How I learned to charge my customers

Re:How I learned to charge my customers by ibudiallo on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:50PM (#24506946)

Hey everyone, author here.

My experience is that customers will always want more features than they initially ask for. That's why I make sure to tell them my hourly rate, then give them an estimate. For example, I can say $5000 for a 1 month project. Here I'll break down the average time I will work a week as a courtesy.

This helps me justify charging them again when we are at month 3 and the project is not done. I learned this the hard way, charging a flat fee and continue to work long after I had spent all my earnings.

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Re:How I learned to charge my customers by schroffl on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:54PM (#24506996)

Not really on-topic, but I have to say that I really enjoy the audio narration :)

It's well recorded and the music is not too loud either.

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Re:How I learned to charge my customers by neymgm on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:01PM (#24507096)

I couldn’t manage to make the player work on iOS. Sad day after seeing your comment.

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Re:How I learned to charge my customers by ibudiallo on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:05PM (#24507147)

Thank you for letting me know, and here I thought testing on chrome and firefox on Windows was enough. I'll update it as soon as possible.

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Re:How I learned to charge my customers by ibudiallo on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:57PM (#24507040)

Glad you enjoyed it :)

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Re:How I learned to charge my customers by shamano on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:17PM (#24510078)

Nice write up!

fyi Your humans.txt page is broken

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Re:How I learned to charge my customers by ibudiallo on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:55PM (#24510440)

Thanks, I'll update it right away.

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