Commercial lead generation and B2B appointment setting in Greensboro

Greensboro-High Point has 2,183 business sites with 20 or more people on site in the categories commercial trades sell to, #59 of the 100 markets we cover, and 2.74 times the national concentration of hospitals. Private business establishments grew 6.9% 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 Greensboro-High Point, and which ones buy

Greensboro-High Point has 9,676 establishments in the categories commercial trades sell to, 2,183 of them with 20 or more people on site. Compared with the national mix it over-indexes on hospitals (2.74x), auto dealerships (1.74x) and apartment and residential property managers (1.66x). Added over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+124), wholesale distributors (+94) and retail stores (+90).

  • 9,676 establishments in the 21 categories commercial trades sell to

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

  • 2,183 of them with 20 or more people on site, where a prospecting list starts

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

  • +6.9% private business establishments, 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1 (21,892 now; U.S. +3.6%)

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

  • 2.74x the national concentration of hospitals

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

  • 4,411 decision-maker records Abstrakt can prospect for a construction and roofing program (territory: Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point)

    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 Greensboro-High Point

  1. Restaurants 1.21x the U.S. mix589
  2. Retail stores 1.40x the U.S. mix401
  3. Manufacturing plants 1.41x the U.S. mix389
  4. Wholesale distributors 1.39x the U.S. mix232
  5. Medical, dental and outpatient offices220
  6. Grocery stores83
  7. Senior living and nursing81
  8. Churches and religious organizations50

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 Greensboro-High Point: larger sites, all establishments, concentration and one-year change
CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants 5891,581 1.21x +74
Retail stores 4012,563 1.40x +90
Manufacturing plants 389900 1.41x +24
Wholesale distributors 2321,243 1.39x +94
Medical, dental and outpatient offices 2201,191 0.98x +124
Grocery stores (also counted in retail) 83324 0.92x +9
Senior living and nursing 81186 1.13x +10
Churches and religious organizations 50676 0.63x +4
Hotels 48147 1.38x +3
Trucking companies 46411 1.46x +31
Auto dealerships (also counted in retail) 40141 1.74x +3
Private K-12 schools 3447 1.18x +4
Bank and credit union offices 31366 1.07x +13
Warehousing and distribution 2570 1.51x +8
Apartment and residential property managers 19136 1.66x +21
Hospitals 710 2.74x +66 *
Hosting and data processing companies 624 0.63x +17
Golf courses and country clubs 520 1.15x +1
Colleges and universities 08 0.79x +1
Commercial property managers 032 0.85x +4
Nonresidential building owners 065 1.09x +4
Total, each site once2,1839,676

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. * More than half the prior year's count (hospitals). QCEW counts move when an employer changes how it reports its locations, so treat this as a reporting change until confirmed.

Your industry in Greensboro

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Every trade in Greensboro at a glance

Largest buyer groups (sites with 20+ people)

  1. Restaurants589
  2. Retail stores401
  3. Manufacturing plants389
  4. Wholesale distributors232
  5. Medical, dental and outpatient offices220

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

Most room per contractor

  1. Fire Protection#4 of 96
  2. Commercial Construction#8 of 100
  3. Commercial HVAC & Mechanical#14 of 100

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 Greensboro

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 Greensboro: contractors, buyer sites and rank
TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buyer sitesPer contractorRankDecision-maker records
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 17 +1 1,341 78.9 #4 not counted
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies
 91 +3 746 8.2 #8 4,411
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 63 -2 842 13.4 #14 1,938
Managed Service Providers
Largest buyer group: manufacturers
 296 +10 1,238 4.2 #22 not counted
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 15 +1 1,211 80.7 #23 not counted
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 224 +9 899 4.0 #43 1,466
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 18 +1 1,180 65.6 #45 4,411
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 99 +14 1,006 10.2 #52 not counted
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 298 +12 1,038 3.5 #54 not counted
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 31 0 1,023 33.0 #73 not counted
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care
 8 +2 640 80.0 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 Greensboro-High Point adding businesses? Five years of counts

