Comments on: Pricey pricey! http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/ JakeDahn.com - pro bloggin since... never! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/#comment-39 Anonymous Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:38:44 +0000 http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/#comment-39 By accounting I also am including the book keeping required to run a business. This is a big job if you have any kind of sales at all. No one is going to pay you to do it. Marketing and sales keeps the work coming in, which is again something that is very time consuming and expensive that no one will pay you to do. Then there is expenses of buying software, hardware, and other items to be able to do the work. No one is going to give that to you. The company itself has to turn a profit, and the person who is doing the work probably wants to be paid for his or her time as well. When you add all that up $100 / hr. doesn't go very far. By accounting I also am including the book keeping required to run a business. This is a big job if you have any kind of sales at all. No one is going to pay you to do it.

Marketing and sales keeps the work coming in, which is again something that is very time consuming and expensive that no one will pay you to do.

Then there is expenses of buying software, hardware, and other items to be able to do the work. No one is going to give that to you.

The company itself has to turn a profit, and the person who is doing the work probably wants to be paid for his or her time as well.

When you add all that up $100 / hr. doesn’t go very far.

]]> By: Fernando http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/#comment-38 Fernando Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:24:33 +0000 http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/#comment-38 No way Anonymous. My dad is an accountant and the most these guys would spend doing all of that would be an extra 150 bucks. And I really don't know what "Marketing" fees you're talking about there. Marketing what? The picture of the blog they built on their site? Please... 900 bucks on a blog design is suicide. At least one like the ones they made. No way Anonymous. My dad is an accountant and the most these guys would spend doing all of that would be an extra 150 bucks. And I really don’t know what “Marketing” fees you’re talking about there. Marketing what? The picture of the blog they built on their site? Please… 900 bucks on a blog design is suicide. At least one like the ones they made.

]]> By: Anonymous http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/#comment-37 Anonymous Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:49:18 +0000 http://jakedahn.com/2006/07/21/pricey-pricey/#comment-37 If we assume it takes roughly 8 hours for the design, that's $100 / hr. which is quite reasonable for an independent firm. They have accounting costs, marketing costs, etc, etc, etc. which that rate has to cover. If we assume it takes roughly 8 hours for the design, that’s $100 / hr. which is quite reasonable for an independent firm. They have accounting costs, marketing costs, etc, etc, etc. which that rate has to cover.

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