A couple of things. 1. Have a good contract for yourself before you go into this. Cover your A%^ 2. You should charge more than what you would expect as a salaried employee, due to a higher tax bracket. I would say at least $40.00 per hour. 3. Break the application into several parts and base your bid for the job on each part, it is too hard to bid a project by just looking at the whole pie so to speak. 4. Allow yourself some room for client modifications etc...Add say 10% to your final bid.
Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "J S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Contractors > I am doing some contracting work for a small company that has not used > contractors before. Since I haven't done contract work before myself I > have a lot of questions. I'll start with this one for now, I was asked > to give them a quote for a web site that they will give to their > client. The job is relatively involved with a shopping cart and > interfacing > with another web application so the quote will require some research on > my part. Is it common to charge the company I'm doing the work for the > time I will to do the quote? > > Any other advice is welcomed too. > > Thanks, > > JS > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
