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My old boss told me to never give a client a flat rate for a website project...
He said it was a trap and you'd always lose money. So for my first year on my own, I stuck to hourly billing only. Then I landed a project for a local bakery that wanted a simple five-page site. I quoted them 40 hours at $100 an hour. They came back and said their budget was a firm $2,500 total. I took the flat rate just to get the work... and finished the whole thing in 18 hours. That old advice cost me over a grand in potential profit on that one job alone. Has anyone else had a piece of 'expert' advice blow up in their face like that?
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sandra14628d ago
Feel that pain. Sometimes the old rules just don't fit the new job.
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terry_hayes1828d ago
Yeah, that's a good point. It's more that the old rules were built for a different kind of work. The new job needs its own playbook, not just bending the old one until it breaks.
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