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Welcome to the February Edition of The Stockton
Report, created to provide valuable communication to our customers and on-line
subscribers. To our customers,
we’d like to take the time to thank you for your business and to
express how much we value your confidence in our services. To our on-line subscribers, we would like
to thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our company.
We are SO excited to share with you the launch of
ConnectIR™, our newest website and the infrared industry’s first
bidding website. Please see our
announcement below and we strongly encourage you to check out
ConnectIR™ to learn how this innovative new service can greatly
enhance your predictive/preventive maintenance (P/PM) program.
Please
don’t hesitate to contact us for any reason. Current contact information is always
available on our website at www.stocktoninfrared.com/new/contact.htm.
Sincerely,
Cindy
Hawks
Marketing
Director
336-772-9838
cindy@stocktoninfrared.com
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Stockton Infrared
Thermographic Services, Inc. announces the launch of ConnectIRÔ, the industry’s
first bidding website which matches potential clients of electrical
infrared surveys with infrared thermographers. ConnectIR™ is
owned by Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services, Inc. (SITS) and was
created by Greg Stockton,
founder and President. SITS was
founded in 1989 and has become an industry leader and innovator of infrared
applications. Inspired by e-bay,
ConnectIR™ makes it easy for those wanting electrical thermography
services to locate a thermographer. This service is free for clients.
When a potential end-user of the service enters the web
site, he/she creates an account, a specification and then a Request For Proposal,
which meets his/her needs and sends it to ConnectIR™. ConnectIR™ searches the database of registered
thermography service providers and sends the RFP to those bidders. The bidders review the specs and fill in
the prices. ConnectIR™ then
sends the profiles of companies including their bids to the client. The client
sorts the profiles by all sorts of criteria like price, report features,
experience of the thermographer, etc., and selects the three profiles that
best match what he/she is looking for in a contractor. The three selected
service providers contact information is then sent by ConnectIR™ to
the client who chooses a qualified service provider. The price and
specifications have already been determined, so only minor points need to
be addressed in order for the client to write a contract with the service
provider.
There are plenty of places on the internet where a
potential infrared customer can locate names and lists of infrared
thermographers to perform electrical infrared surveys, but ConnectIR™
takes the “finding a contractor” process several steps further
by matching thermographer’s profiles to the client’s job
requirements. “The
specifications are where the rubber meets the road,” states Mr.
Stockton. “The system walks the customers through the process of
creating a tailored job specification. We designed the site with the
customer or end-user in mind and tried to make allowances for every type of
job in every business sector. Throughout the specification creation
process, the system helps the client by pointing out options they may want
and ones they may not need,” Mr. Stockton explains. “We have spent a great deal of time
and money working with specialized computer programmers to develop the
algorithms and codes which do the actual matching of the thermographers
qualifications to the customers job specifications,” states Mike Hall, Design and Systems Manager for
SITS. “This is, by far, the
most involved web project we’ve undertaken. Our goal throughout the entire project
has been to make the time-consuming and often laborious process of creating
job specifications easy for the thermography customer,” Mr. Hall
says.
Infrared Thermographers can register their company
profile on ConnectIR™ and receive opportunities to bid on jobs. The cost to register is minimal and the
benefit to the thermographer is that they receive opportunities to bid on
actual jobs without the usual costly and often laborious sales &
marketing tasks required to obtain jobs.
Infrared thermography companies are often small, one to three person
operations. Also, most of them work
in a small geographically limited area.
Advertising, marketing, and sales is a tough job in any business and
a small infrared service struggles to find effective advertising in a
limited geographical area. ConnectIR
provides a very cost and time effective means of obtaining new
business. “We are marketing
ConnectIR™ nationwide and worldwide.
By utilizing ConnectIR™, thermographers are tapping into our
sales and marketing resources and saving themselves the time and money it
takes to advertise their services,” states Cindy
Hawks, Stockton’s Marketing Director.
For more information on ConnectIR™ and its benefits and to sign
up, please visit:
www.connectir.com.
To learn more about Infrared Thermography and Stockton Infrared Thermography
Services, please visit: www.stocktoninfrared.com or call
1-800-248-7226.
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