Just curious what the majority is doing?
Myself I like to give a quote. I give the potential customer a solid quote that I stand behind. That is the price for the job PERIOD
I find this hard to do more and more every day though. I give my quote ( a solid set price for the job that I stick to) and some clown comes along with a ridiculously low estimate and gets the job.
In the end, more often than not, I get the satisfaction of the job not getting done right and coming in with a final bill that is more than my quote. But satisfaction does not pay the bills.
This is frustrating to me because I am starting to think that's what you have to do to keep working but I just don't have it in me....I am not a great salesman. I can not B.S my potential customers just to get the job. I have my price, which is fair, I state it from the start and that's what it is.
Most see it and understand after Mr. B.S Lowballer gets done with them and would hire me instead for the next project...if they had one. Most Home Owners only have one project to do.
So, for you guys that quote a job on the up and up. How do you go about building the potential customers confidence in you or explaining it well enough to them? So that they take your quote rather than the estimate which is sometimes as much as 50% lower than your quote...but more for the final bill?
Myself I like to give a quote. I give the potential customer a solid quote that I stand behind. That is the price for the job PERIOD
I find this hard to do more and more every day though. I give my quote ( a solid set price for the job that I stick to) and some clown comes along with a ridiculously low estimate and gets the job.
In the end, more often than not, I get the satisfaction of the job not getting done right and coming in with a final bill that is more than my quote. But satisfaction does not pay the bills.
This is frustrating to me because I am starting to think that's what you have to do to keep working but I just don't have it in me....I am not a great salesman. I can not B.S my potential customers just to get the job. I have my price, which is fair, I state it from the start and that's what it is.
Most see it and understand after Mr. B.S Lowballer gets done with them and would hire me instead for the next project...if they had one. Most Home Owners only have one project to do.
So, for you guys that quote a job on the up and up. How do you go about building the potential customers confidence in you or explaining it well enough to them? So that they take your quote rather than the estimate which is sometimes as much as 50% lower than your quote...but more for the final bill?