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Get your pre-game together This post is for electrical estimators that may be just a little nervous when they start to price electrical work. That can be a good thing, at least it means you care about the results and quality of your bid.Ok you have electrical estimating software and you have on-screen takeoff software to fall back Read more about Electrical Estimating Pre-Game Strategies
A customer calls me and says man my company is having all kinds of issues. Everything is going wrong. We are losing money and I can’t keep employees on the job.Covid is making everything harder than it use to be. I really need some help. I need some kind of estimating program, bidding software, one Read more about You must be willing to do your part. We will go out of the way to do ours.
Best kept secret of being a successful Electrical Contractor. There are many things that have to come together to take your company to the next level. We have experienced them all. At Best Bid. We have lived through times when business was good and we have seen it when business was bad but there is Read more about Best kept secret of being a successful Electrical Contractor.
What does it take to be a successful Electrical Contractor? When owning and running a successful Electrical Contracting Company you learn to wear many hats. Being a great electrician does not prepare you for owning your own company. You will need to learn many new skills. There are so many things that go on behind Read more about Being a great electrician does not prepare you for owning your own company.
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What’s the Best Electrical Estimating Software for My Company.? This is a common question that we get asked every day.The simple answer is the best one that you can afford.Now with the Best Bid Hybrid Pro you can easily afford the best. You may be a guy with a dream still working in the field Read more about What’s the Best Electrical Estimating Software for My Company.?
Don’t be fooled to price your work based on Sq. Ft prices that are set by people working out of their home with no insurance. Residential Electrical work is not a great way to make money.
Being forced to price by a Sq. Ft. number in lieu of actual cost.
The Days of Pen and Paper and a Lot of Guesswork The days of pen and paper with lots of luck thrown in. Thirty years ago electrical contractors had no choice but to run their businesses the old-fashioned way by using pen and paper, writing down endless list of material and using their calculator to Read more about Evolution From Pen and Paper to Electrical Estimating Software
Surely not another change, You will never eliminate changes in construction estimating but you can stop the problems that come with managing your revised drawings. With the Accura Cadd PDF Draw software you can overlap new drawings on top of the original drawings to easily identify changes. The aggravation of addendums is a familiar scene. Estimator Read more about Don’t Tell Me -Another Addendum
All this begins with the estimation. An electrical estimator is a very specialized and very important position. The project is based on the estimation. It is also among the most gratifying. In the US, electrical estimators earned a median compensation of 68, 800, and the top pay in the industry is 176, 000 plus bonus, Read more about It All Starts With The Estimate
