Commercial lead generation and B2B appointment setting in Chattanooga

Chattanooga has 1,495 business sites with 20 or more people on site in the categories commercial trades sell to, #84 of the 100 markets we cover, and 1.76 times the national concentration of hotels. Private business establishments grew 3.5% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1. Abstrakt's U.S.-based reps prospect those buyers by phone, email and LinkedIn and book meetings with the people who sign.

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Local B2B snapshot

How many businesses are in Chattanooga, and which ones buy

Chattanooga has 7,033 establishments in the categories commercial trades sell to, 1,495 of them with 20 or more people on site. Compared with the national mix it over-indexes on hotels (1.76x), golf courses and country clubs (1.58x) and retail stores (1.54x). Added over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+55), restaurants (+45) and retail stores (+42). Down: wholesale distributors (-9) and hospitals (-3).

  • 7,033 establishments in the 21 categories commercial trades sell to

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

  • 1,495 of them with 20 or more people on site, where a prospecting list starts

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

  • +3.5% private business establishments, 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1 (15,888 now; U.S. +3.6%)

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1

  • 1.76x the national concentration of hotels

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1

  • 2,356 decision-maker records Abstrakt can prospect for a construction and roofing program (territory: Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton)

    Source: Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026

An establishment is one physical location, so a company with three sites counts three times; decision-maker records are contacts, not companies; open programs are not reservations.

Largest buyer groups in Chattanooga

  1. Restaurants 1.26x the U.S. mix462
  2. Retail stores 1.54x the U.S. mix286
  3. Manufacturing plants 1.49x the U.S. mix210
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices 1.20x the U.S. mix165
  5. Wholesale distributors97
  6. Senior living and nursing61
  7. Churches and religious organizations57
  8. Grocery stores 1.33x the U.S. mix51

Sites with 20 or more people on site, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; concentration, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1.

All 21 categories, with establishments, concentration and one-year change
Business categories in Chattanooga: larger sites, all establishments, concentration and one-year change
CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants 4621,114 1.26x +45
Retail stores 2862,004 1.54x +42
Manufacturing plants 210535 1.49x +12
Medical, dental and outpatient offices 1651,081 1.20x +55
Wholesale distributors 97614 1.05x -9
Senior living and nursing 61138 0.88x +1
Churches and religious organizations 57531 0.98x +4
Grocery stores (also counted in retail) 51259 1.33x +21
Trucking companies 46220 1.06x +4
Hotels 36129 1.76x +3
Auto dealerships (also counted in retail) 2872 1.21x +2
Private K-12 schools 2743 1.29x +1
Bank and credit union offices 24380 1.50x +8
Warehousing and distribution 1137 1.21x +1
Hospitals 915 0.76x -3
Golf courses and country clubs 411 1.58x 0
Colleges and universities 06 0.47x 0
Commercial property managers 021 0.92x +1
Nonresidential building owners 055 1.30x -3
Hosting and data processing companies 019 1.14x +4
Apartment and residential property managers 080 1.11x +7
Total, each site once1,4957,033

Sites and establishments: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; concentration (location quotient) and one-year change in establishments: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1, summed across the metro's counties.

Your industry in Chattanooga

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Every trade in Chattanooga at a glance

Largest buyer groups (sites with 20+ people)

  1. Restaurants462
  2. Retail stores286
  3. Manufacturing plants210
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices165
  5. Wholesale distributors97

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.

Most room per contractor

  1. Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial#7 of 100
  2. Commercial Landscaping#15 of 100
  3. Paving & Asphalt#33 of 94

Larger buyer sites per contractor, ranked across up to 100 markets. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1.

Trade panels: buyer sites, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; contractors, their one-year change and employment, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1; decision-maker records, Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026; open programs, Abstrakt territory availability.

Compare all 11 trades in Chattanooga

Ranked by larger buyer sites per contractor against up to 100 markets (only markets with 10 or more contractors in a trade are ranked; n/r means not ranked). A higher rank means more buildings worth calling for every competitor working them.

