Comments on: Get Your Clients To Stop Comparing Rates http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/ Design, Development and Freelance Articles and Tutorials Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:24:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Amber Weinberg http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/#comment-1181 Amber Weinberg Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:12:41 +0000 http://www.amberweinberg.com/?p=1319#comment-1181 I drive one. It's from Toyota. It's the most underrated car ever. It's nice looking, starts around $9k and gets almost 40 mpg...but you never hear about it :( I drive one. It’s from Toyota. It’s the most underrated car ever. It’s nice looking, starts around $9k and gets almost 40 mpg…but you never hear about it :(

]]> By: ryanMoultrup http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/#comment-1158 ryanMoultrup Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:16:37 +0000 http://www.amberweinberg.com/?p=1319#comment-1158 What is a Yaris? I have never heard of that car before. What is a Yaris? I have never heard of that car before.

]]> By: Amber Weinberg http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/#comment-913 Amber Weinberg Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:06:30 +0000 http://www.amberweinberg.com/?p=1319#comment-913 Wow great reply to that article, I can't believe that was written. Why should we work for free? Do lawyers work for free? Will a doctor do open heart surgery for free? While I don't mind donating some time to my dad's business site for free or build the local animal shelter's site for free...it's my choice and I approached them... Wow great reply to that article, I can’t believe that was written. Why should we work for free? Do lawyers work for free? Will a doctor do open heart surgery for free? While I don’t mind donating some time to my dad’s business site for free or build the local animal shelter’s site for free…it’s my choice and I approached them…

]]> By: Michael http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/#comment-912 Michael Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:42:28 +0000 http://www.amberweinberg.com/?p=1319#comment-912 Amber, this article is pretty timely since a handful of blogs have recently published posts with opinions on working for free/trade/discount. I published a rather lengthly comment (http://bit.ly/bzDdSa) where I made the same argument you did. Instead of spending time haggling when it comes to price we should instead be focusing on educating the consumer on the differences in quality/service we provide. If the customer still balks at the price it might not be a good fit to begin with. Maybe this is a generalization but in my experience the clients who want the most for the least often turn out to be difficult in other ways as well. Amber, this article is pretty timely since a handful of blogs have recently published posts with opinions on working for free/trade/discount. I published a rather lengthly comment (http://bit.ly/bzDdSa) where I made the same argument you did. Instead of spending time haggling when it comes to price we should instead be focusing on educating the consumer on the differences in quality/service we provide. If the customer still balks at the price it might not be a good fit to begin with. Maybe this is a generalization but in my experience the clients who want the most for the least often turn out to be difficult in other ways as well.

]]> By: saqib http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/#comment-911 saqib Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:26:27 +0000 http://www.amberweinberg.com/?p=1319#comment-911 very nice post. I think you got marketing guts. I would like if you write more about how to do this on start-up stage. Regards very nice post. I think you got marketing guts. I would like if you write more about how to do this on start-up stage.

Regards

]]> By: brett http://www.amberweinberg.com/getting-clients-to-stop-comparing-rates/#comment-906 brett Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:25:32 +0000 http://www.amberweinberg.com/?p=1319#comment-906 i liked the part where you compared hourly Vs set price... In hourly projects judgement is the key and if newbies underestimate the time they end up slogging cost-to-cost. If the client insists us to go hourly we can quote an hourly otherwise go by set price... nice one amber... thanks a lot. i liked the part where you compared hourly Vs set price…
In hourly projects judgement is the key and if newbies underestimate the time they end up slogging cost-to-cost. If the client insists us to go hourly we can quote an hourly otherwise go by set price…

nice one amber…
thanks a lot.

]]>