Why do some residential jobs fall through?
Some clients (especially residential ones) will seek bids from other glass studios, and some of those will opt for the cheapest pricetag even though it means settling for inferior craftsmanship or design. For this reason, I often encourage professionals to accept a modest mark-up and, in fact, most often I end up paying trade professionals 5% to 10% commission. For most of them, that’s five or ten percent on something they used to make NO money on because they would just send their clients to the phone book when the subject of stained or beveled glass came up. Now they recommend someone good, and get a samll commission too. Other professionals feel they earn a greater percentage of the client’s money. If that’s you… fine! I trust that you know your clients best, so I’ll mark up my ready-made or custom artworks any amount you specify. Or you can quote prices to the client yourself, have them pay you, and then pay me my share. I’ve done it that way, too. I’m very flexible! After all, t
