Comments on: Quoting Your Work http://www.foundationstech.com/technology/quoting-your-work Building And Supporting Quality Networks Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Scott Cover http://www.foundationstech.com/technology/quoting-your-work/comment-page-1#comment-26 Scott Cover Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:17:12 +0000 http://www.foundationstech.com/?p=25#comment-26 Really after writing the post I realized that quoting wasn't really the right word. Because a lot of the quips with my process stem more around the add-ons to the proposals than anything. The parts where I'm adding little one-page pieces that explain the features and benefits of what we are offering the client. I've always known I'm my own worst critic, and have gotten compliments on my proposals in the past. Just always want it to be better, faster, prettier. And those SET Consulting people, well... Really after writing the post I realized that quoting wasn’t really the right word.

Because a lot of the quips with my process stem more around the add-ons to the proposals than anything. The parts where I’m adding little one-page pieces that explain the features and benefits of what we are offering the client.

I’ve always known I’m my own worst critic, and have gotten compliments on my proposals in the past. Just always want it to be better, faster, prettier.

And those SET Consulting people, well…

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://www.foundationstech.com/technology/quoting-your-work/comment-page-1#comment-25 Jared Goralnick Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:11:07 +0000 http://www.foundationstech.com/?p=25#comment-25 Yeah, stay away from SET Consulting, they're prohibitively expensive and there's very little ROI. Actually, we don't really do "quoting systems" so much but do automate proposals. You could probably create a very simple database that exports to Excel, etc. But I think all of that is missing the point. My guess is that you don't need what you think you need--you should seriously consider what you think your clients are expecting and find a way to make that a little simpler to produce. Getting exactly what you want might not be the best thing for you...but we can talk about that offline some day. Just my $0.02... Yeah, stay away from SET Consulting, they’re prohibitively expensive and there’s very little ROI.

Actually, we don’t really do “quoting systems” so much but do automate proposals. You could probably create a very simple database that exports to Excel, etc. But I think all of that is missing the point.

My guess is that you don’t need what you think you need–you should seriously consider what you think your clients are expecting and find a way to make that a little simpler to produce. Getting exactly what you want might not be the best thing for you…but we can talk about that offline some day.

Just my $0.02…

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