Commercial trades in Chattanooga: contractors, buyer sites and rank
TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buyer sitesPer contractorRankDecision-maker records
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 102 +2 600 5.9 #7 850
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 149 +12 765 5.1 #15 not counted
Managed Service Providers
Largest buyer group: manufacturers
 222 0 798 3.6 #32 not counted
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 16 -2 757 47.3 #33 not counted
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies
 97 +4 504 5.2 #41 2,356
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 20 +2 917 45.9 #42 not counted
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 66 +6 653 9.9 #57 not counted
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 14 -1 783 55.9 #60 2,356
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 68 0 540 7.9 #78 1,091
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care
 4 0 457 114.3 n/r not counted
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 9 +1 787 87.4 n/r not counted

Sources: contractors and change, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1; buyer sites, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (each trade's own buyer categories, each site counted once); decision-maker records, Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026.

Growth and trends

Is Chattanooga adding businesses? Five years of counts

Private business establishments in the metro's counties went from 13,936 in 2021 to 15,521 in 2025 (+11.4%), while private employment moved +12.3% to 236,255. In the Census Bureau's latest count, 1,153 establishments opened and 939 closed in a year. New sites start without an incumbent vendor.

Private establishments and employment, 2021 to 2025

Private establishments, employment and average weekly wage by year, Chattanooga
YearEstablishmentsEmploymentAvg weekly wage
202113,936210,294$1,041
202214,972219,755$1,111
202316,140230,651$1,155
202416,627237,612$1,185
202515,521236,255$1,231

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (opens in a new tab), private ownership, 2021 to 2025 annual averages, 6 counties summed. n/a: BLS withholds the figure for at least one county.

Establishments opened and closed each year

Establishment openings and closings by year, Chattanooga, TN-GA
Year to MarchOpenedRateClosedRate
20199478.7%7176.6%
20209068.2%8777.9%
20211,18210.5%9198.2%
20221,19610.5%1,0098.8%
20231,1539.9%9398.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics (opens in a new tab), 2023 release, Chattanooga, TN-GA. Each year runs March to March; rates are per 100 establishments.

New business applications

7,599 applications for an employer ID number were filed in the metro's counties in 2025, +73.3% on 2019 (4,385): Hamilton County 5,561, Walker County 672, Catoosa County 659, Marion County 375, Dade County 168 and Sequatchie County 164. Applications include sole proprietors and filings that never hire, so they measure new business activity, not new buyers.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics (county annual) (opens in a new tab), calendar 2025, retrieved 2026-10-15.

Contractors by trade, 2021 to 2025
Contractor establishments by trade, 2021 and 2025, Chattanooga
Trade20212025Change
Commercial Construction8196+15 (+18.5%)
Commercial Roofing1214+2 (+16.7%)
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical6069+9 (+15.0%)
Paving & Asphalt1416+2 (+14.3%)
Commercial Electrical5961+2 (+3.4%)
Managed Service Providers215222+7 (+3.3%)
Commercial Landscaping1411410 (0.0%)
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial10798-9 (-8.4%)
Commercial Painting & Coatings109-1 (-10.0%)
Fire Protection1917-2 (-10.5%)
Commercial Flooring63-3 (-50.0%)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages, the same NAICS codes as the trade comparison above. More contractors means more competition for the same buyers; fewer means more room for outbound.

When to prospect: the Chattanooga calendar

Cooling demand peaks in July (380 cooling degree days in a normal year), and 55% of the 393 severe hail and wind reports from 2015 to 2024 fell in June, May and March. Start roofing and HVAC prospecting ahead of those months.

