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FAQ Page |
- Where do the
Jobs come from?
100 percent of our Residential and Commercial projects are submitted online personally by the Project Owners looking for your services. We also work with several government agencies and websites to help announce their upcoming construction projects and RFQ needs.
- How many projects come in?
National Contractors.com receives over 400 project leads every month, since 1998 we have recorded 20 billion dollars in total incoming project value!
- I am receiving projects in my email that are either out of state or not associated with my primary trade, what can I do?
Your email preferences are most likely set to bring in projects from other states or trades that are not associated with your primary interest.
Click on the set email preferences button on the member home page and you can set the preferences to receive the projects that you want.
- What kind of
projects are posted?
Posted projects cover all areas of Residential, Commercial and Industrial
Construction, from 100 dollars to several billion dollars in value.
- I am not seeing many bidding opportunities am I missing something.
We have our fees set according the the flow of construction projects in the site and sometimes it takes a few months to land a project.
Most contractors that stay with the system over a long period of time are well rewarded and can easily cover their membership fees and then some.
We do recommend that you use a mixture of verifying projects via email and using our search system at least once a week to find new projects. Unless you
have every trade selected in your email preferences it is possible that certain opportunities might slip by un-noticed. By using email and the search engine together,
you can increase your chances of seeing active bidding opportunities and winning projects. It also helps to be proactive within the system, obviously the project is there but the project owner is only going to hear from you if you
take the initiative and make the contact through our website.
- It says on the project data that the start date has long passed, is that accurate? Also the dollar amount seems to low or to high, is that accurate as well?
Not always, that is an estimated start date and many times plans and timetables change. We recommend that you leave no stone unturned so to speak when sifting through projects. If
you approach every project owner as a potential marketing opportunity you can market your business to them even if the project has started or passed. If the project has been on hold they might still be accepting bids for that particular opportunity or they might be
unsatisfied with the contractor they were going to hire. You might be emailing or calling at just the right time to move in and give the winning bid on the project.
In reference to the estimated value, this also is just an estimate. We highly recommend that if the project looks like something that might be of interest the member take a few seconds
and at least send out an email to verify the opportunity. It is possible that the project owner has a 1,000,000 dollar project and simply forgot to put in a value and it defaulted to 1000.
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