[wdvltalk] Re: Small town

[Peter MacGregor]

Many of the longer contributing (was going to say 'older' but decided not 
to!) members of this list will recall we've had this problem about fees 
many tims. A lot of you have had a copy of a booklet I produced some years 
ago and have kept pretty much up to date ever since. I was having the same 
problem with my one-man band Management Consultancy - "You're small, why do 
you expect to charge what the big boys do?" was the usual trend of 
complaints about quotes.

If you give a little thought to this you can probably modify it to relate 
to your situation and then when someone complains, just leave a copy with them.

This normally is presented as a small 8 x 5 inch (approx) booklet with a 
cover - all thanks to a magic piece of software I found that makes booklets 
out of Word documents of up to perhaps 80 pages with no human intervention 
other than telling it what format, sizes and margins etc you want - then it 
sorts out which page goes on the back of which other one (tricky when you 
are printing double sided landscape paper!) and prints as many copies as 
you wish on your inkjet or laser!

Anyone wants a copy  - in "flat" Word format to mess with, just email me 
Off-List and I'll forward it as an attachment. (remember - no attachments 
allowed on this list so no point replying here!

Peter MacGregor

At 16:49 28/08/2003, you wrote:
Sometimes, living in a small town can really bite.

We had a really outstanding graphics artist working for us.  All of his 
work is exemplary.  Unfortunately, we couldn't afford to keep 
him.  Another web design company (in Orlando) offered him a significant 
salary increase.

My wife and I took a real hard look at the company's finances to see if we 
could get close, but in our market, it's just not possible.

Now we have a problem that all of the sites and graphics he's designed for 
us look fantastic, and neither my wife, nor myself are talented in that area.

So...  My question is...  Is there anyone else purchasing site design 
templates and using them?  I've found a number of sources for nice looking 
site designs that can be purchased at a "somewhat" reasonable cost.  But 
I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not.

They are certainly 400% better than anything I can produce and we've been 
unable to find another talented graphics person that we can afford.  So, 
for the moment, it appears to be the only way we can attempt to maintain 
the high standard we set for ourselves when we hired our previous designer.

--Dave

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