web banner $$$
- Started
- Last post
- 12 Responses
- MLP
how much should i charge for a web banner? no animation, just standard issue...
- MLP0
and what if is an animated gif?
sorry, the dude is going back and forth... i usually do work for him, so its not like i'm starting a new acct for this...
- agentfour0
charge by the hour. no different to any other work.
but if it takes you 20 minutes, at least make a minumum charge for an hour
- agentfour0
OOORRRR
charge whatever you think he wont mind paying.
- Dancer0
OOOOORRRRR
Tell him that banners pollute the web and the ecomnomics just don't work out, for every 1 million views the average is one click.
Go get'em tiger, grrrrr
- MLP0
anyone else?
i don't see how i could charge my hourly when it'll only take 15-20 when its for a small band
- g3kk0k1d0
it takes 20 minutes - just do it for free so he thinks your a reasonable guy and your value of money otherwise charge $100 and tell him you have high marketing costs
- seed0
I did them for a startup in 2000 for $120 a piece. That was their offer and I agreed. At 15-20 a month it was a nice way to make some extra $ as a student.
- ********0
$2400 a month on banners... u must have slept on a pile pf cash
- seed0
I got a few really nice checks until they started having to tighten their .com belt and let the media buyer go. One was $4K. The review process, Net 30 and waiting for checks slowed things down a lot.
- ********0
any work has got to have a bottom price of at least $100..its just not worth proverbially getting out of bed.
Considering the time you take to get the work, all the mails back and forth before you start, followup, getting and reading the brief, costs of owning a computer and software, house rent, electricity etc, its got to be a respectable amount, or they just wont respect your time or skills...see a hundred differnt client problem threads..they all start with 'so I did this work for cheap...'..
- n0rty10
come up with a forumla so you don't vary your costs. ie. all banners will take 2 hours, even if it takes 20 minutes. come up with a concept lay it out, get it approved, then build it.
so if you charge $85 an hour then the banner will cost $170. and you can back that up with a concept and artwork and the finished banner.
you should be doing this forumla for all your work if you're doing an hourly rate job. that way you're doing a banner which will potentially work better than just doing blinky text
- seed0
mikotondria2, all good points.