Bill for It

"Bill For It"

http://www.logodesignlove.com

http://www.logodesignlove.com/thoughts-on-design-pricing

A few “Thoughts on Design Pricing” is just a short article that gives the thoughts of some designer artist and how they feel about pricing. The article also links to article that these artist have writing about pricing and putting a price on an artist work. I was drawn to this article because being a freelance designer I want to be very competitive in price with other designers but I do not want to short change myself.

 One artist said this:

 “Price accurately, identify scope creep, communicate points clearly, and bill for every moment worked. I don’t propose unethical behavior, but failing to bill for your time, cheats everyone.”
— Eric Karjaluoto

Eric Karjaluoto wrote this in his article “Bill For It”,  “ A prospective customer want help planning a project to secure funding? Bill for it. A client calls to talk about a job? Bill for it. Project scope increases? Bill for it. Brainstorming solutions in the shower? Bill for it.” (http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/bill-for-it/)

 So often as artist we seem to undermine how much time and energy that we put into our work because we enjoy what we do. Spending hours and hours working on a project and or pricing out a project before we are into it we seem to under pay ourselves when it come to having a client pay for what they are wanting. I like that in Karjaluoto in his article talks about how lawyers bill for everything even bill when they are on the bus when they are thinking.