A quick tip for estimators....

I might be teaching people how to suck eggs here but as I know that other landscapers are reading the blog it seems fair to try to pass on the odd snippett that might be useful.When I'm putting a quote together I often visit a number of different websites for information, prices, etc. Today is a typical one. The garden I'm quoting has a welded liner for the pool, stainless steel cables over the pergola, a type of brick that we've never heard of and various other bits and bobs. I've visited perhaps 20 sites for information.What I do is create a folder in Explorer 'favorites' and mark it with the clients name. Then I put all the websites relevent to the job into that folder. That way I have all the salient sites at my finger tips no matter how far into the future it may be before the project starts.
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  • PRO
    Straight to the top of Google Dave - well done ;-0) (results may vary from region to region)
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_en-GBFR334FR33...
  • Whoa! How the **** did that happen!
    Thanks for all your help Phil - much appreciated. Interestingly this blog this blog isn't updating from the Wordpress one yet. I manually inserted the above into Wordpress and have posted a 'test' on the WP blog too. Does it take time for the RSS feed to update itsself?
    Dave
  • PRO
    Yes, it can take a little time to update.
  • PRO
    It's updated now...so about 10-15 minutes??
  • Looks like it. I've managed to get the RSS feed for LJN onto the blog as well. Now I really should do some work!
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