Cape Cod Contractors is a group of building craftsmen who have been contracting jobs big and small on the Cape and Islands for the past 35 years. We built this website as a new way for customers to find reliable, trustworthy, and skilled contractors.

The web is a great resource for finding contractors. We ourselves have used many web-based job brokers, including "free" referrals like Service Magic (where the contractor pays a fee for each job lead) and membership-based consumer reviews like Angie's List.

There are several other models, of course. Traditional newspapers have extended their classified ads to the web. Cape Cod Times offers paid listings for builders. CapeContractors.com offers free listings of over 200 contractors, but they offer no job leads. Some groups of builders charge members for listings, such as the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Cape Cod the Cape Cod Chapter of the National Association of the Remodelers Industry.

All these services are fine, but many require contractors to pay up front before getting any specific leads for work. They must pay whether or not they make any money on the job. And they sometimes must pay for dozens of leads before one leads to a successful contract. We thought there must be a better way.

Cape Cod Contractors has developed a simple new business model for job referrals.

1. Our contractors pay us nothing for a job lead unless they enter into a contract with a client.
2. Our contractors can set up a free blog (or web journal) for each client contract, so both the client and the contractor can monitor and document the job progress on the web.

We believe that today's web can do better than just provide contractor listings and costly job leads. Some contractors have started their own Facebook pages. Some have put videos of their work on YouTube. Some have built their own websites. All of these can be very costly, unless they have a relative who does web development. So we have again designed what we hope is a better model.

1. Each job can have a blog, a record from estimate to completion and customer comments.
2. Our contractors can have videos of their work, on our site, their site, and YouTube.

A blog/journal is private, for the primary use of the contractor and the client. Contractors can give access permissions as a marketing tool for prospective clients. Job progress journals are being used by leading contractors nationwide.

We will be adding contractor partners to this new site from the many that we have worked with personally over the last several years, but we welcome other contractors on the Cape to join us.