We need to hire someone who can...
1. Do web page composition to a standard template using Microsoft Front
Page. Nothing fancy is needed ... no spectacular art, animations, frames,
bells, whistles, buttons, bows, blinkenlights. This person will compose
auction advertisements that go up into view for a couple of weeks and then
get thrown away, and our clients don't want to pay a lot of money for them
for unnecessary flash and glitter.
2. Do limited web page design (as opposed to simple web page composition)
... this person should have some experience and knowledge in graphic art,
use of frames and animation, designing pages that are a couple of steps
above the basic ... essentially, for those of our clients whose needs
aren't quite met by item (1) above.
3. Be able to compose paper advertisements and brochures using Pagemaker,
Quark Express, Corel Draw. Be able to use his/her own imagination and
initiative in designing these ads. Need not be a world champion ad
designer, but you need to be considerably better at it than I am. Trust
me, that would not be difficult. ;-)
4. Have a good enough understanding of the Internet and the Web so that
he/she can do things like monitor our clients' positions in the search
engines and take action to improve them, using tools like WebPosition.
5. Plusses would include having a decent user-level knowledge of UNIX,
specifically Linux.
6. Big, huge plusses would be some knowledge of auctions and
auctioneering, and the ability to do some selling of our services to
auctioneers. Someone who can sell our services to auctioneers could
fairly quickly find him/herself in a position of being responsible for the
needs of a block of our clients, and earning a commission based upon the
revenue received from those clients.
As you can see, this is fairly entry-level in a lot of areas, and not a
rocket-science level position in any of them.
My questions are...
a. What do you call this position? "Graphic designer" ... not really ...
"Web page designer" ... well, it goes beyond that ...
b. What hourly wage range would someone like this expect as a permanent
employee? If you'll tell me where you are (approximately) and what such a
person would get in your area, I can estimate from that what the wage
range would be in New England (we're in southern New Hampshire).
If you are uncomfortable discussing prices on the list, because of some
concern that putting a dollar sign in front of a number in an abstract
discussion such as this could somehow put you afoul of some antitrust law,
then by all means please respond to me privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For everyone's benefit, maybe you could send me the numbers privately and
discuss the rest of the items on the list.
And now, a request ... Help me out here and please do not send me mail
telling me that you can take over our overflow, do all our design work for
us, etc. ... I know who most of you are and believe me, when it's
appropriate we'll be in touch, but we do not AT THIS TIME need the
services of any outside design houses, so unless you can commute to the
Manchester/Nashua/Salem (NH) area and work on-site for probably a third to
a quarter of your normal billing rate, please help me keep my eye on the
ball here and get THESE questions answered then maybe later we'll talk
about some contract deals. OK? Thanks ... ;-)
. . . . . ep
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