Commercial lead generation and B2B appointment setting in Portland, OR

Portland-Vancouver has 6,273 business sites with 20 or more people on site in the categories commercial trades sell to, #23 of the 100 markets we cover, and 5.22 times the national concentration of churches and religious organizations. Private business establishments fell 2.7% 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 Portland-Vancouver, and which ones buy

Portland-Vancouver has 33,361 establishments in the categories commercial trades sell to, 6,273 of them with 20 or more people on site. Compared with the national mix it over-indexes on churches and religious organizations (5.22x), senior living and nursing (2.72x) and apartment and residential property managers (1.84x). Added over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+51), senior living and nursing (+29) and private K-12 schools (+5). Down: wholesale distributors (-184) and retail stores (-183).

  • 33,361 establishments in the 21 categories commercial trades sell to

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

  • 6,273 of them with 20 or more people on site, where a prospecting list starts

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

  • -2.7% private business establishments, 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1 (93,877 now; U.S. +3.6%)

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

  • 5.22x the national concentration of churches and religious organizations

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

  • 7,859 decision-maker records Abstrakt can prospect for a construction and roofing program (territory: Portland-Vancouver-Salem)

    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 Portland-Vancouver

  1. Restaurants 1.15x the U.S. mix1,678
  2. Retail stores1,231
  3. Manufacturing plants 1.26x the U.S. mix917
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices628
  5. Wholesale distributors 1.16x the U.S. mix589
  6. Senior living and nursing 2.72x the U.S. mix352
  7. Grocery stores252
  8. Hotels161

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 Portland-Vancouver: larger sites, all establishments, concentration and one-year change
CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants 1,6786,499 1.15x -43
Retail stores 1,2317,036 0.83x -183
Manufacturing plants 9173,084 1.26x -102
Medical, dental and outpatient offices 6285,590 0.95x +51
Wholesale distributors 5893,245 1.16x -184
Senior living and nursing 3521,764 2.72x +29
Grocery stores (also counted in retail) 2521,150 0.95x -4
Hotels 161344 0.78x +4
Trucking companies 1411,334 0.70x -79
Bank and credit union offices 1361,190 0.88x -60
Auto dealerships (also counted in retail) 113322 0.77x -23
Churches and religious organizations 1091,220 5.22x -14
Private K-12 schools 107206 1.42x +5
Apartment and residential property managers 68996 1.84x -71
Warehousing and distribution 48186 0.93x +1
Hosting and data processing companies 31156 1.20x -20
Golf courses and country clubs 2649 0.61x -2
Hospitals 2023 0.51x 0
Colleges and universities 1135 1.60x -10
Commercial property managers 11118 0.74x +2
Nonresidential building owners 9286 0.89x -7
Total, each site once6,27333,361

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 Portland, OR

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Every trade in Portland, OR at a glance

Largest buyer groups (sites with 20+ people)

  1. Restaurants1,678
  2. Retail stores1,231
  3. Manufacturing plants917
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices628
  5. Wholesale distributors589

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

Most room per contractor

  1. Commercial Roofing#5 of 89
  2. Commercial Painting & Coatings#6 of 86
  3. Commercial HVAC & Mechanical#17 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 Portland, OR

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 Portland, OR: contractors, buyer sites and rank
TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buyer sitesPer contractorRankDecision-maker records
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 31 -2 3,973 128.2 #5 7,859
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 42 -2 4,216 100.4 #6 not counted
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 183 -3 2,393 13.1 #17 3,004
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 232 -8 3,014 13.0 #18 not counted
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: apartment and multifamily management companies
 31 +2 2,679 86.4 #15 not counted
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 87 -3 4,408 50.7 #29 not counted
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies
 398 -9 2,194 5.5 #35 7,859
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 987 -27 3,918 4.0 #41 not counted
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 100 -6 3,718 37.2 #60 not counted
Managed Service Providers
Largest buyer group: manufacturers
 1,714 -19 3,864 2.3 #67 not counted
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 839 -46 2,688 3.2 #73 2,327

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 Portland-Vancouver adding businesses? Five years of counts

Private business establishments in the metro's counties went from 98,641 in 2021 to 96,183 in 2025 (-2.5%), while private employment moved +4.0% to 1,053,506. In the Census Bureau's latest count, 6,911 establishments opened and 6,588 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, Portland-Vancouver
YearEstablishmentsEmploymentAvg weekly wage
202198,6411,013,012$1,388
2022103,3911,060,175$1,422
2023103,9891,072,706$1,454
2024100,1301,064,206$1,504
202596,1831,053,506$1,540

