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California electrician marketing when every certificate on the crew can be looked up by name

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  • Crew certificates and in-home sales registrations matched to names, and the C-10 number on every ad and truck
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The 60-second version

  • Of 48 California electrical contractor websites we read in October 2026, 30 offer emergency or 24/7 service on the homepage, but only 12 state a span or a day by which they reply or arrive.
  • In California the C-10 license covers the business, and a DIR certificate covers each person who wires, foremen and non-qualifying partners included. So a certified-crew claim can be checked name by name.
  • PG&E's fast trips come with no warning and decide who gets its permanent battery rebate. SCE warns ahead of shutoffs but gives no end time. SMUD and LADWP customers fall outside the CPUC's shutoff list.
  • The federal credits are gone and HEEHRA's single-family rebates have been reserved since February 24, 2026. Charger and panel pages now sell the load check and the utility's own program.

Of 48 California electrician sites, 30 offer emergency help and 12 say how soon they reply

In October 2026 we searched for electricians in Sacramento, San Francisco, Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego. We then read the 48 contractor websites the results led to. About three in five offer emergency or 24/7 service on the homepage, and just over half mention generators or backup power. A quarter name a time to reply or arrive, and none says the business speaks Spanish.

  • 31 of 48print their contractor license number on the homepage, labeled Lic., License or CSLB, a chain's location page standing in for its homepage
  • 30 of 48advertise emergency or 24/7 electrical work in the homepage wording, a service menu entry included
  • 26 of 48mention generators, backup power or battery storage on the pages we read, menus and brand lists included
  • 12 of 48name a span of hours or a day by which they reply or arrive, on any page read; reviews and vague speed claims do not count
  • 5 of 48open an online scheduler whose first screen asks only for a ZIP code, street address or type of job, not a name, phone or email
  • 0 of 48offer Spanish, in a sentence saying Spanish is spoken there or on a Spanish-language page; a translation menu would not count

Emergency wording sits on 30 of the 48, so a homeowner whose power just tripped meets the same promise on most sites they open. A time is rarer: 12 say how soon they reply or arrive, 5 let a visitor start booking online before giving contact details, and none offers Spanish. Those are the gaps a shop can still fill.

How we checked 48 sites (October 2026)

We built the list on October 25, 2026 from three searches per metro, run for Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento, plus Fresno: "electrician <city> CA", "electrical contractor <city> CA" and "residential electrician <city> CA". Results were web only, no ads or map pack. We took each contractor's own site in the order it ranked, stopping at 10 per metro. Directories, job boards, lead and list sites, a referral network, a profile page and a brand's second location were skipped. Of the 50 taken, 1 refused automated visits and 1 proved to be a referral platform, leaving 48.

A script read each site's homepage and up to four of its public pages, kept to each site's robots.txt and sent no form or message. We then opened every counted site in a browser, one by one, and corrected what the script got wrong. Anything deeper in a site, or built on a tool we do not recognize, is missed, so each count is a floor. Search results favor businesses that invest in search, and no business is named.

The license count reads only the homepage text, or a chain's location page in its place, and needs a contractor license number labeled Lic., License or CSLB. One counted site labels its number only as Licensed, and one prints the number beside another company's name. Two more show a number only on the contact page and are not among the 31. Nobody checked the numbers against the state board's records, so the 31 show what a homeowner sees printed, not whether a license is active. Emergency counts emergency or 24/7 service wording on the homepage; round-the-clock internet support and emergency lighting sold as a product do not count. Generator counts generator, backup power or battery storage wording on any page read, menus included; the weakest of the 26 names only a generator brand among those it installs, and one names only backup power for data centers. Reply time needs a span of hours or a day to reply or arrive, a contact page line included; the loosest of the 12 offers availability within the same week. Reviews, vague speed wording and a same-day promise one multi-trade site makes only for plumbing were left out. The scheduler count takes a tool whose first screen asks only for a ZIP code, street address or type of job; one of the 5 asks for contact details before the time step. Spanish needs a sentence offering it or a page in it, and none of the 48 has either, or even a translation menu. Commercial and industrial contractors and a few multi-trade companies are in the sample, and with 10 sites per metro the totals describe the state, not a comparison between cities.