Average high temperature, cooling degree days and severe storm reports by month, Chattanooga
MonthAvg high (F)Cooling degree daysHail and wind reports
January49313
February5318
March621263
April711932
May7812370
June8527285
July8738057
August8735738
September821952
October72400
November60217
December5118

Sources: NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county monthly series, 1991-2020 averages (opens in a new tab); NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (opens in a new tab), 2015 to 2024. Reports of hail 1 inch or larger and thunderstorm wind of 58 mph or more, by month, across the market counties.

Buying signals

Where the money is moving in Chattanooga

Federal contracts and building permits are early signs that a building is changing: new construction, a renovation, a re-roof.

Federal contracts performed in the metro

Federal agencies obligated $803.9 million in contracts with a place of performance in Chattanooga's counties in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), against $76.4 million in fiscal 2025 (+952.4%). Construction (NAICS 23) took $203.9 million, 94% of it on one award: the Department of the Army's W912P526CA002 (opens in a new tab) in Hamilton County, $192.6 million obligated this fiscal year (the award record describes it as CHICKAMAUGA LOCK APPROACH WALLS AND DECOMMISSIONING CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH BASE AND OPTIONS.).

Contract obligations by county
CountyFY2026FY2025
Catoosa County$6.0 million$2.3 million
Dade County$0$0
Walker County$31,599$0
Hamilton County$797.9 million$73.5 million
Marion County$45,419$632,939
Sequatchie County$0-$20,800
Metro counties$803.9 million$76.4 million
FY2026 obligations in each trade's own NAICS code
TradeNAICSFY2026
Commercial Construction236220$4.4 million
Commercial Landscaping561730$1.3 million
Commercial Roofing238160$697,627
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical238220$173,160
Commercial Electrical238210$168,528
Paving & Asphalt237310$54,466
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial561720$33,547

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury) (opens in a new tab), contract award types A to D, obligations dated October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, by place of performance; data as of 2026-10-15. Defense contract actions are published 90 days late, so fiscal 2026 will still rise. Place of performance is coded by the contracting officer. A negative figure means deobligations (money taken back on earlier contracts) exceeded new obligations in that county.

Territory intelligence

Where the Chattanooga buyers are

Hamilton County, Catoosa County and Marion County hold 90% of the metro's 1,495 larger business sites, so most programs start there and add the rest of the metro for larger accounts, depending on how far your crews travel.

Larger business sites (20+ people) by county, Chattanooga, TN-GA
CountySitesShare
Hamilton County 1,18879%
Catoosa County, Georgia 1167.8%
Marion County 483.2%
Walker County, Georgia 382.5%
Sequatchie County 130.9%
Dade County, Georgia 100.7%
Not assigned to a county by Census825.5%
Metro total1,495100%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, metro and county files, summed across the buyer categories on this page (each site counted once). County files withhold some size-class counts that the metro file reports, so 82 sites cannot be placed in a county.

Abstrakt territories in this market

Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL. A strategist confirms which one your program would hold.

The owners that anchor Chattanooga

Each fact links to its source, checked 2026-10.

Health system

Erlanger Health System

Chattanooga, Hamilton County

Erlanger's fact sheet lists 930 acute-care beds across its system, which is headquartered at Erlanger Baroness Hospital in downtown Chattanooga.

Runs the downtown Baroness campus with the attached Children's Hospital plus Erlanger East and Erlanger North, a mix of inpatient towers, clinics and parking that needs constant mechanical, cleaning and life-safety upkeep.

HVACcleaningfire protectionelectrical

Erlanger Health System (opens in a new tab)
Airport

Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

Chattanooga, Hamilton County

The airport served 632,384 travelers in 2025, an all-time record and a 14 percent increase over the year before.

Terminal, airfield and parking operations, including a four-story parking garage the airport broke ground on in 2025.

pavingcleaningelectricalHVAC

WDEF News 12 (opens in a new tab)
4 more anchor owners in Chattanooga
Industrial park

Enterprise South Industrial Park

Chattanooga, Hamilton County

Enterprise South is a 6,000-acre site in northeast Chattanooga on the former Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant.

