Potential Clients Who Don't Return Calls

[reachtreeservi]

I bid a job today that is going to take 15 minutes max for $425.00 and got it. The people even prepaid. That works out to $1,700.00 an hour. Please don't bash me my wife spends a lot of money.

Mckee , Sounds like you have it going on.

1,700.00 an hour !!!

Now that's what I call GREENERY!!!

 

[Haywire Haywood]

if I called back a client I`d call about a week or so after the estimate telling them about an unexpected opening on my schedule.
I never gave a price on site and I always stressed that it might take a couple of days for an estimate to be faxed emailed or mailed to them because I was so busy. Regardless if I was or not.

So what you're saying here is that you are more than happy to tell your potential client several bold faced lies in order to secure a contract.

Ian

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

People do not get rich, or make that comfortable, in the green industry without having other people to do the work for them.

he said rich green industry owners(tree care) don't do work themselves and I provided an example otherwise. and Im also wondering what JPS considers rich. I don't think middle class is rich. Its average thats why they call it middle class. My belief is that upper class income is possible in the green industry and the owner can still get his hands dirty. I also think thats part of the equation in becoming rich. You get a lot more respect from your employees that way. Once passionate about working with trees, the passion doesn't leave you, no matter how rich you become.

That is not exactly what I said, and any company owner has to pitch in if there is a shortage of labor. But that is pitching in not doing most of the work; production, sales, collection, operational, marketing, repairs...

Take Larry's statement above about realizing he cannot do it all. They want to grow, so someone has to sell more then "work". Once his market rebounds from the pressure of all us carpetbaggers running around, he will easily sell for 3 crews. He could probably get by with one chipper crew and 2 or three climbing crews for a while.

What is rich? That depends on the demographics of your market. I was in Tulsa, OK for 3 weeks and some of the homes going for 200k are sweet. They would go for around 350k here in the MKE metro area. It seemed like everything but gas was cheaper.

Some say that rich is what the people in the next bracket up are. Many people in the mid six figure household income consider themselves to be in the middle. Probably because so many people live within or just outside of their income that they are always working for what they own.

I work with several small companies that have around $1M in rolling stock, between the spray rigs, loaders, log truck, dumps, chippers, stumpers, spitters, ect...ect...

What it comes down to is that if you are the one trying to do everything, and grow, then there are things not getting done.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

So what you're saying here is that you are more than happy to tell your potential client several bold faced lies in order to secure a contract.

Ian

Do you tell your significant other she looks pretty, even if she is waking up puffeyed and pillowfaced?

White lies do not make you a usedcar salesman. Though one could just drop the opening, and just say you will commit to doing the work on X day (in writing) if they sign now.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

White lies do not make you a used car salesman.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.... and no, I just refuse to answer her when she asks me questions like that... LOL

Ian

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Whatever helps you sleep at night.... and no, I just refuse to answer her when she asks me questions like that... LOL

Ian

I'll just try to make the commitment, add a sense of urgency myself. Though I can understand why some resort to white lies. I worked for a company that was much worse in theire high pressure tactics. Have you heard of applied anthropology and mating habits?

• looking in the direction a person glances
• brushing your hair, or other grooming move to mirror the potential client
• using certain cue words to show an interest in the individual...

I was feeling like a UCS while going through their training. I disregarded most of it, took some of it to heart;

• Can we schedule that for you?
• what are you looking for with our service?
• If that is too much, what part can I leave for you, fine raking?
• Can we do this service for you too Mrs. Smith?

 

[tree md]

I'll just try to make the commitment, add a sense of urgency myself. Though I can understand why some resort to white lies. I worked for a company that was much worse in theire high pressure tactics. Have you heard of applied anthropology and mating habits?

• looking in the direction a person glances
• brushing your hair, or other grooming move to mirror the potential client
• using certain cue words to show an interest in the individual...

I was feeling like a UCS while going through their training. I disregarded most of it, took some of it to heart;

• Can we schedule that for you?
• what are you looking for with our service?
• If that is too much, what part can I leave for you, fine raking?
• Can we do this service for you too Mrs. Smith?

LOL, and I thought I was good at guerrilla marketing....