Project Daisy – Part 3: to quote for a small freelance project
Pricing a project is a task haunted by dilemmas.
Every single line on an invoice must make sense to the client, meaning: add obvious and direct value for the money. So the hourly rate needs to factor in time and expenses that won’t be charged directly. On the other hand, small home-based businesses are easy to scare off with fees.
This post continues from A 1st client meeting and its time management dilemma and addresses the pricing aspect of managing a meeting with a new client*.
Downscaled project brief
The preliminary quote I brought for the 1st client meeting I wrote about in my last post was soon rendered irrelevant, because the client (Daisy*) used my inputs as an opportunity to revisit her options and decide what to do.
She realised that it would cover her need to revamp the content of her existing website and add ecommerce functionality with PayPal Website Payment Standard buttons, rather than switch to an ecommerce platform.
The new down-scaled project brief requires the following tasks done:
Rewrite the website text, replace photos, make sure it all looks pretty, and add PayPal buttons for all the products so the clients can buy them online… with shipping cost to be added during check-out and so on.
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