How to stop losing jobs you have already been out to price,
without spending another evening on quotes
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- The two-line message that keeps a customer you cannot take on.
- A three-day rule for deciding which enquiries are worth pricing.
- What UK customers say they actually do when a quote never arrives.
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What happens after you go out to price a job
Nine pages on the gap between the site visit and the decision, drawn from what UK customers told us. Here is what the guide covers.
Most tradespeople believe they lost the job on price. In the cases customers describe, the price that arrived won, and it was not the cheapest one. Page 3.
How to turn down a job you do not want and keep the customer, in two lines you can send from the van before you have driven off.
What happens to your name after you go quiet once. Customers told us they keep a list, and it is not the list you want to be on.
Where the work goes between your site visit and their decision. We asked UK customers to count their last three quote requests, and the number who got a price back was around half.
What you should never do with an enquiry you have already decided against. Saying nothing feels like the polite option. It is the one that costs you the next job as well.
How to spend less time quoting, not more. Nobody pays you for the evening you lose to a job you do not get, and this guide does not ask you to lose more of them.
We spent six months interviewing sole traders about how they actually run their businesses. Then we went and asked their customers.
The clearest thing that came back was that the quote which turns up wins, and that most of the ones that never turn up were never a decision, just an evening that got away. This guide is that finding, written up so you can act on it this week. We are building software for one-person businesses, and this is one of the problems it starts with. The guide works whether you ever use it or not.
The quote that turns up wins.
The guide, plus the occasional tip to help you win more work. Unsubscribe anytime.