Yes sir, only advice I can give is do as much as you can to get your name out there. Most customers don't know there's other options out there. The big boys have iron clad contracts that are nearly impossible to get out of. I do not solicit on others jobs, I just try and help the ones that call looking for some help.
Yes it's a shame that the oem have most of there customers scared to try and cancel there crazy contracts. All of our work has been helping and we haven't solicited anything yet.