Lol do 50 quotes in two days , unless they are all very close together which I doubt they are that’s impossible, also what’s the point in loosing 2 days work looking at that amount of jobs you could easily be earning £300 a day so that’s £600 loss 😂😂😂😂😂
I dont work on the tools anymore thats what my staff do. Ive got several businesses so im basically in the office every day anyway. All quotes will be done online. Don't need to waste my time driving to each job, all quotes get done online so theres no loss or downtime at all 
How do you accurately quote a job without seeing it ??
There are multiple methods i use, but i'm not giving all my secrets away just yet!
The obvious one though is google maps that helps alot. Also the easiest way to accurately quote a job is to just overquote. Theres nothing worse than turning up to an underpriced job. Quoting online easiest way to eliminate that problem is just to go in with high prices to account for uncertainty of not seeing the job etc..
Works everytime for us, infact most of the time we end up with tons of overpriced jobs.
From my experience google maps are very outdated properties have had extensions and conservatories added years ago but it doesn’t show on Google maps as they arnt updated regularly, if you over price every job I doubt you will get many , also it might not be over priced if there is something that you are unaware of you could still be put of pocket, been there and done that , getting customer to send pictures is good but sometimes there are still things that you don’t realise are there until you turn up , also I feel it’s more professional to turn up explain to the customer what you will do ., the personal touch always works well , we regularly get enquiries from ones who have had work done by others and it’s not been done right or they haven’t done something if you see them there can be no confusion, that’s my take on it .
There are ways around most of the issues. First of all when we get an enquiry we send them a set of questions to answer. These questions give us about 90% of the information we need to give out an accurate quote. Even on the times where customers dont give us the answers, or if google maps is outdated maps or unclear images, then we anticipate this in advance and include this in the quote. For example. The price will be £20 for a 4 Weekly Clean. If you have a Conservatory/Extension it will be £6 extra etc....
That's just as an example.
Also even if worst case scenario of say 1/10 new customers we turn up and the job is underpriced, we just knock on the door introduce ourselves apologise that the quote we gave was slightly inaccurate due to xyz at property that we were not aware of and the new price is xxx. Apologise and tell them we will understand if they do not want to engage or take up our services. 99% of the time they say yes there and then and problem solved.
Quoting in person is ALWAYS the best way to get customers. However it's just not needed/necessary. If you have 20-50 quotes to do like Stoots has said, it's not worth the time to go and spend 2 full days quoting these jobs. You can bang them out in 4 hours online at home and even if you win less quotes who cares? When you have enough leads coming in like we do, our goal is not to maximise conversions, our goal is to get the best possible result from a customer. In other words making sure the price is bang on.
Take this week for example. I was only expecting to get about 20 enquiries, but thanks to what happened with my adverts ive got atleast 60 enquiries. That means now i can charge even more per enquiry. I will naturally lower the conversion rate and weed out the trash by going in with high prices. Get less conversions, but way better priced work. Instead of quoting 60 enquiries and getting say 40-45 customers, ill just go in with really high prices and get say 20-25 customers but at better prices.
Hope that makes sense.
I know its not for everyone, but personally going into Facebook ads literally transformed our business. We filled up a second van in 4 months time from scratch just on facebook ads alone.
You just have to do it the right way. I see lots of people doing it wrong.
As i say its not for everyone, which is great, if it was the market would be so saturated i would not get any results at all on there, neither would Stoots lol.
