WAS - KFactor Now "Members"

[Rick Sweeney]

Then you are under charging for your services. Difficulty is not the
measure of how you should charge or the time it takes you to do the
work.  If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it and you would be
out of business. It's a matter of the market, and who is willing to take
the time to learn the skills needed to create a good web app.  The
prices I quoted are the national average, you are obviously giving your
work away as you have the perception in your own mind that you should
not charge much because it is easy for you to do.

Anyone can throw a picture of their dog on a web page. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of GeorgeF.
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 3:21 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: WAS - KFactor Now "Members"

At 11:25 AM 11/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I can add to what you are saying by mentioning the NSRCA Web Team
>members as well. I know web team members who have put countless hours
>into the site (I will include myself here), bringing the NSRCA
>membership a web site virtually free. A rough estimate of the cost to
>have hired this work out over the last 3 years including on-going
>maintenance? $45.00 to $90.00 per hour Web design, $85.00 to $125.00
per
>hour database application development like your e-commerce page,
on-line
>contest page, membership database..etc. Your judging section alone is a
>web site within a web site.


If you were to pay $45-90/hr and 85-125 for database apps then you are 
simply getting screwed.

A lot of that can be done for next to nothing, not requiring much time 
either.  Not be belittle those who have put work into the NSRCA site but

really doesn't take $125/hr database app development.

For the last 4 years I've made 100% of my income from the internet.  6 
years I ago I had no clue as to what a web page was let along know how
to 
create HTML and database apps.  Now I maintain 6 websites 1 of which is 
VERY heavy on database apps and e-commerce and its not that hard.

The most diffucult part is coming with CONTENT, not putting it into 
webform.  Just like the publishing of K-Factor, getting quality content
is 
the hardest part of the entire operation.

George
   

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