They haven't answered my quote. What do I send?
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This tool needs JavaScript to write your message. What it would say is explained below, and you can copy the three-message shape out of the FAQ.
Written from our own templates this time - the writing service did not answer. Everything below is still yours to send.
Which message is thisNothing ticked, so this one leans on the quote itself. Tick something true and it gets a reason to exist.
Add your business name, mailing address, and a phone or email in Advanced. Copy stays off until the identification block has what it needs.
Your customer's name, your sign-off and every date stay in this browser. The settings you pick are sent to our server and on to the model only to draft the follow-up; those settings are not stored after the follow-up comes back.
Three touches, then close the file. If anyone asks you to stop before that, stop that day.
Phone calls sit under different rules than email. If they have asked you not to call, do not.
How the quote follow-up generator works
The clock picks the message
You tell it when the quote went out and what you've already sent. It counts the days and names the touch, so you don't have to guess whether this is the polite one or the last one.
Facts stay on your side
The writing service never sees a date, a price, a name or a phone number. It isn't allowed to type a digit into the words it writes. Every figure in your message is one you entered, dropped in by your own browser after the words come back. We give it only the offers you tick, and we reject undeclared tokens. Read the draft before you send it anyway, because free prose can still make a statement nothing on your list supports.
Three touches, then the file closes
Two days, nine days, twenty-four days, shifted off weekends. That spacing is our call, not a rule. Three messages across about a month leaves each one room to carry something new, and that is the only thing that makes a follow-up worth opening. We don't shuffle around statutory holidays, so check the date before you send.
The Canadian bit
A sales follow-up email or text that encourages commercial activity is a commercial electronic message. Canada's anti-spam rules prescribe a mailing address plus a working phone, email or web contact route, and a way to stop messages - so every copied version here ships with those details and a plain opt-out line, including the text. What it does not do is tell you that you are compliant. That is not a thing a web page can know.
Canadian trades questions about quote follow-ups
How long should you wait before following up on a quote?
Two days for the first one. Long enough that you're not standing over them, short enough that they still remember the walkthrough. After that, about a week, then a couple of weeks for the last. What matters more than the gap is whether the message has anything new in it. A second "just checking in" three days after the first is worse than silence.
How do you follow up on a quote without being pushy?
Give them something instead of asking for something. A crew slot with a real date, an option to split the work, a spec you didn't price the first time. Then one question, and out. Pushy is what a message feels like when it has nothing in it but the ask. Nothing is owed to you here, and it reads that way the moment you push.
What do you say when following up on a quote?
One new fact and one question. That's the whole shape. The fact has to be true this week: a slot you can actually hold, a price you can actually keep. The question has to be answerable in a sentence. "Is the timing the part that is not working?" gets replies. "Let me know your thoughts" gets nothing, because it isn't a question.
How many follow-ups is too many?
Three, then stop. Not because four is rude, but because by the fourth you've stopped learning anything and started leaving a record. If someone asks you to stop before that, stop that day. Canada's anti-spam rules give you ten business days at the outside to act on it, so there's no argument to have.
Should you follow up by text or by email?
Both, staggered, if you have the number. The email carries the detail and the attachment; the text keeps the note brief. The catch is that a sales text is a commercial electronic message too, so it needs your business name, mailing address, a working contact route and a way to stop it. That is why the complete block sits inside the character count here.
Does a follow-up email in Canada need an opt-out line?
Canada's anti-spam law says a commercial electronic message has to identify who sent it, and the regulations prescribe a mailing address plus a phone, email or web contact route. It also needs a way to unsubscribe at no cost, by the same electronic means or, if that isn't practicable, another electronic means. The unsubscribe address or link has to stay valid for at least sixty days after sending. When someone asks to stop, you have to act without delay and no later than ten business days after the request. Implied consent can come from the recipient's own inquiry to you about the quoted work in the six months immediately before sending, unless they've withdrawn it. Whether your particular message needs consent is not something a web page can decide for you.
Why quote follow-ups get dropped, and what fixes it
A quiet quote tells you nothing about which part went wrong. Price, timing, scope, or a comparison with another business: silence covers all four equally well. A useful follow-up gives the customer one clear reason to answer without pretending we know which one it was.
So the fix goes into the input rather than the wording. Before the tool writes anything, it asks what you can genuinely offer this week: a crew slot with a date, an option to phase the job, a spec you didn't price the first time. Only those authorized offer keys and tokens go to the writer. Then it counts the days since the quote and picks the touch for you, because the man who lost track of the calendar is exactly the man who should not be diagnosing his own cadence.
The last message is the one worth reading twice. It says that no is a complete answer, then asks for the one-word reason. That turns a quote that vanished into a quote you learned something from. Timing, price, scope, or someone else: that's the difference between losing a job and losing a job twice.
The names they may be searching right now
When a customer is comparing quotes, they may search each business name before choosing. Your follow-up is answering a question they may also be researching somewhere else, so make sure the answer they find is yours.
Claiming your listing is free, and we say so plainly: no charge for the lead, no referral fee, the customer pays you directly.
The tool opens on Ontario, so that's the index we'd start with. Browse Ontario by city, find the city you work in, and read your own entry the way a customer would read it. Do that before they do.
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