Posted by TimP on Fri Apr 23 0:55:23 1999
In Reply to: prices posted by TimJ on April 22, 1999 at 15:58:38:
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>How busy is everyone?
Busy enough :)>supply and demand indicates that i should put up my prices.
>this raises loads of issues:
>1) should we charge differently for html / data entry /design / programming / consultancy
Yes
>2) should we as individuals charge different rates
Yes
>3) we could up the rate for paneris overall to say £50 or £60 ph, and let the non-programming work drop off.
yes
> what would this mean for non-programming members of paneris?
>Would we like to narrow the niche of paneris to "providing community services for web programmers" (instead of the broader "web developers")? what about the "one stop shop"?I don't think anyone ever bought the one stop shop
we have always charged more for programmers than designers.>4) what about the "living wage" principal.
???????
>5) where are we going? (you don't have to answer this one)Up
When I have ported an Access db to Unix/Postgres/Java
then I will be at the highest elevation to date.
If we come back to Chippy's (para)phrase 'a market for small web jobs' the answer is obvious.You might have managed to negotiate a standard rate for all your clients, but Catalyst still pay me 32gbp.
What I am interested in is Paneris embodying a
'rate for this job' mechanism.Today my rate for new work starting tommorrow is 6000gbp
for the first hour, 120gbp for subsequent hours, as I am
otherwise engaged, but in two weeks time that will change.I would Love to take on guaranteed work starting May 20 at 40gbp.
At the moment the PMS only deals with Time and Invoicing,
but there is no connection.
I would like to see jobs being taken on at an explicitly stated/negotiated rate.At the moment we don't even have a mechanism for publicising
what additional work we have, let alone allocating it
or quoting for it.
love
Tim