It will be my first free lance project for building an online store for a lo
cal
clothing store.
I am not very sure how much I should ask for? should client pay for some
percentage in the middle of project?
I wish somebody can give me some tips, thanks a lot!

Cheers,
-June

> It will be my first free lance project for building an online store for a
> local
> clothing store.
> I am not very sure how much I should ask for? should client pay for some
> percentage in the middle of project?
> I wish somebody can give me some tips, thanks a lot!

For a complete beginner, make sure you have a contract. That should state
the payment schedule. Typically, it's a % upfront and the rest upon
delivery, but that's flexible.

As for how much to charge, well, that's really up to you. Most folks would
suggest you charge enough to make a living, though.

If you had to do this full time, what would your hourly rate be? The
forumala:

Yearly Salary = Income - expenses

hourly rate = Income / # billable hours per year

# billable hours per year = (40 x 52) - vacation time - marketing time -
office management - IT support - job prospecting - sick time - other non
billable hours

expenses = software + hardware + office + insurance + pens + pencils + web
hosting + etc, etc, etc

-darrel

Total Yearly Salary You Want / Number of Billable Hours per yera

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
> It will be my first free lance project for building an online store for a
> local
> clothing store.
> I am not very sure how much I should ask for? should client pay for some
> percentage in the middle of project?
> I wish somebody can give me some tips, thanks a lot!

For a complete beginner, make sure you have a contract. That should state
the payment schedule. Typically, it's a % upfront and the rest upon
delivery, but that's flexible.

As for how much to charge, well, that's really up to you. Most folks would
suggest you charge enough to make a living, though.

If you had to do this full time, what would your hourly rate be? The
forumala:

Yearly Salary = Income - expenses

hourly rate = Income / # billable hours per year

# billable hours per year = (40 x 52) - vacation time - marketing time -
office management - IT support - job prospecting - sick time - other non
billable hours

expenses = software + hardware + office + insurance + pens + pencils + web
hosting + etc, etc, etc

-darrel

Total Yearly Salary You Want / Number of Billable Hours per yera




darrel

I really appreciate your detail suggestion.
it helps a lot

June

thanks a lot for the info.

Depends on alot of things how can we know when you give us no info on the si
te. How many pages clothes ect.

Get half the cash money up front, because once you commit to do it, you'll
spend a fair bit of time solving those little issues and therefore will be i
n
danger that the client maybe finds someone cheaper or tries to backslide on 
the
deal. I'd even write up a short contract so you both know what is being done
and the top cash limit will obviously be on that list. The client might want
you to update it, odds are you will need to hold the hand for a while which 
=
more precious time. Best to have an agreed price to update or add on new pag
es
ect ect.

As stated above you may need to buy software, and should buy it legit using
the clients money to do so, if it's something out of the ordinary.

Originally posted by: Css Lover
Get half the cash money up front, because once you commit to do it, you'll
spend a fair bit of time solving those little issues and therefore will be i
n
danger that the client maybe finds someone cheaper or tries to backslide on 
the
deal. I'd even write up a short contract so you both know what is being done
and the top cash limit will obviously be on that list. The client might want
you to update it, odds are you will need to hold the hand for a while which 
=
more precious time. Best to have an agreed price to update or add on new pag
es
ect ect.

As stated above you may need to buy software, and should buy it legit using
the clients money to do so, if it's something out of the ordinary.





It looks like you guys had those experience already.
Thanks a lot!
yeah, I definitely need prepare a contact for that.

Originally posted by: chopper21
Depends on alot of things how can we know when you give us no info on the
site. How many pages clothes ect.



the client told me she likes the layout is similar to www.shopbop.com,
but has less page, data and info on it.
thanks

Your first freelance project is an ecommerce site <shudder>?

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"June2006" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> It will be my first free lance project for building an online store for a
> local
> clothing store.
> I am not very sure how much I should ask for? should client pay for some
> percentage in the middle of project?
> I wish somebody can give me some tips, thanks a lot!
>
> Cheers,
> -June
>
>
>

Murray
That should be first job add <104% for overhead>
Dave

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>
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