Private business establishments in the metro's counties went from 19,643 in 2021 to 20,950 in 2025 (+6.7%), while private employment moved +4.9% to 320,721. In the Census Bureau's latest count, 1,673 establishments opened and 1,538 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, Greensboro-High Point
YearEstablishmentsEmploymentAvg weekly wage
202119,643305,866$1,017
202221,215312,497$1,061
202322,026313,622$1,089
202421,948315,439$1,139
202520,950320,721$1,183

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, 3 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, Greensboro-High Point, NC
Year to MarchOpenedRateClosedRate
20191,3268.2%1,2217.5%
20201,3998.5%1,2937.9%
20211,5689.5%1,3828.4%
20221,84211.0%1,4798.8%
20231,6739.8%1,5389.0%

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

New business applications

11,904 applications for an employer ID number were filed in the metro's counties in 2025, +68.4% on 2019 (7,067): Guilford County 9,325, Randolph County 1,610 and Rockingham County 969. 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, Greensboro-High Point
Trade20212025Change
Commercial Electrical6889+21 (+30.9%)
Managed Service Providers237295+58 (+24.5%)
Commercial Roofing1517+2 (+13.3%)
Paving & Asphalt2629+3 (+11.5%)
Commercial Construction8286+4 (+4.9%)
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial230220-10 (-4.3%)
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical6764-3 (-4.5%)
Commercial Landscaping302286-16 (-5.3%)
Fire Protection1816-2 (-11.1%)
Commercial Flooring86-2 (-25.0%)
Commercial Painting & Coatings1914-5 (-26.3%)

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 Greensboro calendar

Cooling demand peaks in July (414 cooling degree days in a normal year), and 61% of the 559 severe hail and wind reports from 2015 to 2024 fell in May, July and June. Start roofing and HVAC prospecting ahead of those months.

Average high temperature, cooling degree days and severe storm reports by month, Greensboro-High Point
MonthAvg high (F)Cooling degree daysHail and wind reports
January50112
February5409
March6299
April711449
May78118138
June8529190
July89414114
August8736788
September8117727
October722919
November6110
December5314

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 Greensboro-High Point

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 $41.5 million in contracts with a place of performance in Greensboro-High Point's counties in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), against $163.5 million in fiscal 2025 (-74.6%). Construction (NAICS 23) took $646,375.

Contract obligations by county
CountyFY2026FY2025
Guilford County-$29.8 million$112.0 million
Randolph County$5.8 million$1.0 million
Rockingham County$65.5 million$50.5 million
Metro counties$41.5 million$163.5 million
FY2026 obligations in each trade's own NAICS code
TradeNAICSFY2026
Commercial Construction236220$253,325
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial561720$162,525
Fire Protection561621$115,567
Commercial Electrical238210$92,560
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical238220$379

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 Greensboro buyers are

Guilford County holds 78% of the metro's 2,183 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, Greensboro-High Point, NC
CountySitesShare
Guilford County 1,70178%
Randolph County 30714%
Rockingham County 1416.5%
Not assigned to a county by Census341.6%
Metro total2,183100%

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 34 sites cannot be placed in a county.

Abstrakt territories in this market

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC. A strategist confirms which one your program would hold.

The owners that anchor Greensboro-High Point

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

Health system

Cone Health

Greensboro, Guilford County

Wikipedia, citing the City of Greensboro's financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, lists Cone Health as the city's largest employer with 13,000 employees.

Cone Health runs Moses Cone Hospital, Wesley Long Hospital and a behavioral health hospital in Greensboro plus Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville, all with central plants, life-safety systems and cleaning needs.

HVACfire protectioncleaningelectrical

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Campus

North Carolina A&T State University

Greensboro, Guilford County

Wikipedia, citing N.C. A&T's enrollment dashboard, gives the university 15,275 students in fall 2025.

The largest historically black university in the country by its own description, with classroom, research, residence and athletic buildings plus parking and grounds.

HVACroofinglandscapingflooring

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
3 more anchor owners in Greensboro-High Point
Major employer

Volvo Group

Greensboro, Guilford County

Wikipedia, citing the City of Greensboro's FY2025 financial report, lists Volvo Group with 3,037 employees in the city.

