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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Too true, I did rename the career section. Still, you said online by Monday? This monday? (I write this on a saturday!) We don't have much time so I'll handle this right now, we can always move the thread later. Chances are you're working on this tonight, and will also be working on it tomorrow till late,, maybe into the morning. How many hours is that going to be? 20, 24 hours, maybe? More? And these are weekend hours, remember, time and a half if you were working a factory job. So! Anyone who can do math can see where I'm leading to with this, by these calculations you're working cheap, very cheap. If you can train yourself to think this way while the client is talking to you, you can pull out a pencil and do some notes, while talking and calculating aloud, like so... "So, let's see! I'll have to work all weekend to get this done for you, no going out for me! Hmm, I see 20, maybe 24 hours before I get this to you Monday morning, I'll be working late. Usually I charge [$20?] and hour, but since this is a rush I'll have to charge you time and a half, is that OK with you?" (waits for agreement) "Good? Ok then... " (scribble scribble with your pencil, what's 20x30? 24x30?) "That'd come out to between $600 and $720, depending on how much time I'll have to take fixing your logo up for you, but at least afterwards you'll have a sharp copy for your archives!" (I'd take this opportunity to poke fun at whomever lost that EPS logo the first time, heh) "So! I should get started, any questions before I go? No? OK then, you'll have this on your desk monday, I'll drop off a bill with the exact hours when I'm done!" That's part of the patter, and would've netted you a better profit. I usually carry a bitty calculator with me, and write out what I'm going to be doing and jotting a time in hours next to it, then add it all up and multiply rates. Clients dig it if you can make the estimate look like science! If you're going to be doing freelance, this is almost more important than learning the work, gotta get paid! Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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