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marketing ideas
hi,
i would like to get some thoughts and ideas on marketing techniques by engineers to provide their services. i am new at the marketing aspect of the engineering business (i am forced to do it unfortunately), so any ideas would be appreciated. i'm mainly interested in knowing how to go about getting new clients, would you call architects? visit architects door to door? it seems that word of mouth is just not cutting it so far.
thanks in advance.
1. join and participate in your local aia chapter. engineers can join the aia as associate
samdamon, thanks for the great ideas, i really appreciate it.
joining aia is a great inexpensive (relatively) way to meet new clients. also, if you join other organizations where architects and contractors (another source of engineering work) are
many local papers have an annual or semi-annual "builder section" or "home section" that they sell ads for. it is an inexpensive way to get you name out to potential local clients in a trade specific, local publication.

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