Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop - 5 min job anyone?

date posted 21st June 2006 17:29

> Us poor professionals who actually know what we're doing have to try and
> compete with money minded companies, and those quoting prices like £7ph.
> It's the age old problem that we'll likely never solve.

You have to appeal in terms of value rather than money. Anyone can play
with Photoshop or create web pages. Not everyone knows how to do these
things well, quickly, or reliably. Experience is extremely valuable.

> Paul, when you say "depending on the project", what do you mean? I've
> always felt (and been advised) that you shouldn't quote one price to one
> client, and something else to another?

If you charge everything by the hour then you get paid less as you get
more skilled and quicker at doing things. If you allow charges to vary
depending on what the customer can afford then you get more work and more
cash (compared with charging a fixed fee which is too much, or too cheap,
for some customers).

Anthony
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