Generating work

[A&S Electrical]

Hi guys, we are a team of two electricians in the Birmingham area, NICEIC Domestic installers. We are after advice, ideas/leads on how to generate work in the current difficult climate. We are putting leaflets out, trying to contact as many builders and other trades as possible are constructing a website and generally trying to make the world aware we are here and ready to work. Have we missed any thing or could you offer us any tips/advice?

Regards

 

[Zeespark]

Have you tried advertising in your local free magazine at all?

AndyGuinness

 

[m4tty]

Parish magazine is a gooden. Well for me it is bathroom and kitchen fitters ? Good luck mate

 

[Steve3948]

Well it don't happen overnight that's for sure, if you can get your own work and a bit of sub-contract work and flit between the two until you can build up your own customer base, which takes around 5 years.

I've been self employed for 27 years now and most of my original customer base have gone on, so you lose some old and gain some new.

It will always be up and down, you either have way to much or not enough, and once in a blue moon it's just right but that's rare.

Good luck, don't be greedy, give good work for a good price and you will get more, if you look at jobs and think how much can we make out of this, you won't last long, people get wise quick.

 

[A&S Electrical]

Cheers guys all appreciated and we shall be utilising it all as best we can!!!

 

[christhe]

Hand leaflets out to houses with outside meter boxes, then go and remove main fuse in the middle of the night thus generating a call out? Maybe not! Im sure its been done before though :Spam :run

 

[Riggy]

Look at planning applications/decisions on your local council website.

Standard letter to all of interest.

I get a hit rate of about 1 in 30 - though I'm not targeting domestic.