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For all you freelancers, this is a good opportunity to change your billing -- I think you could probably add an Adobe subscription fee to your work; don't get g
by vessenes 16y ago
For all you freelancers, this is a good opportunity to change your billing -- I think you could probably add an Adobe subscription fee to your work; don't get greedy, just pro-rate it over the number of days you used a product for the project. You'll make money, and your clients will have a hard time complaining about it.
So, $4k project, 12 days, used Photoshop, = $49/(12/30) = $19.60.
This would be hard to complain about as a client. For you, on every project you do, if you're a typical small design shop where net income is roughly 10%, you'll be adding 5% to your net income. Or, if you need two or three programs, then 15% to your bottom line.
Of course, if you're a freelancer, then you're adding $19.60 to your bottom line. But, I bet it would be nice to add those up, especially since projects tend to run long in days, not hours.
- vessenes 16y agoer, $49 * 12 /30, excuse me.
- originalgeek 16y agoI disagree. I expect a professional to show up with the tools of their trade, and be ready to work.
- vessenes 16y agoThat's fine, but I bet in reality even you, holding this perfectly valid viewpoint, wouldn't mind if someone showed you their rate card, and it disclosed this at the bottom, and when questioned the principal said it was due to an 'accounting practice' rather than just rolling in the obviously low delta in price.
- originalgeek 16y agoI'd call bullshit on the "accounting practices" smokescreen and send them packing. What's next? I get billed for computer time by the hour because they wanted the 12-Core Mac Pro? But more than that, they way I view someone like that is someone who would rather nickel and dime me to death than to just just honestly charge the rate they need to charge. I would feel there were going to be numerous little surprise charges on their invoices. And being a hired gun myself, who started out as a nickel-and-dimer, I would view the individual or agency as lacking in experience.