Totally random notes:
My rate is $70 an hour _if_ the customer signs up for 1 year of
service with me @ 1/2 hour per machine per month. The customer likes
this because they know how much they are paying a month, every month.
Basically they get an IT department looking out for them without
having to hire an IT department.
I do a quasi-rollover-minutes thing with them and always note "this
is un-billed as I did not use all of the time you paid for last
month!" Make sure to ALWAYS print what they got for free EVERY month
on their invoice. Even if the decision makers do not see that text,
the bill payers will and they will tell the decision makers to rehire
you as they see you are a bargain.
The customer get all the bells an whistles of a clean running network
as soon as I walk in the door including fixes they did not know they
needed, but will need when they least expect it. This puts me behind
in paid hours for the first few months, but makes for less hours
expended for the remainder of the contract.
You would be amazed how comfortable this makes people, to the point
where they get nervous and call me around month 10 of a 12 month to
re-up the contract before it expires.
My normal rate is $100-125/hour if I am not on contract.
Read this for some guidelines: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-
consultant.html.
ryan
On Aug 15, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Blair Davis wrote:
Sounds cheap to me.
Our rate is $60 per hour + travel time at $30 per hour, and we are
quite rural.
Mike Hammett wrote:
Does this sound fair to all parties?
My normal rate is $40/hour, with $80/hour for emergencies.
I charge $150/month to manage a business's network. This includes
3 hours of support. I also will VPN into the network and ensure
that operating systems, anti-virus, etc. are updated, which does
not consume any hours. Additional support is available at $35/$70
per hour.
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Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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