When starting out on your own confidence is in 2 parts. One is that type of confidence that you have thinking about prices when away from the job. The other type is when you are face to face with the customer and you try to think what they will accept as your price.
The 2 prices are very different so just try to go a few quid above the price your comfort zone says that you feel happy with asking.
Whatever price we ask now or have done in the past, we've always done a thorough job regardless which is the glass, frames and doors. I may be a bit odd but I cannot work any other way. Sometimes I've done an immaculate job for little money.
I used to take ages to do a house as I was thorough but by being like that, bit by bit, the speed increased but not at the expense of quality. We did have someone work with us who was super quick but did a cr*ppy job and his theory was to improve the standard but not at the expense at speed. After a while I ended up doing a better job and quicker.
A few times every so often we get customers try a new window cleaner who has undercut us. It happens from time to time and my view is good luck to them. Sometimes I don't know how the w/c concerned can ever hope to make any money. Sometimes we end back with the same customer, sometimes we don't. That's business for you.
In the end it is all about posture. If you think you are worth that money then you will get that money. If you are prepared to drop your price to please the customer or keep the job, then that posture goes with you to the next job, and the next, and so on.
I don't think that whether you are from Bradford or anywhere else makes any difference in the end. If you are determined, then you will get there. Lots of successfull business men have made money in every part of the UK. It's when they've made their money that they move to a different area.
Cheers
ps Sorry if the above reads disjointed. It's been a long wet and cold day and I'm just having a 'relax' before bed. I'm knackered. ZZZzzzzzzz