Marketing
Know what a project will make before you quote it.
Every enquiry, every contact, and a quote that comes from the project's own budget, so the gross profit is known before the client sees a price.
You price a project without knowing what the last one cost
A percentage of the construction cost is a fixed price against unknown hours. When the hours overrun, the overrun comes out of profit.
In Archian
You build the project before you price it: each service, the hours at each person's real cost, the expenses, the overheads. The gross profit shows before the quote does, and the quote is made from the same figures.
Extra work gets done but never billed
The client asks for a change on the phone, the team does it, and nobody raises a variation.
In Archian
A change becomes a variation quote on the same project. Each service shows what was planned, what was quoted and what was billed, so work done for free is a choice, not an accident.
What you can do
- Keep every lead, from the first call until you win or lose it.
- Keep a list of the services you sell, with your standard prices and any prices agreed with a client.
- Price a service by the hour, as a fixed sum, or as a percentage of the construction cost.
- Send quotes, options and variations in your own format or the client's.
- Keep every email and call with a contact in one place.
- See what you won, what you lost, and why.
See it on your own projects.
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