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Father's Perspective on Business Acumen and Discounts

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Is This True about All Electricians? What do Electricians hate the most in their job, Invoicing?

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The Master Electrician father responds by explaining that many blue-collar tradespeople, including electricians, are often 'lousy in business' because they are not 'people persons.' He states they dislike dealing with customer interactions, estimating, and especially collecting payments. He further elaborates that certain customer demographics 'just have to ask for a discount' as it's 'in their nature' and 'in their blood,' believing they've left money on the table if they don't ask.

Goal: Explain the underlying reasons for business challenges and customer behavior

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do I avoid this? Well, see, now you're getting into the reason why most electricians are lousy in business, right? A lot of the blue-collar trades just aren't are not people people persons, right? They don't want to deal with that part of it. They don't want to deal with the estimating and certainly collecting and First thing you want to remember is there are certain people, there are certain demographics that just have to ask for a discount. It's just in their nature, it's in their blood. They feel that if they don't ask for a discount, that they left some money on the table. What you can do to mitigate some of that is never invoice at the very end of the job. Because we have

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