsewhere” area.

Do not force it into every footer paragraph or repeat it dozens of times for SEO.

A link from your website is a real clickable link, but the reason to add it should be that it helps visitors see useful information about the same business.

Facebook and local groups

A Facebook Page can be another place to keep your real business identity and contact information consistent.

You can share a TradeKind profile in a relevant local group only when the group rules allow business promotion or recommendations. Read the rules first.

Good sharing has context:

“We have updated our TradeKind profile with recent decorating work and the areas we cover around Lancing and Worthing. Here is the profile if it is useful.”

Bad sharing is dropping the same link into unrelated groups every day.

Friends and family can genuinely share your business. They must not pretend to be customers or leave reviews for work they did not buy.

Instagram

If Instagram is useful for your trade, use a current profile-link feature or mention the TradeKind profile naturally when somebody needs more business information.

The strongest Instagram content for most trades is usually real work, not graphics saying “book now” every day.

Keep your business name and service-area description consistent with the rest of your web presence.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is useful because many trade enquiries and referrals already happen in direct conversations.

You can send your TradeKind profile when:

• a past customer asks how to recommend you;
• somebody asks what work you do;
• you are following up a genuine enquiry;
• you want a clean link for WhatsApp Status.

Do not mass-message strangers.

If you use WhatsApp Business, keep the business information accurate and current.

Email signatures and follow-up messages

A simple email signature can include:

• business name;
• phone or normal contact route;
• website if you have one;
• TradeKind profile link.

You can also include the profile in a quote follow-up when it helps the customer see your work and reputation.

Do not turn every email into a long advert.

QR codes and printed materials

A QR code can turn a printed item into a direct link.

Possible uses include:

• quote folders;
• business cards;
• small leave-behind cards;
• van or site-board material;
• a review/request card after work.

Test the QR code on more than one phone before printing a large batch.

Free option: Many phones and browsers can create QR codes without paid software. You do not need a monthly QR-code service for a simple permanent profile URL.

Vans, signage and local community sharing

A profile URL or QR code can make sense on signage when people have a safe opportunity to read or scan it. Do not design roadside material that encourages drivers to use a phone while driving.

Local clubs, charities, suppliers or organisations may also mention a business when there is a genuine relationship. That is different from creating fake “partner” pages just to manufacture links.

What sharing can lead to

Each genuine share gives your business another opportunity to be discovered, remembered or passed on. Over time, useful sharing can create opportunities for:

• more real visitors to your profile;
• easier referrals from past customers and local contacts;
• genuine mentions and links from websites or organisations where your business is relevant;
• stronger visibility around your business across search, social and AI-assisted discovery;
• more enquiries from people who already understand what you do and where you work.

These benefits come from putting a useful, credible business page in more of the right places, not from posting the same link everywhere.

Worth knowing: Social discovery, referrals, mentions, links and search visibility can reinforce one another over time. Focus on useful sharing with real customers, contacts and local audiences.

Do this now: Copy your live TradeKind profile link using the sharing card on this guide, save it in your phone notes or business templates, then choose one genuine place to use or share it today.

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