Re: $500 budget - hmmm...

Jim wrote:

On Mar 23, 8:18?pm, "Crash Gordon" <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Build yourself an Excel spread*** with your most commonly used parts and
prices. Takes me less than an hour to design, spec and price out a proposal.
I still have to type it up, but I'm working on that aspect.

Hey...there's still a niche for the small guys. My average residential jobs
have been running between 2500-6000 lately...so don't underbid and put a
profit on everything. So I don't get every job I bid these days, but what
the heck...if there's profit in it I don't have to rush and can take my time
to design and install it with pride. Don't compete with the idiots...they
eventually disappear from the phone book.


Just my take on the subject.....

Obvioulsy it's a lot easier to pass up an account when you've reached
a certain point when the revenue is coming in along with the
referrals. When you're first starting out you're a little more
pressured to take what comes ..... when it comes.

Also, as I've mentioned before, I use my pricing to govern how much
work I do. But again, this is a luxury provided by recurring revenue.

Until you reach that point where your RMR can support you and the
overhead, it's a struggle.

Yeah, I figure when we reach the 1000 account mark things will be
much, much easier! Until then I'm wearing all the hats and another
installer is not in the budget. I'm focusing more on installation
revenue right now for cash up front, the account base will just have
to grow slowly.

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