Oh! and remember, in those urban areas the Geek Squad is there to
steal your porn... er.. help you with your computer problems..
http://www.geeksquad.com/pricing/
Look at this pricing, figure out how long it takes for you to do
something on this list and upsell the client on something they don't
need and then look at your rates.
Example:
http://www.geeksquad.com/services/detail.aspx?id=163
So they come in, turn on WEP or WPA for $59, tell you how many hacker
types may have been in your computer, they they upsell you $49 for
"computer optimization" and an additional $49 for a "PC Safety
Check". Before they leave you are out 160 bucks! (plus hardware!)
ryan
On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:31 PM, D. Ryan Spott wrote:
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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