How low will you go to land a job?
I have had clients tell me that my prices are higher than others, but on the same token the other companies don't do what we do to seal up a house. They want mice gone but don't want to pay $800 to seal the structural issues I point out to them. Another company would quote them $450 just to lay down some traps and walk away. I don't like to do that because the problem doesn't go away long term, it just calms it down for a few months and I feel that can lead to negative reviews about my service. If someone says $800 is too much, I can take $50-75 off sometimes to make a deal, but most times I stand firm because I know the work involved. I would rather walk away at that point. Do you have a set percentage or amount that you will lower your proposal to land a job?1View0likes0CommentsAre You Pricing Jobs for Profit or Just to Win the Job?
Quoting can be one of the toughest parts of running a small business. It’s easy to lower your price to beat the competition, but that doesn’t always lead to a healthy business. A good quote should cover your time, materials, expenses, and the value you provide. The goal isn’t to get every job, it’s to get the right jobs that allow your business to grow. What’s one thing that helped you improve your quoting process?Solved501Views2likes7CommentsPLEASE add a kit function
Even the bottom of the barrel CRM that I'm currently using has a robust kit function. Create products with fully editable costs and quantities, then add those products to a kit (in this case, what a "service" should be). Once a kit is entered into a quote, individual products are hidden from the customer, but fully editable when creating the quote. As it is now, I have no idea what the difference between a "product" and a "service" are. They both have the same info (name, description, cost, etc). You should just be able to group products to form services. If i have a product of "labor" and a product of "receptacle". I should then be able to create a service of "Replace Receptacle". That service would consist of my labor product, and my receptacle product. Both with quantities and costs that I could edit when creating a quote. Since not all receptacles are the same, and my customer doesnt care whether its a duplex or a decor, being able to edit the cost of that receptacle, straight from the kit during quote creation, would be amazing.Solved612Views3likes8Comments