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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. We would lik=
e to
take this time 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. Pl=
ease
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.
P.
S. – Check out the January, 2007 issue of Uptime Magazine to read=
an
interview of Greg Stockton=
by
Jeff Shuler, Editor-In-Ch=
ief of
Uptime, to learn more about the creation and future of ConnectIR™=
.
Sincerely,
Cindy
Hawks &n=
bsp; =
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bsp;
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 w=
as
created by Greg Stockton,
founder and President. SI=
TS was
founded in 1989 and has become an industry leader and innovator of infr=
ared
applications. Inspired by
e-bay, ConnectIR™ makes it easy for those wanting electrical
thermography services to locate a thermographer. This service is free f=
or
clients.
When a potential end-user of the service enters th=
e 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 revi=
ew 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, repo=
rt
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=
482;
takes the “finding a contractor” process several steps furt=
her
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 typ=
e of
job in every business sector. Throughout the specification creation
process, the system helps the client by pointing out options they may w=
ant
and ones they may not need,” Mr. Stockton explains. “We have spent a great d=
eal 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 minima=
l 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 companie=
s are
often small, one to three person operations. Also, most of them work in a s=
mall
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 obtai=
ning
new business. “We a=
re
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.&n=
bsp;
For more information on ConnectIR™ and its benefits and to =
sign
up, please visit:
www.conne=
ctir.com.
To learn more about Infrared Thermography and Stockton Infrared
Thermography Services, please visit:
ww=
w.stocktoninfrared.com or call
1-800-248-7226.
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