Re: FN-FORUM: Hi all (new here)

date posted 3rd March 2008 20:05

Hi Lee.

I plan to get rid of the packages at some point. At the moment I'm
going for Small to Medium businesses and I want to give them a rough
outline of the prices. Every quote I've done so far has been bespoke
and can sometimes (rarely) be less than my cheapest package. If
someone isn't prepared to spend =A3600 on a fully working website then I
don't want them as a customer.

True, some work can be a few hours if it's just a design cut up but
that's something I'm not focusing on at the moment. The basic package
I need to beef up a bit but from previous experience with customers
things never take a few hours. I'm including administration, meetings,
travel and e-mail/phone communication, previews, concepts and
maintenance after the site is live.

I'm going to rework the packages page a bit to make it a bit less
shocking. The text doesn't sit so well on it and I'll also check out
the portfolio page.

Thanks for your feedback!

On 3 Mar 2008 21:11:54 -0000, Lee Rickler [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> One thing, (and this is not necessarily aimed at Darren in particular)
> is that I can never work out how a company can charge for 'website
> packages' in the way that Darren does.
>
> Your standard package is something that I could put together, in this
> context, in about an hour, maybe 2 if I make the coffee in between, put
> I would never be happy doing this as to me it's not just a case of
> flapping a basic site together. There's no mention of SEO, marketing,
> friendly URL's etc but for that money I would bung it in free.
>
> Your 'Enterprise' package includes a catalog(ue), a gallery and 25
> pages. How do you work out 25 pages?
>
> As I said, I'm not picking on you, just asking questions as this is a
> way I have never been comfortable working.
>
> And of course, you don't get off that lightly, that purple and green on
> the other packages just burnt my eyes!
> Plus, in your portfolio pages, if you click 2 or more samples the pop
> windows overlap each other and get confused.
>
> 'Nice' site though.
>
> Lee Rickler
> Director Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
> Web Design and Development for over 11 years
>
> Darren Moore wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm new to the mailing list and interested to see what it's all about!
> >
> > I'm a new freelance web developer/designer and skilled with SEO.
> >
> > Can anyone provide a good website to get listings of freelance
> > projects available other than freelancer?
> >
> > Check out my site for more details www.firecreek.co.uk and if you have
> > any feedback please let me know!
> >
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