The C-10 calendar runs on code dates, inland heat and red-flag weather

Inland heat fills July to September, PG&E's shutoff weather carries the fall, and code and rebate dates land in January. The levels are our read of the sources linked here, not search counts. In PG&E's fast-trip areas an outage can come in any month, so the backup pages stay live all year.

California C-10 workload by month, estimated from utility, code and weather sources
  1. January: Steady
  2. February: Steady
  3. March: Busy
  4. April: Busy
  5. May: Busy
  6. June: Busy
  7. July: Peak
  8. August: Peak
  9. September: Peak
  10. October: Peak
  11. November: Busy
  12. December: Steady
January
The 2025 Energy Code has applied since January 1, 2026, per the CEC. SDG&E's generator rebate covers purchases made in its program year. Reread every rebate line on the site.
February
SDG&E said qualified customers would hear about its 2026 Generator Assistance Program by email or letter starting this month.
March to May
Our pick for selling transfer switches, inlets and batteries. Permits and equipment orders take weeks, and fire weather is still months away.
July to September
The hottest months away from the coast. NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for Riverside's airport put 18.1 of its 21.6 yearly days at 100 degrees or more in these three months. By our reading, air conditioner circuits and overloaded panels fill the service board.
September to December
PG&E lists conditions that may lead to a shutoff. They include humidity of 30% and below, winds above 19 mph with gusts above 25 to 40 mph, and Red Flag Warnings (PG&E backup power programs). Check the CPUC dashboard before choosing campaign areas.

California's C-10 checklist: truck doors, crew cards and cancel rights

Truck doors
Business name and license number on each commercially registered vehicle, in 72-point type or letters at least 3/4 inch high and wide (CSLB)
Who does the wiring
A certified electrician, or an approved apprentice working under a state-certified electrician's supervision (CSLB)
Who else needs a certificate
Foremen who use the tools, and partners or officers who never sat for the exam. Only the qualifying person is exempt (DIR)
Trainees
Constant supervision by a certified electrician, and a trainee card renewed every year (DIR)
Low voltage and sign crews
No state certificate needed for work within a C-7 low voltage or C-45 electric sign license (DIR)
EV CAPABLE panels
New homes with attached garages under the 2022 CALGreen keep panel room for a 40-ampere EV circuit, marked "EV CAPABLE" (HCD)
Right to cancel
Three business days, five at 65 or older, seven for disaster repairs sold at home. Service and repair loses it only under a fully compliant contract (Civil Code)
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By the Beyaoshy team

Two credentials a California homeowner can check before calling you

A California homeowner can check two things about your shop before they call. The CSLB license lets the business sign contracts. A Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) certificate covers each person who does the wiring. Our electrical marketing page covers the license number in ads. This section stays with the certificate, because it gives you something more useful to say than "licensed and insured."

The DIR's electrician certification FAQ is specific about who needs one:

  • Anyone making connections over 100 volt-amperes for a C-10 contractor. The one exemption is the qualifying person, who sat for the license exam.
  • Partners and officers who never took that exam, and a foreman who sometimes works with the tools.
  • Electricians arriving from another state, before their first job here. The FAQ says there is no grace period.
  • Trainees. They may work only under constant supervision of a certified electrician, and they renew their cards every year.

Approved apprentices may also do the work while a state-certified electrician supervises them, per the CSLB's fast facts for online home improvement marketplaces. Crews working within a C-7 low voltage or C-45 sign license are outside the rule.

That gives your About page a claim a homeowner can test. The DIR's certification page links a public status search tool. So "every electrician on our trucks is state-certified" can be checked name by name. Say which certificate, too. The state's electrician definitions tie the residential certificate to work in homes and apartments served at 120/240 or 120/208 volts. A page selling commercial tenant improvements should show general electricians.

Both credentials end up on the truck door. The CSLB's advertising guidelines put the business name and license number on each commercially registered vehicle. The type must be 72 points or more, or the lettering no less than three-quarters of an inch high and wide.

Certificates are enforced through the license too. Complaints the DIR verifies are forwarded to the CSLB. The evidence it asks for includes the contractor's name style or logo and photos of uncertified workers. A lettered truck in a jobsite photo is exactly that evidence. So post only crews you can stand behind, and have counsel read new truck lettering against the current guidelines before it prints.

