Out of client's budget?
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- qbner
How often do you think you price yourself out of a client's budget unintentionally?
I've had some tiny projects that I've quoted maybe $300 on and the client didn't go through with it. Do they expect us to do jobs for $20 or minimum wage?
How do you rationalize charging your rates for easy jobs when the minimum wage is under $10?
- moldero0
Clients tell us "budget" when in reality its more like "preferred payment amount"
fuck em, stick to your guns, get haggled once and you'll find yourself getting haggled more and more, not to mention that particular client will never pay you what your worth from that day forward.
- mekk0
Client has a budget and some vendors he gets offers from. Sometimes you are in budget, sometimes someone else is.
- yurimon0
"budget" usually means value. They value the work at this much for what they get. if you sell value, but if they are not smart or responsive to better value for $ on a sell after you explain why, its better then fiver is the place to go.
- Do you even read what you write?monospaced
- I do unfortunately. No clue.set
- Just semi relevant words thrown into some kind of demi-sentenceset
- hahad_gitale
- I for what you know budget is what they good design for for the stupids. more better smart intelligent processcannonball1978
- hahahadewilde
- moldero0
say "go to Wix"
- vaxorcist0
These people are NOT your target market...
"not in my (microscopic)budget" ... this is a good thing to hear.....not a bad one, i.e. being "rejected" by a very low budget "client" is like dodging a bullet.... In my past, I too often agreed to do "open ended" things for low budget high-change-factor "clients" and this messed up my schedule completely for good clients, it was a terrible thing I deeply regret.
- And when you don't deliver do you provide a refund or keep their money?ETM
- monNom0
Figure out a minimum project size (ie 1 day, 1 week) and stick to it. Then you can set a rate that covers your admin/business expenses.
The smaller the project, the larger portion of that project is going to be spent: developing the lead, meeting them, offering a proposal, negotiating your fee/scope, drawing up a contract, getting the contract back signed and with some money attached, WORK, revisions, launch/hand-off, admin, invoicing, collections, pay taxes on that money etc.
The above doesn't make any sense for a 1 hr job. You'll spend 2-3hrs on the rest of it. Better to have 1 project for a day, than 8 1hr projects any day.