Commercial lead generation and B2B appointment setting in Riverside

Riverside-San Bernardino has 9,003 business sites with 20 or more people on site in the categories commercial trades sell to, #15 of the 100 markets we cover, and 2.12 times the national concentration of warehousing and distribution. Private business establishments grew 11.2% 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 Riverside-San Bernardino, and which ones buy

Riverside-San Bernardino has 46,851 establishments in the categories commercial trades sell to, 9,003 of them with 20 or more people on site. Compared with the national mix it over-indexes on warehousing and distribution (2.12x) and trucking companies (1.65x). Added over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+476), restaurants (+331) and trucking companies (+208). Down: churches and religious organizations (-13) and private K-12 schools (-4).

  • 46,851 establishments in the 21 categories commercial trades sell to

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

  • 9,003 of them with 20 or more people on site, where a prospecting list starts

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

  • +11.2% private business establishments, 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1 (178,222 now; U.S. +3.6%)

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

  • 2.12x the national concentration of warehousing and distribution

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

  • 7,670 decision-maker records Abstrakt can prospect for a construction and roofing program (territory: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario)

    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 Riverside-San Bernardino

  1. Restaurants2,839
  2. Retail stores2,010
  3. Manufacturing plants1,005
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices857
  5. Wholesale distributors745
  6. Grocery stores412
  7. Warehousing and distribution 2.12x the U.S. mix349
  8. Senior living and nursing299

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 Riverside-San Bernardino: larger sites, all establishments, concentration and one-year change
CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants 2,8398,263 0.81x +331
Retail stores 2,01010,992 0.71x +78
Manufacturing plants 1,0053,369 0.65x +47
Medical, dental and outpatient offices 8578,392 0.81x +476
Wholesale distributors 7455,220 0.56x +81
Grocery stores (also counted in retail) 4121,747 0.79x +47
Warehousing and distribution 349748 2.12x +82
Senior living and nursing 2991,178 0.92x +22
Trucking companies 2544,134 1.65x +208
Auto dealerships (also counted in retail) 172411 0.64x +21
Hotels 161555 0.67x +39
Bank and credit union offices 1131,342 0.43x +38
Churches and religious organizations 971,126 0.86x -13
Golf courses and country clubs 8599 0.66x -2
Private K-12 schools 79128 0.39x -4
Hospitals 5359 0.27x +7
Apartment and residential property managers 21758 0.76x +62
Colleges and universities 1241 0.19x -2
Hosting and data processing companies 1173 0.09x +2
Nonresidential building owners 8235 0.38x +3
Commercial property managers 5139 0.37x +6
Total, each site once9,00346,851

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 Riverside

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Every trade in Riverside at a glance

Largest buyer groups (sites with 20+ people)

  1. Restaurants2,839
  2. Retail stores2,010
  3. Manufacturing plants1,005
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices857
  5. Wholesale distributors745

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

Most room per contractor

  1. Commercial Roofing#13 of 89
  2. Commercial Painting & Coatings#21 of 86
  3. Commercial Landscaping#32 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 Riverside

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 Riverside: contractors, buyer sites and rank
TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buyer sitesPer contractorRankDecision-maker records
Managed Service Providers
Largest buyer group: construction contractors
 557 +33 4,257 7.6 #6 not counted
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 51 +2 4,833 94.8 #13 7,670
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 61 +5 5,035 82.5 #21 not counted
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 1,104 +79 4,653 4.2 #32 not counted
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 114 +6 5,694 49.9 #31 not counted
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 113 +3 4,860 43.0 #38 not counted
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 290 +7 2,965 10.2 #46 3,039
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies
 494 +10 2,252 4.6 #54 7,670
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care
 45 +2 2,953 65.6 #37 not counted
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 829 +17 2,964 3.6 #58 2,362
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 436 +19 4,113 9.4 #63 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 Riverside-San Bernardino adding businesses? Five years of counts

Private business establishments in the metro's counties went from 137,467 in 2021 to 166,324 in 2025 (+21.0%), while private employment moved +7.5% to 1,414,652. In the Census Bureau's latest count, 9,894 establishments opened and 8,351 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, Riverside-San Bernardino
YearEstablishmentsEmploymentAvg weekly wage
2021137,4671,315,359$989
2022142,1951,389,501$1,022
2023148,3161,394,632$1,054
2024160,6571,411,086$1,096
2025166,3241,414,652$1,120