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, 7 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, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
Year to MarchOpenedRateClosedRate
20196,2839.8%5,8319.1%
20206,1969.6%6,1549.6%
20216,73710.5%6,71410.4%
20227,69811.8%6,1939.5%
20236,91110.5%6,58810.0%

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

New business applications

43,301 applications for an employer ID number were filed in the metro's counties in 2025, +67.0% on 2019 (25,929): Multnomah County 16,110, Clark County 9,863, Washington County 8,868, Clackamas County 6,338, Yamhill County 1,292, Columbia County 602 and Skamania County 228. 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, Portland-Vancouver
Trade20212025Change
Managed Service Providers1,3131,741+428 (+32.6%)
Fire Protection7489+15 (+20.3%)
Commercial Construction380407+27 (+7.1%)
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial837881+44 (+5.3%)
Paving & Asphalt99104+5 (+5.1%)
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical180184+4 (+2.2%)
Commercial Landscaping9961,017+21 (+2.1%)
Commercial Electrical250235-15 (-6.0%)
Commercial Roofing3532-3 (-8.6%)
Commercial Painting & Coatings4944-5 (-10.2%)
Commercial Flooring3728-9 (-24.3%)

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 Portland, OR calendar

Cooling demand peaks in August (77 cooling degree days in a normal year), and 67% of the 9 severe hail and wind reports from 2015 to 2024 fell in May, April and January. Start roofing and HVAC prospecting ahead of those months.

Average high temperature, cooling degree days and severe storm reports by month, Portland-Vancouver
MonthAvg high (F)Cooling degree daysHail and wind reports
January4401
February4700
March5200
April5702
May6433
June69131
July77740
August78771
September72260
October6001
November4900
December4300

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 Portland-Vancouver

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 $1.66 billion in contracts with a place of performance in Portland-Vancouver's counties in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), against $1.13 billion in fiscal 2025 (+47.1%). Construction (NAICS 23) took $128.1 million.

Contract obligations by county
CountyFY2026FY2025
Clackamas County$322.4 million$184.9 million
Columbia County$1.0 million$1.0 million
Multnomah County$995.6 million$712.1 million
Washington County$82.3 million$60.2 million
Yamhill County$24.8 million$17.0 million
Clark County$220.9 million$143.9 million
Skamania County$10.5 million$7.5 million
Metro counties$1.66 billion$1.13 billion
FY2026 obligations in each trade's own NAICS code
TradeNAICSFY2026
Commercial Construction236220$48.8 million
Commercial Electrical238210$29.2 million
Managed Service Providers541512$5.9 million
Paving & Asphalt237310$4.1 million
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial561720$1.1 million
Commercial Landscaping561730$699,517
Commercial Flooring238330$395,520
Commercial Roofing238160$248,500
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical238220$210,495
Fire Protection561621$191,743
Commercial Painting & Coatings238320$23,645

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.

Territory intelligence

Where the Portland, OR buyers are

Multnomah County, Washington County and Clackamas County hold 78% of the metro's 6,273 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, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
CountySitesShare
Multnomah County 2,35137%
Washington County 1,54225%
Clackamas County 1,02116%
Clark County, Washington 96015%
Yamhill County 1963.1%
Columbia County 560.9%
Not assigned to a county by Census1472.3%
Metro total6,273100%

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 147 sites cannot be placed in a county.

Abstrakt territories in this market

Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA. A strategist confirms which one your program would hold.

The owners that anchor Portland-Vancouver

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

Health system

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Unincorporated Washington County

Wikipedia says Providence St. Vincent is licensed for 523 beds and has over 3,500 employees.

An acute care teaching campus with a 13-story tower and parking needs HVAC, cleaning, life-safety and pavement work.

HVACcleaningfire protectionpaving

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
4 more anchor owners in Portland-Vancouver
Airport

Portland International Airport (PDX)

Portland, Multnomah County

Wikipedia lists 18,563,132 passengers at PDX in 2025 and says the airport covers 3,000 acres of land.

