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Estimating software will help you create professional looking estimates. It will produce an estimate a contractor will be proud to submit to a prospect. This is very important, because when your prospect is reviewing the bids that you and your competitors have submitted how it looks will have a big effect on which one they choose. If your bid is scratched on the back of an envelope and your competitors present neat, good looking proposals printed on computer you’re going to be out of luck even if your bid is the lowest price. Impressions count. Estimating construction costs with software can also help you by doing the calculations for your estimates without errors. When you're preparing your estimate by hand, if you use a calculator or try to do it in your head, you will make errors. Construction estimating software won't make the same kind of errors as you or I will. This is important, because the biggest reason contractors don’t stay in business is because they underbid their jobs. Two Reasons to Use Construction Estimating Software Estimating software will help you create professional
looking estimates. It will produce an estimate a contractor will be
proud to submit to a prospect. This is very important, because when
your prospect is reviewing the bids that you and your competitors
have submitted how it looks will have a big effect on which one they
choose. If your bid is scratched on the back of an envelope and your
competitors present neat, good looking proposals printed on computer
you’re going to be out of luck even if your bid is the lowest price.
Impressions count. Cost Estimating Software Can Save Your Company, and your ...Do you ever wonder where the money went on your jobs? Do you feel like you're on a tread mill, working your butt off and not getting anywhere? Is money tight, so that your family can’t do what they want? Do you feel like you're running around like a chicken withot a head because you just never have the time to do the things you really want to do?Some construction estimating software integrates with an accounting system so you can cost the whole job. This is absolutely crucial to your long term success. If you aren't costing your jobs then you won’t be able to estimate them. Let me say a word about job budgets. If you do it correctly, the estimate you prepare for your prospect is also you budget for the project. When you’re preparing a budget for a job, you should be basing the estimate on your cost for the materials, labor, etc. and adding labor burden and overhead and profit percentages on top of your costs. If you do it correctly, you’ve already created the budgets to track your actual costs against. I've talked with thousands of contractors some using estimating software and some not. Those that were using estimating software and tracking their costs were making money 99 times out of 100. Those that aren't tracking their costs are the ones that are usually living hand to mouth. Which category do you fall into? Using Construction estimating software, or not. Construction Estimating |
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