Design Bureau: Economic Model
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mr anon, are you done yet?
seriously, man, you probably haven't read the thread or just haven't got a clue about what I am talking about here.for one, I am not a financial analyst like you thought I am not. "manager job at a trading company" and "calculating economics" for my own fun has nothing to do with a professional accounting.
I also hope, that you are being paid for your attitude, otherwise you are just wasting your time with the job you have. Financial analysts are paid for the attitude. The worse the attitude, the better and more cars they drive! If I were your client (god forbid) and you would come justifying your work with the words "cool", "inspiration", "my own", you would get your check and I would never call you again. As a toilet paper manufacturer, I am absolutely NOT impressed with coolness and uniqueness of your designs if they are not pushing my sales. This is the base of the relationship between a client and a designer. Nothing else.
And of course, it is absolutely "unique" to come to a potential client and NOT tell him exactly that what you offer. "Webdesign" is a product as much as a toilet paper. Or do you come saying "I just do cool thinigs which are unique and oho so inspired"? Good luck trying!
And by the way, why does grocery store has different prices for different fruits? Rottten included? Exactly because Mr Grocerystore knows how much each fruit had cost him (direct materials) and he wants to make profit (direct labor + overhead). What about a designer, then? It's not about how much overhead one dares to charge. A designer cannot charge 300$ per hour? Of course he can! And there will be clients, who will pay him his rate. The question is —how many times will he get called to have the jobs done and if this is the right way to go? Or should one offer a business card and website design for 25$ and get 1000 jobs a month?
"What is your rate?" threads? Sure, I've been reading them for the last 7 years here. Guess what — everybody is talking "hm, you know, just charge what you think you can, add electricity and that coffee you've been drinking all day and here you go." Sound exactly how you see it. And this is for sure the clearest answer I've heard. I am not asking what the market will bear. I am asking how one should plan to enter and stay within the market, for starters.
You are a moron, dude. Apart from being blind and reading with your ass, you seem to be thinking with that same ass, too. You've been asking about going to design school http://www.qbn.com/topics/594401… ? Ohppp pplease, go to business school instead — as I said, bad attitude is rewarded elsewhere, not in this industry.