The referral rollercoaster
Before Empire Driveways worked with PipelineX, growth ran on word of mouth. A good month came from a satisfied customer telling a neighbour. A quiet month came from nothing at all, and there was no way to plan crews or materials around either one.
The enquiries that did come in were not always worth answering. A resin driveway quote can run to several thousand pounds, and plenty of calls were homeowners who had seen a cheaper gravel job online and expected the same price. By the time the team was back off site to ring someone back, the job had often already gone to whichever installer answered first.