Alex Jordan · Northampton

What's in the quote folder?

Three numbers you already know. Move them to yours and see what's been quoted, priced and driven out to — and never won.

Most trades land somewhere between 3 and 5.

Quoted in a year and never won

£1,176,000

168 quotes still sat there

£504,000won — 72 quotes
£1,176,000never won — 168 quotes
A year's quoting, split. You paid to generate every bit of it — the leaflets, the diesel, the hours pricing it up.

Just to see the shape of it

That's 3 jobs. £21,000.

The campaign costs £595. That job would cover it 11 times over.

That last bit is arithmetic, not a forecast. Nobody can tell you how many will come back, and anyone who gives you a number is guessing. What's true is the figure at the top: that work was quoted, and it was never won. Most of those people never chose anybody — they said they'd have a think, got chased twice, and the folder swallowed them.