I didn’t accept that addition and lost the project. As one client put it when they returned my contract with an addendum added to the list of service provided for the flat fee, “and anything else we deem necessary.” When it happens for the big projects, it’s necessary but, having many large corporate clients, I’m seeing increasing requests for flat out pricing that allows “flexibility” on my part as the vendor. The meetings, the briefs, the back and forth and the negotiations for the fees involved…followed by the arguing and non-payment thereof. There will always be the design projects that need the personal touch. How does this affect the design industry?
#Webdesign price list pro#
Some would say that’s a con and not a pro but apparently society doesn’t agree as evident in the bankruptcy and closing of retail stores and chains. Unfortunately, that option is disappearing. I like looking at the package, flipping through pages, trying on clothes and shoes BEFORE considering the purchase. Personally, I prefer to hold the product in my hands before buying.
We have gotten use to the ease of point-and-click buying.
The rise of and the effect it has had on certain retail sectors (i.e. The internet, technology itself, has affected the way we all do business. Figure the total amount of time one spends in a first meeting, listening to a prospective client talk about what they want, then explaining how your service works to them, following up with a short creative brief and then having to explain why it is the proper way to do a proper web site, he would cut out at least 75% of the people who are “just browsing” or looking at costs on their way to a crowdsourcing site. He said that he thought by posting his prices, using a basic, bottom line cost, he would weed out the people who wanted bargain basement prices and he would save time of not having to deal with them for initial meetings and creative briefs, only to be told that the $10,000 he stated at for web sites was $9,750 too high. Then, a well-respected design firm owner announced he was going to try it. It created some buzz in the design circles in which I traveled. When I first saw a web site designer who had posted a laundry list of prices on his site, I gasped in horror.
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