Re: yikes! how much do i charge?

Hugh,

Yep.  Everybody wants on the Web but few want to pay for it. I just told a
guy yesterday that the license for the catalogue software specific to his
e-commerce site would cost $3,500.  Opend his eyes some. He thought it was a
$100.00 set up fee and $22.50 a month or something.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Blair <hblair(at)bigfoot.com>
To: Hwg-Graphics <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: yikes! how much do i charge?


Hi LM,

You should NOT take this job without quoting a per/hour price.  You can give
them an estimate of how many hours it "might" take times your hourly rate
($50?) then keep a diary of your time - a GOOD one.  I don't charge clients
for my 'learning' time unless I've made it clear that I don't know the
subject and they insist I do this specific job, then I charge for ALL my
time.

BTW, I consider $50/hour a LOW price.  If you're good and are providing all
the tools and equipment to create this site (HTML editors, graphics editors,
your computer-scanner-ISP time etc., much less your brain) then you need to
get paid for these tools.

Let me know how it goes.
Hugh
hblair(at)bigfoot.com

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