When I did my own thing in Vegas I used previous jobs as guesstimates. I never gave guarantees on time if it was a first time customer. You never know what your going to run into when your running cable or removing spyware.
I don't even know what people charge out here for stuff. In Vegas it as $100/hr. 1 hour min, after that they were billed $25/15min. That was for anything on site except adding network drops. Which were $100 per drop which included the cable, punching it down, jack box installation making it look all pretty and basic switch config in case the port was deactivated. Although I would on occasion pickup a pc for virus/spyware removal to save a customer money. Onsite is always by the hour, shop time I only charged for my time in front of the PC. On 11/15/06, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
What billing strategies do you guys use? To protect myself, I usually bid high on new clients. I double, possibly triple what I think it's going to take. If I think that it's going to take 2 hours, I'll bid 6. If I do it in 2 hours, I'll maybe charge 3, and tell them that b/c I finished things early I used that extra time to do something else important on their network. If they contest what I did, then I'll offer to give them their money back (which I've never had anyone take me up on). I've done this twice over the last month, and each time it seemed to work. Overall, I just give a broad range (say, 1-4 hours). I tell them I don't know but if they hire me, then they should be prepared to spend the 4 hours. Once I build enough political capital, I usually don't have to deal with this. Roger _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
