Hi,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Paul Gutch - JoomlaNZ <[email protected]> wrote: > www.mission-on.co.nz > > In the Herald this morning it is reported that: > >> Mission-On includes an interactive website aimed at 5-to-12-year-olds that >> cost $3.7 million to set up. > > > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10563586 > > I have had a quick look through the site and reckon I could replicate it for > a few grand. > > What am I missing? > Some ideas: - you will be talking to endless committees and provide a tender outlining the whole site inclduing a project plan, hence you have no idea what the actual marketing costs will be when you start. - you will have no clear goal and no clear guideline what is going to be a completed product, hence you have no idea what the project will actually cost. - if you do it for less than 100K, the person that is responsible for that kind of budget will not be able to approve it, because that person would not be in charge of such a wide scale project. Instead if you do it for 101k, you may be talking to a person that will be able to approve it - how can it be any good, if its that cheap? Note: Some of the points contain sarcasm. Jochen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
