On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Tom Irish wrote:
> On 11/12/02 10:08 AM, "Stephen Allen" <sallen@on.aibn.com> wrote:
>
> > Well I'm certainly surprised at the comments. I guess we can tell that
> > this isn't a mature medium. Look at it this way - (example only), an edit
> > takes 10
> > minutes from start to finish, one charges a minimum rate of at least 1
> > hour. You stack up those backlogged edits you have to do for various
> > clients say 14, do them all at once. Now assuming that the edits all
> > were minor, you've billed each client a minimum of 1 hour each, yet
> > actually only spent less than 15 minutes on each. I'll leave you all to
> > do the math, but you're making gobs of $$, and that's what it's all
> > about. Never turn away buisness, becuase it's maintenance. Geez, hire a kid
> > or apprentice to do all the maintence work. If you're billing at
> > $50-150/hr it's $ made in heaven, the easy way.
>
> Wow... Do you really do this? If my minimum were 1 hour for this sort of
> thing my clients would bail fast. I bill in 15min increments and there's
> times that I feel guilty enough about that that I let a couple of these
> minor sorts of updates collect before billing them ... I mean, I can't hit a
> client I expect to keep for an hour because they need a date changed and it
> takes me literally 3 minutes... Or charge them an hour to insert a
> paragraph... They'd say, gee we really like you Tom but... Don't let the
> door hit you on the way out....

Yep, like the auto garage down the street and like most business, I have
a minimum charge. This is an issue, that I belive many creative people
don't consider enough.

--
Steve
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