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Originally Posted by baddog
You do not understand the market.
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Agreed.
Some companies are going to be willing to pay more for a certain level of service. As an example, there is a guy here on GFY who I have worked with for many years. I am not going to name him, but he does good work and for a long time was fairly cheap compared to many others.
That was fine and dandy, it brought him a ton of work. Eventually he became overwhelmed, and because of those cheap prices, he could not afford to hire additional help or working bees. Eventually he started disappointing a lot of his long term business, and clients. Regardless of your relationship, people have a business to run. They are only going to 'wait' for so long.
Myself, among others, told him to raise his prices and take on less clients. Once he did that, he managed to get back on track with commitment times, and a level of service. I could start throwing him consistent work again.
What I am getting at here is, people will be willing to pay more if you do good work. You will find that you can take on less clients, make more money, and even afford to hire help and expand if you need too.
Mainstream/corporations are going to be willing to pay for a better level of service. Not everyone is looking for bottom of the barrel workers or prices. In the end, it is just a tax write off for most businesses It is not like the money is coming out of their personal bank account for rent.
Holding up a project for a few pennies doesn't make any business sense. Same as hiring some clown shoe for $50.00 and then being on their time table (behind Xbox, naps, WOW, smoking bud, whatever), versus paying $500.00 and they have your work as a priority and delivered within a week. Ultimately allowing you to launch sooner, and get the ROI rolling.
In short, time is money.
