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| Aug 09, 2006 11:15 pm |
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re: How much do you pay yourself? |
| Robb Zerr
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I couldn't agree more. From day one I not only thought of myself like a small business, but a medium sized one. My verbiage reflects this in all aspects of my work. My clients, some of whom I've known for 10 years or more now, still don't know I work out of my home or that I've even moved it 3000 miles. They do know I refer to my kitchen as the cafeteria. And when I go get the mail I had to go to the mailroom. And when I used to sell product the warehouse (read: garage) was the Fulfillment Center.
Billing has to factor this in as well. If you're too low your pricing screams hobbyist. Too high and you'll have to defend it with a solid track record of success and great work. I pick the middle of the road and have had great success over the last years.
But just because you're a virtual, one person shop doesn't mean you need to act or price like one. And be careful to factor in all the overhead in your costs, tangible and non-tangible, or soft costs.
- RobbPrivate Reply to Robb Zerr (new win) |
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