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I live amongst part tree huggers, and part water front home owners and party people who get nervous with storms of the pacific and 100' trees as normal, some going 150'. This is logging and gardening country. Lots of guys to spur up trees. Lots of people with precious landscaping. The state...

Haha, This is the time of year where I have too much to do. I've figured that 50 cent words sell those on the fence, our weed them out. I have started providing a couple pages of printed (branded) info that I drew up for a community business promotional event. Basic phc/ diseases, pruning...

So, Mick, what is your follow up to wanting their trees like at? Would be funny to say " No thanks, I have plenty to look at here. We have evaluation and consulting services if that's what you need".

I like your tiered 'refund'.

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Two out of four people lately went for a consult. The other two seemed to be more of low-price shoppers.

This is succinct. I like it. Two sentences are all they need. I have a few people volunteer to compensate me when we hadn't discussed a 'consult', and many others who wanted me to tell them everything for free, then wanted a bid to compare against others (shop around with my knowledgle). My...

I usually go for a $75/ hour, one hour minimum. Often, I may run long, and may or may not charge extra. Maybe I'd get less resistance to go for $50/ hour, and charge for the whole time I'm consulting. I always wait until questions are answered, then go off the clock for the bid. By then, usually...

Maybe I talk too much. I"m trying to establish an agenda with people. I might look at 20 trees on one property, or way more. I've worked on 50 around one house before. Mulch problems, bark inclusions, signs of root disease, why we shouldn't prune off 50% or spur on maintenance climbing...

I run into way too many questions at bids, and would like to 1) get paid for my time 2) weed out bad customers 3) not allienate good customers, and lose out on doing their bids. Recently, as an example, the renter was told to get bids to 'clean up' the tree or remove it. I ended up skipping...