Help with marketing

[Drew Bowman]

I am newer to being a field inspector. I am wondering if banks only contract with large companies that can perform many services, to do field inspections of their properties.

The inspection company I work for pays like garbage. I would like to by pass these middlemen to work directly with the bank or other financial institution. I have heard banks paying $100 for a basic exterior vacancy inspection. If so, is there a way to make myself competitive with the bigger companies.

I own a window cleaning business that also does building cleaning.

What type of insurance would I need to contract with the bank? Other than the E&O i already have.

[Markus Keller]

Waste of time, spend your time and energy on better ideas.

[Garry Sorrells]

Drew,
There are seeral threads dealing with working for banks and insurance companies. Take a look, most not very positive on subject as far as time,travel, report writing and compensation.

Here is one thread on subject :
Mueller Services Inc. - Insurance Loss Control Surveys (http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/introductions-by-new-members/7827-mueller-services-inc-insurance-loss-control-surveys-7.html)Good luck in that area, I think you will need it.

[peter12]

Make your question a bit clearer. Are you looking for ideas on marketing? then you can find a lot of such ideas on the net. I too have searched a lot in net to get the best idea to run a campaign and one of my friend suggested me this and researched about it. I contacted a guerrilla marketing services company in Seattle (http://www.grassrootsadvertising.com/what-we-do/) called Grassroots Advertising and they hold the campaign in an effective manner