NickfromWI
King of Splices
This is from a convo in the How'd It Go thread, but I think it warrants it's own thread...
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Have you done it?
I've had lots of clients try to weasel out of scheduling consults by offering to send pics to get ballpark figures. For the first couple years I've been extremely opposed and also slightly offended by the implication that the intricacies of bidding a job can be summarized in a few photos.
However, a month or two ago I decided to give it a shot. We've secured over $5,000 in work bud from photos in the past 60 days. Haven't been bit yet. I bid high when bidding by pics.
Yesterday was a good example. Thin an oak and skin some giant birds of paradise. I was thinking it's about $500 in work. I told them $900. They hired us.
When we arrived on site the tree was a little smaller/easier than I expected, but the route from tree to truck was more complicated than I could tell via google maps.
Those two ended up balancing eachother out and the client added a couple hundred in other work. All in all a good second half of the day for us!
Has anyone else tried it yet?
love
nick
love
nick
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Have you done it?
I've had lots of clients try to weasel out of scheduling consults by offering to send pics to get ballpark figures. For the first couple years I've been extremely opposed and also slightly offended by the implication that the intricacies of bidding a job can be summarized in a few photos.
However, a month or two ago I decided to give it a shot. We've secured over $5,000 in work bud from photos in the past 60 days. Haven't been bit yet. I bid high when bidding by pics.
Yesterday was a good example. Thin an oak and skin some giant birds of paradise. I was thinking it's about $500 in work. I told them $900. They hired us.
When we arrived on site the tree was a little smaller/easier than I expected, but the route from tree to truck was more complicated than I could tell via google maps.
Those two ended up balancing eachother out and the client added a couple hundred in other work. All in all a good second half of the day for us!
Has anyone else tried it yet?
love
nick
love
nick