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NEW SOCIAL NETWORK ENGINEERED FORSUCCESSFour Lancashire entrepreneurs team up to launch a new socialnetwork for the construction and engineering industry.
Tradefit is a new social network for skilled trades and engineers, and is the brainchild of Sean
Wilson, Managing Director of Premier Building Service Engineers in Blackpool. It is initially
designed to help tackle the problem many companies in the construction and engineering
industries face of struggling to find suitable candidates when they need to fill long or short term
vacancies. In order to develop his idea Wilson teamed up with Nathaniel Cassidy, James Duffell,
and Tom Stables of Preston based marketing firm 3ManFactory, and Tradefit was born. Over
£60,000 has already been invested and the team are currently hoping to raise a further £10,000
through online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to fund development of an iPhone app ahead
of the launch 8th September this year.
Sean Wilson, founder of Tradefit said;
“The idea came about after years spent working in the construction industry, struggling to
locate the right tradesman for the job. Unless you went through recruitment companies, it was
extremely difficult to find suitable tradesmen for a job as they don’t tend to have websites or
much online presence. I’ve tried using LinkedIn, but a lot of the skilled plumbers, electricians,
and so on that I’d be looking to find wouldn’t use a network like that as they see it as being for
the suits. So I decided to set up my own social network to make the whole process of companies
finding good engineers and trades people finding work a lot easier.”
The website, which has been in development for the last six months, is more than just jobs, and
features forums, news, and competitions. It’ll be the first platform of its kind specifically aimed
at the trades. Tubes, (Peter Dale), from popular Sky Sports show Soccer AM, has come on board
as the ‘face’ of the brand, and will feature in the brand’s marketing campaigns and be helping to
push the brand out online.
The platform has already been welcomed by many skilled tradesmen and engineers, many of
whom have expressed their excitement for the launch in September. A lot of money and time
has been invested into this project and it is set to be yet another successful business venture to
come from the area, and one which will help put the region on the map in both the construction
and digital fields.
Nathaniel Cassidy, Managind Director of 3ManFactory said;
“With the construction industry currently providing around 2.9 million jobs in the UK and
contributing nearly £90billion to the UK economy, the potential impact of this new platform is
massive. We’ve known Sean for a long time and when he explained the idea for Tradefit we
loved it and had to be involved.”
ENDS
For further information, please contact
Nathaniel Cassidy
(01772) 915 005
NOTES TO EDITOR
Sean Wilson is available for comment.
Press pack containing additional images and video can be found at
http://tradefit.pr.co/presskit
Tradefit website: http://www.tradefituk.com
Tradefit Kickstarter, containing lots of information about the project, the rewards and the
overall goals of the project
Government statistics on construction industry’s contribution to UK economy
Article about building projects being under threat in the UK due to shortage of construction
workers- stating it is essential that companies from across the UK come together to engage
with people and provide solutions to this problem
Article about recruitment problems within the construction industry
ABOUT TRADEFIT
Tradefit is a social network for skilled trades and engineers. Jobs, forums, news, competitions, and banter. We'vegot it all.
