Meetings and Progress

The new year is off to a good atart. I have seen more job listings in the environmental field and there has been an increase in Phase I ESA activity based on what I and several indicated. This is often the precursor of future environmetnalwork. I have completed a Phase I ESA and am in the process of doing another while I continue to search for a permanent opportunity and try to get SampleServe going. I recently attended the AEG Carolinas meeting and there are several other upcoming meetings. A few people expressed interest in SampleServe and I have been working on arranging meetings with them and marketting our services to them. It is a difficult proposition, environmental companies have traditionally done sampling in house and making them realize that they can make more money by outsourcing it to us can be diffcult. Also, many companies have reduced staff and don't want to give any work away as they need it all to keep the existing staff busy and they don't want to cut anyone else if they don't have to. A few people have indicated that they have been busy lately so I hope this provides opportunity. For environmental companies not ready to add staff but having to much work for their current staff SampleServe will be a viable alternative and once they see the advantages of outsourcing well sampling such as increased staff productivity and increased profits I am sure they will continue with SampleServe. This may also lead to more firms starting to hire.

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