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, 2 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, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
Year to MarchOpenedRateClosedRate
20197,83611.3%6,4249.3%
20208,83812.4%6,7499.5%
20219,31812.8%7,99811.0%
202211,28915.0%7,0649.4%
20239,89412.6%8,35110.7%

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

New business applications

55,693 applications for an employer ID number were filed in the metro's counties in 2025, +63.7% on 2019 (34,014): Riverside County 29,037, San Bernardino County 26,656. 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, Riverside-San Bernardino
Trade20212025Change
Managed Service Providers408540+132 (+32.4%)
Commercial Roofing3949+10 (+25.6%)
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial671817+146 (+21.8%)
Commercial Painting & Coatings5058+8 (+16.0%)
Commercial Landscaping9331,053+120 (+12.9%)
Commercial Electrical385418+33 (+8.6%)
Paving & Asphalt102110+8 (+7.8%)
Fire Protection103109+6 (+5.8%)
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical276282+6 (+2.2%)
Commercial Flooring44440 (0.0%)
Commercial Construction498480-18 (-3.6%)

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 Riverside calendar

Cooling demand peaks in July (684 cooling degree days in a normal year), and 91% of the 91 severe hail and wind reports from 2015 to 2024 fell in August, July and September. Start roofing and HVAC prospecting ahead of those months.

Average high temperature, cooling degree days and severe storm reports by month, Riverside-San Bernardino
MonthAvg high (F)Cooling degree daysHail and wind reports
January6261
February6580
March71401
April781010
May862581
June964883
July10168428
August10066837
September9446418
October831762
November70220
December6100

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 Riverside-San Bernardino

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 $2.06 billion in contracts with a place of performance in Riverside-San Bernardino's counties in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), against $2.14 billion in fiscal 2025 (-3.4%). Construction (NAICS 23) took $853.0 million, 69% of it on one award: the Department of the Army's W912BV25C0008 (opens in a new tab) in Riverside County, $591.8 million obligated this fiscal year (the award record describes it as PRADO DAM SPILLWAY MODIFICATION PROJECT IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA / CALIFORNIA MEGA PROJECTS OFFICE (CAMPO) FPIS CONTRACT TYPE, UTILIZING THE IDAC APPROACH.).

Contract obligations by county
CountyFY2026FY2025
Riverside County$1.09 billion$1.11 billion
San Bernardino County$974.4 million$1.02 billion
Metro counties$2.06 billion$2.14 billion
FY2026 obligations in each trade's own NAICS code
TradeNAICSFY2026
Paving & Asphalt237310$75.2 million
Commercial Construction236220$57.4 million
Commercial Roofing238160$28.3 million
Managed Service Providers541512$11.4 million
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical238220$10.8 million
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial561720$10.2 million
Commercial Landscaping561730$7.0 million
Commercial Electrical238210$4.0 million
Fire Protection561621$1.3 million
Commercial Flooring238330$204,601
Commercial Painting & Coatings238320$19,360

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 Riverside buyers are

San Bernardino County holds 50% of the metro's 9,003 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, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
CountySitesShare
San Bernardino County 4,54450%
Riverside County 4,43249%
Not assigned to a county by Census270.3%
Metro total9,003100%

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 27 sites cannot be placed in a county.

Abstrakt territories in this market

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA. A strategist confirms which one your program would hold.

The owners that anchor Riverside-San Bernardino

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

Major employer

Stater Bros. Markets

San Bernardino, San Bernardino County

Wikipedia, citing the City of San Bernardino's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, lists Stater Bros. as the city's top employer with 15,000 to 25,000 employees.

A regional grocery chain headquartered in the metro runs a headquarters, distribution operations and many store buildings with refrigeration, roofs and parking lots.

HVACroofingpavingcleaningflooring

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
4 more anchor owners in Riverside-San Bernardino
Logistics hub

San Bernardino International Airport (SBD)

San Bernardino, San Bernardino County

Site Selection Magazine reports SBD is the SoCal hub for Amazon Air, with UPS and FedEx also operating there, and had over 18,100 direct jobs last year, up from 4,000 in 2020.

Air cargo sort buildings, hangars, aprons and truck yards on a former air base need roofing, paving, electrical and fire protection work.

roofingpavingelectricalfire protection

Site Selection Magazine (opens in a new tab)
Industrial park

World Logistics Center

Moreno Valley, Riverside County

The Los Angeles Times describes the World Logistics Center as a 40-million-square-foot complex expected to house 27 buildings and create more than 33,000 jobs.