Corporate office and operations buildings in Greensboro with parking, grounds and building systems that need routine service.

cleaningHVAClandscapingpaving

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Logistics hub

FedEx Express Mid-Atlantic Hub

Piedmont Triad International Airport, Guilford County

AviationPros reported in 2018 that hiring would bring total employment at the FedEx Mid-Atlantic Hub at PTI to more than 800 workers.

An air cargo sort hub on airport land with large sort buildings, ramps, conveyors and heavy pavement.

pavingelectricalHVACroofing

AviationPros (opens in a new tab)
Public owner

Guilford County Schools

Greensboro, Guilford County

Wikipedia, citing the City of Greensboro's FY2025 financial report, lists Guilford County Schools with 10,667 employees.

A large public school district with school buildings, gyms, kitchens, fields and parking lots maintained and replaced through public bids.

HVACroofingflooringpaving

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Projects and economic activity

What is being built in Greensboro-High Point, 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.

JetZero aircraft manufacturing campus

$4.7 billion

Under wayBroke ground June 2026

A commercial airplane manufacturing facility and composite structures research center at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, with a commitment of 14,500 jobs, the largest in North Carolina history by job count.

Site preparation comes first, so paving and site utility work lead, followed by years of electrical, mechanical and fire protection work on large production buildings, then facility service contracts for a very large workforce.

pavingelectricalHVACfire protectioncleaning

Office of Governor Josh Stein, 2026-06-15 (opens in a new tab)

Piedmont Triad International Airport terminal modernization

$300 million

Approved or fundedBond financing approved

Guilford County commissioners approved up to $300 million in airport revenue bonds on September 3, 2026 to renovate PTI's 1982 terminal and concourses, including the ticket lobby, TSA screening, baggage claim, concessions, windows and heating systems.

Renovating an operating terminal means phased mechanical replacement, electrical, flooring and painting work done around live operations, and the bond increase was driven by high bid prices, which points to bidding soon.

HVACelectricalflooringpaintingconstruction

Rhino Times, 2026-09-09 (opens in a new tab)

Erwin Montessori Elementary School rebuild

Over $51 million

Under wayBroke ground September 2026

Guilford County Schools is rebuilding Erwin Montessori Elementary, destroyed by a 2018 tornado, on the former Archer Elementary campus on Four Seasons Boulevard in Greensboro, opening August 2027.

A school due to open in under a year compresses roofing, mechanical, electrical and finish work into 2026 and 2027, and it is one of several bond-funded Guilford County school builds now in construction.

constructionHVACelectricalroofingflooring

FOX8 WGHP via AOL, 2026-09-02 (opens in a new tab)
Market view

What we see in Greensboro

Greensboro's story is JetZero. The aircraft maker broke ground in June 2026 on a manufacturing campus and composite research center at Piedmont Triad International Airport, the largest jobs commitment in North Carolina history. Site preparation comes first, so paving and site utility firms get the first work, then come years of electrical, mechanical and fire protection on production buildings, then facility services for the workforce. Paving is crowded here at #73 of 94 markets on larger buyer sites per contractor, so a paving firm needs the site contractor's estimator, not a cold call to JetZero.

The trades behind it have room. Fire protection ranks #4 of 96, general construction #8 and HVAC #14 of 100, and the fire protection contractor count fell 11.1% from 2021 to 2025. Electrical is the exception: its contractor count rose 30.9% over the same years.

The standing buyer list is industrial and medical. Manufacturing runs at 1.41x the U.S. concentration, warehousing at 1.51x and hospitals at 2.74x, and medical offices rose by 124 establishments in the latest year. Guilford County holds 78% of the larger buyer sites and Randolph County 14%.

Public work fills the next two years. Guilford County approved airport revenue bonds in September 2026 to renovate the PTI terminal and concourses, with heating systems, baggage claim and screening in scope, and Guilford County Schools broke ground on the Erwin Montessori rebuild for an August 2027 opening.

