website $300.... What??
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- brandaddy0
Wow... is this even a thread worth having...
Oh wait now I'm doing it... I'm actually moving my fingers over the keys on my mac an inputting a sting of words to this thread.You bastard...
I totally blame your client for this...
- brodyR0
this is prospecitive client that I talked to before and now he wants a website for $300 becaouse some lowballer offered him a site for that price... I fucking hate these freelancers who do this kind of stuff.. the good news is i got him up to a thousand.
- PonyBoy0
that's not a client... that's an asshole
- nthkl0
Just buy a pre-maid template over lunch and swap the name. $300 for 1/2 hours work,.
- dibec0
splash page is about $300.
- Continuity0
You only managed to wrangle an extra 700 out of him?
Run like Hell.
- ********0
$300.....?
- Waka0
As a college student, I don't mind spending a simple 3 hours a week using a premium wordpress theme for a client. I do it all of the time, actually, usually 300-500 price range.
- monNom0
You should have a minimum project rate that you can defer to.
Think of it this way:
~2hrs to land a client that called you on the phone with a project ready to go. You talk a bit, send them an email, look at their stuff, look at your stuff, etc.1 hr kick-off meeting to really discuss the project and scope it out.
1 hr to draft a scope of work document based on their project needs. Include estimate of price and delivery dates.
1hr back and forth hangling over price/features/delivery dates.[work on project]
30min to generate an invoice, review it and stick it in the mail.
2 hr of general b/s related to working for that particular client (off-topic questions, coordinating with 3rd party vendors, etc.)So that's 7.5 hours (call it 1 business day) you need to account for before you even lift a finger on the project.
Tack on another day for the actual work and you've got your minimum project size.
- moldero0
That's not even
minimum wage!
- mydo0
I read today that 14.3% of Americans are now in poverty. the lowest it's been since the 1960's. If you would like $300 then you are happy to work for $25 an hour, (which if i'm not mistaken is not bad) then you can spend 2 hours in meetings, 2 hours designing, and have your design developed into a full WP site for $99.
If you run a design company and have over heads to pay. then tell him to fuck off.
- monNom0
^ if you run as a freelancer you should still account for overhead (computer/software/workspace/int... connection/phone/power/supplies...
Those costs combined with the fact that you can't bill for every hour sunk into your business and that $25 starts to look more like $12.50, if not $5....Starbucks at least offers medical.
- Projectile0
take the word doc they send you, save it as a pdf and upload it.
Then invoice them for $300
- Oh, an interactive PDF, of course! I like the cut of your jib, sir.Continuity
- TheBlueOne0
..and if you're legit, then you have to pay taxes. If you're freelancing, you have to put about 30% aside for taxes of everything that comes in, so you're $300 just became $210.
That said, I just threw together a nine page site (six of which were the exact same page but with a dif. pic on it) for a close friend for $350. But I charged him $65 an hour (lower than my usual hourly charge) with a 15% "preferred customer" discount. And he's giving me cash. I'd also been promising to do the work for him for over two years and felt bad. In reality, I would've prob charged about $1200-1500 for the job.
- maikel0
hey, for once i will call to a reality check.
we live in bloody globalised world
personally i wouldn't even bother replying to an email like that buta) in india is ok money
b) in any ex-USSR contry is ok money
c) in china is ok money
d) in any crowsourcing site there are desperate chaps ready to go for it...and we have to admit that learning some english and ripping off dodgy wordpress themes is not rocket science. and more than enough for certain clients.
it is only that those clients are the ones you don't need. simple.
- mydo0
Or maybe your client just doesn't think you're very good ;)
