Comments on: How to price your tech services http://phpkitchen.com/2008/05/how-to-price-your-tech-services/ PHP and Web Development News and Tips Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:49:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Remote Support Guy http://phpkitchen.com/2008/05/how-to-price-your-tech-services/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Remote Support Guy Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:46:53 +0000 http://phpkitchen.com/?p=795#comment-836 I've got a basic price list for some services on our site, and I have added $325/hour for the bothersome clients that bother us during an otherwise productive morning or afternoon of coding. The new screensharing features in iChat sure are great, we've also used Gatherplace's remote support with some margin of success. -Brian I’ve got a basic price list for some services on our site, and I have added $325/hour for the bothersome clients that bother us during an otherwise productive morning or afternoon of coding.

The new screensharing features in iChat sure are great, we’ve also used Gatherplace’s remote support with some margin of success.

-Brian

]]> By: Ivo Jansch http://phpkitchen.com/2008/05/how-to-price-your-tech-services/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Ivo Jansch Thu, 15 May 2008 18:58:37 +0000 http://phpkitchen.com/?p=795#comment-835 I'd say that there's support and support. We have a service desk at Ibuildings, but it's nothing like a helpdesk. They are basically a development team on their own, but charged with maintenance and enhancements to existing projects. Regular helpdesk in your sense, we generally don't do that (we carefully select our customers ;-) The rest of your breakdown seems solid, more or less similar to what we offer. Except training perhaps. There's standard off-the-shelf training which is cheaper and takes less preparation and custom training which requires a lot of preparation. Those are basically 2 different things with different rates. System design can indeed be considered consultancy, although we have architects in a separate 'professional services consultants' team, but also some architects that are more or less the senior developers of their teams. I’d say that there’s support and support. We have a service desk at Ibuildings, but it’s nothing like a helpdesk. They are basically a development team on their own, but charged with maintenance and enhancements to existing projects. Regular helpdesk in your sense, we generally don’t do that (we carefully select our customers ;-)

The rest of your breakdown seems solid, more or less similar to what we offer. Except training perhaps. There’s standard off-the-shelf training which is cheaper and takes less preparation and custom training which requires a lot of preparation. Those are basically 2 different things with different rates.

System design can indeed be considered consultancy, although we have architects in a separate ‘professional services consultants’ team, but also some architects that are more or less the senior developers of their teams.

]]> By: DrSlump http://phpkitchen.com/2008/05/how-to-price-your-tech-services/comment-page-1/#comment-834 DrSlump Thu, 15 May 2008 10:44:04 +0000 http://phpkitchen.com/?p=795#comment-834 In my experience offering on-site development services can burn you. I was often requested to join a project at large development shops and 90% of the time the project manager didn't have a clue about web development (that's why they contact an 'expert' in their own words) which meant I had to do my developer duties and also take a lot of architecture decisions (lots of refactoring). So, I'm now just offering consultancy even if the job requires mostly coding. In my experience offering on-site development services can burn you. I was often requested to join a project at large development shops and 90% of the time the project manager didn’t have a clue about web development (that’s why they contact an ‘expert’ in their own words) which meant I had to do my developer duties and also take a lot of architecture decisions (lots of refactoring). So, I’m now just offering consultancy even if the job requires mostly coding.

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