In the final day of the Pricing Bootcamp series, we’ll take a look at how setting boundaries on a project can ultimately increase your value as a designer and keep stress at a minimum.
So you’ve met with the client, have the design brief in hand, and you’re ready to sit down to start pricing things out. But wait! Before you get knee deep in the numbers there’s still one more decision to be made. How will you structure the pricing? Will it be hourly or a fixed project rate?
Avoid conversations that damage your bottom line with clients. In this exciting sequel of the Pricing Bootcamp series we’ll examine some common pricing conversation and how to discuss it with clients.
You have thirty seconds to tell me why your website matters, and what it can offer me. Go!
Did you panic? It’s a simple enough request, but did you manage to simplify everything down to half a minute? That’s the idea behind the elevator pitch.
Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design recently wrote an article entitled “How NOT to Design a Logo” on Web Designer’s Depot. It received a lot of attention and eventually ended up on the front page of Digg.
The article acted as a catalyst for many design related frustrations. The comments strayed from the definitions of quality, to the apparent nerve of designers who don’t do work worthy of their “thousand of dollars” price tags. Most of this debate fell around the ethics of design contests in particular.