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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I tell this story periodically. When I was first starting doing freelance work, I was doing pen & ink sketches, colored with watercolor or pastels for Interior Design firms in NYC. You know the kind of stuff, they show it still in magazines, ie: "here's what your flat could look like!" I was [i]very[/i] good at this kind of stuff, I used to do it a lot back when I was designing furniture back in the 80's, and people wanted and needed my kind of work in order to sell their designs. So! I started doing this work on the side, freelance. It would take me about 20 hours to do a good rendering, something maybe 16x20", worthy of framing sometimes. For this work, I wanted $20/hour. Funny thing, while people who had worked for me in the past loved it, finding new clients was hard, nobody wanted to hire me! So I had this brainstorm and started charging $60/hour and telling people it only took me 10 hours (even though it still took 20!) Business began to roll in, go figure. I was charging more money than before, doing the same work, and people were happier to hire me! Was this logical? No, not really, but people are funny sometimes. The moral? There could be several I guess - people might be idiots I suppose. I figured that people valued things that seemed expensive more than things that seemed cheap. For my part, I always charge the proper amount, the rest is just presentation. Get the job! Then do the right thing. That's "life as a freelancer" in my opinion. Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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