Drop your price?

[resistance]

Not big timers, a 2K job usually produces $40 or $50 in profit, and many times they produce no profit.

Don't confuse material, and labor money with profit.

Trust me, I'm not confused! I'm qualifying jobs on a somewhat [things are slow L ] regular basis!
A 2K job will produce what you estimated it to produce!

 

[powerslave]

I bid a small commercial job recently in a strip mall. The business owner called to say I was not the cheapest but he liked our professionalism. He asked if I could lower the price of the job from $ 3900.00 to $3500.00. I told him there was one way to bring the price down. Specifically brass cover plates for floor outlets. I told him the ones he asked for were $ 70 a piece (flip up) and I could instead put in the ones that were $ 40 a piece (the ones with the screw in plug covers) he agreed and all is good. He got the price he wanted and I still am making the same amount. I would have told him no if he did not agree with it.

Just figure any amount you agree to lower first comes out of your profit. After that you are billing out under your break even point.