Very large distribution buildings with acres of roof, truck courts and sprinkler systems bring roofing, paving, electrical and fire protection work as they are built and occupied.

roofingpavingelectricalfire protectionconstruction

Los Angeles Times (opens in a new tab)
Public owner

County of Riverside

Riverside, Riverside County

Wikipedia, citing the City of Riverside's 2023 annual financial report, lists the County of Riverside as the city's top employer with 24,399 employees.

County offices, courts, clinics and service centers spread across the county need janitorial, HVAC, roofing and parking-lot work.

cleaningHVACroofingpaving

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

What is being built in Riverside-San Bernardino, 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.

Ellis Avenue Logistics Center

631,011 sq ft

See sourceConstruction expected to start early 2026, completion projected late 2026

A 631,011 square foot Class A warehouse by Newcastle Partners at Ellis Avenue and Case Road in Perris, Riverside County, with 40-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system and 87 dock-high doors.

Big-box distribution buildings mean large roof areas, ESFR fire sprinkler systems and acres of truck court paving now, then tenant electrical, landscaping maintenance and sweeping contracts once a tenant moves in.

roofingfire protectionpavingelectricallandscaping

JLL (press release), 2026-02-06 (opens in a new tab)

Loma Linda University Health inpatient rehabilitation hospital

99,000 sq ft

Under wayUnder construction (broke ground August 2026), opening expected summer 2028

A three-story, 80-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital at 11207 New Jersey Street on the Loma Linda and Redlands border in San Bernardino County, developed by PMB with Layton Construction as general contractor.

A new hospital building carries medical-grade HVAC, electrical and fire protection scopes through 2027, followed by flooring, painting and healthcare cleaning contracts ahead of the 2028 opening.

HVACelectricalfire protectionflooringcleaning

Connect CRE, 2026-08-14 (opens in a new tab)

ONT BOLD expansion, Ontario International Airport

650,000 sq ft (Terminal 3)

See sourceEnvironmental review (Notice of Preparation released May 2026), about 10 years to full delivery

A phased program at Ontario International Airport in San Bernardino County to build a new three-level Terminal 3, modernize Terminals 2 and 4, and add roadways, a parking structure, rental car facilities and aircraft apron.

This is a long-horizon pipeline item: once approved, terminal, parking and apron work brings electrical, HVAC, paving and fire protection packages in phases over roughly a decade.

electricalHVACpavingfire protectionconstruction

California Construction News, 2026-05-11 (opens in a new tab)

Mid County Parkway (Ramona Expressway) and SR-60/Potrero Boulevard Interchange Phase II

$107.38 million (Mid County Parkway contract)

Under wayContracts awarded December 2025, construction starting early 2026

Two Riverside County road contracts totaling more than $156 million: widening 8.6 miles of Ramona Expressway into San Jacinto, and a new SR-60 interchange at Potrero Boulevard in Beaumont ($48.93 million).

Road widening and interchange work runs through 2028 and 2029 and creates subcontract demand for paving, striping, traffic signal and lighting electrical work, and roadside landscaping.

pavingelectricallandscaping

California Construction News, 2025-12-22 (opens in a new tab)

UCR Health outpatient center and future teaching hospital

Announced or plannedPlanning; expansion planned over the next decade

UC Riverside's planned clinical campus on an initial 21 acres at Valley Springs Parkway and Gateway Drive on the Riverside and Moreno Valley border, starting with an outpatient diagnostic center and a possible future teaching hospital.

An early signal rather than active work: the outpatient center would bring imaging and surgical suites with heavy HVAC and electrical needs, and a hospital phase would follow over the decade.

HVACelectricalfire protectionconstruction

UC Riverside News, 2025-06-03 (opens in a new tab)
Market view

What we see in Riverside

Warehouses drive this market. Warehousing and distribution sites in Riverside-San Bernardino run at 2.12x the U.S. concentration and trucking companies at 1.65x, and trucking added 208 establishments in a single year. The World Logistics Center in Moreno Valley is planned as a very large multi-building distribution complex, the Ellis Avenue Logistics Center in Perris adds a Class A warehouse with an ESFR sprinkler system and dock-high doors, and San Bernardino International Airport is the Southern California hub for Amazon Air. For roofing, fire sprinkler and paving contractors, that is acres of roof, sprinkler heads and truck court.

Roofing has room to match. Just 51 commercial roofers cover 4,833 larger buyer sites, ranking the metro #13 of 89 markets, even after the roofer count grew 25.6% from 2021 to 2025. Managed IT is the surprise: at 7.6 larger sites per provider the metro ranks #6 of 100, and construction contractors are the top buyer group for MSPs here.

