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

date posted 3rd March 2008 23:07

Pricing a package is hard, but it seems to be what people expect. I try
and work out a burning cost per day and give out an average number of
days price that fits in with a "typical" site. Then not tell my wife how
much real time I spent on that two day job.

Pricing depends on two things, how much work you have to do and more
importantly how much someone will pay you for the finished product. The
"bigger boys" have menu based pricing structures, so I find that I need
to look like that and be cheaper or better in order to compete. When I
am a bigger boy I will start charging more.

Lee Rickler 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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