How much would you charge?

adiakritos

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I have a client that needs me to splice up a design that a designer created for them, and place the design into a wordpress site using the gantry framework.

How much would you charge for something like this in total from the least to the most?

I know I can do this within a week or less, probably within a couple days, although I still want to know what the going market rate for something like this is.

Thanks!
 


depends on:

-if the design is already a PSD, cut up into layers
-how many pages
-complex elements (forms with style, etc)

That said, $3-5k in the US for a standard 5 page site, Home, About etc is the going market rate in my area.
 
The psd 2 theme services I have seen some use charge as little as a few hundred (depending on what you need). It isn't good work but that would be the low end.
 
3k-5k? That's awesome.

I asked for $150 and found a guy on oDesk to do it for $40.

I knew that was really low but I guess since I don't know how to do it, how long it would take me...etc I'd save myself some grief in case it takes me forever or mess it up.

I think that if I do it myself I can be more confident to charge more in the future, and then delegate the heavy work out and make any revisions needed after the fact.
 
LOL, really? Dealing with an end-user business client will take up that much money in "talk" time alone 99% of the time.

You'll learn ;)

This is why so many businesses get pissed at outsourcing or using contractors though... and they get a bad name... You "don't know" how long it will take or what it will take yet you quote a price, and hire someone on oDesk randomly to do it. If it takes 3x as long and cost YOU $400 are you going to eat that? I doubt it, and then you've pissed off someone with your lack of experience and wasted your time and theirs.
 
@ Todd, so you're saying to ask for more money next time? lol

I definitely will. Probably like $500 or something depending on my confidence level. Between wanting to do things honestly and fairly, and also not knowing what the going rates for my skills are, I guess it's only natural to end up under or over estimating my services worth.
 
imho if it is a learning experience then it doesn't matter how much you get paid (unless that might influence what you can charge in the future).
 
depends on how indepth and intricate the design is. if it something that is already laid out like a common theme, so all it is css changes for the most part you can still probably ask for 1k on the low end. But if elements need to be completely changed around in the base php files you can probably beef up the cost to 2-3k.
 
I just got quoted from some professionals for $350.

I need to learn to do this so that I can ask for $1k+ and delegate it out when I don't have time.

Thanks everyone
 
I need to learn to do this

Considering you're selling it as a service to clients, then yeah, you should probably learn how to do it.

Fuck me.

Hell, tomorrow I'll just be a bio-chemist, and pitch myself to some companies with hopes of picking up a contract or two.
 
Considering you're selling it as a service to clients, then yeah, you should probably learn how to do it.

Fuck me.

Hell, tomorrow I'll just be a bio-chemist, and pitch myself to some companies with hopes of picking up a contract or two.

I mean, if you're already a chemist it's not much of a stretch for you to extend your skills into some specific branch of chemistry. You'd already have the fundamentals, as it is in my case.
 
I just got quoted from some professionals for $350.

I need to learn to do this so that I can ask for $1k+ and delegate it out when I don't have time.

Thanks everyone

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i have college kids hitting me up ready to pay 100/g for the shit that's been stepped on twice

i need to learn how to cut the coke with baby powder and cook it down to rocks, so i can water it down by 75%, then i'll truly be a master of arbitraging junk i purposefully dilute the quality of, solely at the expense of my own reputation, and all i have to do is deal with a really sketchy supply chain that could fall apart on me at any minute and some super needy customers all day

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I found your post rather amusing and appropriate, but the lack of capitalization and punctuation annoyed the shit out of me.
 
When dealing with 'real world' clients you need to be confident charging much more than what you feel your service is worth.

You're building a relationship, not just giving them a service. They want to be able to trust you and see you as an expert.

If they aren't satisfied you're the best there is they'll buy the same service from a better salesman at 10x the price.

If you charge low you're not putting value on your service or yourself. Grow some balls and put a real price on it and explain to your client why your service is going to make them increase their brand/profits/clients/whatever it is they're looking for.

You could also throw out some relevant metrics or do some of their competitor research and tie it in with how your service can make them differentiate themselves and rise above the others.

Whatever you do make yourself look like someone who knows what he's talking about and can offer real value.

As ToddW said, you'll learn.
 
think of a nice hourly rate, how many hours it might take you... then triple it at least.

If you get the job you'll be happy with how much you're making, you'll be more confident about getting the job done, and you'll probably go the extra mile for the client.