Question fellas, I want to do more commercial properties this year. All my work is small jobs I feel after gas, wear and tear on my truck and equipment Im not profiting all that much.
How do you go about quoting apartments? Do you walk in, call, send emails? Create a flyer specific to that apartment complex?
A month ago I sent out emails to atleast 20 different HOA communities and I received 0 repsonse from them. And Im a $99 per hour type of guy. All my competition is $200 minimum.
Not to derail your thread…but “I feel” is not a good business indicator. These things you should know with absolute certainty. I won’t even get into the hourly rate talk, lol.
Agree. You should know your numbers for every job, what you did last week, this week, and what you are forecasted for the next 30 days.
You should have this on a dashboard that you look at every start and end of your day.
If you can’t do this then hire someone to make it.
Trust me as much as I hate these things, data is how you know if you are a business or a hobbyist.
or worse yet, an unregistered 501c3 
If you are a $99 guy, and I don’t find anything wrong with that at all, then you need volume. This is where the $99 works (that and up selling other things like gutters). If not, then you have to raise your prices. Successful $99 dollar guys are hustlers. I was really cheap, almost too cheap, I raised my prices a little and I don’t mind it as much. I’m really trying to get into wood only, the margins are way better but it is more work (in my area). Let’s be honest, any 17yo can be a $99 guy tomorrow with a HD rig and some hustle.
Your approach may be wrong. When I would go into the office on Monday mornings our fax machine had piles of advertisements/offers in there, we would just pitch them without reading them. Then to the computer at the desk, start deleting all the junk mail that got through the filter. Didn’t open or read any of that mess.
3 things I might offer you, with no guarantee any will work (modified sales approach). I’ve used this basic format all my life for various things and it generally works. Having said this, commercial work in my area is minimal at best. The managers like to squeeze two nickels together until a quarter pops out.
who would do that?..
