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Hi Joe and Staci!

Couple things come to mind...first you could do an event with a speaker that would educate them on an aspect of their business. You would invite them for free and get all their contact info. This CANNOT be your event as that would seem like a sales pitch. For example, Title Companies hire me to come in and do a training for realtors about marketing. They get the benefit of talking A LOT with the potential attendees before and after to keep in front of them PLUS there is the good will factor.

Second idea is to make a list of them (as long as it is under about 100 companies this works) and shower them with love. "Pop by" with cookies, send them a personal note, email them relavent information. In this day of permission based marketing you have not earned the right to have a talk with them about their product until you have given them something of value first!!!

PS - In the meantime you CAN send or stop by with info about your product separately, but know that this a sales call call and will not assist in building any relationship...:)

Hope that helps...Tara

Hi Tara:

I have a small waste removal business in Albuquerque. I basically haul trash in apartment complexes and mobile home communities to a compactor, that is on site, and then removed once a week by another vendor. Here is my problem. Most of the apartment complexes here--and those being developed--do not place compactors on ther sites, even though there are clearly huge savings associated with using compactors. Developers and their directors of development and construction either are not aware of the significant redcution in expenses related to using compactors, or not being educated about them by their associates.

What I would like to do is approach the decision makers here in NM who are currently developing apartment complexes, and or those property owners who currently own large apartment communities, but do not have compactors, to discuss the possibility of them placing them on their sites and ultimately using our waste hauling services.

Simply stated I can save clients upwards of between 40% to 60% on trash manaagement costs per month and I can prooduce the figures to prove it. In some cases this can mean decreased expenses of thousands of dollars a month.

At any rate, I need to develop a strategy to open up dialogue with key decision makers; convince them compactors are the smart way to manage trash; and most importantly: persuade them to utilize my company to handle their trash. I have tried to go through the middlemen--the apartment managers--and they are obviously not responsive to my proposals. So my question is: How can I get new clients and what should I do to at least be considered by the decsion makers and property owners I wish to service? Please advise.

@mike...yep...think that the multiple uploads via mobile lump them together...have taken to actually downloading pics to computer and then uploading them by hand...have been devastated to know using aggregators like hootsuite don't work, that hand posting does and initially we were sad about the extra time it would take (switched over about 6 months ago)...but now in a groove...sorry to not have better info...stupid Facebook!

Tara not sure what you meant by "go to your timeline, click in the status update box, attach your photo and then save" maybe you can clarify how is this any different than what I do now add photo and text update then post (I am having more problems with this when I add do multiple updates form a mobile app)

LOL, ok, thanks. So, the short answer in "no"