Keith -- I see where you are going with this, I don't know much we want to go into rates on this public board ... but if I am underbilling I would like to know about it.
PS I think I dropped Econ 101 in Summer 1982 ...? OOOPS! (Taking initiative to solve my OWN problems!!) :) > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Kristina Anderson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rates. There is a reason I get 90% of the projects I bid on. If I > > asked for $100 an hour, that would be great, but $100 an hour for 0 > > hours is, well....zero dollars. > > I used to get 85%+ of the projects I was pitching... and working 60+ > hour weeks for those projects. Then I talked with a few others and > found out that I was charging less then half than I should have been. > I steadily increased my rates over time and still get about 50-60% of > the projects that I pitch. But the dollars work out even better than > before. > > If you go too high, yes, you will win 0% of the projects... but this > is an optimization problem from Econ 101: > > Qty Sold * Price = Revenue > > kc > > -- > D. Keith Casey Jr. > CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC > http://CaseySoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
