Re: $500 budget - hmmm...

[Moe Szyslak <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:

>On Mar 23, 8:18?pm, "Crash Gordon" <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Build yourself an Excel spreadsheet 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.