RE: FN-FORUM Freelancer hourly charge rates

date posted 24th August 2000 22:02

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At 21:11 24/08/00, Stephen C Parker wrote:
>We are currently have exactly the same problem with clients and making them
>understand the longer-term benefits. The trouble is - you can have people
>who need the system willing to help and wanting the management system with
>access, only to find their boss not understanding what it is all about
>(because they are 90 odd and refuse to retire) and as such refuse to spend
>anything other than the cheapest quote available! It really sucks.....

When they're paying for either vast wodges of your time, or an inhouse team
of HTML coders, believe me, it starts looking very cheap indeed. Actually
the harder conceptual sell is that the site needs updating at all ("after
all, our newsletter only gets updated annually")

Cheers
Martin
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