On 25 Jul 2002 at 12:12, Matt Babineau wrote:
When first speaking with a client, would you charge an initial
constation fee for lets say conference calls? How would you invoice
stuff like this? on a monthly basis? Or every two weeks?
Hi,
I apologize for adding some noise but I really don't know of a good list for these
things. I keep planning on putting my
smartarchitectures.com site to use for this as so many problems are non langauge
specific but we always ask in our favorite
language list.
Anyhow, Here is how I have done and prefer to do a project (but TMTOWDI of course)
Initial meeting is free. This has usually be filtered by sales or some other means.
But I always think talking ideas is worth time.
I'm a bit cautious about giving out any really good ideas in this meeting. Try to see
if client is serious. From this meeting I then
work up an estimate of the followin ... oh heck here is a proposal I did (my first
proposal since I become a free-lancer):
http://www.coremodules.com/customer/memphisworks_proposal.php
The client did not accept me :(. They went with someone else. I did mention to the
client, are you ready, that they use HR XML
standards so seekers and suppliers of jobs can talk to the site via XML .. that means
that you the job seeker would not have to
repeate the same old thing (if you have your resume in a database like your dear
friend) but could just upload the XML file of
your resume and thus populate all the fields and that the supplier could upload job
offers via XML and not pay some drone to
create typos in forms. Even though the client was in the HR business she had never
heard of XML. Oh well.
I go into more detail about what the proposal above refers to here:
http://www.coremodules.com/process/doc_process.php
Yes, some of that comes from some Proejct Management books I've read. I believe a
system, even if flawed, is better than no
system at all. NOTE, yes, I know some links are broken from that page.
BTW, at the ad agency I worked at, we billed on a regular schedule.
Peter
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