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April 10, 2009 at 6:35 am
Hey everyone,
I remember a while back we had a discussion about pricing a project, I can’t seem to find it just now.
But I am returning to this question as I can now see other problems
here is an example of different situations, how would you price these?
1: A small local business want you to do a site, it will be less than 5 pages long. they have no graphics so you have to provide this.
2: A small business wants a site to be interactive, it may grow to be huge, but initially needs between 5-10 pages, these guys have the graphics and the layout they want
3: A business wants a good site that should be more than 10 pages long, they have the graphics and know how it should work
4: re-design of existing site you have done
5: re-design for a new contact
The reason I ask this, is, when negotiating with a client, is it better to be per hour / project / page or do you guys price for coding only or price for graphic work seperate when coming up with an estimate?
I see the pitfalls from all angle, if you say per hour, you give an estimate of time, they try negotiate you down, to save money. Pricing for page, could take a good while with somethings just not working out as easily as you would like, so you may take a little more time and not making money through this. And again project is kind of the same, you could work for say 30 hours but only get paid for 15 (example only)
so how do you guys work out something like this for all scenarios?