[Sigia-l] Pricing the Design Process (was "Testing your own sites")

[Arthur Fink]

At 03:15 AM 2/10/2007, Skot Nelson wrote:

>Fixed price projects are where it's at, but take substantially better
>project management skills to run.

Different strokes for different folks.

As a one-person shop, I'd almost always prefer to work on an hourly 
basis.  If the client gets more of my time and attention, they pay 
more.  No change orders, no figuring about the effects of different 
arrangements.

The biggest resistance to this comes from a fear of rising costs.  By 
structuring the project in phases, with each phase including a good 
faith estimate of time needed for the next phase, I can often deal 
with that.  Ocassionally I add a "not to exceed" phrase.

Perhaps I'm making less money this way.  I don't know.  What if the 
advice I give in five minutes is worth so... much?

Arthur Fink

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