Things have been busy at Agency Fusion so I haven’t had much time for posting to Agency Byte. All of that busy-ness appears to be paying off, however. Agency Fusion was recently awarded Best of State in the web development category. We have a great team, great clients, and we love what we do so it’s “icing on the cake” to be receiving recognition for our efforts!
This post is going to deviate a bit from the technical realm but I just read a report in the latest HOW Design magazine that was based on a recent survey of designers’ rates. One of the questions in the survey asked whether designers disclose their hourly rates to their clients.
The question, as written, seemed odd to me until I realized what they were getting at. This is how they should have asked the question: Do you bill your clients by the hour or do you provide a fixed-fee estimate?
I was disappointed to read that the majority of survey respondents bill hourly for their work.
When I began freelancing I thought it was important to make my fledgling business appear bigger and more established than it really was. My website used phrases like “our designers” and “our programmers” in an effort to make a one-man show look like a full team of professionals. No matter what a potential client wanted I felt the need to make them believe I had all of the resources to do it.