Selling a panel, generator or battery at a California kitchen table

If someone on your team sells in the home, they likely need their own registration. Anyone who sits down with a homeowner to sell a panel upgrade, a standby generator or a battery is a home improvement salesperson under California law. They must register with the CSLB, however small the contract. The CSLB's registration page lists only these exceptions:

  • People on the license record: officers of record of a licensed corporation or LLC, an LLC's managers and members, general partners on the license record, and the qualifying person.
  • Appointment setters who only book appointments for a registered salesperson.
  • Store sales that the buyer starts at a general merchandise store with a fixed location.
  • Service repairpeople whose call is limited to the service, repair or emergency repair the buyer first asked for.

Service-van shops should read that last one twice. Say a technician goes out for a dead circuit and finds a tired 100-amp panel. If they quote a new one, they may have gone past the repair the customer asked for. Ask counsel whether that tech needs a registration before your ride-along script tells them to quote it. Registration costs $200 on the CSLB fee schedule. The contractor must tell the CSLB in writing before employing a registered salesperson, and within 90 days after one leaves.

Deposit rules shape the offer itself. The CSLB's home improvement contracts guide caps a down payment at $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract price, whichever is less. It makes no exception for special-order materials. The only exception is for a handful of licensees with blanket performance and payment bonds. For most shops, then, the CSLB cap on a battery or generator contract above $10,000 is $1,000, even when the equipment has to be ordered. A "deposit to reserve your install date" offer has to fit inside it.

Homeowners can also change their minds. The same guide gives the buyer three business days to cancel, or five at 65 or older, unless the deal was negotiated at your place of business. California's home solicitation law allows seven business days for a contract to repair or restore a home damaged by a disaster. That reaches the fire rebuilds covered further down.

Emergency repairs work differently. The CSLB guide says an emergency service-and-repair contract loses the right to cancel once it is signed and work begins. Yet the same home solicitation law keeps the full right to cancel, at any price, when a contract presented as service and repair misses any of the state's requirements for that kind of contract. A generator sold at an evening appointment and a breaker replaced on an outage night sit on opposite sides of that line. Your paperwork should show which one each job is.

Spanish adds a step when the sale is financed. Under California's foreign-language contract law, a financed sale negotiated mainly in Spanish needs a translation of the retail installment contract or consumer loan. The business must hand it to the buyer before signing. The same goes for Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean. The duty falls away when the buyer brings their own interpreter, one the business does not supply. The law leaves the home improvement contract itself out, so the financing papers are where a Spanish-language sale needs the translation. Not legal advice; confirm the deposit, cancellation and translation wording with counsel before a campaign runs.

Fast trips, SCE warnings and SDG&E rebates: where backup power sells

Backup power sells differently in each utility's territory, so your offer should follow the utility. The CPUC's shutoff page names six investor-owned utilities that may cut power during strong winds, heat events and related conditions. They are PG&E, Southern California Edison, SDG&E and three smaller ones: PacifiCorp, Liberty Utilities and Bear Valley Electric Service. SMUD and LADWP are publicly owned and are not on that list. A backup page for their customers should rest on that utility's own outage record, not on PG&E's shutoff terms.

PG&E territory, from Fresno to the Bay Area. PG&E runs two kinds of wildfire outage, and its June 2026 presentation on backup power programs separates them. A Public Safety Power Shutoff is planned, and customers get automated calls, texts and emails ahead of it. Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings, the "fast trips," react to a hazard on the line. The slide says plainly that "No advance notification can be provided." The same deck lists what PG&E pays for in Tier 2 and 3 fire districts and on fast-trip circuits:

  • PG&E's $300 rebate on a qualifying portable generator or battery, with $200 more for CARE or FERA customers. The deck counts 13,763 of these rebates through March 31, 2026.
  • A free transfer meter from PG&E for customers with a 2S-socket meter.
  • PG&E's $7,500 rebate on a permanent battery for first-time participants with five or more fast-trip outages since 2024. The deck counts 1,171 of these rebates through March 31, 2026.

Two of those change the pitch. A household with five fast trips since 2024 is a battery prospect with a utility check attached. Your battery page should explain the eligibility test in plain words and link PG&E's program, not promise the money. And since PG&E hands out the transfer meter free, a generator hookup offer has to say what your shop adds. That means the permit, the inlet and transfer switch sized for the job, and a plan for which circuits run during the outage. PG&E's 2008 generator safety sheet also asks customers to call PG&E once a backup system is in. Put that call on your install checklist and your install page.

