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I've used a common approach to a project basis for clients:
I will go into a client's site and evaluate their project, including
writing, editing and any other parameters that I consider might relevant.
>From this I will write up a proposal with an hourly price and a
guideline/timeline for how long I estimate the project to take.
The client then has an option to go with my quote and my price or we can
bargain the price or they pay me for the time it took me to evaluate the
project and write up the proposal as it's billable time.
This may not be the approach for all clients, and I tend to shy away from
clients that ask me to quote them an "hourly rate" based on a project I have
no idea is the scope nor what already exists.
But again, this is only my .02.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Davis [mailto:michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:24 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: editing guidelines
But that philosophy is useless if you're a consultant and a client wants a
price on x number of pages of highly technical content written by someone
that was a poor writer. Realistically it takes as long as it takes, but once
a bad writer has burned a company lots of times that company will scrutinize
all expenses.
Michele
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