I shopped for a truck online and put three applications in with different leasing companies, he says. I only got two responses one company I never heard from and in the end I went to the source I d been dealing with locally. It took too long for the online companies to respond, and there was no personal contact. If someone had called and said, We ve got your application and we re interested in your business, I would ve hung on longer. But a week went by, and then I got a letter rather than a phone call.
Personal contact means a lot.
Transcontinental Services Ltd. We look at the ones that identify road construction, port construction, and housing and commercial building expansion, then concentrate on those markets to identify people who are involved in supplying the construction industry and try to contact them. I ve got valid information to put on their desk right away. Information that was difficult to find before, that required several phone calls to specialized people, is now easy to get. That s priceless to me. But now the Internet offers opportunities to network nationwide, as well as to discover like-minded others who may be in our own back yard.