Hi all, I've just started being a fulltime self-employed graphic designer, having done some lower-key projects for smaller clients for years next to my main job.
I am writing a generic project proposal and price quotation to give to clients before I start to work with them, just to have a template that I can later adapt for the specific client. A few questions I came across:
- My hourly rate is £35, is this a fair price for a starter? I wanted to raise my rate to £40 when I'm in the swing of things and feel more experienced, probably in a year or so.
- I mostly want to give clients the full rate for the entire project. How do you estimate the amount of time the project is going to take, especially if you don't know if the client is going to want lots of changes made to the design? So far I have worked for clients that want a million little things changed after I thought I was finished, experiment with different colours, placements etc. All fair (is what I would do when I'd be a client), but it makes it difficult to estimate up-front how much time the project is going to take. How do you solve this?
- I sometimes work for friends or small local businesses and it feels fair to be more generous to them, especially if I know they are in a tight space financially. I know this is a slippery slope however, how do you deal with this?
I am writing a generic project proposal and price quotation to give to clients before I start to work with them, just to have a template that I can later adapt for the specific client. A few questions I came across:
- My hourly rate is £35, is this a fair price for a starter? I wanted to raise my rate to £40 when I'm in the swing of things and feel more experienced, probably in a year or so.
- I mostly want to give clients the full rate for the entire project. How do you estimate the amount of time the project is going to take, especially if you don't know if the client is going to want lots of changes made to the design? So far I have worked for clients that want a million little things changed after I thought I was finished, experiment with different colours, placements etc. All fair (is what I would do when I'd be a client), but it makes it difficult to estimate up-front how much time the project is going to take. How do you solve this?
- I sometimes work for friends or small local businesses and it feels fair to be more generous to them, especially if I know they are in a tight space financially. I know this is a slippery slope however, how do you deal with this?