Costs/charging
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- vaxorcist0
boobs is right.... very right....
there is a difficult thing to deal with here....
Client wants a "ballpark figure" so he/she can get approval, get the suits to say yes,etc... but often this gets written in stone, as a "maximum" while the actual job description starts out as a "minimum" and expands alot, often a whole lot, with the "ballpark figure" being considered a cieling, not a floor, no matter how many things get added in..... clients seem to think digital photography is free and they're paying you to show up, so you might as well do all these other random things....
Nobody's evil, there are just situations where was have totally different assumptions... that have to be spelled out in writing.... and with some graceful warm tone of voice to smooth out the possible client freakout from reading an apparently cold sounding written list of business terms....
I send a "cover letter" style email that says "thanks for this great oppotrunity" and such... this can help a lot to smooth out the wrinkled feelings from client feeling confronted by terms in a business document spelling things out.... clients not used to dealing with professional photographers often have very different assumptions that have to be carefully worked through, not ignored, but not scaring them to death either.... or they will find an art student to do it for lunch money or for free...