Home to the Volkswagen assembly plant, an Amazon fulfillment center and auto suppliers such as Gestamp and Plastic Omnium, so the park is dense with large plants, warehouses, lots and access roads.

roofingpavingHVACelectricalfire protection

Chattanooga Trend (Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce) (opens in a new tab)
Logistics hub

Bonny Oaks Industrial & Office Park

Chattanooga, Hamilton County

Hamilton County reports over 1,902,000 square feet of building construction completed in the park, which is primarily a distribution and light industry park.

Tenants listed by the county include UPS, Federal Express, DHL, Frito-Lay and Kenco Group, so the park is mostly warehouses and distribution buildings with truck courts and parking.

roofingpavingcleaningfire protection

Hamilton County Government (opens in a new tab)
Major employer

McKee Foods Corporation

Collegedale, Hamilton County

McKee Foods employs more than 3,000 people in its Tennessee production facilities and corporate headquarters.

Collegedale is home to two McKee bakeries, a research and development center, a corporate office building and several support buildings.

HVACcleaningroofingfire protection

McKee Foods (opens in a new tab)
Projects and economic activity

What is being built in Chattanooga, and who it puts to work

Named projects from primary and local news sources, researched September 2026. Market intelligence, not open bids: confirm timing with the owner.

Erlanger East Hospital expansion

$122 million

Under wayUnder construction

A new three-story, 52,000-square-foot medical building and an emergency department renovation, about 90,000 square feet in total, at Erlanger East Hospital on Gunbarrel Road in East Brainerd.

Hospital additions run long mechanical, electrical and fire protection scopes, and the emergency department renovation inside an operating hospital adds phased flooring, painting and infection-control cleaning work.

HVACelectricalfire protectionflooringpainting

Chattanooga Times Free Press, 2026-05-27 (opens in a new tab)

North River Elementary School and YMCA shared campus

$50 million

Under wayBroke ground August 2026

A roughly $50 million Hamilton County Schools elementary in Hixson that consolidates three school zones and shares a campus and gymnasium with the North River Family YMCA.

A new school targeted to open in fall 2028 needs roofing, mechanical, electrical and site paving packages, and the shared gym and YMCA programming increase long-term cleaning and grounds demand.

constructionHVACroofingpavingflooring

Chattanooga Times Free Press, 2026-08-27 (opens in a new tab)

Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

$77 million

Under wayUnder construction, topped out April 2026, completion scheduled 2027

An approximately 90,000-square-foot home for the UTC College of Nursing at Palmetto and East 3rd streets in Chattanooga, with classrooms and a simulation lab, built by The Christman Company.

With the structure topped out, the 2026 to 2027 work shifts to fire sprinkler, mechanical and electrical rough-in, then flooring in classrooms, labs and corridors, followed by custodial and floor-care demand once the building opens.

flooringfire protectionHVACelectricalcleaning

UTC News, 2026-04-30 (opens in a new tab)

Soddy Daisy Middle School renovation

$34 million

Under wayBroke ground June 2026; construction begins October 2026, completion anticipated fall 2029

A Hamilton County Schools renovation of Soddy Daisy Middle School that modernizes classrooms, adds a new gymnasium and upgrades the cafeteria to hold up to 650 students, funded by the county facilities bond.

A phased renovation of an occupied school runs flooring, painting, fire protection and mechanical upgrades in summer and after-hours windows through 2029, and the new gym adds athletic flooring.

flooringfire protectionpaintingHVACconstruction

WTVC NewsChannel 9, 2026-06-03 (opens in a new tab)

AC Hotel Chattanooga

Under wayBroke ground June 2026, opening expected spring 2028

A 148-room AC Hotel by Marriott developed by Vision Hospitality Group in Chattanooga, with an O-Ku Japanese restaurant on the ground floor.

