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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.

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Open a seeded business in your trade. Nine jobs on the pipeline, a quote sent and viewed, a deposit paid, an invoice overdue, and a holdback on the current month.

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How to run the businessMarketing 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.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.How to run the businessEvery job on one boardAsk a contractor what they are chasing and you get three jobs and a pause. The pause is where a quote sits for five weeks. One board with the money on each column, and a fifteen minute weekly habit.How to run the businessKnow 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.How to run the businessGet 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.How to run the businessBrand, 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.

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