Not so long ago I started using WordPress. This isn’t my first time creating websites, so I learn pretty quick. I never created a website for a real client though, just for myself (yes, I hosted them). So I’m not sure how much should I charge. To be specific, it’s a simple blog/appointment booking website.
I’m looking to hear from people who spent some time in this field, because this question is rather a bit complex. I live in a small Eastern European country, where salaries are +- 5 times smaller than in other European countries, and prices are just the same if not more expensive (where others make 100K a year, our WAY above average yearly salary is like 40-50K. Average salary is 12-24K a year, pretty sad).
People doing some small bussiness of their own (locally) are making few thousands a month, but they expect everything offered to be nearly free and are really cheap about it. I guess this comes from our history when people bought food with a freaking tickets (nearly a slavery).
I’m learning sales strategies and so on, but what I want to hear is tips and experience of others about making contracts for creating and maintaining a page for some period of time, re-freshing those contracts. And how much should I charge for creating this type of website and maintaining it based on the information I provided before.
Any tips about the proccess will be very much appreciated too!
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1. Don’t undersell yourself. There’ll always be someone able to make a cheaper site than you, but often they’re either off-sourced to very cheap countries (SEA, or SA) which you can’t compete with, or they aren’t able to offer the same skill or insights that you are (you get what you pay for).
2. Do a time estimation on work, a 1-price-fits-all approach will bite you in the ass sooner or later.
3. Once you have a estimated time, double it. That’s your actual estimate.
4. Make sure that you cover all bases on what you offer:
1. Website?
2. Updates?
3. Content?
4. Maintenance / Support?
5. Hosting?
6. Service level agreement (SLA) ?
7. SEO?
8. etc. etc.
5. Have a good, and covering, contract before you do anything.