How to quote jobs?

I need a good way of quoting these jobs. How do you guys do it?

You probably need to be a TAD more specific there Nitro......

Auto or residential, first of all........

starting off auto, but i would like to do residential and commercial also

I would say step one... call your competitors and get prices from them to get a idea of what the market is expecting...

Step two....determine HONESTLY if You are as good as Your competition or better...then price up or down accordingly.

Yeah, but I can't call like everytime I am going to do a car or truck and ask them what they would charge! I got a bad ass hillbilly accent, it's not like they would'nt know it was me everytime!! LOL!!!

the good thing is, I think i am ok on the need for this in my area because I am about 35 to 40 minutes south of cincy in northern ky. There is nothing like this around me. I am actually planted right in between cincy and lexington ky

Do you know glass? Can you identify tempered. float, low-e and all the other technologies? If not, don't get into flat unless you want to learn glass

thats one reason i play it safe, and usually recommend a 30 or 40 standard film, or a 50 ceramic. Safe more almost every type of glass, especially in our mild climate.

it helps to have done a lot of cars to price them ,because there are a lot of them that I charge more now that I've done one, since their not as easy as they look(older escapes, thunderbirds, classic cars)

for bidding res/comm, basically measure sq/ft and price that. Figure out what you need to get the job done. Like I have a $60 scaffold fee(costs me $22/day to rent it), $350 small scissor lift and $600 large scissor lift fee, etc. You learn fast what you need to do the job correctly.

practice, practice, pratice

Sounds like you got business handled.

Try practising a jamaican accent . Just keep saying " hey mon" "Rastaman " "cool runnings" " pussy clat"

PUSSY CLAT!

There you go all your problems are solved LOL. Calling around does not mean to call on every car. I would call and tell them you have a _____________ insert average 4 door car and later call back and tell them you have a __________ average large SUV this gives you an idea of what to charge.

You probably have it handled a LOT more than me

Everyone always asks me where I am from and I tell them I am from New York!!!!!!!!!!!! lol!!