picframer
11-29-2009, 09:05 PM
I fully understand some do not, personally I do and I promote it.
Welcome to Lost Creek! (It's about 40 min mighway from home base)
One day earlier this week we were rained out so I jumped in the Jetta and headed to my new target markets, private communities, this is one with two 5 star golf courses, all new within four years, I left a card at one fellows place that says I see you have wood to be chipped, long story short he wrote me that night and asked for a quote, I responded within 30 min and my helper and I met him at 8 am the next morning, gave the quote and he said do it in fact I am telling my neighbours, you won this for two reasons, the equipment on your website is amazing and we have a lot of work, there are 11 of us on this private road and we all need wood chipped but can we help? I said by all means we encourage the owners to help, but he said honestly it’s because you wrote back so soon, most companies take days.
I did my overkill thing, over the course of three days 5 owners called and said while you are here can you chip us also? I sent three of our biggest chippers, 5 owners helped and guess what, each showed us what they would like done while I took notes starting with the road, the developer put 12” culverts in for small streams that should be 20” as they turn into small rovers in the rain, he used the wrong type of rock, in short it’s a mess.
I let my workers work with the owners while I wrote a four part quote in the truck and printed 11 copies and placed them in our folders, I gave five out and the other 6 to the fellow who is the president, it’s four steps and will be around $50,000 for what they mentioned, all 5 agreed to start ASAP however they have to have a meeting to approve the expense and said they will the first part of this week. They were shocked we were set up do print a proposal so fast.
I was a pretty happy camper, they said they had hired chipping crews today and some bigger than us but not one held a candle to our equipment and staff, I sent the best I have and went myself to mainly build the relationship, it worked and worked well! Just got home, we started at 8 this morning, it’s now almost 11....lol we have lighting but quit at 9 and had a beer with the group around a fire to keep warm, all the staff buttered up, they know I want into this area..
Welcome to Lost Creek! (It's about 40 min mighway from home base)
One day earlier this week we were rained out so I jumped in the Jetta and headed to my new target markets, private communities, this is one with two 5 star golf courses, all new within four years, I left a card at one fellows place that says I see you have wood to be chipped, long story short he wrote me that night and asked for a quote, I responded within 30 min and my helper and I met him at 8 am the next morning, gave the quote and he said do it in fact I am telling my neighbours, you won this for two reasons, the equipment on your website is amazing and we have a lot of work, there are 11 of us on this private road and we all need wood chipped but can we help? I said by all means we encourage the owners to help, but he said honestly it’s because you wrote back so soon, most companies take days.
I did my overkill thing, over the course of three days 5 owners called and said while you are here can you chip us also? I sent three of our biggest chippers, 5 owners helped and guess what, each showed us what they would like done while I took notes starting with the road, the developer put 12” culverts in for small streams that should be 20” as they turn into small rovers in the rain, he used the wrong type of rock, in short it’s a mess.
I let my workers work with the owners while I wrote a four part quote in the truck and printed 11 copies and placed them in our folders, I gave five out and the other 6 to the fellow who is the president, it’s four steps and will be around $50,000 for what they mentioned, all 5 agreed to start ASAP however they have to have a meeting to approve the expense and said they will the first part of this week. They were shocked we were set up do print a proposal so fast.
I was a pretty happy camper, they said they had hired chipping crews today and some bigger than us but not one held a candle to our equipment and staff, I sent the best I have and went myself to mainly build the relationship, it worked and worked well! Just got home, we started at 8 this morning, it’s now almost 11....lol we have lighting but quit at 9 and had a beer with the group around a fire to keep warm, all the staff buttered up, they know I want into this area..