Craig, Can I ask, were people actually balking at paying your previous rates?
I ask because I'm certainly not seeing negative feedback about my current rate (which is on par with your new rate) being an issue, but it does seem very quiet compared to previous years in terms of requests for quotes, etc. While its true that the market will generally set the rate it can bear, I'm sure all of us have a bunch of fixed costs that aren't going down - last I checked the power company wasn't charging less now, nor the phone company, my ISP, etc. Additionally, hardware costs have gone UP due to the downward movement of the AUD. Going back to the pie theory - If there's a limited amount of work (pie) to be had, perhaps changing rates isn't really the answer? If you have a target number of hours you need to bill to break even, by reducing the rate, you're naturally going to increase the number of hours you need to bill, and if you can't book those extra hours... ouch. Cheers, Warren --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
