How Do I Sign North Dakota Electrical Services Contract

Digital sign electrical services agreement template

oh my gosh is it finally time is it here are we doing it have you finally decided that you're going to go on your own you're going to start your own electrical company that is one of the best decisions you probably ever made in your life and i know it's going to be one of the scariest so in this video i'm going to give you three tips before you even start what you need to do to make sure you are way ahead of the competition i'm going to give you some advice that probably will save you a couple of years of marketing time stay tuned hit the like button hit the subscribe button let's get into the video all right 360 electricians before you even try to go and get your contractor's license i don't care if you're in business i don't care if you're a dry cleaner i don't care if you're hvac or plumbing before you go and get your business license these are the three tips before you start your electrical contracting company that i want you to hear something that i did and it helped me quite a bit it's it's marketing not everybody knows marketing you know electric but you don't know marketing uh i didn't know marketing i learned it along the way this is my third business so this is something that i did in the very beginning and it helped me immensely okay so number one is when you pick your company name try not to pick your personal name two reasons for that number one if you ever grow and get huge or bigger everyone's still gonna call and ask for you by name john smith electric john smith's gotta be the owner they're gonna keep asking for you john john john john john when you get bigger when you have two crews three crews four crews you're not gonna be able to answer the phone you need that phone to go to the office you need someone that doesn't really know electrical very well uh as a secretary or an assistant or somebody to just answer the phone and say well i'm not an electrician but i can get an electrician out there we charge a certain amount of service call you do the process you get a name and you you leave it very generic you leave it you leave yourself room so you're not dealing with all the problems issues scheduling et cetera et cetera okay us as contractors sometimes we don't meet our appointments it's easier for the shop to call them and say you know i apologize our technicians got caught up we're not going to be able to make it obviously you're not lying it's true you're busy but if you're on the phone john come on john i need you to come out dude come on man you promise you're going to come out you don't want to deal with that stuff try not to use your name the second thing is uh if you ever sell you're going to sell easier when the name's not attached to you okay when you grow and you want to get expand sell get out of the business whatever you want to do the name's not attached to you okay you can also put the corporation name under the generic name you don't want to necessarily put your corporation name under john smith electric inc right you want to leave a generic one third thing is trolls people that don't like you bad reviews anything you don't want to tie you know things happen in life you know accidents happen in life you don't want to tie that to your name when you incorporate in a different name and something god forbid happens you can walk away you're done you can legally separate you separate by not everybody knowing oh john smith oh i know that guy that guy was on youtube blah blah blah this is what he did you know anything things happen separate your name okay i should say there's one other reason when you pick a name and you stick with it and by the way i recommend you write as many names as possible that you like i remember when i started you know i tried alpha electric i tried west coast electric i tried um oh gosh i tried so many of them but i want you to just pick a name that's generic i want you to pick four or five of them why because tip number two and three once you're set on five or six names try not to get your heart set on just one and this is why the next thing you want to do and i think it's super duper important is you want to make sure that there is a dot-com website that can attach to that name ah i didn't think about that right you can do some squirrely.coms don't get me wrong if you ended up being you know uh northwest uh underground overhead electric whatever yeah you're probably going to get that website right no one has northwest undergroundelectric.com duh but if you want to keep it short and simple and you want to keep it short and simple it becomes a little harder to get a com that's going to match it so alpha electric ain't going to work alphalectric.com is taken so you want to kind of get away from that name if you can now you could also make it like alpha electric and the city you're in com and you can still keep the name alpha electric but what you want to do is you want to get a combination of name that you know has a very good.com uh url attached to it okay so if you can do that you're already ahead of the game i would say you're okay to go ahead and get that name on your application as you know whatever electric you're going to be but here's the third one that kind of helps and if you can do this and this one it makes it really difficult so let's just say your west coast electric again i'm just throwing it out there you want to try to get a phone number that matches that now i'm all for toll-free numbers and this is the reason why when you get a toll-free number if you're in a tri-city area where you're going to be covering a lot of area codes having a toll-free number is your main number is a good way to go because you only have to advertise one number remember 10 years from now people are still going to be calling that phone number so you want to make sure that that phone number can somehow tie into your name which also ties into your url and what do i mean by the phone number tying into your name so on phones every single phone on number two is abc three is def right and so on and so on until z so what you want to do is if you're west coast electric maybe you want to get a phone number like a toll-free number that says 877 and then 2 for example is e so you would do you know like or w whichever number that is i got my phone here i can look but anyway maybe you could put w c e l e c by dialling the numbers does that make sense for example ours is 742-5360. you know what 742 spells pick p-i-c-k and guess what last three or 360. so our toll-free number is blah blah blah p-i-c-k 360. how easy is that when you put that on the side of your van you know your toll-free number you know you got your alpha electric or west coast electric and your toll-free number is 877 uh wc electric if you spell it out then you can put it up there then you can put the le the numbers underneath it so that's your triple threat try to get a name that you can definitely hook up a website to try to stay away from anything but dot com it is the most popular if you absolutely can't that's okay no one's just going to type your name and com they're always going to search it somewhere and if they search it it's most likely it'll come up but you and i know comms are the most important name your.com and if you can a toll-free number even a local number that somehow spells out or says something about your business you're on your way to some serious good [Music] marketing i hope you've liked this video if you got any value out of it please hit the like button and most of all subscribe we'll see you on the next one