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Great to see this thread. I appreciate the votes for EstiMate! We are not supporting EstiMate 1 anymore, but we are still supporting EstiMate 2. By that, I mean technical support - not license keys. EstiMate users will always be able to unlock their software regardless of what version you...

@mark galoob, check out Jeff Cahill's worksheet from SignCraft: An Accurate Hourly Rate Is The Basis For Effective Pricing

High Five! That's the foundation of a solid sign business, IMHO. :goodpost:

Thank you, I will! As a sign shop employee turned art student turned sign shop owner, I maintain that every project is different and deserves attention as such.

+1 Jesse. Signs are not commodities! Each one is a custom piece of commercial artwork, and should be priced as such.

Blaney: brilliant! I love it. That's creative advertising. ;-)

I'd like to post a link to a blog entry I wrote about this (Fred, if this is a TOS violation let me know and I'll copy and paste instead, but it's big). 21 Ways To Drum Up Business In A Slow Economy When I started out in the sign business and was still "getting my legs" so to speak I...

Good software really is the best solution - but an AWESOME alternative is to fill out Jeff Cahill's worksheet (you can get it on signcraft.com at the following link). An Accurate Hourly Rate Is The Basis For Effective Pricing Also, take some time to read the articles on our blog. The EstiMate...

Thanks! I added it.

Hi CL, I just wanted to point out that with our changeover to pricing plans for EstiMate you can get started with all the quoting features for 39 bucks a month, not $2000! Download a trial at our website and email customerservice@estimatesoftware.com if you have any questions about getting...

Slamdunkpro, I hear you about feature creep. That's why we only focus on new features that we get many, many requests for. It helps round out the product without unnecessary extras. I'm sorry to hear you feel we're drifting from our path. I actually feel we are finally bringing to fore a...

Wow! Slamdunkpro, thank you for posting this - and thank you to everybody for your feedback! This has the makings of a good Frequently Asked Questions list. I really appreciate the opportunity to address your questions. This post was just brought to my attention, and it's already quite...

I can't imagine running into a problem, honestly. I use iStockPhoto all the freakin' time for my design work and love it. However, their license agreement... http://www.istockphoto.com/license.php ... does expressly forbid using their images in a logo (see section 4). So I'm always...

Hey man, We are very close to releasing a Flatbed plugin for EstiMate, and then will begin work on one for CNC routing... so you may want to sit tight. I've attached a screen shot of the upcoming flatbed plugin.

Terry's points are well made. Our take on it here at EstiMate is that a license is tied to an individual purchaser, and we charge (at this time) a $25 license transfer fee for the paperwork on our end to transfer a license from one customer to another. That's about what it costs us in time to...

Hi Gene! I'll leave it to the others as to "how it is working for them," but I'll happily give a couple of technical answers. #1 - The customer in question has 25,000 customers in QuickBooks. If you have more than, say, 5000 - perhaps there will be an issue. Up to that level you should...

Hi Gene! I'll leave it to the others as to "how it is working for them," but I'll happily give a couple of technical answers. #1 - The customer in question has 25,000 customers in QuickBooks. If you have more than, say, 5000 - perhaps there will be an issue. Up to that level you should be...