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Originally posted by jyl
This is good news, glad you are busy again.
Stepping back a bit, does this suggest that you need more/better sales and marketing? Apparently there's plenty of work out there, how come they have it and not you? I'm not trying to offend, just asking.
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This company is owned by a huge title company that has multiple branches in many cities. The order was given all orders must go through this company.
A few girls at the branch that used us and love us informed us that they would not be ordering anymore. But, they also contacted to owner of the Survey company and gave him my contact info and it went from there.
When I e-mailed them a sample survey they were pretty blown away at our work. I say so because their next contact with me was 10 orders.
I am not only getting 1 office anymore I am getting 20+ offices worth of orders.
wreckesteve - I am going through hell right now with the branch I was working with now, they have stuck me over the last 2 years with over 10K in unpaid bills. I am trying to collect on them but its tricky to do. When they do 200K in business with you, you do not exactly want to tell then to do a hike. So we are trying to fix the problem and stop the non-payments.
But, with this new setup I get paid no matter what, its their problem to collect on it. So this is better for me.
Milt - we rarely see another surveyors work, normally we are working from legal descriptions or record plats. You would be amazed at the stuff I have found, houses on wrong lots or hanging 1/2 off of them. One lady though she was buying a peice of vacant land 1/2 a mile from where ti really was and the realtor was showing the wrong piece as well.
All I know is we were so slow I laid 1/2 my company off and this has been going on for 2 years this steady decline in work, to hit bottom and see a turning point is a tremendous relief for me from a business point of view. I have been going without paychecks or with 1/2 pay depleting my personal checking account and coming very close to having to dip into savings to get by. It was not looking for for the toys I was trying to hold on to.
We will keep a close on on these guys and make sure they pay promptly. I am keeping to a really tight scheadule for them so they can do the same for me.
We also hooked up with a local Engineer who is so busy he turns work away every day, we are quoting and winning about 1 project every other day with them as well .
Things are finally looking up. Its been a freaking roller coaster ride since Sept. 2004 when that 1st hurricane rocked our worlds here. Its never been the same since.