Uping your Rates
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- fusionpixel
When you guys raise your rates, how do you let the client know? Do you just email them and say.
hey! im not charging 50 per hour but now 100! Send more projects!
Love,
Your Designer
- kerus0
you might want to try something a little more graceful than doubling your rate.
estimate jobs for for more hours and do a slight increase for starters... tack a few hours on here and there.. etc
- fusionpixel0
yeah, that is what I am doing right now, but still I know clients are getting a bargain.
- gpop0
you could always do a generic pdf price guide stating some crap about 'after enjoying success with you the client' if they liked working with you and it has been a success theyll not be to bothered by an extra couple of hundred added to a big job.
- jamble0
It's difficult to increase rates during a project. Why not inform them that all future projects will be billed at $x + 1 or whatever but try to inform them as to the reasons otherwise they'll just go elsewhere unless they see an extra return (even if it's a made up one) on their expenditure.
- emecks0
suggest to them that due to an increase in the number of projects you have you are introducing two billing modi
Modus 1: You charge X / hour and you charge for every minute you have to do anything for them, including them calling you, admin time / research time etc etc..
Modus 2: You charge 1.5 x X but only charge for effective hours worked.
Leave it up to them if they want to pay you well and have your goodwill or if they want to pay the minimum but get charged for every little thing.
- fusionpixel0
Good point jamble.
- fusionpixel0
thanks emecks
great ideas guys!
- emecks0
Also never ever quote without adding a discount....
cheeky but it works a treat.
assume I want to make $80 / hour. I put $100 / hour into the contract and "give" the client a 20% discount. Give them a term over which you will guarantee the discount, say 3 months for example.
Then at some point in the future I can more easily raise it to the "full" rate....
- laurus0
Dear Mr. X,
I WANT MORE MONEY, BEEATCH.
HAND IT OVER NOW!
Yours trully,
the designer.
- fusionpixel0
I am strongly considering laurus suggestion
- gpop0
yeah, i never meant increase during a job.
hey, you do a quote valid for 30 days, my printer upped so i just upped quote for job when they came knocking again.
how do you charge at the moment?
i get paid per day through one agency but bill them almost as much if i do just 4/5 hours as it covers the costs of using up that days time. and i vary that according to the job, if its amendments its a lower rate than if its a new job/new part to a job. it does feel a bit disjointed but it works.
- fusionpixel0
I am doing hourly rate at the moment. Mainly this up rate will be for a company I worked full time with.
I am working with another company full time now, but the previews boss wanted me to help him with the more difficult jobs. Which I dont mind, but he is paying less than 1/2 what I am doing now. So i believe it is time to say, hey! lets raise this a little. It is eating more of my weekends and evenings just to keep up with bot jobs. aside from the freelance I get once in a while. So to stop the overwork I figure I raise the quota so I can at least justify the late working days