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My boys go to this Nursery school and their website is just awful. I went in and spoke with the owner and asked if she'd be willing to exchange a few months tuition for a new site, promo video and photos. She seemed interested but says she'll think about it.
My wife tells me that they're not doing well financially and now I feel bad because I think a new site would help get them more students, but they probably can't afford a barter even.
I'm playing with Muse (never used before) to try to build a simple responsive site to show them what they could have. I feel like I should just build it to help them - they're really good people.
Any down sides to Muse that you guys know about?- i've had great results with Muse, especially with parallax scrolling motion effects, pixel perfect art. but I haven't tried it for anything truly responsivemonospaced
- I recently helped with a school auction site for a friend that she exchanged for some free tuition. It's a good change. Maybe try suggesting a site that willshellie
- help them make fundraising money along with get new students. that will help them get more stuff they need to make their nursery school great.shellie
- The passive financial gains from that kinda functionality will make more sense to them as far as a valuable exchange.shellie
- Nice shellie, thanks for that.stoplying
- i also suggest you show them a statement of work and budget for the website, show all your hard costs (plugins, any purchased code, images, etc). Show one columshellie
- with modest reduced rates so they can see that in line with what you would normally charge a client. Discuss and sign off on their barter deal points before youshellie
- start building anything. In situations like this they can sometimes completely disrespect the value of the service you're providing.shellie
- If their site is that terrible, maybe she thinks a new one would cost $300. Make a case on how much value she is getting.freedom
- You could take the barter the next year or when they get a few new clients.eryx
- I'd go with reduced rates. Money comes in and with hope of more prospects for them in the future.mugwart
- I'm not sure I care about the barter at this point. I just want to help them - for free even.stoplying
- Do you know why they are struggling? While their website may in part help, it may be a deeper rooted issue.notype
- I don't know... I think it's really awesome for you to offer to help :)notype
- What did you end up doing?notype