Should We Include Prices on Our Website??

URL: http://www.stikimedia.com

I've been a freelancer for about 3 years now, and finally I started to
get enough business to start thinking about turning it into a company.

I've never been able to give a client a price quote without
understanding fully what they want, but I see a lot of design studios
offering prices for:

- site maintenance hourly rates
- 1 to 5 page website
- 5 to 10 page website

If I still have your attention, could I have some input whether my
site is a good selling tool, or does it only display my work?

Is there something I need to have in order to generate sales? Ex:
competitive price chart?

I want to be able to land new clients and relationships using my site,
otherwise it doesn't serve its purpose.

Cheer,
Igor Terzic
Creative Director
http://www.stikimedia.com

URL: http://www.stikimedia.com

I've been a freelancer for about 3 years now, and finally I started to
get enough business to start thinking about turning it into a company.

I've never been able to give a client a price quote without
understanding fully what they want, but I see a lot of design studios
offering prices for:

- site maintenance hourly rates
- 1 to 5 page website
- 5 to 10 page website

If I still have your attention, could I have some input whether my
site is a good selling tool, or does it only display my work?

Is there something I need to have in order to generate sales? Ex:
competitive price chart?

I want to be able to land new clients and relationships using my site,
otherwise it doesn't serve its purpose.

Cheer,
Igor Terzic
Creative Director
http://www.stikimedia.com

To me personally, it doesn't matter what your prices are, it is the
quality of your work that matters. As my former high school's motto
said: Actions not words. Show me, by example of some of your work and
then we can take it form there. That is my personal view on the
situation.

Cheers,
Colin

On Aug 21, 6:26 pm, CMC <cmcon... (AT) eastlink (DOT) ca> wrote:

URL:http://www.stikimedia.com

I've been a freelancer for about 3 years now, and finally I started to
get enough business to start thinking about turning it into a company.

I've never been able to give a client a price quote without
understanding fully what they want, but I see a lot of design studios
offering prices for:

- site maintenance hourly rates
- 1 to 5 page website
- 5 to 10 page website

If I still have your attention, could I have some input whether my
site is a good selling tool, or does it only display my work?

Is there something I need to have in order to generate sales? Ex:
competitive price chart?

I want to be able to land new clients and relationships using my site,
otherwise it doesn't serve its purpose.

Cheer,
Igor Terzic
Creative Director
http://www.stikimedia.com

To me personally, it doesn't matter what your prices are, it is the
quality of your work that matters. As my former high school's motto
said: Actions not words. Show me, by example of some of your work and
then we can take it form there. That is my personal view on the
situation.

Cheers,
Colin

Colin,

Do you think quality of work does enough to sell the services and if
not where could we improve.

Thanks,
Igor Terzic
Creative Director
www.stikimedia.com

laptopia (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

I've never been able to give a client a price quote without
understanding fully what they want, but I see a lot of design studios
offering prices for:

Do you want to belong to those 'a lot of design studios'?

- site maintenance hourly rates
- 1 to 5 page website
- 5 to 10 page website

Why is the page count important to charge for a site? What if I want
only two pages: one with a big forum, and the other with a cool shop
with all the bells and whistles? Do I then get a discount, because I
only want two pages?
I never charge 'per page' but per hour. It all depends on the work
involved developing a new site. Every customer is different so is every
customers site.

If I still have your attention, could I have some input whether my
site is a good selling tool, or does it only display my work?

IMO it serves its purpose. It's a nice and clean site, althoug it is
quite heavy filled with text (and I don't like reading a lot of text on
a webdesigners site).
But drop the 'Under construction' menu. These are the tings that will
chase away potential customers.

Is there something I need to have in order to generate sales? Ex:
competitive price chart?

No. As someone else pointed out: be good. Work good. Offer quality. That
is still the best advertisement you can get.

cheers
bernhard




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