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

Decision-makers

Who signs, and how many of them work in Greensboro

4,710 general and operations managers, 1,170 buyers and purchasing agents and 1,020 computer and information systems managers work in the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro. Jobs across every industry, not a contact list.

Jobs and median annual pay by title, Greensboro-High Point, NC
TitleJobsMedian payTrades that call this title first
General and operations managers
SOC 11-1021
4,710$100,930MSP
Buyers and purchasing agents
SOC 13-1020
1,170$72,540
Computer and information systems managers
SOC 11-3021
1,020$163,180
Construction managers
SOC 11-9021
1,000$105,450
Property, real estate, and community association managers
SOC 11-9141
950$58,880landscaping, painting, paving
Medical and health services managers
SOC 11-9111
880$115,130
Facilities managers
SOC 11-3013
420$103,570cleaning, construction, electrical, flooring, roofing, fire protection, HVAC
Education administrators, postsecondary
SOC 11-9033
380$105,180
Purchasing managers
SOC 11-3061
210$132,020

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) (opens in a new tab), May 2025, Greensboro-High Point, NC, 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 Greensboro guide's decision-maker questions.

Opportunity estimator

What Could Your Next 12 Months in Greensboro 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 Greensboro 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 Greensboro

  • 2,880people 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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See how a Greensboro program is built in Abstrakt Intelligence

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

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 Greensboro territory; its territory counts come from the demo data, not the Census figures above.

Read the transcript of Ava's Greensboro walkthrough

Hi, I'm Ava.

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

First, we size your territory.

The Greensboro area has about 17 thousand companies and 78 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 Greensboro.

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 Greensboro program

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

Contractor licensing in North Carolina

North Carolina requires a general contractor license for any building or improvement project costing $40,000 or more. Electrical, plumbing, heating, and fire sprinkler contracting require licenses from separate trade boards regardless of project size.

Confirm with North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors; State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors; State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating and Fire Sprinkler Contractors (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-09-30.

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Outsourced sales development in Greensboro, answered

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

Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced lead generation and B2B appointment setting across the Greensboro-High Point, NC 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 Greensboro program?

It starts with the list. Of the 2,183 sites in Greensboro-High Point 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 Greensboro?

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), fire protection (#4 of 96), commercial construction (#8 of 100) and commercial HVAC & mechanical (#14 of 100) rank best in Greensboro.

What kinds of businesses are concentrated in Greensboro?

Compared with the national mix, Greensboro-High Point has more hospitals (2.74x), auto dealerships (1.74x) and apartment and residential property managers (1.66x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.

Is the Greensboro business market growing?

Yes, on both counts below. Private business establishments across Greensboro-High Point's counties went from 19,643 in 2021 to 20,950 in 2025 (+6.7%), and private employment +4.9% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages). In the latest Census count, 1,673 establishments opened and 1,538 closed in the metro (U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics, 2023, March to March), so openings ran ahead of closings by 135.

How much federal construction money is spent in Greensboro?

Federal contract obligations with a place of performance in Greensboro-High Point's counties came to $41.5 million in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), $646,375 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.

When will the Piedmont Triad airport terminal renovation reach contractors?

Likely soon. Guilford County commissioners approved airport revenue bonds in September 2026 to renovate the terminal and concourses at Piedmont Triad International Airport, including the ticket lobby, TSA screening, baggage claim, concessions, windows and heating systems. The bond amount was raised because bids came in high, which points to bidding soon. Work in an operating terminal is phased around live operations, so mechanical, electrical, flooring and painting firms should plan for sequenced work.

What does the JetZero plant mean for Greensboro fire protection contractors?

A long run of work in a trade that already has room. JetZero broke ground in June 2026 on an aircraft manufacturing campus at Piedmont Triad International Airport. After site preparation, large production buildings need fire protection alongside electrical and mechanical systems, and facility service contracts follow. Fire protection ranks #4 of 96 markets on larger buyer sites per contractor, with 17 fire protection contractors in the metro.

Which counties make up the Greensboro market?

The metro covers 3 counties. Guilford County holds 78% of the larger business sites, so most programs start there.

What does outsourced sales development cost in Greensboro?

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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