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MISSION STATEMENT: Provide comprehensive, inexpensive and easy to use software that provides a consistent sophisticated approach to bidding and tracking projects that have a competitive edge and require quick response coupled with accurate results. |
| OBJECTIVE: Make available to owners, contractors and end-users robust software packages that are inexpensive ($40 - $80) and can pay for themselves in one (1) project. WHO: Peter Buitenhek started Profit Developer.com as a small company that markets five (5) Microsoft© hosted Excel™ spreadsheet software products. The programs are Excel™ based and require the user to own Excel™, but do not require the user to be a spreadsheet expert or user. All inputs are easy dollar, quantity or percent fill-ins. WHERE: Profit Developer.com started in San Diego, California. Sales of the products are worldwide. WHEN: We started as a software design company in February 2003. However, the design of the proprietary bidding software started in 1994 followed by the start of the software suite in 1996 which we used in our business. WHY: Many programs we found required sophisticated servers, proprietary code, SME (subject matter expert) support that didn't exactly give us what we needed and they were always very $$ costly. We wanted something cheap, quick and accurate. Not pick 2 out of 3! We needed software to help run a business that:
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to Product Information and Contacts Microsoft© Excel™ has worldwide recognition and support so we based our design on Excel™. The design will utilize the spreadsheet approach by allowing easy customer inputs that yield sophisticated and very complex formulas. All packages utilize the basic and rote functions (add, subtract, concatenate, vlookup, index, match etc.) but will not utilize macros where potential software viruses can hide. ISSUE: Many contractors bidding projects today still use "seat-of-their pants" practices. However, variances in technician/estimator ability and training nearly over-shadow the technical advances of product hardware and software design. Larger organizations utilized formalized bid-training programs and cumbersome prepackaged estimator/design software costing $5,000+. Conversely, smaller companies only have homegrown software or best-guess practices to bid sophisticated projects. On a recent project for a convention center, the owner received seven bids from contractors that ranged from $91,000 to $235,000. Prior to this bid, the owner did the homework with a designated supplier (GraybaR) to determine baseline material costs: $89,000! Obviously, major items like tax; labor and profit dollars were missed by some contractors and over-extended by others (see Peter Buitenhek's magazine article in Cabling Business Magazine). EASY USAGE: These programs are Microsoft© Excel™ based and require Excel™ to run, but do not require a knowledge of Excel™ to use. The layout structure is common for all 5 programs and provides for easy input to get sophisticated and complex calculated results. User changeable parameters on all sheets are color-coded green (safe to use). Below is a typical (enlarged) input for the Parameter Sheet of BidPro where you entered 60% for a Labor Markup Percent: Typical input layout:
In the above BidPro example, all labor costs would be marked up 60%. There are sixteen WBS Employee Classifications slots that could be personalized by name, grade, function and raw pay rate. Sub-contractors can be used along with many other inputs with associated material and labor costs that are enveloped in the cost - sell Margins Sheet. LOWEST PRICES: These easy to use programs are priced to give you a return-on-investment in just one project. Why so low?? We developed the software packages to run our businesses. These tools helped us understand cost/profit and allowed us to be very successful. Profitdeveloper.com wants you to have this same opportunity without having to develope your own code.
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These Microsoft® Excel™ based software programs have taken seven (7) years to develop and have significantly contributed to increased profits and bottom-line awareness of numerous national and international companies.
The companies above have a product (and/or service) that they need to market in a competitive environment. Each have general markups and desired profit requirements but must bid on projects that vary in scope. By standardizing their company's financial framework, they can consistently bid each project based on competitive analysis and strategic prowess. An easy interface allows actual project cost tracking compared to bid dollars and scores the estimator's proficiency. Attendance tracking (up to 50 people) graphically depict chronic abuses and provide workweek hourly goals for use in project debriefing and performance appraisals. The companies below are contractors or end-users that are familiar with horizontal cabling projects for computer networks. The easy to use CablePro input allows a fast cost & sell feature that can be tracked by estimators, managers and financial overseer. End users can estimate the install price of their cable plant install before placing their project out for bid. ConduitPro determines the maximum conduit fill capacity for cables based on installations standards.
We even develop custom proprietary programs, like FuneralPro, to help a Funeral Director determine service costs quickly and accurately without the need to sit in front of the grieving family typing in costs like a cash register checkout line. In that capacity, it would be inconceivable to forget things our misquote prices. Email
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