Marketing to commercial clients for office moves: what's working in 2024?

Been in the Chicago area my whole career hauling office furniture and cubicles, and I'm finally pushing into bigger commercial gigs after years of mostly residential. Last quarter I targeted a few law firms with door hangers and some targeted Facebook ads showing quick setups with our U-Haul trailers, landed two $8k jobs but leads dried up fast. Saw a thread on r/moving where guys swore by optimizing Google Business for 'commercial movers Chicago' keywords, so I tweaked mine and added before/after pics of pallet jack jobs. Also, a buddy in the Moving Professionals Facebook group mentioned partnering with real estate agents for referral deals on vacant office relos. Anyone else scaling up commercial? What's your go-to for getting those steady contracts without burning cash on ads?

man, facebook ads for commercial are a black hole here, spent $500 last month on zero callbacks from warehouse moves. stick to networking with property managers at chamber events, that's landed me three solid gigs this year.

same here, been grinding commercial office relos for a decade and the ad spend never pays off like you hope. feels like every time I try to scale, some big chain undercuts with their fleet of box trucks.

yep, same rage building in me after getting ghosted on a school district bid we prepped for weeks.