A new-build hotel with a ground-floor restaurant needs fire sprinklers, kitchen exhaust and mechanical systems during 2026 and 2027, then guestroom carpet and hard-surface flooring before the 2028 opening, and housekeeping and kitchen cleaning after.

fire protectionflooringHVACelectricalcleaning

LODGING Magazine, 2026-06-22 (opens in a new tab)

Soddy Daisy Middle School renovation and new gymnasium

$29 million

Approved or fundedContract awarded; completion by 2029

Hamilton County Schools awarded a $29 million contract to upgrade the 60-year-old Soddy Daisy Middle School campus in Soddy-Daisy and add a new gymnasium, with construction set to finish by 2029.

A new gymnasium adds new roof area, and a phased renovation of an occupied campus lets roofing, HVAC, electrical and flooring packages over several years.

roofingconstructionHVACelectricalflooring

Chattanooga Times Free Press, 2026-03-05 (opens in a new tab)
Market view

What we see in Chattanooga

Chattanooga is a cleaning market. Cleaning ranks #7 of 100 markets on larger buyer sites per contractor, and the cleaning contractor count fell 8.4% from 2021 to 2025 while private establishments rose 11.4%. Landscaping has room too, at #15. HVAC is the opposite, ranked #78 after its contractor count rose 15.0%.

The buyer list leans to hospitality and retail: hotels at 1.76x the U.S. concentration, retail at 1.54x and banks at 1.50x. In the latest year medical offices rose by 55 establishments, restaurants by 45 and retail by 42. Hamilton County holds 79% of the larger buyer sites and Catoosa County, on the Georgia side, 8%.

New buildings feed that service work in 2027 and 2028. UTC's Kennedy Health Sciences Building topped out in April 2026 for a 2027 finish, then needs custodial and floor care. A Southside development with shops, a food hall, a hotel and a plaza broke ground in August 2026, and Vision Hospitality Group's AC Hotel broke ground in June 2026 for spring 2028. Hamilton County Schools started North River Elementary, which shares a campus and gym with the YMCA, in August 2026.

Federal obligations jumped to $803.9 million in fiscal 2026 from $76.4 million, but 94% of the $203.9 million in construction is one Department of the Army award. That is not a trend to plan around.

Abstrakt's reading of the sourced figures and projects above, written .

Decision-makers

Who signs, and how many of them work in Chattanooga

4,690 general and operations managers, 1,150 medical and health services managers and 880 buyers and purchasing agents work in the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro. Jobs across every industry, not a contact list.

Jobs and median annual pay by title, Chattanooga, TN-GA
TitleJobsMedian payTrades that call this title first
General and operations managers
SOC 11-1021
4,690$102,920MSP
Medical and health services managers
SOC 11-9111
1,150$102,920
Buyers and purchasing agents
SOC 13-1020
880$65,690
Computer and information systems managers
SOC 11-3021
660$152,980
Construction managers
SOC 11-9021
380$101,640
Property, real estate, and community association managers
SOC 11-9141
330$63,680landscaping, painting, paving
Facilities managers
SOC 11-3013
210$103,570cleaning, construction, electrical, flooring, roofing, fire protection, HVAC
Education administrators, postsecondary
SOC 11-9033
120$102,160
Purchasing managers
SOC 11-3061
100$123,750

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) (opens in a new tab), May 2025, Chattanooga, TN-GA, all industries. Each title is the closest BLS occupation to a role in the trade's playbook; titles BLS does not publish for this metro are left out. Each trade link opens the Chattanooga guide's decision-maker questions.

Opportunity estimator

What Could Your Next 12 Months in Chattanooga Look Like?

A planning model, not a forecast: put in your own numbers and it applies Abstrakt's national sales center rates for your trade.

Default 16.1%: Abstrakt national rate for this trade. Use your own if you know it.

