Fostyr for electricians
The contractors and managers who send you work are the business. Keep every one.
A general contractor who puts you on every house. A property manager who calls for every panel and every tenant turnover. An inspector who flags aluminium wiring and gives the buyer your name. A homeowner who has called you for twelve years. That list is the business. Fostyr keeps it, with every job, and tells you when someone on it has gone quiet.
Where the work comes from for an electrical contracting company
General contractors and builders
A GC who trusts your rough-ins and your inspections puts you on every project.
Property managers
Panels, turnovers, tenant calls: one manager is a steady month of work.
Home inspectors and realtors
Every report with an electrical finding is a job for whoever the inspector names.
Repeat homeowners
The EV charger, the generator, the remodel. They call whoever they remember.
What goes wrong without a system
The GC who moved on
You wired eleven houses for a builder in two years. The superintendent changed. The next development went to whoever the new super already knew.
The inspector you never met
An inspector has named you on reports for a year. You have never called to say thank you, and you do not know which inspector it is.
The history in one phone
Your lead electrician knows the manager's buildings, the panel schedules and the gate codes. Then the lead leaves.
Estimating software that forgets the relationship
Your system knows the bid, the takeoff and the invoice. It cannot tell you which GC sent the most work or that a manager hasn't called since spring.
Where to start, with no software and no plan
List who sends the work
Contractors, managers, inspectors, realtors, and the homeowners who refer. A count beside each name. That is the marketing plan.
Connect the inbox; bring the job list
Every thread with every GC is already in your mail. Connect it once. Export your job list and drop it in; the counts fill themselves.
Call the ones going quiet
The GC who sent six projects last year and none this year gets a call this week, before their next development is staffed.
Put the offices on a route
Builders' offices, management companies, the inspectors' meetups. Visit on a cadence with your licence, your availability and a reason to remember you.
How Fostyr fits an electrical contracting company
Hub: Who is waiting on you, and which GC has gone quiet.
The morning: the manager who asked for a panel quote, the builder who hasn't sent a job in ninety days, the inspector who just named you on a report. Ask Fostyr which contractor sent the most work last year.
Relationships: Every contractor, manager, inspector and customer, with every job.
Each has a journey: jobs, emails, calls, the notes from every electrician who dealt with them. A grade shows who actually sends work. A builder holds its superintendents, so when one changes the history stays with the company and the person.
Workspace: Email, calendar and follow-ups, attached to the people.
A thread from a GC lands on the GC. The follow-up after a rough-in sits beside the job. Templates for the bid is attached, the job passed inspection, thank you for the referral.
Marketing: Visits, check-ins and reviews, on a cadence.
A route for the builders and management offices you visit. Rhythms for the quarterly GC check-in and the after-job thank-you. Reviews asked for when the lights are on.
Connections: Your inbox fills it in; your job list comes with you.
Connect Gmail and the threads attach themselves. Bring your job export in and every referrer gets their history. Use an estimating or dispatch system we don't connect to yet? Tell us at setup and we'll help you bring your data over.
What marketing means for an electrical contracting company
Marketing for an electrician is the contractor relationship
Ads bring one-off service calls. A GC brings a development. Spend the effort on the ten contractors and managers who send the most, and on meeting the next ten.
The inspector is a channel
Every home inspector in your area writes electrical findings every week. Meet them, thank them, be easy to book. Fostyr keeps the list and the last time you spoke.
Reviews decide the homeowner call
A homeowner with a tripping breaker picks from three electricians by reviews. Ask every satisfied customer the same day.
Questions electricians ask
- How do I grow an electrical business?
- Through the contractors, managers and inspectors who send work repeatedly, rather than one-off service calls. Growth is meeting more of them, keeping the ones you have, and noticing quickly when one goes quiet. Fostyr is built around that list.
- How do I get work from general contractors as an electrician?
- Be on time, pass inspection the first time, communicate with the super, and stay in touch between projects. The last part is where most electricians lose the next development. Fostyr tells you which GCs have gone quiet.
- How do I get more electrical jobs without spending on ads?
- Call the contractors and managers who have gone quiet, thank the inspectors who name you, and remind past customers about the work they mentioned. Fostyr tells you who to call and when.
- What software does an electrical contractor need?
- An estimating and invoicing system for the work, and a relationship system for the people who send it. Fostyr is the second one. It reads your inbox and takes your job list so the referrers and their history fill in without data entry.
- Is Fostyr a CRM for electricians?
- It is a relationship system rather than a sales pipeline. It tracks the contractors, managers, inspectors and customers behind your jobs, with their whole history, and nudges you before one fades.
- How much does Fostyr cost?
- $200 a month for your core team of up to five, then $35 a month per additional person, with a thirty-day trial and no card required.
Pricing
$200 a month for your core team of up to five, then $35 a month per additional person. Thirty-day trial, no card required.