Comments on: Solving the Hourly Rates vs. Project Fee Problem http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/how-to-solve-the-hourly-rates-vs-project-fee-problem/ Fresh Tilled Soil is a Boston-based UI web design firm providing strategic user interface design, CMS development and web design services. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:42:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/how-to-solve-the-hourly-rates-vs-project-fee-problem/#comment-81 Richard Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:49:25 +0000 http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/?p=1440#comment-81 I think you are right that in most cases comparative rate increases are justified or unnoticed by earlier clients. The real point of the post is to move clients to a fee based model so that these rate issues never have to be discussed or become an issue. I think you are right that in most cases comparative rate increases are justified or unnoticed by earlier clients. The real point of the post is to move clients to a fee based model so that these rate issues never have to be discussed or become an issue.

]]> By: Jurie http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/how-to-solve-the-hourly-rates-vs-project-fee-problem/#comment-80 Jurie Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:17:36 +0000 http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/?p=1440#comment-80 For larger clients with Procurement departments, time and materials may be essential to be in the consideration set. Question I have is the situation with rising rates and being different across clients. I've never seen that situation from the agency nor client perspective that someone requests or obtains that information. But assuming it happens, does not seem to be an issue to me. Talk off is the clients who supported you when you were smaller and less known benefit from the early support and keep their lower rates. Tougher situation is explaining to them why you're hiking their rates because you're now growing and taking on more clients > You'll have to a) prove the increased value, and b) I'd like to know why your growing scale doesn't allow for rates to remain flat or decrease. For larger clients with Procurement departments, time and materials may be essential to be in the consideration set.

Question I have is the situation with rising rates and being different across clients. I’ve never seen that situation from the agency nor client perspective that someone requests or obtains that information. But assuming it happens, does not seem to be an issue to me. Talk off is the clients who supported you when you were smaller and less known benefit from the early support and keep their lower rates. Tougher situation is explaining to them why you’re hiking their rates because you’re now growing and taking on more clients > You’ll have to a) prove the increased value, and b) I’d like to know why your growing scale doesn’t allow for rates to remain flat or decrease.

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