Most guys I talk to prefer to get her drunk and then ask, but I'm a bit more romantic and go for the steak dinner...
It's called prop-work, and it's the bane of the industry. Company asks 5 dev-houses for proposals so they can define their project before going overseas for development. Ideally, you take about 2 to 4 hours defining the basic costs attributed tyo assumptions, and then charge for a definition / scoping phase where you confirm your assumptions. You have to communicate it such that they realize they are getting value for the Intellectual Property they are buying. Hard to get them to accept the idea of paying for ideas. Nike swoosh takes me 10 seconds to draw, worth millions. Chad who actually takes about 15 seconds to draw the Nike swoosh. On 9/27/05, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wondering, how do any of you guys out there deal with creating > proposals? > > I mean a quick proposal is just a figure sucked out of thin air. > > Without proper requirements you really do not know how much time you are > going to spend or how much to charge etc. > But once you spend the time on real requirements gathering you spend at > least a day if not more to create something proper, does anyone do this and > then bill it on to the client, or .... ? > And if billed on to the client, how does the client react? Surely they have > no clue and see it as money down the drain unless you are talking with large > companies who have gone through the process before. > > Just curious ;-) > > > Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox > an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 … > http://www.pacificfox.com - Web Design and Development > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia > Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
