Comments on: Pay Peanuts – Get Monkeys http://www.grangewebdesign.com/website-design/pay-peanuts-get-monkeys/ Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:20:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barry O'Shaughnessy http://www.grangewebdesign.com/website-design/pay-peanuts-get-monkeys/#comment-112 Barry O'Shaughnessy Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:36:53 +0000 http://www.grangewebdesign.com/blog/2010/01/pay-peanuts-get-monkeys/#comment-112 Cheers Kieran, I understand what you are saying. Regards, Barry Cheers Kieran, I understand what you are saying.

Regards,

Barry

]]> By: admin http://www.grangewebdesign.com/website-design/pay-peanuts-get-monkeys/#comment-111 admin Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:51:56 +0000 http://www.grangewebdesign.com/blog/2010/01/pay-peanuts-get-monkeys/#comment-111 Hi Barry Thanks for your comments - appreciate it. However you have answered the question yourself. I applaud your business acumen for creating a website business and making some money from it. However the point I am making is that if you have a mortgage, family and expenses (like me) then you need to pay yourself a working wage then you need to be realistic about your pricing and service offering. I am in the IT business for over 25 years and have two kids in school. Now that does not mean that they customers pay for them but I charge a realistic hourly rate for my sites. The charge can be from 500 - 3000 EUro depending on the complexity and hours involved. I understand that you can charge much less but when you finish college would you cahrge the same and will you continue to support these customers for free? I still support (to differing degrees) sites I designed over 8 years ago. I have no doubt that you can do an excellent site - but your time is money so price yourself accordingly. I have over 100+ sites out there and provide a service to all of them to differing degrees, but they all pay for it (not a huge amount but enough to appreciate that I they are a paying customer). Thanks again for the comment. Hi Barry

Thanks for your comments – appreciate it. However you have answered the question yourself. I applaud your business acumen for creating a website business and making some money from it. However the point I am making is that if you have a mortgage, family and expenses (like me) then you need to pay yourself a working wage then you need to be realistic about your pricing and service offering. I am in the IT business for over 25 years and have two kids in school. Now that does not mean that they customers pay for them but I charge a realistic hourly rate for my sites. The charge can be from 500 – 3000 EUro depending on the complexity and hours involved. I understand that you can charge much less but when you finish college would you cahrge the same and will you continue to support these customers for free? I still support (to differing degrees) sites I designed over 8 years ago.

I have no doubt that you can do an excellent site – but your time is money so price yourself accordingly. I have over 100+ sites out there and provide a service to all of them to differing degrees, but they all pay for it (not a huge amount but enough to appreciate that I they are a paying customer).

Thanks again for the comment.

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