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Freelance Pricing Strategies: How to Set Your Hourly Rates and Fees for Your Home-Business Services : Deciding To Charge by Hour or to Quote By Project

Collections & Getting Your Customers to Pay on Time

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		SPOTLIGHT CONSULTANTS FROM OUR FREELANCE COMMUNITY

Small Business Pricing: Setting A Price For Your Product / Service - The need for good proposals - the business kind, not the marriage kind - struck me again a couple of days ago, when I received a poor proposal.

Creating More Successful Proposals - Price is a key part of marketing. Setting prices is called pricing.

Small Business Pricing Strategies - How should you price to raise your sales

10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs - A list of 10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs

Cutting Costs can significantly increase your income - As a work at home Mother, I know the value of a deal. Any smart business person knows that the best way to make money is to SAVE money.

How to Eliminate Objections to Price - Have you ever stepped your way through the sales process only to be disappointed by your prospect's objection to your price? This situation unfolds all too regularly for many small business owners.

Freelance Pricing Part 3 - Quoting To Win! - Some people call it a bid and others call it a quote or proposal. But no matter what you call this process, make sure that the document is concise, powerful, and easy to understand.

Pricing Your Projects Part 2- Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you charge too much you won't get hired and if you charge too little you'll starve. Take the time to read this article and you will figure out what you need to charge to thrive.

Contracting: Flat Fee or Hourly Rates? - Recommends that technical writers working as independent contractors quote flat fees for projects instead of hourly rates.

Overcoming Objections to Price - How much more could you earn if your prospects didn't object to your prices? You'd close more sales and be more successful.

Setting Your Freelance Rates - If you're even thinking about branching out into the freelance world, you've undoubtedly wondered what you should charge. This is one of the most difficult tasks a freelancer can face.

Payment Upon Persistance - Charge Flat Fee by Project, Quote by Hour, By Day, By Word, etc. - Before you consider taking a freelance writing job, or even applying for one, it’s best to know what you’re getting yourself into. For instance, is the payment per project, or per word?

How Do You Know Your Clients Can't Pay More? - "My clients can't afford higher rates." When more than 330 business owners and self-employed professionals checked off reasons why their income was not going through the roof, this statement was chosen more often than any other.

Raising Your Rates Can *Increase* Your Business At some point, the "conversation" always turns to price. That’s where I find a lot of online business people making their mistakes.

Setting Your Hourly Rates - Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you are a new freelancer, you have probably searched the Internet trying to look for average rates of professionals in your field.

Quotes and Fees - Explanation of different types of freelance quotes and fees - Informaton on Flat Fees, Based upon time estimate, Excellent work, Performed quickly, and Competitive rates.

When Clients Don't Pay, Pay Late, and Other Anomalies of Freelancing, It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.

How Do You Set Consulting Fees? The ways of billing clients are numerous. There are hourly rates, by-the-job fixed rates, contingency or performance arrangements, flat fee plus expenses, daily fee plus expenses, and many other methods of charging for your consulting services. Which one is best?

How To Use Leverage to Negotiate - Learning how to negotiate can help you to win projects and to get the rates that you are qualified for.

Pricing Your Service or Product : Things to Ponder Part 2 - Life is all about making choices and growing. The same hold true with pricing your product or service.

Pricing Your Service or Product : Things to Ponder - Part 1 of 2" How does someone price a product or service?"

Top 3 Secrets to More Billable Time - As self-employed professionals, were in business to make money doing what we love. And that means we need enough billable hours to cover our expenses, our salary, upgrades in our skills and technology, and our profit.

Setting Your Hourly Rates - Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you are a new freelancer, you have probably searched the Internet trying to look for average rates of professionals in your field.

Track those billable hours! Keeping track of your hours in a time sheet is the best way to go if you need these reports. But even if it is not required by your customer it can be very useful to track your hours for multiple reasons

When Clients Don't Pay...Pay Late...and Other Anomalies of Freelancing It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.

Pricing Your Services or Products - Things to Ponder Part 2- Life is all about making choices and growing. The same hold true with pricing your product or service.

Cracking the Billable Hours Ceiling While you could certainly name the economy or inadequate marketing as the culprit, I'd like to suggest a third alternative. It may be the constraints of the billable hours model that keep you from your financial goals.

Track those billable hours! Keeping track of your hours in a time sheet is the best way to go if you need these reports. But even if it is not required by your customer it can be very useful to track your hours for multiple reasons

Freelance Pricing Part 3 - Quoting To Win! - Some people call it a bid and others call it a quote or proposal. But no matter what you call this process, make sure that the document is concise, powerful, and easy to understand.

