1st June 2008, 02:21 PM
Quote:quote:I recently had a new experience where a government contractor invited three of us apparently out of the yellow pages to a field to discuss a forty metre trench evaluation, told us to go away and get a tender in by five that Friday to start the job by Tuesday. It turned out that one of us had just done a watching brief for the client. Whats going on and what do you do? You might like to start from this point of view
Good point.. and one I know only too well. Simple ... if you think you are just there to make up numbers... don't tender... put your efforts into jobs you have a chance of winning. You don't have to tender...
Quote:quote:what bloody use is this one day course
best to ask them if you are unsure, rather than just damning it...
Quote:quote:I work predominantly on my own. I have long periods when I (family) am running on credit.
I also work predominantly on my own... but like a good business I ensure I have more than one income stream, am able to choose jobs, provide services that are specialist - and outsource when I don't have the skill, promote my business in a targeted form, evolve the business to compete in the market without having to cut my standards. I can even afford to do 'charity work' where I don't require payment, but get to provide service in kind to community groups. Basically, I run like a business, I evolve, I maintain standards and I provide a service.... times are hard... no denying that, but diversification has allowed me to remain stable...
Quote:quote:wonder why I am paying someone else and at what point is my expertise adequateAgain, simple... if you really can produce an adequate report on the assemblage, then go ahead and do it... if you can show you are able to produce it, it seems daft that you are sending it out to someone else... simple business model is
Time it would take you to do it (x your hourly rate) against time for someone else to do it (their costing)
As you often talk about digger retained copyright... do you exercise this on your sites? Do you employ people? You should be more than able to compete agaist larger Units, just as they will be better able to compete agaist you on large projects.
Maybe you need to go on a course
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu