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How do I tell a client that I'm working fewer hours because they pay me much worse than my other clients?
Simple, either raise their pricing or drop the client. It's business. There's little point in working even a few hours for less money than you could earn with another client. Businesses typically do ...
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How much do I charge?
First off, charge by the hour. Without knowing a great many details about your expectations for payment, level of skill, customer expectations, graphics, whatever, it's impossible to come up with an ...
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How do I tell a client that I'm working fewer hours because they pay me much worse than my other clients?
In 5 years of working with this client, your skill level has probably increased: you definitely do the same job faster than 5 years (and even a year) ago and most likely you do your job better. This (...
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What is correct time for freelancer to increase hourly rate?
First, there is certainly no universal answer to this. There are many factors, and a fair amount of them have little to do with your work itself, and more to do with your goals, tolerance to risk, etc....
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How to respond no to "Are your rates negotiable?"
Saying "No" is completely acceptable, and you shouldn't worry about offending the client.
There are two points not brought up in the current answers that are worth mentioning:
I remember that ...
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What should I look at to determine whether or not I should charge by the hour or by fixed price?
Here is my Entrepreneur/Employer's perspective:
If you don't know well your client, your first goal is to build relationship of trust. In my view, the best way is to fix price a small job first, that ...
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Fixed price or per hour for a web developer?
If you don't know well your client, your first goal is to build relationship of trust. In my view, the best way is to fix price a small job first, that is easy to estimate and deliver on time.
This ...
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What is correct time for freelancer to increase hourly rate?
It's up to you and there is no concrete answer to this question. Yes, you may be working for cheap money for months, but it could also be that $10 per hour is the top for your quality/expertise. You ...
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How can I get paid more despite disclosing my hourly rate?
So you'd rather lose a job than tell the client your hourly rate is higher now? You see how this looks silly when you read it.
Well, if only 1 year had passed since your last work, you could then ...
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Is it normal to charge the customer on the requirement gathering sessions for a large project, which i need time to understand its scope
There is probably no general one-size-fits-all approach to this problem.
In a perfect world, the client pays for all your time. However, sometimes landing a large project may be worth an investment - ...
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When working concurrently, do I multiply my "shoprate" for each teammate's time?
You can set your rates however you want, but I think your rate is too low and incorrectly calculated. Your "standing there doing nothing" cost is (expenses + profit) * hours - you must pay ...
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When working concurrently, do I multiply my "shoprate" for each teammate's time?
If your shop rate is $45/hr, for every hour a projects is in your shop, the customer owes $45.
It doesn't matter if one person is working on the project, or two, or 20.... the rate for every hour is $...
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How to notify a client of costs that increase beyond the estimate
In my experience clients appreciate transparent and frequent updates about the project. I use a simple template that I send out weekly or biweekly that includes updates on planning and budget estimate....
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Can I freelance if I know only HTML,CSS and Javascript?
You can surely freelance using those skills. But, given the condition,I cannot foresee a clientbase with pretty nice cash inflow towards your side.
Generally, with these skills, you will be getting ...
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How do I charge for warranty if I have an hourly rate?
Estimate more, charge less in the end. The customer will thank you and think you're amazing!
First off, why do you need to break it down so much? That to me is a sign of a customer not trusting you......
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A specific case of not knowing how much I'm worth?
Okay, you kinda hosed yourself on this first project. Fine, hammer them out, make them nice, and make it clear that you were doing these to build their trust, so they knew you were worth what you're ...
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How much cost can be charged for an hour in web development.?
I would like to supplement the existing answers.
The services you offer have a business value. For example, if your work may double their sales revenue but it only takes you 20 hours to do the work, ...
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Quote for source code review as expert witness
What I would do:
As a rule ob thumb I would about triple the current gross hourly amount you are making under your normal employment. Adjust to how much you want or not want to do this.
Then bill ...
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Hourly or daily rate for consulting?
Go with the daily rate if you can do it that way. You will earn more. However, I think that the client will propose hourly rate for both things.
Now, about the hourly rate, it's impossible to tell ...
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How to notify a client of costs that increase beyond the estimate
Generally speaking, one should always notify the client whenever costs might escalate.
What the best course of action is in this specific case, depends on what the 'unseen complication' is.
If it is ...
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How do I decide how much to charge for low-level (year 7) maths tuition?
It seems you feel $40/hour is too much - even though you actually have been paid that? If your previous tutoring results were good, then surely the price is fine?
If the other casual jobs pay better, ...
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How to charge clients [the right way]?
In this type of business, it's my feeling that charging by the hour is not the way to go, as it does not reflect the value of your services.
if they make 10.000€ (not revenue of course) with one ...
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How can I get paid more despite disclosing my hourly rate?
I'm going to assume you live in a 'first-world' country where cost of living is high and hourly rates are higher.
Tell your client you started with a low rate because you didn't have significant ...
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How to respond no to "Are your rates negotiable?"
I occasionally get asked this and depending on my mood, I either just say "No." or I say "I never discount XYZ because I always propose my best price from the start."
Maybe someone on here can think ...
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How do I estimate the cost of building an mobile app?
Estimating cost for an app is a tricky task as it has multiple factors attributing to its cost. The design, development, testing, security, updates, support these all aspects add price to it. Again ...
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