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Just realized I was charging by the hour for a job that should have been a flat rate
I spent 12 hours last week on a website copy job for a client in Portland. They kept asking for tiny changes, so I kept tracking my time. When I sent the invoice for $600, they got really quiet. A friend told me I should have quoted a fixed price for the whole project, maybe $400, and included two rounds of edits. Now I feel like I overcharged for what they got. How do you decide when to switch from hourly to project pricing?
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troyjackson9d agoMost Upvoted
My buddy had the same issue with a logo design. He switched to flat rates after a client nitpicked for weeks on an hourly clock. Now he builds two revisions into the price and charges extra for more changes.
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hunt.rowan9d ago
Yeah, the "nitpicked for weeks on an hourly clock" thing is so real. A friend of mine did website copy for a flat fee, and the client kept asking for tiny word swaps daily for over a month. It was stuff like changing "innovative" to "groundbreaking" and then back again. She felt totally stuck because the project was technically still open. Now she does exactly what your buddy does, a set number of changes baked right into the first price.
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