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Title: How did you get commercial work?
Post by: Small but perfectley formed on January 31, 2008, 03:34:21 pm

Just a quick survey to see which marketing methods work
1)Directory eg yellow pages
2)Leafletts/flyer
3)Local press
4)Website
5)Word of mouth

Title: Re: How did you get commercial work?
Post by: Majestic on January 31, 2008, 03:37:22 pm

My commercial work has come from

Yellow Pages
Business Pages
Web Site
Safe Contractor.

But commercial work is not all its cracked up to be .
You can sometimes be waiting for payments, at least with domestic most of the time you get paid there and then

Title: Re: How did you get commercial work?
Post by: Small but perfectley formed on January 31, 2008, 03:44:22 pm

Hi john how did you get work through safecontractor .Read your story in windowtalk i think ,we have been with safecontractor 3 years only 1 enquery,we were also in window talk top accreditation for R&A GREEN

Title: Re: How did you get commercial work?
Post by: Majestic on January 31, 2008, 03:53:32 pm

One of the jobs I do is a shopping centre and they are Safe Contractor, so they wanted someone who is also Safe Contractor.
You could have a look on the SC web site and e mail / send letters to  some of the  companys who are listed telling them that you are also SC and the services that you provide.Also ask if there window cleaning contract is ready for renewal , and could you give them a quote

Title: Re: How did you get commercial work?
Post by: Paul Coleman on January 31, 2008, 06:01:12 pm

Yellow Pages and subcontracting and word of mouth (you haven't got subcontracting on your list).  Maybe the subcontracting is partly word of mouth as some of it was just about being in the right place at the right time.  Still had to present it properly though.