I use a couple of sites to find work.
mybuilder.com is good to build future prospects.You are competing for jobs with a number of others but I only offer a site visit and only to local work(within 3 miles of home.Once in the door I sell myself.I do not try to get work by being the cheapest .In fact qouted £2800 PLUS MATS for a 3 bed rewire only to be told that without seing the job someone had quoted £1200.
Having made the site visit I wait for the client to sift through the carpet fitters and plasterers who live live on the other side of London until they see the wisdom of using a local electrician.3 or 4 weeks later they offer the work to me.If they dont they usually are the ones I wanted to avoid.
The other site is rated people which sells a lead between £4.00 and £20.00.This site you wait for a job to be posted.The site will sell the lead 3 times.I only buy local leads that have not been bought by any other electrician.I quickly arrange a site visit and once in the door I sell myself.
With this site the work is immediate.I have never bought a lead and not got the job.
I use yell and make sure that if you search for an electrician within 3 miles of my home address you get me.
These 3 avenues cost aprrox £90.00 a month but combined are value for money.
After a year,cards,referals,previous clients with new work are beginning to come into play.
i have also found other work which brings in small but regular income each week and am investigating a hire business which could also be a potential regular income.
Sometimes my diary is booked for two weeks with good work other times nothing or just small jobs.
One call today was a customer whose boiler is going to be replaced and the immersion wasnt working.
I knew it was going to be the reset button but when I arrived at the address the 09 Audi and 08 BMW helped remind me that My kids wanted jam on their toast for breakfast tomorrow.
he was only out for three months and with all them at the same time yeh he was busy enough. said it saved him a fortune got the on site guide gn3 and a load of others for the pat testing thrown in as well. depends on your post code area though how much or little funding there is for the training.
