RE: FN-FORUM: Balancing amounts of work?

date posted 24th January 2006 23:30

Higher hourly rate?

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Trying to get them to pay for how long it really takes is the problem. I
wish I knew the way round that one - Pam


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>
> Fortunately I picked this one up before I went freelance - if you're a
> programmer you pretty much have to break a job into it's smallest
> components (nothing more than 2 days, ideally) work out how long each one
> will take, double it and then add 25 percent onto the total time you have
> come up with. That usually gets you into the right ballpark.
>
> Then the client goes "that sounds like a long time, surely you can do it
> faster" and for some reason you believe them and then it turns out to have
> taken as long as you said it would and you have undercharged....
>
> -ben
>
> Creative Digital Alliance wrote:
>
>>Absolutely, completely and utterley 100% true, unfortunately it took
>>me quite a while to work this out!
>>
>>
>>
>>>If you're a newbie to freelancing, a good rule of thumb is to work out
>>>how long you expect to need for a project, and double it. That was
>>>one of the first tips I picked up, and it's working so far! :)
>>>
>>
>>
>
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