SCE territory. SCE warns before a shutoff but gives no end time. Its 2026 PSPS Action Plan of May 28, 2026 says SCE sends an advance notice whenever a customer has a 25% or higher chance of reaching shutoff criteria. So some warned homes never lose power. Even after the winds die down, SCE's sample restoration notice says restoration "is expected to take up to 8 hours but could take longer." The plan also says the average length of a shutoff, counted in days, has grown every year since 2021. An SCE backup page should say how long the system runs the circuits it carries. By our reading, your office should also be ready when the season's first warnings go out, since a warning is what sends a homeowner looking.

SDG&E territory, San Diego County. The 2026 Generator Assistance Program serves customers in a Tier 2 or 3 fire district who have had at least one shutoff. SDG&E gives Medical Baseline and access and functional needs customers $300 off a fuel generator or $525 off a portable power station. The program's FAQ says other eligible customers can still get $300 or $150. Fuel generators qualify only if CARB compliant, with a carbon monoxide sensor and shutoff. The rebate helps pay for the box. Your ad sells the safe connection, the permit and the switch that keeps it from backfeeding the street.

These are 2026 terms. SDG&E sets its rebate by program year, and PG&E's deck gives no program dates. Open each program page again, and confirm the program is still taking requests, before any figure goes into an ad. The CPUC's public PSPS dashboard shows whether an address lost power to a shutoff after October 2021. That makes a better list of ZIP codes for a generator campaign than a guess about fire country.

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Who is on the crew, what the trucks say, which utility serves the house

Tell us how many people on your crew make connections and who sells in the home. The plan then adds what the list below leaves out: the backup offer each area can carry and the fast-trip night script.

Your free plan for California starts with:

  • Crew certificates and sales registrations matched to names
  • Ads, profiles and truck doors set beside the CSLB guidelines
  • Your service area sorted by utility and shutoff record
Match my crew to the DIR list

With the state's home rebate spoken for, SMUD shows what a California charger page should sell

The rebates that once helped pay for a charger or a panel are mostly gone, so a charger page has to sell something else. The federal credits have ended, as our electrical marketing page explains. The California rebate that might have filled the gap is spoken for. HEEHRA, the federally funded home electrification rebate, has had its single-family pool fully reserved statewide since February 24, 2026. The program stopped taking new single-family income verifications. A panel or heat pump page that still promises it should lose that line this week.

What remains is utility money, and Sacramento shows how to use it. SMUD's EV page offers up to $850 through its Charge@Home program toward charging equipment and installation. It points income-eligible owners to Clean Cars 4 All, which pays up to $2,000 toward charging equipment. On the Charge@Home application page, the option for homeowners who need an electrician says the electrician will "handle your EV installation and process your rebate." A Sacramento charger page that takes the rebate paperwork off the owner's hands has a reason to exist that a statewide page lacks.

SMUD also publishes what the work costs. It looked at its contractor network's Charge@Home jobs over the past 12 months, per SMUD. SMUD puts the median EV circuit installation at $1,100, from $238 to $6,382. SMUD puts a charger plus circuit at $1,746. Both figures are before rebates.

SMUD's fact sheet on panels says a panel upgrade "is most often not necessary." It points owners to two devices instead. A circuit sharing device lets a garage dryer outlet, or another 240-volt outlet, serve both the dryer and the charger. An energy management device cuts the charger when household use reaches 80% of panel capacity, and SMUD says a qualified electrician must install it. SMUD pays up to $200 toward either kind.

So the charger page that earns trust in Sacramento opens with the load check. It covers what the panel carries now, whether a sharing device covers the car, and when an upgrade is the honest answer. Homeowners there have already read SMUD's version. A page that agrees with their utility reads as the shop that will not oversell them.

Name the utility carefully. Google's unacceptable business practices policy forbids ads that make a business seem backed by another organization or a government body when it is not. Google suspends accounts for it on detection, without warning. "We handle SMUD Charge@Home rebate paperwork" is a fact if you do it. "SMUD-approved" belongs in an ad only in the words SMUD itself uses for its contractor network.

