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    Pricing Question

    Is there someone who could help me with this question?

    When I do a Swish Intro, or web page, or resume for someone and would like to arrive at a $ figure for its cost..... is there some sort of guidelines that can be used for this??.... and yet remain competative??

    I know that some do not charge by the hour but rather by the job. How can a person come up with a figure for this and arrive at a fair but competative figure.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thank you in advance.

    JWR

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    Do a quick search in this forum for your answer. This has been discussed many, many times.
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    Thanks!

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    JWR,
    Just wanted to quickly say that there are two overriding factors in freelancing that will help you arrive at a good rate to charge...
    1) what you want to make, and
    2) what the client is willing to pay.
    I have done jobs at discounted rates because we needed the work, and have charged more for jobs because the client was willing to pay it.
    Conversely, I have turned down jobs because I couldn't force myself to do the work for too little money, and have also given the client a tremendous break on services when they thought it should cost more.
    It's really up to those two factors in the end.
    As you do more business, you will get a better feel for how much your time and work is worth to you, and what you should charge as a "standard" rate.

    Hope that helps... also, remember to search this forum... really, a LOT of great info.

    Jay

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    Pricing Question

    Thanks Jay for your help.

    Blessings
    JWR

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    someone posted in another thread asking this question a link to a site that showed the avg income of different jobs, mainly web design jobs. i think it also showed the hourly rate. thats pretty helpful to get you started, also a lot of times a client states his maximum budget, so u can just use that or take a lil less, do the project, divide total money by hours you worked and then you get your $/hr you just made. if u think it was a reasonable price round it to a solid round number. if too cheap, higher it. if too much (heh dont think you'll run into this problem), lower it.
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    funny how this was above a thread that said
    billing question, not another ENDLESS priceless question
    no offence, jwr, and welcome to fk

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