Today’s Bidding And Estimating Software: Detailed, Customized And Professional Advances in computer software have affected nearly every business function performed today. By: Dan Liebrecht Y Yesterday’s methods of bidding and estimating jobs included a lot of “guesstimating” of prices — which were then quickly jotted down on the back of business cards. This led to the somewhat more useful, but still relatively simple, bidding calculator approach using overall cleaning production rates with the ability to produce a modest one-or two-page pro-posal. Today, partly in response to mounting pressure from building owners and managers, modest requirements, basic lists of cleaning duties and plain-looking proposals are quickly being replaced by customized service schedules, detailed lists of Dan Liebrecht is co-founder of Clean Guru LLC, co-cre-ator of the CleanBid ® Program — Janitorial Bidding Made Easy ® . He is co-author of the book "Discover the Guru in You ® — The 7 Insider Secrets to Finding, Landing and Keeping Profitable Cleaning Jobs!” as well as the video series “Flip My Cleaning Business From Painful to PROFITABLE” Find out more at www.CleanBid.net. for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Software . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select SUPPLIER SEARCH from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Bidding . Today's bidding and estimating software programs are intuitive, user-friendly and easily adaptable to a variety of business operations. 20 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • May 2010
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