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Originally Posted by Twig
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"I?m on a really tight budget and I need this done as inexpensively as possible."
One of the most difficult situations to be in is a client that does not appreciate the value of the service you will be providing.
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"since I can do your job, I shouldn?t need to pay a lot".
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Keep in mind, too, that "I'm on a tight budget" doesn't necessarily mean they don't
appreciate the value of professional work. Sometimes it simply means that right now
the economy sucks, with 10% of the workforce out of work in the US, and money is tight. When we started, money flowed like water on the web, but Clinton managed
to regulate an economic boom into a recession we have yet to fully recover from and
none of the subsequent leaders seem to learned from that yet. So don't take it
personally, and don't forget that "I need it on a budget" is sometimes a real need
you have the opportunity to fulfill, such as by offering an incremental plan to develop
the site, or customizing some low cost stock templates.
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Originally Posted by Twig
[B]
"since I can do your job, I shouldn?t need to pay a lot".
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We will also sometimes discount work for someone who truly can do some of the work
we normally do - if we can delegate that work to them, or if they know enough that the
can at least provide us the information we need, quickly and accurately. There truly is
a difference in the amount of time and work we have to put in when working with a
newbie, or with a person who purely does marketing, versus the time required when
working with a competent technical person. The person who knows they can't do our
job will request help by saying "my site doesn't work". The knowledgeable person will
tell us "I'm getting a 'permission denied' error on line #26 of turingimage.cgi". We can
legitimately give the knowledgeable person a lower price sometimes. Similarly, when
we have a site designed we won't ask the designer to make very many revisions -
we'll just make the revisions ourselves, because we CAN do the designers job -
the HTML part of it, anyway (not the artistic part).