The terminal, parking garages, cargo buildings and airfield support facilities need cleaning, HVAC service, electrical work and pavement upkeep.

cleaningHVACpavingelectrical

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Major employer

Intel Corporation (Hillsboro campuses)

Hillsboro, Washington County

Wikipedia, citing the City of Hillsboro's 2022 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, lists Intel as the city's largest employer with 20,000 employees.

Semiconductor fabs, offices and support buildings run heavy electrical, mechanical, fire protection and cleanroom-adjacent cleaning programs.

electricalHVACfire protectioncleaningconstruction

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Major employer

Nike World Headquarters

near Beaverton, Washington County

Wikipedia says the Nike campus has more than 75 buildings on 286 acres, as of 2018, with a citation.

A corporate campus with offices, athletic facilities, a child development center and landscaped grounds needs janitorial, HVAC, landscape and flooring service.

cleaningHVAClandscapingflooring

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

What is being built in Portland-Vancouver, 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.

OHSU Vista Pavilion (OHSU Hospital Expansion Project)

$650 million

Opening or openOpened 2026

A 14-story, 530,000 sq ft inpatient tower on OHSU's Marquam Hill campus in Portland that added 128 beds for Knight Cancer Institute patients and opened April 7, 2026.

With cancer care moved into the new tower, OHSU plans to repurpose existing hospital space for cardiovascular, neurological and other specialty care, which points to interior renovation work in the older buildings. A new tower this size also needs healthcare-grade cleaning and mechanical service contracts.

cleaningHVACflooringpainting

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

Jefferson High School rebuild

$466 million

Under wayUnder construction, opening fall 2029

Portland Public Schools broke ground May 29, 2026 on an all-electric, multi-story replacement for Jefferson High School on the north end of its 14-acre campus facing North Killingsworth Street in north Portland.

An all-electric school puts more of the budget into heat pump systems and electrical service, with structure and envelope work through 2027 and interiors through 2029. It is one of three high school rebuilds in the district's bond program, along with Cleveland and Ida B. Wells.

HVACelectricalroofingflooringconstruction

KPTV, 2026-05-29 (opens in a new tab)

Flexential Hillsboro 5 and Hillsboro 6 data centers

358,000 sq ft (Hillsboro 5); 350,000 sq ft (Hillsboro 6)

Under wayHillsboro 5 under construction for 2026; Hillsboro 6 planned

Flexential's fifth Hillsboro data center (36 megawatts) is under construction, and a sixth (27 megawatts) is planned at 3935 N.E. Aloclek Place in Hillsboro, Washington County.

Back-to-back data center buildings keep mechanical cooling, electrical distribution and fire suppression crews busy as one finishes and the next starts. Operating halls also need specialized cleaning on an ongoing basis.

HVACelectricalfire protectioncleaning

Hillsboro News-Times, 2025-10-01 (opens in a new tab)

Block 67 mixed-use development

See sourceSitework summer to fall 2026, opening spring/summer 2028

A two-building development by Koz Development in downtown Hillsboro with 338 apartments for older adults and working families, ground-floor retail and an anchor grocery store.

Vertical construction runs from fall 2026 into 2028, so roofing, mechanical, electrical and fire sprinkler work follows the sitework. The grocery and retail spaces add commercial tenant finish work near the end.

roofingHVACelectricalfire protectionpainting

Hillsboro News-Times, 2026-04-17 (opens in a new tab)
Market view

What we see in Portland, OR

Portland is short on commercial roofers and painters. The metro has 31 commercial roofing contractors for 3,973 larger buyer sites, 128.2 sites apiece, which ranks #5 of 89 markets for room. Painting and coatings sits right behind at #6 of 86. Neither trade is refilling: roofing establishments fell 8.6% from 2021 to 2025, painting fell 10.2%, and flooring contractors dropped 24.3%. The retail stores that top both the roofing and painting lists here are split among fewer contractors than in most metros we compare.

The buyer mix leans toward congregations and housing. Churches and religious organizations run at 5.22x the U.S. concentration, the highest ratio of any category in the metro, and apartment and residential property managers at 1.84x. Senior living and nursing, at 2.72x, added 29 locations in the latest year. For a flooring or painting firm, congregations and apartment portfolios belong on the call list next to retail.

The project work splits between Multnomah and Washington counties. OHSU opened Vista Pavilion on Marquam Hill in 2026 and plans to turn older hospital space into specialty care units, which is interior renovation on top of a new tower that needs mechanical service and healthcare cleaning. Portland Public Schools broke ground on an all-electric Jefferson High School, due in 2029, so heat pumps and electrical service take a bigger share of that budget. Out in Hillsboro, Flexential has a fifth data center under construction and a sixth planned, and Koz Development's two-building project adds apartments, retail and a grocery store downtown by 2028.

