Emailing Proposals

greg24k

I email proposals all the time. I use PDF and I secure the document so changes cannot be made and printing is disabled (unless they ask me to enable,but no one did yet). Been doing this for the past 3 years and had nothing but a great feedback from some customers.

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festerized

Greg I do the same thing.
My estimates are free, but my paper trail will cost you

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MOTB

Greg,
That is smart to not allow changes, and that is definetely one of the concepts we are using with what I am releasing. The only information exchange we are doing is commenting going back and forth, and the only changes can be implmented by our users. But I do not care so much about the printing since there are ways to shortcut that. So long is it on my screen I can print it with one of the tools I have. Perhaps most do not understand that, but I couldn't care less anyone since it goes back to having the customer wanting to work with me no just based on price.
Brian

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A W Smith

just about all mine are e-mailed PDF attachments, Its more convenient for me. Saves one trip and the deposit is on the way. Years back I used to e-mail word documents. One guy kept editing in terms and conditions to his contract which was a pain in the ass having to resend it back to him. Didn't make much on that job not because of his additions but I simply didn't take my time scrutinizing the job-site conditions. He also presented me with a steel lintel flitch plate he wanted installed over his 24 inch wide bathroom replacement window the day I started. I took the job too causally.

Besides him no one else thought to edit my proposals. Weather you e-mail it, encrypt it. snail mail it. verbalize it. hand deliver it. There's always going to be someone who can underbid you. Your job is to instill confidence. Sell yourself not a number. So I don't worry about it being shown around. Even the jobs I don't get I sometimes get thank you's for the effort and detail I put into the proposals. The reality is some people have caviar dreams but beer budgets.

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Al Smith
http://www.awsmith.com