Archive for the ‘Pricing Corporate Assignments’ Category
Friday, April 13th, 2012
When it comes to writing and editing services, there is no 'one rate fits all' rate. Yet many clients want cost certainty--and I don't blame them--so you have to give them a quote. Unfortunately, too many writers and editors are blind-folded and playing pin the quote on the client - ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
As a freelance writer who has been around long enough to go grey (due to age, not due to work), I am often asked, “How much should I charge for corporate writing jobs?” I am asked this question by other freelancers – especially aspiring freelancers or freelancers looking to move ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I am often asked questions about pricing corporate work. The first question I ask back is this: "How much do you charge per hour?" All too often, I am greeted with a blank stare, or the person replies with something like this: "I want to know how much clients expects ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
From an article on wikiHow: "One of the toughest things you must do as a businessperson is get paid! You work hard for your clients to provide them with a valuable service, and then spend months chasing your money. The truth is, many business to business invoices get put on ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Read the blog entry: How to price a corporate writing/editing job (vs. periodical work) and then try to come up with quotes for the scenarios below. You can post your quote, and your rationale for all or selected scenarios, in the "Comments" section of this post. Let's see the range ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Before you price a job, you need to know how much you want to earn per hour because there is no set freelance writing or editing rate. Rates for writing range from a low of about $50 per hour (that's very low) to an average of about $95 per hour ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Many writers ask me if they should charge different rates for writing, editing and proofreading. There are two primary factors that influence rates - what you want to earn and what the market will accept. You control the first; you can't control the second. However, the second is all over ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
As freelance writers, we are often asked to quote on complex, convoluted or ill-defined jobs. It can be difficult to issue an accurate quote if you cannot define the scope of the project. When I cannot define the scope of the project - number of meetings, amount of research and ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Wouldn’t it be nice if the corporate world paid one rate for writers so we wouldn’t have to figure out what to charge? If that rate was set at $100 per hour, the writers who earn $250 per hour wouldn’t think it was such a hot idea. You have to ...
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
How Much Did You Earn Today? a guest blog post by Steve Slaunwhite
The garbageman who picks up my trash every Thursday morning has an advantage over me. He knows exactly how much he’s going to make that day. All he has to do is show up and do the work. ...
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