joomQUOTE quoting system automatically calculates and produces quotations based on the requirements specified by your customer or employee. joomQUOTE lets you create as many options as you’d like, each with its own set of user-selectable values and associated price modifiers. Examples might include size, model, plan, material, or other options that would affect the line item price of a product or service. The options and values you create are automatically included in your Instant Online Quote Builder for customers to choose from. Then, Joomquotes automatically calculates the price of each quote based on the options selected at the time of request.

1. Quotation Plugin – Why Micro &
Small Businesses Should Use It
Micro and small businesses can benefit from a
quotation plugin. This is basically a website
extension that's installed on websites, and perhaps
the one that works with a Joomla platform is the
most popular. If you don't know what Joomla
is, you will learn shortly. What's important is you
read on to discover how your particular business
type can harness this tool's powers.

2. OK, let's do some refresher now. Joomla is
basically a content management system or CMS
that's used to publish content online. A Joomla
quotation plugin is simply a website extension
that is supported by this kind of CMS. If you are
not sure if your website supports this
plugin, simply ask your programmer. Now, let's
dig in. Let's discuss how it applies to micro and
small businesses.

3. Businesses in this level often struggle
marketing themselves. They do not have the
advertising budget of mid-sized and large
corporations. For that reason, they turn to the
Internet and try to maximise free or organic
traffic. And one of the best ways to attract
free traffic is by installing a quotation plugin.
This extension, once activated on your
site, will give your visitors the power to
calculate how much the service or product
they want to avail of would cost. It does so
without making them compute figures.

4. What happens is your visitors simply select from
options your provide. For example, they need three
small pink shirts and four large blue shirts. They simply
select those values and can get an estimate instantly.
The key here is to make the Joomla quotation plugin
become a valuable tool for your prospects. That's the
best way to make them regularly visit your site. When
they find value in it, they will also share their
discovery with friends, who also do the same thing to
their friends. The process is repeated and word is
spread about your website – and therefore your
business – without you lifting a finger.

5. But it's not enough to get website traffic, right? One
reason why micro and small businesses struggle is
they lack a way to steadily grow and maintain a list of
prospects and customers. In marketing, this is called
"list building" or gathering data (particularly contact
information) of your target market. And here's how
you can use a quotation plugin for that purpose.
Simply ask your programmer to link a web form to the
plugin. Users will then need to leave their contact
information to get the result or quote they need.
Now, you have the details you want and you can
market to more prospects in other ways like
phone, direct mail, or email.