Which California homes still need the panel work: code year, city and fire rebuilds

Most of your panel and circuit work will come from older homes. California's newest houses arrive with much of that work already done. Four rules show where the line falls:

  • The 2025 Energy Code, from January 1, 2026. The CEC says the update sets electric-ready requirements for water heating and cooking in new single-family homes. It also expands EV charging through dedicated circuits and parking spaces with chargers.
  • CALGreen, 2022 edition. A new one- or two-family home with an attached garage permitted under it must have panel room for a 40-ampere, 208/240-volt EV circuit, per the HCD's 2022 CALGreen guide. The reserved breaker space is labeled "EV CAPABLE" in the panel directory. The CEC says CALGreen was updated along with the 2025 Energy Code. Read the new edition before a page quotes it for homes permitted since January 1, 2026.
  • San Francisco. New buildings that applied for a first building permit on or after June 1, 2021 must be all-electric, per SF Planning. That covers space heating and cooling, water heating, cooking and clothes drying. So in San Francisco, electrification work and the service upgrades it needs sit in buildings permitted before that date.
  • Los Angeles fire rebuilds. Executive Order N-29-25 temporarily suspends the 2025 code update for repairing or replacing homes substantially damaged or destroyed by the 2025 Los Angeles area wildfires. The CEC says those projects skip the solar and battery storage requirements but must be solar-ready.

Two habits follow. A charger or panel landing page can ask what year the home was built before anything else. The answer predicts what the panel can take and filters out the leads that are already wired. And in a home built under a recent CALGreen edition, a technician who opens the panel should look for an "EV CAPABLE" label before quoting a new circuit. Quoting work the builder already did is a fast route to a bad review.

While the order is in effect, a rebuild page for the homes it covers should say what solar-ready means for the panel and conduit. It should also say that solar and batteries are the owner's choice there, not a code requirement. A contract to repair or restore a fire-damaged home, signed at the owner's kitchen table, also carries the seven-business-day cancellation window described above. Confirm the code year and the rebuild requirements with the building department, and the contract terms with counsel, before any page states them as settled.

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Fast trips arrive unannounced, and so do the calls that follow

When a fast trip hits a neighborhood, many calls can reach your office at once, with no warning. PG&E's backup power presentation says no advance notice comes before a fast trip, so your office hears about it from the callers. Decide before fire season who answers after hours, what the service call fee is and which jobs wait for morning. A stated answer time still stands out. In our October 2026 study, 30 of 48 California electrical websites offered emergency or 24/7 service on the homepage, but only 12 named a span or a day to reply or arrive.

Google's automated calls. Google can now call businesses for searchers, and your shop may get those calls. Google's I/O post of May 19, 2026 lists home repair, beauty and pet care as categories where people can ask Google to call businesses for them. It said this would reach everyone in the US that summer. Google's Business Profile help says what you tell the caller reaches the searcher by email or text. Give whoever answers your service call fee, a typical EV circuit range and the first open slot. Our AI receptionist page covers the rest of the phone setup.

Spanish. Promise Spanish only where someone can deliver it. If someone who answers the phone or runs appointments speaks Spanish, say so on the website and the Google profile, and route those calls to them. If nobody does, a Spanish page only sets up a disappointing call. A financed sale negotiated mainly in Spanish also brings the translation duty described above.

The quote form. Any commercial website that gathers personal information about Californians needs a privacy policy, however small the business. California's online privacy law says to post it where visitors will see it. The policy says what the site collects and who it shares that with. If the site collects data on visitors' activity across other sites, the policy also says how it responds to a browser's "do not track" signal.

California's consumer privacy law, the CCPA, adds heavier duties above the revenue and data-volume thresholds in the CPPA's FAQ. Whether ad pixels put a shop over them is a question for counsel, not a guess.

The DIR card, the truck door and the deposit: score your shop

Put the crew roster and the most recent signed contract on the desk, and let the paper decide each answer. Each yes scores a point.

  • Does each commercially registered truck show the business name and C-10 number in 72-point type or lettering three-quarters of an inch high and wide?
  • Does everyone who makes connections on your jobs, foremen included, hold a current DIR certificate or work as a supervised trainee or approved apprentice?
  • When a tech on a repair call quotes a panel upgrade, have you asked counsel or the CSLB whether that tech needs a salesperson registration?
  • Does your deposit to reserve a battery or generator install stay within the CSLB cap of $1,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less?
  • Do your outage and charger pages name the utility, and only programs you have checked on its own page this year?

