What is the best way too market a Telebelt in a new region where customers would be unfamiliar with the tasks it can perform? (placing concrete, stone, loam, sand, stone, mulch, etc.)

Who do you believe would be a good target market of customers?

I don't know what size your belt is, but we do some residential footers and also put gravel over drain tile and inside the basement all on one trip. Then the wall contractor has a nice clean area inside the basement to work in. We also fill in with gravel or limestone for slabs. We have also done some concrete inside buildings with it in low clearance situations. I think the residential wall contractors would be a good area to go after if residential building ever comes back.

We don't have a belt right now, but it could be a possiblility for the future. Thanks for the advice from experience.

Anyone else have future views or comments?

what is loam?

Loam is soil that they put down before they put grass seed down or spray hydroseed.

thanks for the loam info. as far as marketing a telebelt, concrete is about the only thing you can do economically with the small hopper.for all the top soil ,sand ,loam,stone and mulch a spreader truck would work great.  all concrete should be pumped...haha.

Pumper Chuck your comment about all concrete should be pump is way overstated cause on flat work a belt will blow a pump away you save the customer money cause no pump mix is needed plus you can belt drier than any pump, I got a 32 putz and have watched a belt, very little waste in clean up, plus gravel, sand, bark, no problem as soon as I sell my pump thats the direction I'm headed.

You both make good points and I'm glad you both shared your point of views and experiences, I'm open to anyone else who wants comment as well.

grading, flatwork jobs such as slab on grade with alot of plumbing pipe insted of using a skidsterr.. no bracking of the pipe. unless u have a crappy operator

For concrete it's great if you can find enough space to set up.  Gravel is ok but you wear things out very fast including belts. Top soil doesn't flow well and will make a huge mess when it plugs. Mixer drivers all want to fill something up and you'll have to watch em like a hawk til they catch on that they are your speed control.  Spray from belt makes for lots of clean up time.  Residential market is the key.

Thanks Telealbelt and Parker for more info.

Others don't be afraid to add more. Thanx to all commenters and educating me on this particular market.

I have been around these machines since 1982. Some of the posts are helpful, and some are not. If you really want to know about marketing Telebelts, why not go to the source? Call the Marketing Department at Putzmeister. You can also get the contact name for the Regional Sales Manager for your area, or contact the Technical Support Managers. In addition to Marketing Information, they can supply names of customers that can answer your questions. 800.884.7210 (Main) 800.890.0269 (Customer Support)

Try setting up a free demo for a customer and try to invite other customers to the site so they can get a better understanding of how the machine works and what a valuable time/money saver that it is. I LOVE BELTIN!!

I ran a belt for a while and must say they are a versatile piece of equipment, we placed concrete,sand, limestone,river rock, all was good but the wrong operator can make for a long day of cleaning,as far as marketing goes I would maybe do a demo or two and hit your foundation contractors how you can save them time and labor, landscapers the same, big pours you can definitely out perform a pump as far as production goes, state or federal jobs where low slumps are needed they are very useful , flowfill that needs to be poured at a low slump there are numerous ways to market and with putzmeisters help they can get you rolling in the rite direction.

biged no over statement intended.your right about blowing pumps away tb's are very fast what 300+ cuyds an hour if you could only get the mudd .bright side no partys,down side cleanup and maintnance.alot of cleanup and maintnance.

I was thinking that a demo would probably be the best way to show customers, thanks for the tip and advice everyone

try this link N.D. these guys seem to talk about belts alot.

http://concretepumpingadvice.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=23

and another venue would be directly from Putz, just click the link on top and go from there

yes, i did about 150,00 yards over two summers with a tb-105, footings, and then pea rock over the drain tile, soil in fargo nd was pretty spungy, paving was huge ,as i said the sould conditions were not suitible to run trucks on, i did allot of back filling, another good area was inside buildings, it worked very well, one has to think outside the box so to speak when using the tb-105 inside buildings even poured some walls with it, but dont recomend it. big slabs and paving was were the money was at.

yes, i did about 150,00 yards over two summers with a tb-105, footings, and then pea rock over the drain tile, soil in fargo nd was pretty spungy, paving was huge ,as i said the sould conditions were not suitible to run trucks on, i did allot of back filling, another good area was inside buildings, it worked very well, one has to think outside the box so to speak when using the tb-105 inside buildings even poured some walls with it, but dont recomend it. big slabs and paving was were the money was at.