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

Decision-makers

Who signs, and how many of them work in Portland, OR

21,070 general and operations managers, 5,680 computer and information systems managers and 4,920 buyers and purchasing agents work in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro. Jobs across every industry, not a contact list.

Jobs and median annual pay by title, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
TitleJobsMedian payTrades that call this title first
General and operations managers
SOC 11-1021
21,070$121,050MSP
Computer and information systems managers
SOC 11-3021
5,680$183,720
Buyers and purchasing agents
SOC 13-1020
4,920$78,380
Medical and health services managers
SOC 11-9111
3,210$151,260
Construction managers
SOC 11-9021
2,690$146,740
Property, real estate, and community association managers
SOC 11-9141
2,210$82,180landscaping, painting, paving
Education administrators, postsecondary
SOC 11-9033
1,680$120,110
Facilities managers
SOC 11-3013
1,130$118,190cleaning, construction, electrical, flooring, roofing, fire protection, HVAC
Purchasing managers
SOC 11-3061
740$149,030

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) (opens in a new tab), May 2025, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, 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 Portland, OR guide's decision-maker questions.

Opportunity estimator

What Could Your Next 12 Months in Portland, OR 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 Portland, OR 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 Portland, OR

  • 7,530people 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 Portland, OR program is built in Abstrakt Intelligence

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

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

Read the transcript of Ava's Portland, OR walkthrough

Hi, I'm Ava.

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

First, we size your territory.

The Portland area has about 55 thousand companies and 251 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 Portland.

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 Portland, OR program

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

Contractor licensing in Oregon

Anyone who bids or performs construction work for others in Oregon must hold a Construction Contractors Board license with the right endorsement, including commercial general or specialty endorsements for commercial structures. Electrical contractors also need a Building Codes Division license, and landscaping is licensed by the separate Landscape Contractors Board.

Confirm with Oregon Construction Contractors Board (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-09-30.

Free market report

The State of Outbound Sales in Portland, OR, 2026

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

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Outsourced sales development in Portland, OR, answered

Does Abstrakt provide B2B lead generation and appointment setting in Portland, OR?

Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced lead generation and B2B appointment setting across the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 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 Portland, OR program?

It starts with the list. Of the 6,273 sites in Portland-Vancouver 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 Portland, OR?

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 roofing (#5 of 89), commercial painting & coatings (#6 of 86) and commercial HVAC & mechanical (#17 of 100) rank best in Portland, OR.

What kinds of businesses are concentrated in Portland, OR?

Compared with the national mix, Portland-Vancouver has more churches and religious organizations (5.22x), senior living and nursing (2.72x) and apartment and residential property managers (1.84x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.

Is the Portland, OR business market growing?

The latest year dipped: private business establishments fell 2.7% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1. The measures below point in different directions. Private business establishments across Portland-Vancouver's counties went from 98,641 in 2021 to 96,183 in 2025 (-2.5%), and private employment +4.0% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages). In the latest Census count, 6,911 establishments opened and 6,588 closed in the metro (U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics, 2023, March to March), so openings ran ahead of closings by 323.

How much federal construction money is spent in Portland, OR?

Federal contract obligations with a place of performance in Portland-Vancouver's counties came to $1.66 billion in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), $128.1 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.

Is there room for another commercial roofer in Portland?

Yes, more than in almost any metro we compare. Portland ranks #5 of 89 markets for commercial roofing room, with 128.2 larger buyer sites per contractor, and the count of roofing establishments fell 8.6% between 2021 and 2025. Retail stores are the largest buyer group for the trade here.

Where is the data center construction around Portland?

In Hillsboro, Washington County. Flexential's fifth building there is under construction and a sixth is planned, so mechanical cooling, electrical distribution and fire suppression crews can roll from one building to the next. Hosting and data processing companies sit at 1.20x the U.S. concentration across the metro, and Intel's Hillsboro campuses run heavy electrical and mechanical programs in the same city.

Which counties make up the Portland, OR market?

The metro covers 6 counties. Multnomah County, Washington County and Clackamas County hold 78% of the larger business sites, so most programs start there.

What does outsourced sales development cost in Portland, OR?

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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