Pricing Your Projects Part 2- Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you charge too much you won't get hired and if you charge too little you'll starve. Take the time to read this article and you will figure out what you need to charge to thrive.

When Clients Don't Pay or Pay Late It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.

Pricing Your Projects Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you charge too much you won't get hired and if you charge too little you'll starve.

Collect Your Money - On Time! Most SOHO and small business owners don't have the financial resources to wait for their customers to pay them. The inability to collect money in a timely manner is a leading reason for small business failures.

Cracking the Billable Hours Ceiling While you could certainly name the economy or inadequate marketing as the culprit, I'd like to suggest a third alternative. It may be the constraints of the billable hours model that keep you from your financial goals

Pricing Your Service or Product : Things to Ponder Part 2 - Life is all about making choices and growing. The same hold true with pricing your product or service.

Get Your Money - Getting paid is the single most important aspect of being a freelancer, so make sure that you take your time and do things right. There are many strategies to deal with delinquent clients, but there are also many precautionary measures that you should take when initiating a relationship with your client.

Don't Fight a Cheapest Price War As a business owner, you want people to spend money on your business rather they go and shop at other places. Because of the e-commerce boom, shoppers have too many choices these days.

Getting Paid ... Minimizing Bad Debts in Your Home Business In this article we consider whether you should extend credit and, if so, what processes you should implement to maximize your chances of getting paid.

Freelancing in the Web World (HotWired)Freelancing is the adult version of running away to join the circus. And it's only a matter of time before you start hearing the siren call.

Thinking About Starting a Work from Home Business - Or doing some Freelance Work? (Womans-Work.com) Here are some things to think about when setting your rates

How to Set Rates FAQ (hwg.org)the purpose of this FAQ is to provide you with a number of ways to arrive at your rates, and to do so without once running afoul of Guild policies or discussing the actual rates of any particular web developer

How to Successfully Raise Your Rates (BrennerBooks)The world's best source of actual prices and pricing-related information for the desktop professional 

Human Resources ManagementJob Pricing

Make a Cost & Overhead Analyzer (BrennerBooks)The world's best source of actual prices and pricing-related information for the desktop professional

Real Prices (BrennerBooks)Here are more REAL PRICES. This section is designed to compliment the 1999 Regional Pricing Tables reference book.

Putting A Price On Your Capabilities: How To Set Your Fees As A Freelance Writer (WriteDirection.com) - More than once I've received e-mails from other independent writers asking about fees. In addition, I've entered online forums for freelancers and often seen numerous messages posted about the same topic. Usually, the query comes from someone who is just starting out with his/her own business and is in a quandary about what's acceptable. This report is a result of those requests for information.

How Much to Charge? - (CT.Monster.com) -Going into business for yourself? Consider these important factors when setting your fees as a contractor.

Pricing and Estimating - How to Set Hourly and Flat Fees (About.com) - Use these steps to develop a realistic hourly rate and then learn how to use an hourly rate to develop project or flat fees for desktop publishing.

Get Paid On Time (Entrepreneur.com) - Follow these tips on invoicing and collection procedures so you can get what you deserve--your payment.

Setting Your Freelance Rates (About.com) - If you're even thinking about branching out into the freelance world, you've undoubtedly wondered what you should charge. This is one of the most difficult tasks a freelancer can face.

Setting Rates (wfwbooks.com) - Setting Rates article is for editorial freelancers, but useful for publishers to read

The Freelancer's Guide to Billing - Charge by the Hour or by the Project? (r144.com) - For many freelancers, setting rates is one of the most difficult things they do. Setting the right rates isn't a new dilemma; it's been a problem since the beginning of time. How do you estimate how long a job will take? How do you decide the rate to charge, and if it should be hourly, or by the project? These are problems that all professionals wrestle with on a daily basis.

Calculating the Cost to Meet (Brenner Books) - Figure out just how much it costs to go out and meet with clients and prospects. Brenner Books.

Putting A Price On Your Capabilities (DabblingMum.com) - How to set your fees as a freelance writer.

Freelance - Setting and Raising Your Rates (businessknowledgesource.com) - "How much do you charge?" If ever a question was designed to bring up all your issues around confidence and self-esteem, "How much do you charge?" is the one.

Desktop Services Pricing (Brenner Books) - Overview of how Robert C. Brenner developed and conducted pricing surveys and some desktop publishing specific results from 1995-1998.

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