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Send letters not emails to as many places you think you would like to work at. The first ones ares hardest to get and you have to tick lots of boxes (insurances, certs, Rams etc)
Once you get one or two people will start to come to you I've found
Write to factors.
Once you are in the door you find you will be invited to tender for more. I'm established 4 years this July and I'm now 90% commercial maintenance but I've chased it.
With commercial maintenance comes large shrub cutting contracts which keep us really busy through the winter months.
There is a good bit of advice I was given from the MD or our first commercial maintenance contract, which helped us grow with the company..........."never let one regular maintenance contract exceed 25% of your turnover". At the time this hi-tech company employed maybe 150 people and was around 2hours work per week for us. Well 30 years later we still hold that contract, the company now employ over 1,000 locally which gives us ave 4 days work per week, plus all of the new planting projects the expansion has entailed. How did we get the foot in the door? We planted a small bed for a builder working on site and the companies' 'grass cutter' had let them down that week!
So yes Nathan, go for it you never know where it will lead.