The crew list opens a C-10 shop's plan, then the truck doors and the utility map

  1. Crew certificates and sales registrations matched to names

    We list who on the crew makes connections and which DIR certificate each holds. We note when trainee cards renew and which apprentices work under supervision. We flag anyone who sells in the home without a CSLB registration. Then the site claims only what the status search will confirm.

  2. Ads, profiles and truck doors set beside the CSLB guidelines

    We start with the website, the Google profile and your ads. Then come social posts, truck lettering and the proposal template. Each is set beside the CSLB advertising guidelines. We look for the C-10 number, lettering three-quarters of an inch high and wide, classifications you do not hold and any mention of bonding.

  3. Your service area sorted by utility and shutoff record

    We name the utility for each city you serve, from PG&E and SCE to SMUD or a local municipal utility. We add past shutoffs from the CPUC dashboard. Then each area gets the backup offer its own program or record supports, from a generator inlet to a battery with a utility rebate behind it.

  4. Charger and panel pages that open with the load check

    We remove expired credit and HEEHRA lines and name the utility's own program in its own words. A year-built question goes on the landing page, so circuit-sharing jobs and true upgrades sort themselves.

  5. An answer ready for fast-trip nights and Google's automated calls

    We settle who picks up after hours, and how the service call fee and an EV circuit range sound on the phone. A Spanish line goes in only where someone can take the call.

  6. Deposit, cancellation and Spanish paperwork flagged for your counsel

    We compare your deposit offers against the CSLB cap. We list the cancellation notice each kind of job needs: three, five or seven days, or a service-and-repair contract that meets the rules. Where a sale is negotiated in Spanish, we flag the financing documents to translate. Your counsel confirms each one.

Six questions C-10 owners raise before the next panel quote

Can our website say every electrician on the crew is state-certified?

Only if it is true of everyone making connections over 100 volt-amperes, foremen included. Trainees work under constant supervision of a certified electrician. The CSLB also allows approved apprentices supervised by a state-certified electrician, so say who is which. The DIR's certification page links a public status search, so name the certificate type and keep the list current.

Does a service tech who spots an old panel need a salesperson registration to quote the upgrade?

Possibly. The exception on the CSLB's registration page covers a service repairperson whose call is limited to the service, repair or emergency repair the buyer first asked for. A panel quote may go past that. Ask counsel or the CSLB before your script tells techs to give one.

A customer says the power went out six times last year. Can we promise PG&E's $7,500 battery rebate?

Not on their word. PG&E's June 2026 presentation sets three tests, and all must be met. The customer must be a first-time participant in its permanent battery program, with five or more fast-trip outages since 2024, buying a product on its qualified list. A remembered outage may have been a planned shutoff or an ordinary fault. Have the customer confirm eligibility with PG&E before your quote subtracts the rebate.

Why sell a generator hookup when SDG&E already pays toward the generator?

SDG&E's 2026 rebate covers buying a qualifying generator or portable power station, not wiring it in. The inlet, the transfer switch or interlock, the permit and the circuit plan are the electrician's job, and the page should say so.

Does Google's AI caller phone electrical shops yet?

Possibly. Google said at I/O in May 2026 that home repair is among the categories it will call businesses for. The post names no trades within it, and electrical work was not on the list of categories in Invoca's December 2025 study. Either way, the answer it would pass on is the one your office gives a person. Make it one you would be glad to see in writing.

Can a trainee appear in the jobsite photos on our website?

Yes. The photo is fine, but the claim beside it can be a problem. A registered trainee working under constant supervision of a certified electrician belongs on the job, per the DIR. A page that says everyone on your trucks is certified is contradicted by that shot, though. Write "certified electricians and registered trainees," and keep each trainee card current, since it renews every year.

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Rules and figures on this page trace to these pages. None of it is legal advice; confirm anything that affects your license or your ads with the agency or your counsel.

A C-10 number and a crew list are enough for the first draft

Send your C-10 number, the business name as the CSLB lists it, and the ZIP codes where you want more panel and backup jobs. From those we list the ads and truck doors missing the number, and the utility and program behind each area. We also write what your office says when a fast trip lights up the phones.

  • A free consult. A real conversation about your business, your area and what is not working yet.
  • An honest evaluation. Where you stand in search, ads and follow-up next to the businesses you lose customers to.
  • A plan you keep. What we would fix first and why. It is yours whether or not you work with us.

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