Estimating Residential and Commercial Landscape Proposals
Date

Last Ran: February 12-13, 2008
8:00am-5:00pm

Next class is to be determined
Description

Can you expand your profit without allocating all of your costs? No - but national business guru Jim Huston can show you, using your own business information, how to make more money by understanding costs. Whether it’s estimating growth models, covering overhead costs or budgeting, you’ll learn it all in this two-day course designed for anyone interested in expanding their profits and eliminating costly mistakes. Find out why a recent participant called the class: “The best course of its kind I have ever taken.”

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Full Course Description

Through interactive discussions in intimate classes, hear from Jim and your colleagues about their different methods of estimation, and the pros and cons of each. Bring your own estimating sheets for review in class and join us afterward for a pizza dinner on the 17th to talk with Jim one-on-one about estimating and building your business. Jim will cover all the basics and then some, including lump sum bids and unit price bids, estimating methods that work and ones you should avoid, and comprehensive explanations of financial terms so that you can stay on top of your business activity. You cannot afford not to cover your costs, and you can’t afford to miss this course!

Course Objectives:

• To learn five different ways of arriving at an estimate
• To explain what’s right and wrong with each approach
• To better be able to produce lump sums and unit price bids

In addition to 2 days of invaluable education, participants will have the option of purchasing the comprehensive book, How to Price Landscape Irrigation Projects, at the course.

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Should You Take this Course?

Whether you’re a public sector employee that accepts bids from private contractors, or a private contractor submitting them to customers and government factions, you will benefit from this valuable business course.

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Continuing Education Credits

CPWM Credits: 12 Technical

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Agenda

Five Different Estimating Methods will be reviewed:

• Five Different Estimating Methods
• Lump Sum Bids
• Unit Price Bids
• Estimating Sheet Review
• Estimating Pros and Cons

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Our Faculty

Jim Huston

A green industry “guru” and self-made millionaire, instructor Jim Huston offers practical budgeting, pricing and service tips to amplify your market perception, generate new sales and turn customers into clients.

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Evaluation Results

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(2005 – 2007)
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Please Rate the Overall Content of the Program

12 2 0 0

How Would You Rate The Usefulness of the
Information You Received In Today’s Class?

 24 0 0 0

Here’s How Your Colleagues Rated the Instructor of this Course
(2005 - 2007)

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Jim Huston 22 2 0 0

We asked: “Would You Recommend This Program to an Associate?”
This is the tally of responses we received:

Yes 24
No 0

 

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What Your Colleagues Said About the Course:

“I better understand the how’s and why’s of the excel spreadsheets we already use from Jim Huston.”

“The best course of its kind I have ever taken.”

“I can now bid with confidence.”

“Before estimating was strictly a ‘guess.’ Now I know a logical of why we estimate.”

“I better understand the how’s and why’s of the excel spreadsheets we already use.”

“Hard man to replace” [About instructor, Jim Huston]

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