I agree. I have a separate maintenance agreement for additional changes
and updates and charge them a pre-specified hourly rate.
thanks for the advice... been bit a couple times before, tho. good for
others to read.
johnny p.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Pricing for PHP programming???
>
>
> johnny this is great to start out but if you keep doing it
> you will find
> that you will get a lot of bad clients who don't value your work and
> expect you to do a lot of extra stuff for free or request endless
> changes. That's typical of clients who look for extremely low cost
> work. Be sure to set limits on what you will do and make sure
> they value your work and trust you. Otherwise you will be driven
> to insanity in time. Nice site BTW.
> Jeff Oien
>
> > Ok, I just started my own company and finished work for my
> first client
> > (shameless plug here: http://www.alamosawinecellars.com).
> The problem I
> > had wasn't in pricing my work by what it's worth and how
> much time I put
> > in it, but pricing it in a way that would work for my
> client. I ended
> > up making roughly $10/hr., maybe less, for the effort, but
> I ended up
> > with an extra $1000 in the bank. If I wanted to charge
> more, I would
> > have had to take a walk and look for another client. My
> price wasn't
> > based on an hourly rate, but on the project and my client's
> company size
> > and ability to come up with enough to cover my time. The
> part of the
> > project that took all my time is in a backend admin tool
> that allows the
> > client to update their pages whenever they need. The data
> is all stored
> > in a mysql db. Anyways, I have noticed that for some
> clients, like my
> > first, charging too much will lose them. For other
> clients, like medium
> > sized companies, charging too little will send them hunting
> for someone
> > else. Very bizarre environment to work in, but my suggestion is to
> > judge your prices based on the client's perspective. Interview the
> > client and try to get an idea of what they're looking for.
> Look at what
> > the client thinks they're getting. Use anything you can to find out
> > what the client's price range is and then set your prices
> in the middle.
> > And also, everything can be negotiated.
> >
> > my 2 cents...
> >
> > johnny p.
>
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