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

[Skot Nelson]

On Feb-11-2007, at 16:15 , Paola Kathuria wrote:

> Generally - not to jamie specifically - if your proposals
> include time/cost estimates, how close are you to your
> estimates?

Paola makes an excellent point her. *All* bills are based on a time  
estimate in some ways -- billing hourly just makes it explicit.

Roughly, all bills in any industry seem to be based on some sort of  
matrix such as this:

The time it will take me to complete
      +
the cost of that time and effort to me (read: equipment and tools  
needed etc.)
      +
the value of that work to the client (read: markup)
      ==
Total Cost

Lots of decisions get made as trade offs against this matrix. (I'm  
probably missing something too.) Time is a finite thing...if I decide  
to take one project (even if I volunteer) I have less time to do  
another...
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