1) talk to the customer, in person if at all possible - get a CLEAR
picture of exactly what they want.
2) write down every aspect of what they want
3) take each element of the site and estimate how many hours it will
take you to accomplish it.
4) double the amount (your customer will cause that)
5) take those hours (for example 40 hours) and estimate how much of
that time will account for your required monthly revenue.
6) bill that amount (divide by the number of hours if you want to use
an hourly rate).
that will do you untill you start hiring a number of people.
As you go along you will be able to narrow down the estimated time
involved.
Make sure the customer knows exactly what you are providing for the
amount they are paying.
Another thing to consider in this whole discussion... the longer you
code, the faster you produce and the less error catching (or tracking)
you have to do... thus what takes a new programmer/developer 10 hours
to accomplish may only take a seasoned developer with a handful of
code snippets 3 hours.
so while mr junior programmer may charge $25 per hour and $250 for a
quick code change, the more experienced programmer can charge $80 per
hour and bill the same total... comparing apples and oranges.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Wade D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Pricing for PHP programming???
So how do you know what to charge when youre independent and just
starting?
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