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Highly Profitable Electrical Cost Estimating Software 2023
This Electrical Cost Estimating Software thoroughly examines cost analysis and calculations to electrical cost estimators to perform full electrical estimates.

Best Bid Hybrid Pro Estimating Software
Steve with Best Bid. I don’t get the chance to address you guys and gals directly very often. I spend my time estimating and tweaking how things can work better.

It is obviously not obvious.
It is obviously not obvious.
I teach a lot of people how to estimate electrical projects. I also teach or at least share my experience of running an electrical contracting business with many new people with little more than a dream.
You…

Labor Burden-Know Your Cost or Lose Your +++
Labor Burden
What does it actually cost my Electrical Company to work an employee?
This is a great question! If you are going to run a profitable electrical contracting business, then you need to know exactly what…


Choosing Electrical Estimating Software. Where is the easy button?
You woke up today with an increasable desire to change the way your company is estimating electrical projects. Furthermore, you know that you have fallen behind on technology. You finally understand that you must have electrical estimating…

I only missed (2) lights. What is the big deal?
I only missed (2) light fixtures no big deal, right?
The overlooked estimator
As estimators, we will never be perfect and from time to time we will miss something. We do our best to get it right and weigh our time spent VS cranking…

The Lost Art of Electrical Estimating
The lost art of estimating
In today’s computer age we have become custom to just pushing buttons and living with the results.
The art of actually entering our knowledge along with the computer generated results has long been forgotten. Shorter bid dates, having to produce more estimates than ever before, are some of the issues we face each day. Detailed electrical estimating seems to be a lost art.

There is an easy path to creating an accurate electrical estimate.
The Easy Path
There is an easy path to creating an accurate electrical estimate reasonably fast. The answer is simple. “Spend endless hours learning how”.
You must be willing to spend time learning how to estimate in the…

Making your 1st Million as an Electrical Contractor
Making your 1st Million as an Electrician
Dan Jackson AKA Dans the Engineer
I am borrowing this post for Dan. There are some good lessons here and I have added my take.
Since entering the electrical trade, I have always heard people…