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Getting found by customers in Ontario

Looking like the contractor who has done this before is mostly mechanical. A domain and an email address at your own name, documents that carry your brand, posts that go out on a schedule without you remembering, and knowing the moment a proposal was opened.

6 ways to move forward

Practical guidesMarketing on scheduleMarketing slides at exactly the wrong moment: you are busiest when the pipeline is full, then it empties and you start from a cold account. A ready-to-post pack every morning, written from your own city, pipeline and won jobs.Practical guidesBrand, website, documentsThe decision takes a sentence. The admin that follows takes a fortnight: a logo, a colour picked in a hurry, a website that never gets finished, and documents written the night before a builder asks for them. One press produces all three, in one brand.After you qualifyBusiness EmailGoogle Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho Mail, email forwarding — every option compared with step-by-step DNS setup instructions.After you qualifyCustom DomainRegister your own domain, point DNS to your AEC Stack website, and go from yourcompany.aecstack.com to yourcompany.ca.Practical guidesKnow if they read itAn evening on a price, then silence, and no way to tell whether it landed in spam or was read and rejected. Send the proposal as a page instead of an attachment and it reports back: what they read, for how long, and what they skipped.Practical guidesGet on GC bid listsThere is no register to sign and no form to fill. Work arrives because somebody at a builder has your name in front of them. Find the person, send them something worth keeping, and be able to answer the prequalification package when it comes.

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