StormBobo:
You say you are.... “no business manager and usually I undercharged just to have the costumer satisfaction.” If you are going to do this, you better start to become a business manager real quickly. And, you should have learned something about the cost and process of running surveying crews and the cost of surveying projects over the last seven years. If you haven’t learned this, you may be getting in over your head. Are you registered as a surveyor, do you have to be for this job? I’ll bet there are dozens of points on each line, for some economy; assuming you have the experience and surveying software and equipment to take advantage of this. While a reasonable fee for your surveying effort is important, you do have to pay all your bills too; ‘costumer satisfaction’ usually really comes from a job properly, timely and well done, not low cost alone. When (if) you charge too little, you tend to get sloppy, quick-n-dirty, to make ends meet, and that usually works to no one’s advantage, in the final analysis. Also, you gotta pay the crews first, before you get your cut, so be careful.