Baseline, 12 months

12,000prospecting dials
86meetings set
22proposals
3.6customers won
$89,355first-year value of those customers
Scenarios
ScenarioDials per meetingMeetingsCustomers wonFirst-year value
Conservative190632.6$65,841
Baseline140863.6$89,355
Optimistic1081114.6$115,831
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How it works. Meetings are dials divided by dials per appointment; proposals, customers won and value follow from the proposal rate, the win rate and your customer value. The rates are Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence, national, October 2026, across all programs, not Chattanooga results; the scenarios use the slower and faster quarter of buyer industries. Outbound results typically build over 6 to 12 months, so a first year rarely runs at a full year's pace. Benchmarks by trade and method.

Hiring locally

What an in-house SDR costs in Chattanooga

  • 1,630people in the role locally, all competing for the same hires

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025. Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services and travel (SOC 41-3091).

In-house SDR, first year (illustrative)$124,700

An illustrative model, not a quote: in-house adds $15,000 commission, 25% payroll taxes and benefits, $550/month tools, $7,000 recruiting and training, 35% yearly turnover, and manager, QA and admin time, before ramp time. Abstrakt includes the SDR, management, tools and data.

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Local sales intelligence

See how a Chattanooga program is built in Abstrakt Intelligence

Ava walks through the platform our strategists use, set to Chattanooga.

Abstrakt Intelligence

This demonstration showcases real Abstrakt Intelligence capabilities using fictional companies and contacts to protect client and prospect privacy. Ava is Abstrakt's AI guide. The screens are the demo set to the Chattanooga territory; its territory counts come from the demo data, not the Census figures above.

Read the transcript of Ava's Chattanooga walkthrough

Hi, I'm Ava.

Here's what an Abstrakt program looks like in Chattanooga.

First, we size your territory.

The Chattanooga area has about 13 thousand companies and 57 thousand business contacts.

Next, we pick the playbook for your industry.

Each playbook starts with criteria that have already booked meetings.

For roofing, that's roof size, roof age and who owns the building.

Then we build the list.

Anyone who isn't a fit comes off before a rep ever sees the name.

Every prospect gets a full profile.

The decision-maker, the building, and every touch so far.

Before the first dial, each rep practices in an AI role play and gets certified.

Now the calls start.

The dialer, the talk track and the follow-up all live in one place.

Every meeting is reviewed for quality before it reaches you.

And we track each one all the way to closed.

We take one client per trade per territory.

Once a spot is taken, it's gone.

Check if your trade is still open in Chattanooga.

Client results

Results from programs like this one

Each story is labeled with where the program ran. Abstrakt runs every program from its St. Louis sales floor.

  • Commercial cleaningLocal program, Tulsa

    How Century Facility Services broke its referral ceiling: $415K closed in year one

    Century Facility Services

    After losing a sales rep, Century Facility Services outsourced outbound and booked 58 appointments and closed $415K in year one.

    • 58 appointments booked
    • 7 deals closed
    • $415K closed business

    First year of the program (case published April 2026)

  • Commercial roofingRegional

    How Schena Roofing booked 475 appointments and kept a seasonal calendar full

    Schena Roofing & Sheet Metal

    Schena Roofing booked 475 appointments and closed $1.69M from 2018 to 2024, with another $1.39M in proposals delivered.

    • 475 appointments
    • $1.69M closed business
    • $1.39M in proposals delivered

    2018 to 2024, from Abstrakt program records. Closed business and proposals delivered are separate figures.

  • Fire protectionLocal program, Philadelphia

    How Harring Fire Protection turned outbound and inbound into $200K in new business

    Harring Fire Protection

    Outbound appointment setting plus an inbound website produced 195 appointments and 16 closed deals worth $200K in 28 months.

    • 195 appointments booked
    • 16 deals closed
    • $200K closed business

    28-month partnership (case published April 2026); search figures within 12 months of the February 2025 site launch

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Outsourced sales development

How Abstrakt runs a Chattanooga program

Reps on Abstrakt's St. Louis sales floor work your Chattanooga list by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail after two weeks of training and certification on your account.