Work both counties. San Bernardino County holds 50% of larger buyer sites and Riverside County 49%, so a rep calling one side of the county line misses half the list. Riverside County also has road money moving: the Mid County Parkway widening of Ramona Expressway and a new highway interchange at Potrero Boulevard in Beaumont were awarded in December 2025, with paving, signal electrical and roadside landscaping running through 2028 and 2029. Inland heat sets the HVAC calendar, with July highs at 101 degrees.

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

Decision-makers

Who signs, and how many of them work in Riverside

23,090 general and operations managers, 6,920 medical and health services managers and 3,650 buyers and purchasing agents work in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro. Jobs across every industry, not a contact list.

Jobs and median annual pay by title, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
TitleJobsMedian payTrades that call this title first
General and operations managers
SOC 11-1021
23,090$102,260MSP
Medical and health services managers
SOC 11-9111
6,920$135,010
Buyers and purchasing agents
SOC 13-1020
3,650$75,780
Construction managers
SOC 11-9021
3,450$126,040
Property, real estate, and community association managers
SOC 11-9141
2,810$75,600landscaping, painting, paving
Computer and information systems managers
SOC 11-3021
2,270$176,320
Facilities managers
SOC 11-3013
1,730$108,710cleaning, construction, electrical, flooring, roofing, fire protection, HVAC
Education administrators, postsecondary
SOC 11-9033
860$126,620
Purchasing managers
SOC 11-3061
450$131,070

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) (opens in a new tab), May 2025, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA, 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 Riverside guide's decision-maker questions.

Opportunity estimator

What Could Your Next 12 Months in Riverside 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 Riverside 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 Riverside

  • 9,270people 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 Riverside program is built in Abstrakt Intelligence

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

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

Read the transcript of Ava's Riverside walkthrough

Hi, I'm Ava.

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

First, we size your territory.

The Riverside area has about 104 thousand companies and 471 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 Riverside.

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 Riverside program

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

Contractor licensing in California

CSLB licenses contractors by classification, with a B General Building license and C specialty licenses for individual trades. A license is required for any job of $1,000 or more (labor and materials), or any job that needs a permit or uses hired workers, since January 1, 2025.

Confirm with Contractors State License Board (CSLB) (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-09-30.

Free market report

The State of Outbound Sales in Riverside, 2026

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

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Outsourced sales development in Riverside, answered

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

Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced lead generation and B2B appointment setting across the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 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 Riverside program?

It starts with the list. Of the 9,003 sites in Riverside-San Bernardino 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 Riverside?

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 (#13 of 89), commercial painting & coatings (#21 of 86) and commercial landscaping (#32 of 100) rank best in Riverside.

What kinds of businesses are concentrated in Riverside?

Compared with the national mix, Riverside-San Bernardino has more warehousing and distribution (2.12x) and trucking companies (1.65x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.

Is the Riverside business market growing?

Yes, on both counts below. Private business establishments across Riverside-San Bernardino's counties went from 137,467 in 2021 to 166,324 in 2025 (+21.0%), and private employment +7.5% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages). In the latest Census count, 9,894 establishments opened and 8,351 closed in the metro (U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics, 2023, March to March), so openings ran ahead of closings by 1,543.

How much federal construction money is spent in Riverside?

Federal contract obligations with a place of performance in Riverside-San Bernardino's counties came to $2.06 billion in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), $853.0 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.

Why is the federal construction total for Riverside-San Bernardino misleading for building contractors?

Because one Army contract makes up most of it. A single Department of the Army award in Riverside County accounts for 69% of the metro's $853.0 million in fiscal 2026 construction obligations, which is heavy civil work rather than buildings. A roofing, HVAC or cleaning contractor should look at the trade lines instead, such as $28.3 million under the roofing code and $10.2 million under janitorial.

Is new hospital work coming to Riverside-San Bernardino?

Yes, starting in San Bernardino County. Loma Linda University Health broke ground in August 2026 on an inpatient rehabilitation hospital on the Loma Linda and Redlands border, with opening expected in summer 2028, and UCR Health plans an outpatient center and a possible teaching hospital on the Riverside and Moreno Valley border over the next decade. Hospital sites run at only 0.27x the U.S. mix, so each new one is a meaningful addition to a mechanical or cleaning contractor's list.

Which counties make up the Riverside market?

The metro covers 2 counties. San Bernardino County holds 50% of the larger business sites, so most programs start there.

What does outsourced sales development cost in Riverside?

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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