LK,
I must be doing something wrong then.

When I did estimates, I found from the time I left, talked to the customer, showed them options and pictures of fixtures, drove back to the office, called for pricing and returned the sales call to the customer, it easily ate up 2-3 hours.

Thats why I gave it up for the most part. I could of added that time to the price of the job, and then I would of been too high.

I guess I could hire a salesman to do all this leg work, and pay him on commision based sales. That would leave me to do other more pertinent things.