Contractor licensing in Tennessee

Tennessee requires a contractor's license before bidding or contracting on projects of $25,000 or more, issued by classification with a monetary limit. Electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing subcontractors also need the license at $25,000 or more, and masonry at $100,000 or more.

Confirm with Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-09-30.

Free market report

The State of Outbound Sales in Chattanooga, 2026

This page's Chattanooga data in one report for your team, with the Tennessee calling rules. No form to fill in.

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Outsourced sales development in Chattanooga, answered

Does Abstrakt provide B2B lead generation and appointment setting in Chattanooga?

Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced lead generation and B2B appointment setting across the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro from its St. Louis sales floor: U.S.-based reps prospect the buildings, qualify the opportunity and book meetings with the person who signs. We take one client per trade per territory.

How does B2B appointment setting work for a Chattanooga program?

It starts with the list. Of the 1,495 sites in Chattanooga with 20 or more people on site, we keep the ones that buy your trade inside your service area, then a certified rep works them by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail. Meetings are booked with the decision-maker, reviewed before they reach you and tracked to a proposal and a close.

Which commercial trades have the most room to grow in Chattanooga?

Measured by larger buyer sites per contractor across the markets we track (a market is ranked for a trade only where it has at least 10 local contractors), commercial cleaning & janitorial (#7 of 100), commercial landscaping (#15 of 100) and paving & asphalt (#33 of 94) rank best in Chattanooga.

What kinds of businesses are concentrated in Chattanooga?

Compared with the national mix, Chattanooga has more hotels (1.76x), golf courses and country clubs (1.58x) and retail stores (1.54x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.

Is the Chattanooga business market growing?

Yes, on both counts below. Private business establishments across Chattanooga's counties went from 13,936 in 2021 to 15,521 in 2025 (+11.4%), and private employment +12.3% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages). In the latest Census count, 1,153 establishments opened and 939 closed in the metro (U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics, 2023, March to March), so openings ran ahead of closings by 214.

How much federal construction money is spent in Chattanooga?

Federal contract obligations with a place of performance in Chattanooga's counties came to $803.9 million in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), $203.9 million of it in construction (NAICS 23) (USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), retrieved 2026-10-15). Fiscal 2026 will still rise as delayed defense contract actions post.

Which new Chattanooga buildings will need cleaning contracts first?

The ones finishing soonest. UTC's Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building, the College of Nursing's new home with a simulation lab, topped out in April 2026 and is scheduled to finish in 2027, then needs custodial and floor care. The AC Hotel needs housekeeping and kitchen cleaning after its spring 2028 opening, and the new Southside food hall and plaza bring recurring cleaning once open. Cleaning ranks #7 of 100 markets here, so the timing is good.

What does the Erlanger East expansion mean for Chattanooga contractors?

Long mechanical, electrical and fire protection scopes, then phased interior work. Erlanger is adding a three-story medical building and renovating the emergency department at Erlanger East Hospital on Gunbarrel Road in East Brainerd. The renovation happens inside an operating hospital, which means phased flooring, painting and infection-control cleaning. HVAC firms face a crowded field, ranked #78 of 100 markets on larger buyer sites per contractor, so the subcontract relationship matters more than the cold call.

Which counties make up the Chattanooga market?

The metro covers 6 counties. Hamilton County, Catoosa County and Marion County hold 90% of the larger business sites, so most programs start there.

What does outsourced sales development cost in Chattanooga?

Starting at $5,000 per month for an Outbound BDR program, as a flat monthly program. The price depends on how many reps work your program, the channels, and how large a territory and how many trades it covers. For comparison, one in-house SDR costs about $124,700 in year one at a $55,000 base salary on our illustrative model, before ramp time.

Sources and method

Updated . Approved the local markets plan: the data sources, the method and the in-house SDR cost model shown on market pages: Scott Scully, Executive Chairman, October 15, 2026. Every figure is regenerated from its source by a script in the site's code, never typed by hand.

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