Automatic bid is the easiest way to quickly get your campaigns live and serving impressions on the platform Autobid (recommended): your bid will auto-optimize to get the best results at the lowest price (within your budget).Select the bid type you'd like to use in your Ad group: All I got was some free business education and a nice drive through lovely countryside.7. I sent a contractor an hourly proposal for a big rehab and he was like, "great, let's meet at the site." Then, after the visit, he says, "now that you've seen it, can you get me a fixed fee." I went along with it, judging that it was still in my interest to get the project, but it went nowhere. I have also been semi-duped into a long drive for a site visit. In a situation like this, saying "if it turns into a project then we'll hire you" isn't sufficient for me. I have also declined to go to a building for a "walk through" with a developer who wanted an opinion on whether a building is structurally sound enough to invest in. I do not got to a residential evaluation without an agreement to be paid. I would also do this for a potential client for a significant project where I needed to be familiar with the existing building in order to draft a scope of work. Usually, they call me when they know the job is going forward, but there have been a few times when I've been to a site, the project dies, and I eat the time spent. I will visit prior to a proposal for consistent clients. RE: Charging for Meetings/Site Visits Prior to Being Engaged dik (Structural) 23 Apr 22 00:37 If they expect you to give specific advice during the visit, then they should pay. but that isn't contractually done, it is just because I want to do right and it is only one specific firm I invite. Then I offer them to pay for that hour or if I specifically asked them to look at plans. The only time we pay for someone's time is if we invite someone to look at a building for small project and i want to hear their opinion on feasibility and for some reason we don't hire them. Or in private life, if you get 3 quotes to get a new water heater installed, you don't pay the 2 non-winning plumbers any money. Only the winning contractor gets a contract (that i assume includes their overhead). Same with contractors who bid on our projects. Like if you pay for an ad, but no one hires you based on the ad.ĭuring the walkthroughs they sometimes volunteer interesting information, but we don't ask them questions or expect actual advice. But that is part of their cost of doing business. If we get 5 proposals, obviously 4 companies wasted money. We usually offer a walk-through in an existing building to give them the opportunity to learn about the building in question before they submit a proposal. We often hire consultants for some trades, or whole projects. This coming on site is for your benefit to familiarize with the situation so you can estimate what your proposal should be. Mostly overhead I assume since you have to make more proposals than you get contracts for.īut as long as you don't actually give them advice, I think it should be free. Obviously proposal work will somehow be part of your cost. RE: Charging for Meetings/Site Visits Prior to Being Engaged geotechguy1 (Civil/Environmental) 22 Apr 22 22:03 Just curious on other peoples' practices when it comes to this. I will tell them if they decide to move forward I'll remove it from the proposal, where it's typically included. I am debating to charge a fee as they want to meet on site, which is 1.5 hours from me. They are looking to design a new 200'x80' building. Now I had another call the other day and was sent several invoices for steel trusses and columns from a potential client. So I said I'll come out for free and include the fee in the proposal if he decides to move forward. When I brought up that I charge a fee to come out, he paused for several seconds and I could tell he didn't like it lol. Recently I went out and met with a homeowner to look over his architectural drawings and site as they need a retaining wall for an addition to their home. When I have potential design clients, I've been playing around with charging a fee to come as I've been getting more and more busy and can't be driving around and meeting for free as I would be wasting a lot of time. When I get calls from potential clients regarding coming out and inspecting a building or given condition I obviously have a fee for that.I'd consider that forensic related work. I'm curious what everyone's practices are.
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