You submitted the commercial panel-upgrade bid Tuesday. You were the lowest qualified bidder. You never followed up. The GC went with the second-lowest because he answered his phone Thursday afternoon. Bid wars are won on follow-up, not price — and you know it, but you don't have time.
Whole-house surge protector, generator install, ceiling fan swap — every quote you send is a coin flip on whether the customer reads it before going to bed. Five follow-up touches over two weeks is the difference between booked and lost. You sent one, three days late. They are paying someone else.
Mr. Electric. Mister Sparky. They have automation. You have a clipboard. They show up first in the Map Pack because they ask every customer. You do better work and rank lower — every month, the gap widens, every month you tell yourself you'll fix it.
None of these are marketing problems. They are operations problems. That is what we fix.
Not a marketing agency. Not a software vendor. One operations hub running five systems that compound into a revenue engine — tuned for residential service, commercial bid tracking, install, and emergency routing.
Built inside our own business first. Every component proven at Horizon Pack and Ship’s two retail locations in Elizabethtown and Radcliff before it ships to an electrician.
Everything we sell, we run ourselves first. That is the Client Zero principle.
| Operations Stack component | What it replaces | Monthly cost if you hired it |
|---|---|---|
| 24/7 phone coverage + electrical-trained dispatch | Answering service or part-time CSR | $600/mo |
| After-hours emergency routing + instant text-back | Dedicated on-call CSR | $1,200/mo |
| 5-minute quote response + 5-touch follow-up (residential + commercial) | Inside-sales / bid-recovery rep | $2,800/mo |
| Review automation after every job | Reputation manager or VA chasing reviews | $800/mo |
| Pipeline + commercial bid tracking + source attribution | Ops coordinator running ServiceTitan / Successware daily | $1,500/mo |
| Monthly strategy review | Fractional ops lead or outside consultant | $500/mo |
| Total monthly operational labor replaced | ~$7,400/mo | |
At an $8,500 average commercial bid, one bid recovered from follow-up silence covers 17 months of fees.
Contractor Core just opened up to Hardin County electrical contractors. We could buy testimonials. We won’t. Here is what we offer instead: the system running every day inside our own retail business, the exact 30-day onboarding, and our capacity logic.
Two retail locations in Elizabethtown and Radcliff. Every missed call triggers an automatic text-back inside 60 seconds. Every customer gets asked for a review. Every lead is worked within 5 minutes. The Operations Stack has been running here for 18 months — every component proven inside our own shop before it ships to an electrician.
Client Zero · 18 months liveWeek 1: phone coverage live, after-hours routing configured, missed-call text-back armed. Week 2: existing bid backlog imported, 5-touch follow-up runs on every open commercial bid and residential quote. Week 3: review automation live, pipeline tagging residential vs commercial vs emergency. Week 4: first attribution report.
Onboarding timelineJustin reviews every Contractor Core electrical onboarding personally. After-hours routing, bid-tracking cadences, and commercial-vs-residential workflows are configured to your specific service mix — not from a template. That's why we cap at 4 starts per month.
CapacitySpecific outcome. Specific window. Specific consequence if we miss. Hardin County electrical contractors only.
We measure phone-answered → quoted/bid → booked. If you’re below 25 booked jobs in any month from day 90 onward, every week after is unbilled until you hit the run rate.
Not a trick. If we cannot produce the result, we do not deserve to be paid.
Commercial bid tracking, residential service workflows, and emergency routing are configured to your specific service mix — not from a template. That is why we cap at 4 starts per month. When the month is full, new applicants go on a wait list.
Pick a slot that works. Zoom or in-person at our Elizabethtown or Radcliff shop. No prep needed.
Five questions about your business. We identify the single biggest revenue leak and quantify it in dollars per month.
If we are a fit, you leave with the exact tier, the exact price, the exact timeline, and the exact first result we guarantee. If not a fit, we tell you on the call.
Or call us directly: 270-900-5554
5 questions about your electrical business. We identify the single biggest revenue leak and quantify it in dollars per month. If Contractor Core fits, you leave with the exact start date and written guarantee. If it doesn’t fit, we tell you on the call.
Book Your Diagnostic CallP.S. Prefer to meet in person before signing anything? Come see us at 207 Towne Dr in Elizabethtown or 734 Knox Blvd in Radcliff. We’ll be behind the counter.
Trade businesses we work with run jobs across Vine Grove, Cecilia, Glendale, Sonora, and Upton — every page we build, every campaign we run, and every workflow we automate is set up to capture leads from these neighborhoods specifically, not just generic "Hardin County" intent.
That means landing pages reference real adjacent towns and landmarks, ad targeting maps to the actual service-radius polygon, and review-request automation goes out tagged with the job location.
More questions? See the full Contractor Core terms or book the diagnostic call.