bidding on projects
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Haha, in the process of this right now. It's an amateur client, a boutique store that wants an fancy online shop. Amateur because they came to me without a brief or a budget, I've had about 4 meetings with them so far so that we could work out the brief together and we have. They wanted some initial designs, I told them I didn't mind doing a couple of mock ups and design thinking but they would be charged for them. I said they wouldn't be charged right away, but it would certainly be in the proposal costs. They balked and said they'd be okay with just the proposal then. I'm always honest with my clients, I'm not trying to take anyone for a ride, or overcharge them so that was a warning sign to me. I don't know what they're expecting really as the merchandise photography for the site alone is almost £8k.
I've put in probably about 4 days with meetings, writing the brief and now the proposal. I've hashed out the functionality, got costings from photographers, developers, copy writers, stylists, POS providers and all that stuff.
Day of truth is tomorrow, proposal day. Not moving an inch until the deposit has cleared into my account after that. But if it doesn't happen, I've done loads of free work for them, basically figured out all their functionality including some pretty unique products and what they'll need to get going. I should be paid for that at the very least. But that's the way the cookie crumbles, sucks though.