Now, I know that despite these exciting internet enabled times in which we live, many of those among the building professions more have a website as a version of a fixed advert in the yellow pages than any kind of ongoing care about it thing, but why have an e-mail address if you’re just going to ignore it?
Also, I know that work that you actually have in your hand is much easier to concentrate on than potential future work, but if you don’t actually ever quote for potential future work, then eventually that work’s going to dry up. I’m given to understand, from the builders/plumbers/architects/etc that I’ve met that this year has not started particularly auspiciously, and that they all are in need of more work.
So why is it so damn difficult to wheedle any kind of quote out of these people? Really? Even just a ballpark figure so we know whether it’s worth continuing to get a fuller quote? Lots of companies seem to be willfully ignoring me, but then perhaps I’m just uncommonly bad at phrasing things or asking too much or providing too little information?
It’s hard to tell, the radio silence from them is often tedious.
