Just found out a few of our on going contracts won't renew due to the customer selling their rights/interests to another company and we won't be getting them back. Figures since we have a horizontal on the way.
I recently created a thread about how some guys get contracts and remember guys mentioning talking to other machine shops for overflow was probably not a good source for work. That has been the majority of our work. Need some better contacts. We have a ton of places pretty local to us that are OEMs of various industrial products, but I don't know of half of them, how to find them, or how to even "properly" make contact with them. I simply HATE calling anywhere acting like a salesman. Worse is walking in somewhere asking for "the owner", then give them an earful about our company. Probably because I simply hate anyone walking in our shop unannounced trying to sell anything. Even if I have interest, I tell them to leave documents and go.
So, how might we make some new friends? Raise a flag that says "we will make you some parts"?
I recently created a thread about how some guys get contracts and remember guys mentioning talking to other machine shops for overflow was probably not a good source for work. That has been the majority of our work. Need some better contacts. We have a ton of places pretty local to us that are OEMs of various industrial products, but I don't know of half of them, how to find them, or how to even "properly" make contact with them. I simply HATE calling anywhere acting like a salesman. Worse is walking in somewhere asking for "the owner", then give them an earful about our company. Probably because I simply hate anyone walking in our shop unannounced trying to sell anything. Even if I have interest, I tell them to leave documents and go.
So, how might we make some new friends? Raise a flag that says "we will make you some parts"?
