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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Price Range for User Manual From:Jody LaFerriere <JLaFerriere -at- INFOMAP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:13:51 -0400
We don't charge per page. We charge for the amount of effort it took to
create the final product. So while we are in essence giving them an
hourly rate, we have a matrix in place to figure out how long it should
take to do a certain type of product with an estimated number of pages.
The quote also indicates how many drafts they will receive, so they know
that if they want another cycle, it will cost them.
Jody
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> THis is an interesting question. Do you charge for work already
> completed, even if it isn't used in the end? If you charge per page,
> how do you handle this issue?
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>Subject: Re: Price Range for User Manual
>Author: Jody LaFerriere <JLaFerriere -at- infomap -dot- com> at smtp
>Date: 7/24/97 2:02 PM
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>I would never ever never quote a "per page" price to a client. In one
>project we worked on, the first draft was about 500 original pages.
>During review, they deleted about 200 of those pages ("oops, we forgot
>that was out-of-date") and then ended up adding about 150 more. They
>only wanted to pay us for 450 pages, when we had done the work for 650!!
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