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Today we will talk with an IT professional who created a tool to help techs calculate the pricing of work orders on web-based service platforms and find out how you can get it free.<\/p>\n

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Intro to Topic 1:52<\/strong>
Today we’re going to talk with Donald Bertrand of Donald Bertrand Technical Consulting<\/a>. We will find out how he stays profitable accepting work from web-based service platforms, learn about his Platform Pricing Tool<\/a> and find out how we can use it to manage the pricing of platform work in our own business \u2013 free.<\/p>\n

Interview with Donald Bertrand 18:42<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wrap up and Close :46<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comments, questions or suggestions? Send them in to comments@theforcefield.net or post them in The Force Field Forums<\/a>. Feedback on this topic will be read by the host and included in future episodes of the show. Visit us at http:\/\/www.theforcefield.net<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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