Help Finding Electrical Work

[lost-sole]

I have free listing with yell had one job off it to date, I have been sending out a business card and letter of introduction to new planning apps for a while and to date I havn't had any work from it, I go on council website and find the new ones that have been approved, i think the problem there is its a little early as they might not even be doing the work for another year (will carry on doing it though). I advertised in local rag along with about 5 other sparkies didn't get one single call and I think this form of advertising is too expensive and I think people just ring up and compare prices. Iam not into under cutting and so on. my dad god rest his soul always said "if you work for free then you will never be short of employers". My oppinion is thats my rate if you don't like go somewhere else

 

[scousefowler]

excellent post/thread

 

[sbrown2]

Excellent post Dan. For People like myself who are looking to start out its good thread. I've added to my business plan advice.

Cheers

 

[carl9254]

I got sucked into the yell pages, a guy came round promised me 11 jobs a month, i was just starting out and said yea why not, bad mistake, had 1 job i think off it. Very tough at minute. Got a few leaflets left so going to send out to letting and estate agents i think.
Good post.

 

[Sparky83]

Great thread, tried alot of the above ideas for jobs, some worked better than other but all good ideas none the less.

Has anyone got any suggestiond for gaining more commercial work, call out, install or PIR's & PAT etc etc.

I have registered everywhere i can think of, have website, done flyers etc But not much work about. Spent way to much on ratedpeople for my liking too!

 

[antony73993]

Great thread, tried alot of the above ideas for jobs, some worked better than other but all good ideas none the less.

Has anyone got any suggestiond for gaining more commercial work, call out, install or PIR's & PAT etc etc.

I have registered everywhere i can think of, have website, done flyers etc But not much work about. Spent way to much on ratedpeople for my liking too!

suggestiond??

 

[antony73993]

I got sucked into the yell pages, a guy came round promised me 11 jobs a month, i was just starting out and said yea why not, bad mistake, had 1 job i think off it. Very tough at minute. Got a few leaflets left so going to send out to letting and estate agents i think.
Good post.

I fell in to that trap with yell, and many others promising the world but they are sales people thats what they do, don't believe everything they tell you. If you have to pay to have a link on someones website make sure that they have a good page rank because if they don't chances are you wont get much work out of it.


Good luck

 

[brucelee]

Cheers Dan and everyone else another very good post for people just thinking of starting out by themselves including me thanks

 

[Steve1412]

What a great post...having never been self employed have never really needed to do any of these things but there is some real imagination with some of those little ploys.......top marks for effort

 

[mbtshoes]

If you goto the electrical safety councils website they sometimes give all manner of safety bumph & leaflets away to the trade.