Proposals and quotes
Many freelancers and small businesses don’t like to write quotes and proposals. Depending on the project, me neither. I especially dislike getting into it. Once you get going, it doesn’t seem so bad.
In my case one of the reasons is that I like working on actual projects better. Since I have more than enough work to do, quotes mostly just get pushed back to the last hours of the day.
Lyndoman from Cornwallseo doesn’t like them either.
But don’t despair! There is someone who does. Steven from Zion (Dutch) told us multiple times he likes it at least as much as coding. And according to him, if I remember correctly, he has an extremely high success rate of 80% (where mine is below 50%). Being pickier about the projects you accept and the time you put into your quote of course has an effect on this.
But why not start www.IWriteYourQuote.com? The one that writes the quote gets 20% (with a low border for small projects) if it gets accepted. You can end up with something like Elance, oDesk or crowdSPRING, but it doesn’t have to be that big.
Tags: small business
25. October 2008 at 12:25
I don’t think a service like that can help you to win more business. Some of the many reasons : Before you create a quote, you need to have build at least a minor relationship with your prospect. You need to have talked with the buyer and he/she needs to feel that you understand the needs. Once you have made that connection, you already made a big step.
Also, a ‘quote writer’ would need to understand your business, the business of the prospect, the project and very important : the objectives the prospect is trying to reach with the project.
Quite difficult to outsource to a service, altough I like the idea!
29. October 2008 at 11:03
Maybe a service that you can send a rough draft. They then would translate it into ’salesman talk’