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Posted: Mon Dec 5th, 2005 07:18 pm |
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Does anyone charge consultation charges (if applicable)? I know some businesses do so because you may travel a good distance and spend a lot of time to give people estimates and such for jobs.
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TPT
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Posted: Mon Dec 5th, 2005 10:10 pm |
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My policy is to only charge a consultation fee if the customer is greater than 20 miles from my office.
Usually, I try to avoid this by doing most of the initial consult via phone and only head out to the customer site in an attempt to close the deal...in which case, I don't charge a fee.
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Posted: Tue Dec 6th, 2005 02:41 pm |
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For much of my business I do not have to go to meet with a client. So it is not too much of an issue. I have also had clients who were a pretty good distance from me and offered to meet me half way or something of that nature. Of course in that case I never charge any kind of fee. And I keep their thoughtfullness in mind when writing the estimate.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13th, 2006 11:20 pm |
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| My husband usually does not charge a consultation charge because he is usually traveling around town to do his work anyway, but I think that charging one for customers more than 20 miles away is fair.
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