electricalist
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Is the a site that might tell service call pricing by city?
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Is the a site that might tell service call pricing by city?
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Cadpoint I just read the old thread and you as well as the others in the thread are right.
Sometimes I forget the basics. The cost will be what I have to have to get it done .Even more obvious now, some of the factors that help determine that price , I dont know which means its not a good idea for me to be deciding what it will cost.
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Yea solving the problem starting with the answer first and working backwards can be done. Although that method leads to competing with myself and the competition instead of finding my own price and living by it.Seeing what people are willing to pay for electrical services is a good step towards deciding what you can charge.
Taking a sales class will really help. Understanding the sales psychology is also very important.
Most of us are technicians before we are sales people. But we need to reverse that and become sales person then a technician.
Seeing what people are willing to pay for electrical services is a good step towards deciding what you can charge.
Cadpoint I just read the old thread and you as well as the others in the thread are right.
Sometimes I forget the basics. The cost will be what I have to have to get it done .Even more obvious now, some of the factors that help determine that price , I dont know which means its not a good idea for me to be deciding what it will cost.
Then you find some businesses (not just electrical business either) that have sales people that have little or no idea what some of the services involve. Not saying they don't have any success, but it makes it harder on some of those involved when a sales guy promises a client something that is about impossible to pull off, or at least at the cost they sold it for.
That's also a good way to go broke.
-Hal
True, but no jobs at all closes the doors much faster then having just slight loss on a consistent basis. If you have a fair amount of equity in the business, those slight losses eat away at that equity and takes time to use it up, no jobs at all eats up that equity fast if you are still paying all the overhead costs but getting no income at all.Not getting any jobs is also a good way to go broke.
Seeing what people are willing to pay for electrical services is a good step towards deciding what you can charge.
That's also a good way to go broke.
Not getting any jobs is also a good way to go broke.
As has been said, only you can determine what you have to charge to break even then make a profit based on your particular financial situation.
Make no mistake, the customer doesn't care one bit about you or whether you stay in business one day after finishing his job. He is only interested in what he can get out of you for the least amount of money.
-Hal
I have both kinds of clients here. Not sure which ones are more abundant, but seems to be those that want cheap - but that is mostly for residential work, and some light commercial if you stay out of those markets you get more that see the value of what you do and will be more willing to pay for that value.I guess that's the difference between California and New York.
-Hal